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Teacher on Special Assignment—Technology

A teacher on special assignment—technology who advances job-embedded instructional technology coaching, digital learning design, educator capacity, accessible implementation, digital citizenship, and classroom support.

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In the Teacher on Special Assignment—Technology role, how would you establish trust in a non-evaluative coaching role?
Strong response indicators: Defines the purpose, scope, governing requirement, timeline, responsible owners, dependencies, controls, communication, contingencies, and evidence of completion. Connects the response to the position’s specific responsibility for job-embedded instructional technology coaching, digital learning design, educator capacity, accessible implementation, digital citizenship, and classroom support.
In the Teacher on Special Assignment—Technology role, how would you help a team move from data to an instructional response?
Strong response indicators: Verifies authoritative information, protects the affected person and data, follows approved procedures, involves responsible owners, documents facts, and confirms resolution. Connects the response to the position’s specific responsibility for job-embedded instructional technology coaching, digital learning design, educator capacity, accessible implementation, digital citizenship, and classroom support.
In the Teacher on Special Assignment—Technology role, an educator asks you to endorse an unapproved tool. What would you do?
Strong response indicators: Uses systematic diagnosis, representative evidence, root-cause analysis, controlled correction, reconciliation, documentation, and monitoring for recurrence. Connects the response to the position’s specific responsibility for job-embedded instructional technology coaching, digital learning design, educator capacity, accessible implementation, digital citizenship, and classroom support.
In the Teacher on Special Assignment—Technology role, how would you design professional learning that transfers to classroom practice?
Strong response indicators: Applies least privilege, minimum necessary access, secure channels, appropriate approval, auditability, retention, and prompt escalation of uncertainty or risk. Connects the response to the position’s specific responsibility for job-embedded instructional technology coaching, digital learning design, educator capacity, accessible implementation, digital citizenship, and classroom support.
In the Teacher on Special Assignment—Technology role, how would you support students with disabilities and multilingual learners?
Strong response indicators: Communicates the evidence, affected population, operational consequence, uncertainty, available choices, recommended action, accountable owners, and follow-up without unnecessary jargon. Connects the response to the position’s specific responsibility for job-embedded instructional technology coaching, digital learning design, educator capacity, accessible implementation, digital citizenship, and classroom support.
In the Teacher on Special Assignment—Technology role, what evidence would you use to evaluate an implementation cycle?
Strong response indicators: Builds sustainable ownership through clear definitions, role-specific training, useful quality reports, feedback loops, documentation, support, and verification that improvement persists. Connects the response to the position’s specific responsibility for job-embedded instructional technology coaching, digital learning design, educator capacity, accessible implementation, digital citizenship, and classroom support.
In the Teacher on Special Assignment—Technology role, how would you respond when data are incomplete or misleading?
Strong response indicators: Defines the purpose, scope, governing requirement, timeline, responsible owners, dependencies, controls, communication, contingencies, and evidence of completion. Connects the response to the position’s specific responsibility for job-embedded instructional technology coaching, digital learning design, educator capacity, accessible implementation, digital citizenship, and classroom support.
In the Teacher on Special Assignment—Technology role, how would you balance modeling with building educator independence?
Strong response indicators: Verifies authoritative information, protects the affected person and data, follows approved procedures, involves responsible owners, documents facts, and confirms resolution. Connects the response to the position’s specific responsibility for job-embedded instructional technology coaching, digital learning design, educator capacity, accessible implementation, digital citizenship, and classroom support.
In the Teacher on Special Assignment—Technology role, a principal requests details from a confidential coaching conversation. How would you respond?
Strong response indicators: Uses systematic diagnosis, representative evidence, root-cause analysis, controlled correction, reconciliation, documentation, and monitoring for recurrence. Connects the response to the position’s specific responsibility for job-embedded instructional technology coaching, digital learning design, educator capacity, accessible implementation, digital citizenship, and classroom support.
In the Teacher on Special Assignment—Technology role, how would you prioritize support across schools?
Strong response indicators: Applies least privilege, minimum necessary access, secure channels, appropriate approval, auditability, retention, and prompt escalation of uncertainty or risk. Connects the response to the position’s specific responsibility for job-embedded instructional technology coaching, digital learning design, educator capacity, accessible implementation, digital citizenship, and classroom support.
In the Teacher on Special Assignment—Technology role, what resources would you leave for continuity after the assignment ends?
Strong response indicators: Communicates the evidence, affected population, operational consequence, uncertainty, available choices, recommended action, accountable owners, and follow-up without unnecessary jargon. Connects the response to the position’s specific responsibility for job-embedded instructional technology coaching, digital learning design, educator capacity, accessible implementation, digital citizenship, and classroom support.
In the Teacher on Special Assignment—Technology role, what would you prioritize during your first 90 days?
Strong response indicators: Builds sustainable ownership through clear definitions, role-specific training, useful quality reports, feedback loops, documentation, support, and verification that improvement persists. Connects the response to the position’s specific responsibility for job-embedded instructional technology coaching, digital learning design, educator capacity, accessible implementation, digital citizenship, and classroom support.

