The .4 AEIST has a variety of responsibilities, ranging from providing school based accelerated and enriched instructional leadership to supporting the academic success of individual students. This new position is intended to address student and staff needs as middle schools continue to focus on increasing access to rigorous curriculum.

 Goals:

 The goals of the Accelerated and Enriched Instruction Support Teacher (AEIST) position are to:

•  Increase student participation, particularly African American and Hispanic student  participation, in rigorous academic courses in middle school.
  
•  Provide instructional, professional, and parental support for improvement of student  achievement in rigorous academic courses.
  

 Responsibilities: 

1. In collaboration with school leadership, the AEIST will develop a year-long written plan with measurable benchmarks to meet the goals of the position. The focus, benchmarks, and action steps of this plan will be approved by the principal and an administrator will monitor evidence of attainment. Evidence of attainment must include data goals approved by the community superintendent.
2. The AEIST will participate in the school leadership team.
3. The AEIST will monitor and report, on a quarterly basis, student access and progress in rigorous academic courses. Reports must be disaggregated by sub-group.
4. The AEIST will advocate for student access to rigorous academic courses. This will include:
   1. Analysis of student course placement with performance and achievement data to ensure that all students receive appropriate, challenging instruction.
   2. Analysis of performance data in academically rigorous courses to identify students in need of support.
5. The AEIST will develop and share a process for nurturing/mentoring underachieving and/or traditionally underserved students engaged in accelerated courses.
6. The AEIST will communicate with parents, particularly parents of students underrepresented in academically rigorous courses, about:
   1. Program offerings and opportunities for acceleration, enrichment, and support
   2. Opportunities for all students to apply critical thinking skills and access rigorous instruction
   3. Student placement in academically rigorous courses
7. The AEIST will attend professional development meetings held by the Office of School Performance (OSP) and Division of Accelerated and Enriched Instruction (AEI) and disseminate information to appropriate staff. After each meeting the AEIST will meet with an assigned administrator to review the information and determine next steps.
8. The AEIST will collaborate with the Staff Development Teacher and Interdisciplinary Resource Teachers (IRT) to:
   1. Provide professional development that supports rigorous instruction and differentiation to improve student achievement.
   2. Model best practices in rigorous instruction and differentiation.
   3. Provide peer coaching and collaboration for teachers.

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