<p>Position Type:</p> <p>Elementary School Teaching</p> <p>Date Posted:</p> <p>5/30/2025</p> <p>Location:</p> <p>JBS - 23 Eades Street, Branford, CT 06405</p> <p>Date Available:</p> <p>August 2025</p> <p>Closing Date:</p> <p>06/13/2025</p> <p>&nbsp&nbspAdditional Information: Show/Hide</p> <p>VACANCY NOTICE</p> <p>2025 - 2026 School Year</p> <p>May 30, 2025</p> <p>John B. Sliney Elementary School</p> <p>Library Media Specialist, K-4</p> <p>Position Overview:</p> <p>The Library Media Specialist is a dynamic educator and teacher leader who advances Branford Public Schools' vision of deep learning by designing inclusive, student-centered programs that promote literacy, digital citizenship, and equitable access to diverse resources. This role integrates technology-rich, inquiry-based instruction into the curriculum, fosters collaborative teaching, and contributes to schoolwide efforts to monitor student growth and engagement. The Library Media Specialist also plays a key role in developing a guaranteed and viable elementary library media curriculum that aligns with the Global Learning Competencies while building meaningful partnerships with families, staff, and the community.</p> <p>Supervision Received: Reports to the Building Principal and Director of Elementary Education</p> <p>Primary Responsibilities:</p> <ul> <li>Design inclusive library programming and collections that reflect and celebrate the cultural and linguistic diversity of the Branford community, ensuring equitable access to high-interest, multicultural resources. </li><li>Create welcoming physical and virtual spaces that nurture belonging, safety, and creativity for all learners. </li><li>Facilitate authentic learning experiences that cultivate Branford's Global Learning Competencies (GLCs) and promote reading for pleasure and information, critical thinking, creativity, and ethical information use. </li><li>Lead responsible technology integration through digital literacy, digital citizenship education, and the use of emerging tools such as AI, makerspaces, and media production platforms. </li><li>Collaborate with classroom teachers, instructional coaches, and library media specialist colleagues to align library instruction with curriculum priorities and student interests. </li><li>Serve on school-based data and instructional teams to monitor reading growth, student engagement, and program impact. </li><li>Participate in professional learning networks to continuously refine practice and align with the district's job-embedded professional learning strategies. </li><li>Contribute to the development of a multimedia student portfolio system that captures student growth aligned to the GLCs. </li><li>Promote community and family engagement through events like author visits, parent learning nights, and student-led exhibitions. </li><li>Advance the district's initiative to develop a guaranteed and viable elementary library media curriculum, with an emphasis on digital citizenship and alignment to Branford's Definition of Deep Learning </li><li>Other duties, as assigned </li></ul> <p>Education & Experience:</p> <ul> <li>Minimum of 5 years of experience in an elementary school setting, preferred </li><li>062 Library Media Specialist certification required </li></ul> <p>Physical Demands:</p> <p>The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to stand, sit, kneel/squat, bend/stoop, pushing, pulling, and twisting. Frequent light lifting and carrying (less than 15 pounds); and occasional move and/or lift up to 100 lbs. Specific vision abilities required by this position include distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.</p> <p>Mental Demands:</p> <p>While performing the duties of this job, the employee regularly is required to compare, analyze, communicate, evaluate, use interpersonal skills, compile and negotiate. The employee is frequently required to copy, instruct, compute and synthesize.</p> <p>Note: The above description is illustrative of tasks and responsibilities. It is not meant to be all inclusive of every task and responsibility. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential duties.</p> <p>Salary per Branford Education Association Contract:</p> <p>$56,049 - $110,583 pending degree level</p> <p>Start Date: August 2025</p> <p>Open Until: June 13, 2025</p> <p>Interested candidates must complete the application online at</p> <p>www.branfordschools.org</p> <p>(Internal candidates should provide all the required information.)</p> <p>Bilingual English/Spanish candidates encouraged to apply</p>