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Position Description

Under the direction of the appropriate district administrator, the Teacher on Special Assignment—Technology performs and coordinates advanced work supporting job-embedded instructional technology coaching, digital learning design, educator capacity, accessible implementation, digital citizenship, and classroom support.

The position applies teacher leadership, job-embedded coaching, professional learning, implementation support, data and assessment literacy, technology integration, and continuous improvement across student information, assessment, learning-management, curriculum, digital learning, collaboration, visualization, accessibility, professional-learning, survey, device, and support systems. It establishes or follows clear ownership, validation, security, documentation, review, and escalation practices appropriate to the role’s assigned authority.

The Teacher on Special Assignment—Technology collaborates with teachers, students, families, coaches, principals, curriculum, assessment, special education, multilingual learner programs, technology, data teams, and district leadership. The role is accountable for specialized operations, configuration, analysis, troubleshooting, documentation, and user support while protecting confidential information and keeping local decisions traceable.

Reports To

Insert your school district’s specific reporting relationship here.

Required Education and Credentials

Required

Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university in education or a closely related field.
Valid California teaching credential appropriate to the district-determined assignment and authorization, and fulfillment of all credential renewal requirements.
Successful completion of all district-required employment clearances and mandated training.

Preferred

Master’s degree or advanced coursework in curriculum and instruction, assessment, educational technology, instructional design, library or information science, or a closely related field.
Additional credential, authorization, certification, or professional learning directly related to the assignment.
Training in coaching, adult learning, accessibility, multilingual education, privacy, data literacy, digital citizenship, and program evaluation.

Required / Desired Experience

Required Experience

Two or more years of progressively responsible experience in K-12 education, student information, data, technology, compliance, research, records, or a closely related function.
Experience with job-embedded instructional technology coaching, digital learning design, educator capacity, accessible implementation, digital citizenship, and classroom support.
Experience interpreting requirements, procedures, definitions, reports, system information, or technical documentation relevant to assigned work.
Experience coordinating or completing deadline-driven work with careful documentation and quality control.
Experience handling confidential information and communicating with users or stakeholders.

Desired Experience

Experience with student information, assessment, learning-management, curriculum, digital learning, collaboration, visualization, accessibility, professional-learning, survey, device, and support systems.
Experience partnering with teachers, students, families, coaches, principals, curriculum, assessment, special education, multilingual learner programs, technology, data teams, and district leadership.
Experience in specialized operations, configuration, analysis, troubleshooting, documentation, and user support.
Experience using SQL, advanced spreadsheets, scripting, workflow tools, APIs, secure file transfer, or visualization tools when relevant to assigned duties.
Experience developing accessible training, technical documentation, process maps, data dictionaries, or continuity materials.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Planning, Operations, and Service Delivery

Provide job-embedded coaching, demonstration lessons, co-planning, co-teaching, observation, feedback, office hours, resources, and professional learning within the special assignment.
Partner with educators to define student-learning and implementation needs, examine evidence, select appropriate practices and tools, and plan equitable support.
Develop accessible guides, exemplars, protocols, model resources, learning communities, and communication that build educator independence rather than permanent dependence.
Coordinate pilots, implementation cycles, feedback, troubleshooting, data review, reflection, and improvement with program and technical owners.
Maintain a clear boundary between non-evaluative coaching and supervisory evaluation and protect trust, student information, and educator learning.

