Teacher - Affective Needs

Adams 12 Five Star Schools; Thornton (CO); On-site; USD 42,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Adams 12 Five Star Schools seeks a Special Education Teacher for Independence Academy in Thornton, CO. The role involves delivering academic and social-emotional instruction to students with disabilities within a separate school program, while upholding advocacy, assessment, collaboration, and compliance competencies.

The position emphasizes developing and monitoring IEPs, coordinating with a team of professionals, and partnering with families to communicate progress.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher.
• Must be a minimum of 18 years old.
• Must possess the required license and endorsement for the position, or be able to obtain, or be in process with, the Colorado Department of Education (CDE) for a valid Colorado Educator License within 30 days of hire.
• Background check required for hire.

Responsibilities

• Advocate for students with disabilities to ensure access to learning opportunities and equity in discipline processes.
• Assess and determine eligibility of students with disabilities; develop SMART learning goals.
• Collaborate with classroom teachers, school psychologists, speech/language pathologists, and other specialists to develop integrated plans for students with disabilities.
• Develop and implement legally compliant, instructionally sound IEPs; ensure IEP implementation across settings.
• Identify students' current social-emotional instructional levels and differentiate instruction to meet diverse needs.

Skills

Advocacy

Assessment

Collaboration

Compliance

Instruction

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher

Job description

SALARY INFORMATION

SEE CERTIFIED SALARY SCHEDULE

STANDARD HOURS PER WEEK: 40

FTE: 1.0

MONTHS PER YEAR: 9

JOB CODE: 175099

POSITION TYPE: REPLACEMENT PERMANENT/REGULAR

LOCATION: THORNTON, CO.

Independence Academy is looking to fill this position with a candidate who is highly qualified and/or experience in the area of teaching math preferred, but not required.

Adams 12 Five Star Schools is deeply committed to a community of excellence, equity, and inclusion in everything we do. We commit to eliminate the predictability of who is included in excellence and who is not. Adams 12 Five Star Schools puts students first and supports our district's mission to elevate student success for every student every day in every classroom. Candidates who can contribute to our goal are encouraged to apply and to identify their strengths in this area.

SUMMARY

Special Education Teachers at Independence Academy provide academic and social/emotional instruction to students with disabilities in a separate school program and demonstrate competencies in advocacy, assessment, collaboration and compliance.

Essential Duties And Responsibilities

Advocacy

• Advocate for students with disabilities to ensure access to learning opportunities and equity in discipline processes
• Model and promote inclusive language

Assessment

• Assess and determine eligibility of students with disabilities
• Develop and monitor progress of SMART learning goals for each student
• Conduct Functional Behavior Assessments and develop and monitor Behavior Intervention Plans
• Develop and monitor incentive plans, point sheets, data collection systems

Collaboration

• Supervise, schedule and monitor Registered Behavior Technicians
• Collaborate with classroom teachers, school psychologists, speech/language pathologists, school social workers and other special education service providers to develop integrated plans for students with disabilities
• Collaborate with families to ensure students' strengths, needs, services and progress are regularly communicated
• Collaborate with outside entities to support the growth of students

Compliance

• Implement IDEA and ECEA regulations
• Develop and implement legally compliant, instructionally sound IEPs
• Ensure IEP implementation across settings
• Abide by all district/policies/procedures

Instruction

• Identify students' current social-emotional instructional levels
• Develop appropriately ambitious trajectories toward CASEL standards
• Plan lessons incorporating evidence-based practices and identify resources for instruction
• Implement specially-designed instruction
• Understand or be willing to learn to how to plan and implement social-emotional learning for students with disabilities
• Differentiate instruction for learners with diverse needs
• Demonstrate and model an understanding of student behavior and classroom management structures
• Participate in ongoing professional development sessions

Education And Related Work Experience

• Bachelor's degree or higher.
• Must be a minimum of 18 years old.

LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS Or CERTIFICATIONS

• Criminal background check required for hire.
• Must possess the required license and endorsement for the position, or be able to obtain, or be in process with, the Colorado Department of Education (CDE) for a valid Colorado Educator License within 30 days of hire.

Preference given to candidates with ELL Training and/or an ESL or (LDE) Linguistically Diverse Education Endorsement.

SALARY INFORMATION (FOR EXTERNAL CANDIDATES)

All salary placement on our Certified Salary schedule is dependent on the employees' education and/or work experience.

Special programs teachers of students with significant support needs, structured learning services or affective needs, audiologists, occupational therapists, physical therapists, school nurses, school psychologists, school social workers, and speech language pathologists shall receive experience credit for each full year of previous experience and are not limited to ten (10) years as described in Appendix A, Item 3.

Additionally, one (1) step for each full year, as described in this Appendix, of service in the district as a contracted certified, classified, in-building substitute, and/or administrative employee for educators beginning a new certified contract or returning to a certified contract. For further explanation of salary placement please refer to our Certified Master Agreement that can be found on our district website.

BENEFITS INFORMATION

Adams 12 Five Star Schools is committed to providing an environment that promotes a healthy employee population able to serve our students at the highest level. We offer a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, vision and life insurance as well as other programs for benefit eligible employees. The employee assistance program, voluntary life insurance through PERA, and 401(k), 403(b) & 457(b) plans are available to all employees regardless of hours worked and are available immediately (upon hire date). To learn more about our benefits including paid time off, please see our Benefits Overview.

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Rev 10/26