Special Education Teacher ; Southeast Campus

Overview

Highline Academy is a school community rooted in inclusion practices with small caseloads. With 5 special educators serving less than 100 students, we prioritize a manageable caseload and time spent with kids.

Assignment:
Mild/Mod Special Education Teacher at Southeast Campus

We exist to foster a diverse community of youths and adults striving together for academic, personal, and civic excellence.

Creating inclusive excellence in public education.

Campus Principal

Special Education

Assistant Teachers assigned to work with the teacher’s caseload.

Teachers are paid year round on a salary. Their student contact days total 177, plus professional development days and parent conference days, adding up to a 185-day work year. Teachers are on campus ready for students by 8:00 am and stay until 4:00 pm on regular days, with 7:30 am to 4:30 pm on Fridays when we have early release days followed by PD or planning meetings.

Special Education Teachers are eligible for paperwork days according to DPS standards. There are two weeks of professional development every summer before school begins, part of the accounted professional development days.

• Provides research-based specialized instruction to address the instructional goals and objectives contained within each student’s IEP.
• Assesses student progress and determines the need for additional reinforcement or adjustments to instructional techniques.
• Employs various teaching techniques, methods and principles of learning to enable students to meet their IEP goals.
• Develops and implements annual Individualized Educational Plans for students to include: present levels of educational performance, special education needs, instructional goals and objectives, and the special education and related services required to meet those goals.
• Schedules team meetings and works cooperatively with child study team members and others in developing instructional goals and strategies.
• Coordinates the delivery of special education services in each student's IEP.
• Creates a positive learning experience with emphasis on individualized instruction using appropriate sources including i-pads.
• Serves as primary contact for the parent.
• Conducts special education evaluations and reevaluations.
• Provides direction, supervision and evaluation of educational assistants as directed.
• Complies with School Board policies and all state/federal rules and regulations.
• Completes all district and state reporting requirements.

• Create a Positive Classroom Culture and Climate
• Practice Effective Classroom Management
• Plan and implement Masterful Content Delivery
• Practice High-Impact Instructional Moves
• Demonstrate Essential Knowledge of Students and Use of Data
• Demonstrate Effective Collaboration and Engagement with students and colleagues
• Demonstrate thoughtful reflection, learning and development

• All Highline teachers are expected to demonstrate the Highline Internal Commitments for Professional Practice.
• We will take responsibility for student learning by valuing diversity, needs, learning styles and through shared ownership.
• We will commit to being clear and purposeful in our objectives and instruction while continuing to reflect and revise learning strategies by frequently monitoring student assessment data and ensuring that it is used as a tool for learning.
• We accept and embrace diversity within our community of faculty, students, and parent/guardians by valuing each other for who and where we all are in life as learners and as people, and we commit to providing a safe place for all to succeed.
• We will be direct, intentional, timely, and graceful in giving and receiving communication without judgment and for positive and proactive purposes.
• We will create an environment that empowers faculty, students and parent/guardians to be active participants in student success.
• We will create a focused and sustainable adult community by focusing on what is most essential to student success and staying focused on Highline’s goal.
• We will consistently model and enforce Highline’s academic and behavioral…