24-25 - East - English as a Second Language Teacher - 1.0 FTE (40 hpw)
East High
Minimum Annual Compensation: $48,656
MMSD is seeking highly motivated and energetic teacher applicants for openings for the 2024-2025 school year. The Madison Metropolitan School District actively seeks and encourages women and candidates of color to apply.
Becoming a Model School District
The Madison Metropolitan School District is committed to being anti-racist, culturally responsive, and inclusive. We have a simple but bold vision — to ensure that every school is a thriving school, fostering the growth of every student so they graduate from high school ready for college, career and community.
Our strategy is captured in our strategic framework, and centers on three major goals: that all children achieve academically, that our schools are places where children and adults thrive, and that our Black youth excel at school. To achieve this vision, we seek to retain staff in all positions, who are committed to being anti-racist, culturally responsive, and inclusive. Staff who will actively contribute to our ongoing commitment to making MMSD a thriving, welcoming environment for all students, families and staff.
We firmly believe and are here to create a work environment that is challenging and rewarding, while supporting you in your career path. We aim to foster, cultivate, and retain a skilled workforce that supports and mirrors the diversity of our student population.
We know this vision doesn't come to life without dynamic leaders in every school. For more information on our teacher screening and selection process, please visit our TEACH Madison webpage.
About Our District
The Madison Metropolitan School District is the second largest school district in Wisconsin. The district serves a beautifully diverse population of more than 27,000 students. More than half are students of color. Almost half come from low income households. Nearly one third are English Language Learners, and more than 100 languages are represented in our schools. Madison schools are committed to making this district a place where every child thrives.
Essential Duties
EL Case Management - 10%
Serve as Case Managers for ELs to provide a school-based contact/advocate for parents and students
Explain EL Data Management forms to parents to keep them informed of their student’s academic status
Document EL Data and file paperwork for ELs by performing the following tasks:
Identify potential ELs from information provided by families on Home Language Survey section of the MMSD Enrollment process; gather information to determine whether a student should be assessed for English language proficiency; communicate with families; assess students who meet criteria for language screening
Report WIDA Screener Online/WIDA Kindergarten Screener scores of qualifying students to widascreener@madison.k12.wi.us
Contact the previous WI or WIDA school district of any new EL to MMSD to obtain the most recent ACCESS for ELLs scores and report those to Multilingual Services and Programs Central Office staff (in lieu of WIDA Screener Online/WIDA Kindergarten Screener )
Create Individualized Learning Plan (ILP) forms to notify parents of the school’s plan to provide English language support services to students; present plan for parent/guardian approval/acceptance
Archive signed ILP forms in EL data management system
Notify parents whose student has tested Proficient on the ACCESS for ELLs assessment that student will be placed on two-year monitoring status
Notify parents who have refused EL language support services of student’s most recent ACCESS scores and that student’s academic and language growth will continue to be monitored
Monitor ELs’ academic and language learning throughout the school year
Serve as consultant to non-ESL staff to ensure ELs receive language-attentive instruction
Notify parents in the fall of a monitored student’s level of academic success without language support services; move student to second year of monitoring or exit, as appropriate
Assist building clerical staff with maintenance electronic cumulative files by ensuring the student’s file contains original EL records and assessment results, e.g., ACCESS score reports, annual EL Individualized Learning Plan (ILP) forms
Work with parents of misidentified ELs, and Multilingual Services and Programs Central Office staff to remove the student’s EL status in MMSD and from state databases
Capacity Building - 15%
Promote a teaming model during common planning times and through participation in regularly-scheduled team meetings
Consult with general education staff to integrate targeted language instruction within the core and implement language scaffolds to meet individual student needs
Provide guidance to general education staff to monitor, measure, and report language development
Provide resources pertaining to the distinction between disability and second language/literacy development
Collaborate with Special Education staff to meet both the language development and academic learning needs of ELs with Individual Education Plans
Collaborate (co-plan, co-facilitate, share resources, etc.) with building coaches to provide professional development at the building level, in best practices for ELs, bilingual education, and second language acquisition
Position Competencies
High Expectations For Every Student
Quality Instructional Practice
Cultural Competence
Data Proficiency
Team Collaboration
Student & Family Engagement
Resilience & Results Orientation
Self-Awareness & Growth Mindset
Minimum Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree. Official transcripts are required for formal employment.
Native-like fluency in Hmong/Spanish and English. For Bilingual Resource Teacher and Dual Language Immersion positions, a Spanish/Hmong language proficiency assessment is required.
NEED: Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction (DPI) teaching license in:
High School
Core content (Math, Science, English, Language Arts, or Social Studies)
ESL
Bilingual/Bi-Cultural (preferred)
Applications are considered on a rolling basis. MMSD will consider applicants who are fully licensed before considering applicants who are not yet licensed.
If you do not already have an active Wisconsin teaching license, you must obtain and maintain the necessary license(s) for the position. An application must be on file within 30 days of starting your employment with MMSD. Failure to do so will result in your contract being voided.
The district does not provide financial support for the continued education that is required to achieve the certification. The district does not select or endorse any particular certification program that leads to the required Wisconsin teaching license. An unlicensed candidate can be considered, but they must be hired by a school district in order to apply for a One-Year License with Stipulations with DPI.
For more information about the One Year with Stipulations licensing process: https://dpi.wi.gov/tepdl/licensing/types/license-with-stipulations
To search DPI-approved certification programs: https://dpi.wi.gov/licensing/pathways-licensure