Title I Targeted Intervention and Student Support Specialist

Title I Targeted Intervention and Student Support Specialist JobID:

1662

Position Type:

Elementary School Teaching

Date Posted:

5/6/2026

Location:

Elmwood Elementary School

Date Available:

08/13/2026

Closing Date:

Until Filled

Position:

Title I Targeted Intervention & Student Support Specialist Reports to: Principal and/or Director of Teaching and Learning

Employment Status:

Regular/Full time

Status:

Certified

Description:

We are seeking a passionate, committed Title I Targeted Intervention Teacher who provides supplemental interventions to identified students, ensuring services extend beyond those required under IDEA. Delivers instruction through co-teaching, small group support, and focused skill remediation to address specific learning gaps. Uses ongoing progress monitoring and assessment data to inform and adjust instruction. Collaborates with classroom teachers to support student access to Tier 1 curriculum through appropriate scaffolds, differentiation, and evidence-based instructional strategies. This is a grant-funded program.

NOTE:

The below lists are not ranked in order of importance

Essential Functions:

• Actively operate the building (s) Title I program each year
• Administer pre- and post-assessments for students
• Assess the accomplishments of students regularly and provide progress reports as required
• Ensure selection of instructional materials meets individual student needs
• Attend meetings and in-services as required
• Attend parent/teacher conferences
• Keep current on relevant issues about the Title I program
• Communicate and work closely with the regular classroom teachers while developing each student's intervention program
• Complete and maintain progress reports each school year
• Conduct yearly surveys and evaluations
• Consult with the regular classroom teacher concerning the placement of potential students
• Coordinate classroom lesson plans with Title I instructional goals
• Counsel, advise, encourage, and motivate students
• Create a classroom environment that is conducive to learning and appropriate to the maturity and interests of students
• Delegate work when appropriate and supervise the same
• Demonstrate knowledge of subject matter and present clear, complete, and accurate explanations utilizing a variety of instructional techniques and media suitable to the level of learners
• Utilize positive discipline for students
• Effectively communicate with parents and work to get them involved in their child's education
• Ensure the safety of students
• Establish and maintain cooperative relationships with parents through effective use of interim reports, report cards, and conferences
• Identify students who qualify for Title I services
• Instruct assigned classes in the locations and at the times designated
• Interact positively with staff, students, and parents
• Present data and information when requested for the Title I program
• Keep accurate records of student progress and report them to the principal and parents
• Maintain respect at all times for confidential information, e.g., student test scores, family information, and IAT information
• Maintain updated and accurate records on each Title I student
• Make contacts with the public with tact and diplomacy
• Make provisions for being available to students, parents, and teachers for educational-related purposes outside the instructional day
• Meet with parents of Title I students to explain the program
• Notify parents if the student is not meeting classroom goals
• Observe ethics of the teaching profession; exhibit professional behavior, emotional stability, and sound judgment
• Organize and conduct informational meetings for teachers and parents
• Plan and discuss instructional strategies for each student
• Prepare class roster, class schedules, and forward each to the building principal and Title I Coordinator, for each grading session
• Prepare materials needed for the student's instructional needs
• Provide appropriate intervention for Title I students
• Provide guidance and counsel to the students, which will promote their welfare and their proper educational development
• Refer attendance, health, psychological, and emotional problems to the Principal and/or Guidance Counselor
• Refer students suspected of learning disabilities for diagnosis regularly, seeking the assistance of district specialists as required
• Review student test results, teacher referrals, and Title I teacher observations to help identify qualified students
• Schedule appropriate "pullout" times for students with the regular classroom teacher
• Serve as a role model for students in how to conduct themselves as citizens and as responsible, intelligent human beings
• Take all necessary and reasonable precautions to protect students, equipment, materials, and facilities
• Teach and evaluate the students using sound instructional practices
• Utilize a wide variety of instructional aids, including technology, to teach reading and math objectives

Qualifications:

• Appropriate State of Ohio certification
• Master's degree (M.A.) or equivalent
• Three to five years related experience, extra reading, and math courses
• Such alternatives to the above qualifications as the Superintendent and/or Board of Education may find appropriate

About Our District:

The Garfield Heights City Schools collaboratively and cooperatively serve students and families of the City of Garfield Heights. Located in Cuyahoga County and bordered on the north by the City of Cleveland proper, and on all other sides by the first ring communities of Northeast Ohio. Our District proudly serves approximately 3,500 students in three Kindergarten through Grade 5 schools, one middle school, and one high school. The district also provides an award-winning Preschool program to educate the youngest students in our community at William Foster Elementary. All those who seek academic, co-curricular, student leadership, diversity, and community engagement success, can find these things and more in the Garfield Heights City Schools. As a product of our community-based strategic planning process completed in 2021, our district's mission is: As the heart of the community, Garfield Heights City Schools fully prepares students to pursue their dreams and give back as engaged citizens and future leaders.

Our vision is:

to become a premier educational institution, recognized throughout Ohio as fully preparing students to be leaders equipped with real-world skills to contribute to a global society. The Garfield Heights City School prides itself on providing a rigorous and comprehensive pre-k through 12th-grade educational curriculum that clearly focuses on student success through college and career readiness. To that end, Garfield Heights High School offers a variety of Advanced Placement courses, including AP English, AP Government, AP American History, Honors Chemistry, Honors Calculus, Honors Physical Science, and more. While the District offers these high-level academic courses, the GHCS also proudly sends more than 225 students on an annual basis to the Cuyahoga Valley Career Center for those individuals deeply interested in learning a skilled profession or hands-on expertise in one of the trades. Middle School students have increasingly greater opportunities to prepare themselves for high school and parents are readily encouraged to be involved. Elementary School students in the GHCS also participate in such valuable literacy programs as LETRs and social/emotional initiatives as the Zones of Regulation. The GHCS places a great deal of emphasis at all levels of education on Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (P.B.I.S.) and each school has won awards from the State of Ohio for encouraging and promoting positive behavior. A wide variety of co-curricular offerings are available to students of all ages in the Garfield Heights City Schools as well. Such opportunities include more than 18 varsity sports, the district's show choir, Music Express, Marching Band, Theater, A Capella Choir, National Honor Society, Student Council, Glass Ceiling, Future Engineers, and more. These co-curricular offerings are award-winning on the state, regional and local levels. Students can expect success when they become involved in the various academic, co-curricular, and student leadership organizations in this District. Garfield Heights City Schools is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of sex, genetic information, race, color, age, religion, disabilities, military status, sexual orientation, or national origin in its programs and activities, including employment opportunities.

Application Deadline:

Until position has been filled.

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