Data Quality, Controls, and Documentation

Use multiple sources of evidence, appropriate measures, disaggregation, accessibility, context, and limitations and avoid ranking or causal claims beyond the evidence.
Verify that assessments, data displays, digital tools, and instructional resources are approved, accessible, secure, age appropriate, and aligned with intended learning.
Protect student work, assessment content, disability information, educator coaching notes, recordings, and personally identifiable information.
Measure coaching reach, quality, implementation, educator confidence, student access, and learning evidence without attributing outcomes simplistically.
Document plans, resources, feedback, decisions, support needs, issues, referrals, lessons, and continuity while limiting sensitive coaching records.

Teacher on Special Assignment—Technology-Specific Leadership and Support

Own or support the assigned portfolio for job-embedded instructional technology coaching, digital learning design, educator capacity, accessible implementation, digital citizenship, and classroom support, with responsibilities clearly matched to the position’s authority and classification.
Develop role-specific calendars, service expectations, status reporting, support channels, and escalation paths.
Coordinate decisions with responsible data owners, program leaders, technical custodians, reviewers, and approving officials.
Provide accessible training, guidance, communications, and technical assistance tailored to user responsibilities.
Analyze recurring errors, incidents, requests, and process delays and recommend sustainable improvements.

Security, Improvement, and Continuity

Protect personally identifiable and confidential information in systems, files, reports, email, tickets, meetings, training, and support activity.
Test consequential changes using representative cases, documented expectations, peer or owner review, and post-change validation.
Use automation only with appropriate access, versioning, logging, exception handling, review, and recovery procedures.
Maintain current standard operating procedures, cross-training, critical contacts, dependencies, backup coverage, and recovery steps.
Perform other related duties consistent with the position’s purpose and classification.

Required Skills and Abilities

Knowledge of

Teacher leadership, job-embedded coaching, professional learning, implementation support, data and assessment literacy, technology integration, and continuous improvement.
Student information, assessment, learning-management, curriculum, digital learning, collaboration, visualization, accessibility, professional-learning, survey, device, and support systems.
Data governance, source ownership, data quality, internal controls, change management, documentation, and continuous improvement.
Student privacy, confidentiality, role-based access, secure transmission, records management, incident escalation, and responsible use.
Project coordination, customer service, adult learning, accessible communication, and support practices appropriate to assigned work.

Ability to

Interpret detailed requirements and translate them into accurate procedures, system actions, reports, guidance, or decisions.
Trace discrepancies through source records, processes, configurations, mappings, transformations, and outputs.
Manage competing priorities and fixed deadlines with transparent status, documentation, review, and escalation.
Communicate clearly with technical, program, school, leadership, family, vendor, or agency audiences as appropriate.
Exercise discretion, preserve confidentiality, recognize limits of authority, and escalate material risk promptly.
Learn evolving requirements and technologies and improve processes without weakening controls or continuity.

Work Environment

Work is performed primarily in district offices, schools, service locations, meetings, training environments, and other computer-based professional settings.
The position requires sustained computer use and detailed review of records, systems, files, reports, requests, and technical or procedural documentation.
Work involves frequent interaction with teachers, students, families, coaches, principals, curriculum, assessment, special education, multilingual learner programs, technology, data teams, and district leadership.
Workload may increase substantially during annual cycles, reporting windows, implementations, releases, audits, incidents, school transitions, or other critical deadlines.
The employee may encounter frequent interruptions, confidential matters, ambiguous records, failed processes, competing priorities, and urgent requests.
The position requires secure handling of personally identifiable student, family, or staff information.

Other Requirements

Successfully complete required criminal-record, fingerprint, and employment clearances.
Complete a tuberculosis risk assessment and any examination required by applicable law or district policy.
Complete annual mandated-reporter training and fulfill all legally applicable reporting responsibilities.
Complete district-required cybersecurity, student-privacy, safety, nondiscrimination, records, and workplace training.
Maintain professional confidentiality and comply with district policies governing records, information security, acceptable technology use, and data access.
Travel between district offices, schools, service locations, meetings, and professional-development activities as assigned.
Possess a valid California driver’s license and maintain insurability when driving is an essential function of the position.
Occasionally work early-morning, evening, weekend, or extended hours during critical operational, reporting, testing, implementation, or incident periods.
Regularly sit, stand, walk, speak, hear, read, and operate computers and standard office equipment.
Use hands and fingers for keyboarding and handling documents; maintain visual attention while reviewing detailed records and computer displays.
Occasionally lift, carry, or move records, devices, equipment, or supplies weighing up to 25 pounds.
Perform the essential functions of the position with or without reasonable accommodation.