2024-2025 School Year Bilingual Resource Teacher - Vacancy ID: 197350

WECAN: Bilingual Resource Teacher (.5 Northside Elementary / .5 Itinerant) Job Description

This position is a regular contract.

About Our Middle Schools, District, and Community:

The Middleton-Cross Plains Area School District (MCPASD) in Middleton, Wisconsin, is seeking a highly qualified bilingual resource teacher (BRT) to serve English learners (ELs)/multilingual learners (MLs). BRTs have the exciting opportunity to collaborate with school and district level administrators to design, grow, teach, and coach in an innovative bilingual education program for language learners.

This position will be located at Northside Elementary School at least 50% of the time. The location of the itinerant time will be determined based on needs of ELs/MLs across the district; therefore, a high comfort level with flexibility is required for this position.

The MCPASD is committed to the success of all students. We expect all educators to regularly examine how their personal experiences and biases impact their ability to effectively serve all students and families. We seek a collective understanding of the systemic biases within the education system which serve to perpetuate inequities for some students and families. We believe that all students should be educated with their peers regardless of need, and that student needs can be met within the regular education setting when teachers collaborate to provide appropriately differentiated universal instruction. 

Bilingual Resource Teachers are teacher leaders who actively collaborate with staff, students, families, and community to design services and systems in a manner which actively repays the educational debt owed to historically marginalized students and families. 

To learn more about our schools and school district, please visit our web site at www.mcpasd.k12.wi.us. 

Job Description:

Bilingual Resource Teachers (BRTs) collaborate with colleagues to provide inclusive, appropriately designed and scaffolded universal instruction in order to ensure ELs/MLs continue to develop their academic language, content knowledge, and their identities as emerging bilingual students.

BRTs will do the following (this list is illustrative and not all inclusive):

• Collaborate with teacher colleagues in order to meet the needs of ELs/MLs within the regular classroom setting

• Actively contribute to collaborative planning conversations

• Coach regular education teachers on culturally and linguistically responsive instructional methods

• Provide native language support to Spanish-speaking ELs/MLs as needed

• Provide direct instruction to newcomer ELs/MLs

• Participate in bilingual program design and development (ESL and/or Spanish language immersion)

• Monitor academic progress and linguistic growth of ELs/MLs

• Regularly examine data to inform instruction

• Collaborate with student services personnel to support ELs/MLs when needed

• Communicate regularly with the families of ELs/MLs

• Coordinate and administer language proficiency assessments and screeners

• Maintain accurate records in our district database regarding ELs/MLs

• In schools with dual language programs, support and collaborate with bilingual classroom teachers to support students in developing biliteracy

• Provide direction for bilingual paraeducators

Training and Licensure: 

Bilingual Resource Teacher candidates will possess or be eligible for Wisconsin licenses in English as a second language and bilingual education. Bilingual (Spanish/English) candidates are strongly preferred.

Desired candidates will have prior experience with and/or knowledge of the following:

• Dual language programs, Spanish language development, and biliteracy curriculum

• Innovative instructional practices and scaffolds for meeting the needs of ELs/MLs

• Professional coaching and collaboration

• Program design and development (both English as a Second Language and bilingual)

• Professional Learning Communities

• Standards-based grading

The ideal candidate will have the following qualifications:

• Commitment to social justice and culturally and linguistically responsive practices

• Commitment to teaching the whole child (academics and social emotional learning)

• Ability to successfully collaborate and reflect within a school community dedicated to continuous improvement

• Commitment to continued development of one’s own cultural competence

• Ability to adjust instruction based on formative assessment data

• Ability to communicate effectively to form partnerships with families

• Ability to reflect on practice in order to continue improving

• Minimum grade point average of 2.75 in a 4.0 grading system in degree course work

Due to travel across educational settings, a valid Wisconsin driver’s license is required. 

Physical Functions:

This is a moderately physical job that requires exertions over 10 pounds of force.  This job requires a combination of sitting and standing with a significant need to move about the building and campus.  Verbal and auditory communications are frequently involved.  

Other Working Conditions:

• Duties may require occasionally operating and/or riding in a vehicle.

• Duties may require traveling to meetings and work assignments.

• Duties may require prolonged use of a computer keyboard and monitor.

• Duties may require working under time constraints to meet deadlines.

• Exposure to adverse weather conditions and seasonal temperature extremes.

• Potential for exposure to blood-borne pathogens and communicable diseases.

• Potential for interaction with disruptive and/or unruly individuals.

Please contact Director of Bilingual Services Mandi Sersch-Morstad at msersch-morstad@mcpasd.k12.wi.us or 608-829-9060 with questions about the position.