CAMPUS READING LANGUAGE SPECIALIST (26-27 SCHOOL YEAR)

Harmony Public Schools

📍Austin, TX
Posted May 18, 2026

Job Overview

Position

CAMPUS READING LANGUAGE SPECIALIST (26-27 SCHOOL YEAR)

Company

Harmony Public Schools

Location

Austin, TX

Work Type

On-site

Job ID

li-4412400440

Job Description

JOB GOAL: Provide supplemental intervention services, in small group settings, to students who are experiencing academic challenges.

Position Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited college or university

Duties And Responsibilities

  • Understands and supports the mission, vision and values of Harmony Public Schools.

  • Models and instills a love of learning

  • Works with individual students or small groups of students to provide educational interventions and progress monitoring

  • Designs and implements appropriate instruction of content area(s) assigned in with the school standards, curriculum, and

student needs

  • Instructs and monitors students in the use of learning materials and equipment.

  • Utilizes an identification rubric to target specific students who need focused, short term intervention that is in addition to

what is normally provided at the campus to students.

  • Sets performance goals for individual students based upon assessment data.

  • Develops lessons which target the specific needs of identified students.

  • Utilizes a variety of teaching practices and methodologies that reflect diverse educational, cultural, and linguistic

backgrounds in order to meet the individual needs of students.

  • Provides high quality instruction to students who need focused, short term intervention in the subject taught.

  • Uses relevant technology to support and differentiate instruction.

  • Manages student behavior in the classroom by establishing and enforcing rules and procedures

  • Maintains discipline in accordance with the rules and disciplinary systems of the school

  • Implements a clear and consistent behavior management system while developing students’ character.

  • Develops an intervention schedule for identified students based on campus needs.

  • Maintains records of interventions and progress monitoring to ensure process fidelity

  • Meets with teachers to ensure that lessons for the targeted students are aligned with the classroom curriculum.

  • Communicates with campus staff and parents regarding student progress.

  • Evaluates student progress.

  • Attends department, school, district and parent meetings.

  • Participates in district and campus staff development and serves on staff committees.

  • Maintains a professional relationship with colleagues.

  • Maintains accurate, complete, and correct records as required by law, district policy, and administrative regulations.

  • Takes daily attendance

  • Takes necessary and reasonable precautions to protect the students, equipment, materials, and facilities.

  • Performs other duties as assigned.

Skills And Abilities

  • Knowledge of curriculum and instruction

  • Ability to communicate effectively in both written and oral forms with all levels of management, both internal and external

to the district.

  • Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships both internal and external to the district.

  • Ability to use effective organizational, interpersonal, and communication skills

  • Ability to use computer including software, database used by the district, spreadsheet and word processing software,

calculator, copy machine and telephone.

  • Ability to analyze data.

Work Environment And Physical Requirements

  • Light Work: may require the occasional light lifting.

  • Nights and weekend activities will be occasionally required.

  • Position is in classroom setting and intermittent speaking, standing, walking and writing.

  • Moderate travel is required.

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Practice Questions

💡Technical Questions (3)
  • 1.How do you utilize an identification rubric and assessment data to set performance goals and develop targeted lessons for students requiring short-term reading intervention?
  • 2.What specific teaching practices and methodologies do you use to reflect diverse educational, cultural, and linguistic backgrounds in your small group reading interventions?
  • 3.Walk me through your process for monitoring student progress and maintaining intervention records to ensure process fidelity.
🎯Behavioral Questions (3)
  • 1.Tell me about a time when you had to collaborate with a classroom teacher to ensure your intervention lessons for a targeted student were aligned with their classroom curriculum.
  • 2.Describe a situation where you had to manage disruptive student behavior in a small group setting while still developing the students' character.
  • 3.Give an example of how you have used relevant technology to support and differentiate reading instruction for students with varying academic needs.
🧩Situational Questions (2)
  • 1.You have developed an intervention schedule based on campus needs, but a classroom teacher is reluctant to release their students during your scheduled time because they don't want them to miss core instruction. How do you handle this?
  • 2.A student in your small reading group has been receiving intervention for several weeks, but the progress monitoring data shows they are not making adequate growth toward their performance goals. What steps do you take next?

Resume Keywords

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Small group interventionProgress monitoringData analysisCurriculum alignmentDifferentiated instructionBehavior managementIdentification rubricReading interventionCulturally responsive teachingEducational technologyProcess fidelityStudent performance goals

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