High School Special Education Teacher (2022-2023)

Overview _____________________________________________________________________

Memphis Rise Academy’s instructional positions provide ambitious and committed teachers with an opportunity to make a uniquely substantive impact on the lives of our middle school students.  We are looking for individuals who are motivated to work in an environment that is focused on preparing students for post-high school success, as well as who have a passion for impacting students beyond just the execution of their curriculum.  Responsibilities of instructional positions are detailed below.

Responsibilities _______________________________________________________________

·      Support students with IEPs across multiple grades levels in both inclusion environments and pull-out environments to ensure students’ needs are met

·      Lead or assist with the development of appropriate accommodations and modifications of curriculum and assessments for students with IEPs, aligned to the student’s needs and learning goals

·      Provide direct services named within students’ IEPs, including read aloud services, resource minutes, consultation minutes, prevocational support, and more

·      Participate in school’s RtI data collection and intervention model, managed by RtI leadership team

·      Support, as needed, with IEP annual meetings and re-evaluations, providing narratives and data for students within the school’s IEP population as well as supporting the writing and submission of special education file updates in accordance with IDEA law and state/district policies

·      Independently lead or, with another Instructional Team Member or Leadership Team member, an advisory which meets regularly, as well as a Focus Study environment designed to support students in their management of independent academic responsibilities

·      Participate in Memphis Rise Academy Professional Development, beginning in summer and continuing each Friday afternoon (after early dismissals) throughout the year.

·      Assist with school operations related to Registration, Parent-Teacher Conferences, school arrival and dismissal, and parent/community events during school hours.

·      Conduct weekly office hours after school, allowing students access to remediation or other course supports

·      Other reasonable duties designed to complement those above, assigned by the Principal or members of Memphis Rise Academy’s Administrative Team.

Ideal Candidates _______________________________________________________________

In short, Memphis Rise Academy is open to a wide variety of candidates and has a history of hiring candidates with vastly disparate background and experience.  All candidates for instructional positions at Memphis Rise Academy must hold, at minimum, a bachelor’s degree, and must enter the school year either with a valid Tennessee teaching license holding the necessary endorsement(s), or enrolled in a job-embedded Educator Preparation Program (EPP) which has been confirmed will lead to the issuance of a practitioner license during the first year of employment.

Our ideal candidates are individuals who understand that doing the best we can for students every day is the ultimate goal, and reaching that goal requires flexibility, creativity, true belief in the potential of our students and school, and an asset-based mindset towards all school stakeholders.  We are looking for people who want to commit themselves to preparing our students for college and being engines for them to, in many cases, begin believing that college is not just a possibility, but a realistic and achievable goal.

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