Online High School Special Ed Teacher (Remote)

Stride, Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 44,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Stride, Inc. through its Digital Academy of Texas (DATX) seeks a passionate Special Education Teacher for a remote, home-based role with seasonal travel.

You will manage IEPs, monitor progress, and deliver engaging, data-driven instruction for self-contained and ALT students, aligning with State requirements and ADA policies. You will collaborate with parents, colleagues, and administrators to ensure compliance, effectiveness, and timely communication.

Qualifications

• Ability to work collaboratively with other teachers to interpret and produce numeric, tabular, and graphic representations of student data, and use it to drive instructional decisions
• Receptive to receiving coaching on a regular basis with administrators
• Ability to embrace change and adapt to ensure excellent student outcomes
• Proficient in Microsoft Excel, Outlook, Word; PowerPoint
• Ability to rapidly learn and adapt to new technologies and teaching platforms
• Strong written/verbal communication skills
• Ability to travel up to 20% of the time to support in-person student testing, attend professional development or other travel as required by the school
• Ability to clear required background check

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with parents and colleagues to manage coarse goals, curriculum, and materials that enhance the learning experience
• Create compliant IEPs, progress reports and other state specific required special education documentation
• Participate and provide input for collaborative special education meetings such as annual IEP meetings
• Actively participate in Professional Learning Communities (or professional development)
• Provide rich and engaging synchronous and asynchronous learning experiences for students
• Analyze student data to prescribe remediation and enrichment as needed
• Participate in data analysis meetings to monitor student growth
• Collect data and work samples to monitor student progress towards IEP goals and objectives
• Document all contact with parents, collaborations with general education teachers, and interventions with students
• Using provided resources to ensure accommodations and modifications for students with disabilities such as assistive technology, supplemental curriculum, and accessible text
• Provide special education services to students; support general education teachers and parents with student accommodations to promote the attainment of IEP goals
• Ensure inclusion and success of student in the general education classroom
• Provide personalizing learning for all students
• Demonstrate abelief in all students’ ability to succeed and meet high expectations
• Maintain grade book ensuring student academic integrity, provide input for student placement and promotion decisions, and alert administrators to concerns about student performance and progress
• Prepare students for high stakes standardized tests
• Understand that a primary responsibility is to establish and maintain positive rapport with families and regularly communicates with and responds to students and learning coaches/parents in a timely manner
• Support learning coaches/parents with student curricular and instructional issues, as well as basic troubleshooting in a virtual classroom environment that is in line with academy policies and procedures
• Support in-person student testing.

Skills

Collaborative data analysis

Coaching receptiveness

Adaptability

Communication skills

ALT/self-contained experience

Online teaching experience

Tech adaptability

Travel up to 20%

Background check clearance

Tools

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Outlook

Microsoft Word

PowerPoint

Job description

Stride, Inc. through its Digital Academy of Texas (DATX) seeks a passionate Special Education Teacher for a remote, home-based role with seasonal travel.

You will manage IEPs, monitor progress, and deliver engaging, data-driven instruction for self-contained and ALT students, aligning with State requirements and ADA policies. You will collaborate with parents, colleagues, and administrators to ensure compliance, effectiveness, and timely communication.