Special Education Teacher - Adaptive Curriculum

HERITAGE HIGH SCHOOL; Lynchburg (VA); On-site; USD 48,000 - 64,000; Full time

Job summary

HERITAGE HIGH SCHOOL in Lynchburg, VA is seeking a Special Education Teacher - Adaptive Curriculum to join the district’s team. This full-time role supports students with disabilities through an adapted curriculum, ensuring growth across intellectual, emotional, physical, and social domains.

The position requires a Virginia teaching license with SPED endorsement for Adapted Curriculum, collaboration with families and multidisciplinary staff, and commitment to inclusive education and data-driven

Qualifications

• Virginia teaching license with SPED endorsement in Adapted Curriculum.
• Experience developing and implementing IEPs with multidisciplinary teams.
• Ability to modify the general education curriculum for students with disabilities.
• Knowledge of instructional strategies such as phonetics, multisensory learning, and repetition.

Responsibilities

• Provide students with learning activities to support intellectual, emotional, physical, and social growth.
• Instruct using phonetics, multisensory learning, and repetition to meet students' needs.
• Maintain accurate student records and prepare required reports.
• Meet with parents to discuss progress and determine priorities for students and their IEPs.
• Confer with parents, administrators, testing specialists, social workers, and other professionals to develop IEPs.
• Establish clear objectives for lessons and communicate them to students.

Skills

Honesty

Integrity

Ethical

Equity Minded

Emotional Intelligence

Cultural Competence

Safety

Quality

Education

Virginia SPED license

Job description

Special Education Teacher - Adaptive Curriculum

Special Education Teacher - Adaptive Curriculum

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Job Details

Starting Date: Immediately

Position Type: Full-Time

Job Description

Special Education Teacher - Adaptive Curriculum

General Information

• Title: Special Education Teacher - Adaptive Curriculum
• Department: Heritage High School
• Salary Grade: Teacher Pay Schedule
• FLSA Status: Exempt
• Site/Location: Heritage High School
• Reports to: Building Administrator
• Date: 08/23/2026

Position Summary

• Provide students with appropriate learning activities and experiences in the core academic subject area assigned to help them fulfill their potential for intellectual, emotional, physical, and social growth. Enable students to develop competencies and skills to function successfully in society.

Essential Functions

• Employ special educational strategies and techniques during instruction to improve the development of sensory- and perceptual-motor skills, language, cognition, and memory.
• Instruct students in academic subjects using a variety of techniques such as phonetics, multi-sensory learning, and repetition to reinforce learning and to meet students' varying needs and interests.
• Teach socially acceptable behavior, as determined by the students' individualized education programs (IEPs} by employing techniques in an overall positive behavioral support system.
• Modify the general education curriculum for students with disabilities based upon a variety of instructional techniques and technologies.
• Plan and conduct activities for a balanced program of instruction, demonstration, and work time that provides students with opportunities to observe, question, and investigate.
• Establish and enforce rules for behavior and procedures for maintaining an environment conducive to learning for all students.
• Meet with parents to discuss their children's progress and to determine priorities for their children and their individualized educational needs.
• Confer with parents, administrators, testing specialists, social workers, and other professionals to develop individualized education programs (IEPs) designed to promote students' educational, physical, and social/emotional development.
• Maintain accurate and complete student records and prepare reports on children and activities, as required by laws, district policies, and administrative regulations.
• Establish clear objectives for all lessons, units, and projects and communicate those objectives to students.
• Develop plans for effective communication, monitoring, and follow-up of students in inclusive classroom settings.
• Provide crisis intervention, as needed, for students and those in inclusive classrooms.
• Assist in the collection of data for providing appropriate classroom interventions. Serve as a member of a multidisciplinary team as appropriate.
• Assist in the preparation of data for local, state, and federal reports. Maintain professional competence by participating in staff development activities, curriculum development meetings, and other professional opportunities.
• Perform related work asrequired.
• This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by this employee.

Personal Competencies

• Honesty
• Integrity
• Ethical
• Equity Minded
• Emotional Intelligence
• Cultural Competence
• Safety
• Quality

Leadership Competencies

• Models Excellent Customer Service
• Thinks Strategically
• Shows Initiative
• Acts Decisively
• Communicates Effectively
• Works Collaboratively
• Resolves Conflict Proactively

Functional Competencies

• Technical Capabilities
• Computer Literacy
• Data Analysis and Management
• Fiscal Planning and Management
• Project Management
• Strategic Planning

Education and Experience

• Candidate must possess or be eligible for a Virginia teaching license with special education (SPED) endorsement in adapted curriculum (Students with disabilities who access the Adapted Curriculum)

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Candidate must possess leadership and personal characteristics necessary for working effectively with students, parents, and staff.

Supervisory Responsibility

• None

Travel Requirements

• None

Work Environment and Physical Demands

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 essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is required to frequently stand; sit; walk; talk or hear; use hands to finger, handle, type, or feel; and stoop, kneel, or crouch.

Other Duties

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

AAP/EEO STATEMENT

LCS is an EEO/Affirmative Action Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of age, race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, protected veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status.

SALARY:

Please refer to LCS Employee Pay Scales found here: https://www.lcsedu.net/departments/personnel/employee-pay-scales. DAYS: 200 START DATE: 2026-2027

Contact Information

• Timothy Beatty , Principal
• HERITAGE HIGH SCHOOL
• Phone: [phone]