Job Description
The Rollins Center for Language & Literacy at the Atlanta Speech School
EARLY LEARNING/PK-5 FACILITATOR
Job Summary
The Rollins facilitator is a key member of the implementation team responsible for driving the transformation of language and literacy practices across the continuum, birth-to-grade 5. Facilitators provide professional development, coaching, modeling, and consultation to strengthen instructional quality and assessment practices to leaders and educators, ensuring tiered instruction and interventions are effectively implemented.
Working collaboratively with early learning directors, district leaders, principals, and instructional coaches, the Facilitator builds teacher capacity through professional learning and ongoing support, creating opportunities that significantly enhance educators’ knowledge of language and literacy practices and positively impact children’s literacy outcomes. Guided by the Rollins Center coaching and implementation models, this position plays a critical role in establishing literacy infrastructure at both the system and classroom levels, ultimately changing the trajectory of students’ lives through improved language and literacy development.
Essential Job Duties
The Language and Literacy Instructional Facilitator directly supports district leaders, directors, teachers, and all child-facing adults in Birth to Pre K settings to strengthen language and literacy instruction through a cohesive coaching ecosystem that supports adult learning and sustainable practice. Through embedded, field-based coaching, the Facilitator collaborates with partners to support system-wide implementation of early language and literacy best practices aligned to Cox Campus content. Using data to guide coaching plans, set goals, and adjust support based on child outcomes, the Facilitator engages in-person, virtual coaching, professional development, models effective instructional practice, and builds partner capacity to sustain and scale strong practices beyond direct support. This work is grounded in the components of the nine essential ecosystem elements that build the foundation for literacy and justice for all:
• Safe and responsive climate
• Culturally responsive and sustaining environments
• Consistent routines, rituals, and transitions
• Children as conversational partners
• Integrated planning and instruction around an anchor book
• Focus on emergent literacy
• Observation and progress monitoring
• Strong partnerships with families
Other Responsibilities Of The Facilitator Include
• Presenting early learning content at local and national conferences
• Facilitating online Cox Campus community groups
• Collaborating with the Cox Campus content team to create/revise early learning content
• Facilitates and supports family engagement initiatives and community events focused on language and literacy
Coaching Implementation
• Build and sustain collaborative relationships with district and school-based leaders and educators and community partners
• Collaborate with partners to design and implement coaching plans that support instructional improvement, sustainability, and continuous growth
• Ensure alignment with structured literacy and connect the ecosystem elements to the PK-5 equitable literacy outcomes
• Utilize evidence-based coaching practices and adult learning principles to design, deliver, and refine coaching supports, including leveraging video coaching
• Implement coaching cycle to:
• Model effective instructional strategies and clearly explain evidence-based language and literacy practices
• Support through guided practice opportunities
• Observe instructional practice through classroom observations to identify strengths, areas of growth, and language and literacy priorities
• Engage partners in reflective debrief conversations throughout the coaching cycle and determine next steps
• Partner with teachers to implement effective progress monitoring practices, analyze student assessment data, and make data-informed adjustments to instruction and learning activities to improve student outcomes
• Use child outcome data and instructional evidence to inform coaching plans, instructional decisions, and organizational next steps
• Create, review, and discuss director and data reports to inform instructional shifts and improvements
Professional Development Facilitation
• Develop and implement collaborative structures with educators and community partners to support implementation of sustainability and continuous improvement
• Facilitate data-informed conversations that support educators and leaders in interpreting child and teacher data to guide instruction and coaching decisions
• Design and facilitate professional learning aligned to evidence-based language and literacy practices, Cox Campus content, and coaching goals
• Create professional learning materials, engagement activities, and supporting resources for professional development sessions and national conferences
• Collaborate with center leaders and coaches to plan and support professional learning and coaching efforts that strengthen language-rich instruction and promote best practices for adult learning
Research/Professional Development
• Stay current on the latest research and best practices related to structured literacy, early childhood education, curriculum and instruction, professional learning, and instructional coaching
• Engage in ongoing professional development to strengthen coaching practice and content expertise