Teacher K-8 Special Education Teacher
Job Description
Job Title: K-8 Special Education Teacher, 2020-2021 school year
Location: Carbondale Community School, Carbondale, Colorado
Submit resume and cover letter to: Sam Richings-Germain, Principal srichings@discovercompass.org
Carbondale Community School is a district charter school managed by Compass for Lifelong Discovery.
With 135 students, Carbondale Community School (CCS) provides a balanced, integrated educational experience that incorporates strong academic skills woven into project-based learning opportunities.
At CCS, our highly qualified staff work in tandem with students, families, and our community to maintain strong traditions, a healthy social, emotional, and physical learning environment with high educational standards, and a focus on the four guiding points of our school’s compass:
- Social Justice: Teaching and modeling social responsibility, respect, tolerance, diversity, service, caring, compassion, integrity, equity and peace.
- Community: Building a strong sense of community through our traditions and parental, student, teacher and community involvement and volunteerism.
- Responsibility: Embracing individuality, personal responsibility and accountability.
- Lifelong Learning: Pursuing a progressive, child-centered approach to creative, self-directed, meaningful learning.
Required Qualifications:
- Must have or be eligible for Colorado Teaching License with Special Education Generalist endorsement
Job Description:
- Teach elementary and middle school students
- Communicate and collaborate with staff, students, parents, and community in order to plan for and implement needed support for students
- Manage and organize time and duties to ensure timely and thorough completion of special education service delivery, progress monitoring and evaluations, collaborative meetings, and associated paper work
- Provide individualized supports for children in general education classrooms by modifying/adapting curriculum and activities
- Utilize informal and formal assessments to plan and deliver effective instruction and to engage students in meaningful learning
- Develop effective positive behavior support plans when needed
- Participate in general school-wide staff meetings and district-wide special education meetings
- Perform additional duties as assigned
**CCS staff are employed by Compass for Lifelong Discovery. Compensation is based on experience.
***Do not use the online application for this position.
Submit resume and cover letter to: Sam Richings-Germain, Principal srichings@discovercompass.org
