TITLE: Special Education Teacher

REPORT TO: Principal

GENERAL SUMMARY

Teachers are responsible to ensure students meet their academic, personal/social and career/college growth goals. Collaborates with school colleagues, students, parents and community agencies to provide quality, culturally competent instructional design and pedagogy linked to learning inside and outside of the classroom.

QUALIFICATIONS

1. A clear record of elevating student achievement in an urban community, with a strong understanding of pedagogy that drives results or of exceptional leadership working with young people in urban communities;
2. Must pass pre-employment physical examination and fingerprint clearance;
3. Meets the requirements of No Child Left Behind as a Highly Qualified Teacher;
4. CLAD certificate; BCLAD; Special Education Credential; and Master’s Degree, preferred;
5. Bilingual/Biliterate or Conversational Spanish, preferred.  

DESCRIPTION OF BASIC FUNCTIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES (GENERAL)

1. Ensures an advocacy, integrity and clear articulation of the founding principles of Epiphany Prep Charter’s educational program for students and community;
2. Anticipates, plans for challenges and potential obstacles. Moveover, when faced with a challenge/obstacle, pivots to achieve goals;
3. Models continuous learning and openness to feedback and improving own performance;
4. Demonstrates an understanding of the realities of and difficulties leading in urban schools;
5. Models with professional language and action to establish innovative teaching and learning practices in a non-traditional school model in the first year of opening and subsequent years;
6. Ability to establish a flexible learning space that promotes hands on learning for students a access language for all students with various levels of English proficiency;
7. Demonstrates an ability to design and deliver culturally competent elementary content with fluency in target language required (both written and spoken);
8. Provides a strong leadership voice and action to integrate the content across grade levels to encourage student grade level mastery matched with our Local Control Action Plan (LCAP);
9. Develops lesson plans and instructional material according to Epiphany Prep academic curriculum requirements and procedures;
10. Prepares, plans and attends IEP meetings;
11. Conducts student assessments to determine progress towards educational goals;
12. Determines student’s academic and behavioral goals and objectives necessary for progress reports;
13. Produces progress reports on a quarterly basis;
14. Implements and maintains treatment/intervention plans;
15. Collaborates with school personnel and parents on educational/behavioral services plan;
16. Participates in transporting students during community-based instruction (when appropriate);
17. Reviews reports, interprets test/assessment data;
18. Coordinates related support services with providers;
19. Collaborates with school and district medical personnel on medical care protocols if necessary;
20. Works closely with the Consultants on writing and implementing Positive Behavior Support Plans;
21. Maintains a safe psychological and physical classroom environment;
22. Conducts necessary staff meetings to ensure classroom activities are in line with Epiphany Prep policies and procedures;
23. Continues professional education by attending training required by Epiphany Prep;
24. Communicates with transportation administrator on all student transportation issues;
25. Enters student data into database adopted by Epiphany Prep;
26. Participates with purpose and expected to share professional development with colleagues to ensure fidelity of academic, personal/social and college/career student growth goals;
27. Develops, establishes, communicates and monitors the culture of a restorative practices classroom to maximize student’s strengths to achieve a sense of belonging;
28. Shares, regularly, with parents and colleague’s students’ progress on academic, personal/social and career/college growth goals, keeps appropriate records, prepares reports;
29. Assesses student knowledge and skill grade level mastery with multiple accountability tools then personalizes the learning plan;

ADDITIONAL RELATED DUTIES/RESPONSIBILITIES

1. Provides leadership voice and action to supplemental and content material, and instructional supplies; maintains required inventory records;
2. Ensures a comfortable learning physical space with culturally competent literature, student work, and/or performance tasks;
3. Supervises pupils on recess, bus, and before and after school duty and in out-of-classroom activities during the assigned working day;
4. Administers group standardized tests in accordance with Organization testing program;
5. Participates in curriculum development programs within the school assignment and/or Organization level;
6. Participates in grade level team meetings within the school and Organization.
7. Shares in sponsorship of student activities and participates on faculty committees;
8. Coordinate the work of aides, teacher assistants and other paraprofessionals;
9. Performs other related duties as assigned.

PHYSICAL AND MENTAL CONDITIONS

Physical, mental and emotional stamina to perform the duties and responsibilities of the position, but not limited to;

1. manual dexterity sufficient to write, use the telephone, business machines;
2. vision sufficient to read printed materials;
3. hearing sufficient to conduct in person and telephone conversations;
4. speaking ability in an understandable voice with sufficient volume to be heard in normal conversational distance, on the telephone and addressing groups;
5. physical agility to push/pull, squat, twist, turn, bend, stoop and to reach overhead;
6. physical mobility sufficient to move about the work environment (office, school, site-to-site), drive an automobile, and respond to emergency situations;
7. physical strength sufficient to lift 25 pounds;
8. physical stamina sufficient to sit for prolonged periods of time;
9. mental acuity to collect and interpret data, evaluate, reason, define problems, establish facts, draw valid conclusions, make valid judgments and decisions.