High School Special Education Teacher

ABOUT THE POSITION:
UD Team teachers are dynamic, data-driven educators dedicated to a student-paced, competency-based curriculum. Passionate about high student achievement, they embrace challenges with flexibility, leadership, and a deep understanding of the diverse needs of at-risk students. Committed to each student's success, they provide the necessary tools to overcome challenges and excel in their academic journey.

ABOUT THE ORGANIZATION:
Urban Dove Team Charter School (UD Team) is a distinctive network of sports-based high schools catering to over-aged, under-credited youth. We fuse a robust academic curriculum with sports-based youth development, ensuring our graduates receive a diploma, a stepping stone for higher education, and essential job skills.

CORE RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Co-teach five 55-minute classes.
• Collaborate in an Inclusive Co-Teaching (ICT) environment.
• Maintain a classroom environment that is organized and promotes student thinking, learning and independence
• Demonstrate knowledge of Special Populations programs and execute the strategies as required.
• Plan and implement instruction that is student centered, involves independent and cooperative learning, scaffolded, and appeals to multiple styles of learning, including strategies for students with IEPs and MLLs
• Create and implement Specially Designed Instruction (SDI) that follows the gradual release model to explicitly address individual student's unique needs.
• Write effective IEPs as assigned by the Manager of Special Education and MLL Supports.
• Maintain systems and collect data for IEP reports.
• Observe and make individual plans for students with IEPs to inform caseload management.
• Communicate with stakeholders about IEP meetings
• Participate in IEP meetings as per caseload
• Collaborate with league teachers and CAS to complete exit summaries
• Collaborate with various teams, as a case manager, to implement individualized educational plans.
• Use a variety of data sources to track and discuss student progress, setting goals for continued growth.
• Regularly review student data through an electronic management system (spreadsheets, SESIS etc).
• Manage student behavior using restorative practices and school-wide PBIS.
• Implement students behavior plans
• Observe behaviors within the classroom and develop classroom routines/structures and modify expectations to meet the behavioral needs of individual students
• Communicate with families and stakeholders to support student success
• Attend a 3-week summer orientation and professional development series.
• Fulfill broader school roles, including mentoring and committee involvement.