Dual Language Immersion Biliteracy Support Specialist (TOSA) - Bilingual Required - 2025/2026 School Year
Description
Santa Barbara Unified School District is currently recruiting for a DLI Biliteracy Support Specialist TOSA for the 2025/2026 school year. Please apply soon if interested!
Title: Dual Language Immersion Biliteracy Support Specialist (TOSA)
Reports to: Principal or Director, Educational Equity & Support for Multilingual Learners
Salary Schedule Range: Depends on experience, from Class I, Step 1 $68,923.80 to highest placement at Class III, Step 13 $115,871.80 of the Teacher B-7 TOSA Salary Schedule: 200 days, available online in the Human Resources section of the District website. Annual stipends for a Master’s and Doctorate degrees.
Benefits: Eligible to participate in District health, vision, dental and term life insurance.
Purpose of Position: The DLI Biliteracy Specialist aims to enhance student learning outcomes in two languages, particularly among English Learner (EL) students, students requiring intensive intervention, and students with disabilities (SWD), by providing data analysis support, assistance and guidance to classroom teachers implementing the district's adopted core curriculum and supplemental resources, with a specialized focus on biliteracy (English/Spanish). The DLI Biliteracy Support Specialist TOSA will serve as the primary support for the assigned DLI school and may provide ancillary assistance to other DLI K–12 programs.
Essential Functions:
Equity
Partake in the required on-going professional learning necessary to promote Dual Language Immersion sustaining pedagogies in all areas of work.
Support the continued development of the four main goals of dual language education and its fundamental emphasis on the implementation of the DLI Guiding Principles
Maintain school-wide focus on high standards of student achievement to ensure equitable outcomes for all students in two languages (English/Spanish).
Manage process for analyzing data to increase student achievement by monitoring Academic & Language Assessments in two languages regularly
Assists with the development of educational resources to support teachers in cultivating biliteracy
Adhere to the MTSS practices and interventions in the Significant Disproportionality Plan as they relate to developing biliteracy.
Assist with professional learning that enhances the achievement of all students, and in particular students who are socio-economically disadvantaged, students with disabilities, emergent multilingual learners, and our Indigenous, Black, Latinx and other students of color.
Work with families and the overall community to better understand DLI
Accountability
Capacity building for teachers.
Develop parent workshop content for DLI school in collaboration with the Principal and/or Director.
Demonstrates knowledge of language acquisition and biliteracy development, and applies said knowledge to content-based literacy instruction and coaching.
Coordinates annual program evaluation based on the Guiding Principles of DLI
Student-Centered
Mentor and Support DLI Educators.
Lead, train and coach with a focus on equity, accountability, communication, and culture and climate.
Support and guide Dual Language Immersion programming that enhances Equity of Access to Pathways to Biliteracy and Seal of Biliteracy.
Culture and Climate
Enhances student learning through effective implementation of existing and emerging culturally and linguistically sustaining strategies.
Primary Language Literacy Planning and Support in DLI classrooms.
DLI Language/Literacy Intervention.
Abilities and Knowledge:
Strong understanding of culturally and linguistically sustaining pedagogies.
Knowledge of language acquisition, biliteracy development including how to utilize a student’s entire linguistic repertoire to grow their current language abilities, and English language development practices that best serve the instruction of students at all levels.
Value the culture, lifestyles, educational and social strengths and resources of students of color
Strategies for working with individuals and groups.
Analyzing assessment and other relevant data to assist in creating goals and objectives and evaluating the effectiveness of program services.
Strong understanding of CCSS literacy, Spanish Language Development Standards, state adopted ELD standards (at the content and practice level as well as at the policy level), Smarter Balanced Assessments, English Language Proficiency Assessment for California (ELPAC), PLC process (including PDSA cycles), Use of technology to enhance instruction.
Highly qualified bilingual and biliterate (English/Spanish) teacher who is committed to the well-being and education of all students.
Working Conditions & Physical Demands:
Ability to work at a desk, conference table or in meetings of various configurations.
Ability to stand and circulate for extended periods of time.
Ability to see for purposes of reading laws and codes, rules and policies, and other printed matter and observing students.
Ability to hear and understand speech at normal speech levels.
Ability to communicate so others will be able to clearly understand normal conversation.
Ability to lift up to 25 pounds.
Ability to carry up to 25 pounds.
Moderate to high stress levels.
Work is predominantly in a school environment.
Climate is normal; occasional adverse weather conditions.
Daily contact with students, teachers, and school staff.
Regular contact with parents, community members and outside agency personnel.
Qualifications:
Valid California multiple subjects teaching credential and a Cross Cultural Language and Academic Development (CLAD or BCLAD) credential, or equivalent EL authorization.
Five (5) years of successful elementary teaching experience implementing a language development program preferred.
Knowledge of English and Spanish language acquisition, biliteracy, language learning strategies, interventions, assessments and monitoring systems of student progress.
Strong background in effective implementation of DLI instruction that maintains students’ current linguistic resources, while helping them to expand their entire linguistic repertoire, thereby empowering themselves to access rigorous content.
Bilingual in English & Spanish.
March 5, 2025