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Posted: 24-May-23
Location: Oakland, California
Type: Full Time
Salary: 61,200-98,700
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Envision Education seeks Special Education Teacher Learning Specialist to lead students to academic success in a diverse, compassionate school community. $5,000 Annual Salary Supplement! For the 2023-24 school year, the salary range is between $61,200 - $98,700 (+$5,000 Supplement) and is dependent upon years of aligned experience and credentials.
WHO WE ARE
Our mission is to transform the lives of students - especially those who will be the first in their family to attend college - by preparing them for success in college, career, and life.
At Envision Education, we believe the current achievement gap reflects a systemic failure to understand how kids learn, what motivates them to learn, and what they need in order to learn well. We know that vibrant learning communities apply compassion and high expectations to inspire and empower students. With a population that is 75% first-generation college-bound, our approach is specifically designed to increase student engagement, deepen integration and understanding, promote active learning, and ensure college success.
Envision Education is a national model for using Project Based Learning and Performance Assessment to prepare students for success in college and in life. Envision Education currently operates three small high schools and two middle schools.
Envision Education has made an explicit commitment to becoming an exemplar network of schools with an instructional and cultural vision rooted in an anti-racist and pro-Black framework. We believe that targeted universalism—focusing on the needs of a group that has historically been marginalized—will support not only that group, but everyone, and that being explicitly anti-racist and pro-Black is essential to changing the status quo for all of our students.
OUR APPROACH
We believe that deeper learning experiences challenge students to think critically, solve problems resourcefully, and collaborate productively. Students have an opportunity to use these skills and show what they know through portfolio defenses. In 8th, 10th and 12th grade, Envision students present a defense of learning, demonstrating their growth and learning. Similar to a master’s thesis defense, these presentations are required to graduate in 12th grade and are invaluable in preparing for life after high school. They practice for these defenses through regular exhibitions and in-class presentations. Our students say portfolio defense is the hardest thing they have ever done, and nothing has prepared them more for college. Read about our approach here.
THE POSITION
Reporting to the Principal and network Program Specialist the Education Specialist will lead students in an academic vision of success that focuses on each students IEP goals, Envision’s graduate profile, and college/career readiness.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
Instruction
- Empower students with a sense of agency as they build problem solving skills for success in school and life In collaboration with teachers and Learning Center teammates, create and modify lesson plans, unit plans, and instruction aligned to CCSS, and IEP goals.
- Develop individualized, academic, transition, and behavioral goals based on Envision Education Graduation Portfolio Standards and content standards.
- Knowledgeably identify, guide, and implement appropriate accommodations, and/or modifications to ensure students’ learning success in the general education classroom.
- Meet regularly with general education teachers to ensure access to learning in the core program and guide progress towards graduation standards and requirements.
- Co-teach in the general education classroom.
- Regularly analyze student data and devise strategies to improve instruction, ensure equity, make program recommendations and improvements and to guide students in their own learning.
Culture
- Advise or co-advise a small group of advisory students through the use of advisory curriculum
- Support school-wide curriculum focused on adolescent development, team building, growth mindset, social-emotional learning, and brain science
- Reflect frequently with students to prepare evidence for presentations of learning.
- Know their students well, develop a strong sense of community in the classroom, and personalize each student’s learning experience
- Build strong relationships with families, including meeting with families on a scheduled basis to share information about the student and engage them in the IEP process.
- With the student and family, develop “person-centered” transition plans beginning in ninth grade to cultivate college going identity or post-secondary planning leading to successful high school graduation or completion.
Leadership and Professional Development
- Lead IEP teams, and facilitate IEP meetings.
- Develop, coordinate and provide ongoing professional development activities for general and special education teachers.
- Train and provide direction and guidance to assigned Instructional Assistants.
Case Management
- Maintain a system of progress monitoring that informs and guides planning for caseload.
- Collaborate with a student’s teacher, advisor, testing coordinator and/or college counselor to provide, as required by a student’s IEP, appropriate documentation for participation with accommodations in standardized testing, SAT, or other pre-college admission activities.
- Coordinate service providers and create schedules of service minutes that meet each students’ IEP requirements
- Collaborate in grade level and department teams.
- Collaborate with School Psychologist and Program Specialist to Conduct assessments, and prepare IEP reports. Understand guidelines for students with IEPs and ensure procedural rights.
- Create and maintain notifications, records, files, and reports as required by federal, state and SELPA regulations.
- Administer academic diagnostic tests and provide clear written reports of learning progress or need.
WHO YOU ARE
- You are equity-focused. You are unapologetic about your deeply held belief that all children can achieve. You believe that anti-racist and pro-Black practices and frameworks are essential to change the status quo for all students.
- You are collaborative. You make decisions in partnership with others, focused on what is best for the students
- You are invested in our core values. You hold high expectations for yourself. You examine your own biases in your pursuit of equity for all. Every opportunity to learn something new excites you.
QUALIFICATIONS
- Commitment to the mission of Envision Education.
- Commitment to anti-racist and pro-Black ideologies in the workplace.
- A Bachelor of Arts or Bachelor of Science Degree.
- Current California Education Specialist credential or out of state equivalent with ability to transfer required.
- Once hired, continuous current California residency.
- Demonstrated success working with parents and families, especially Black, African American, Latino/a/x, and immigrant families.
- Experience delivering strong data-driven instruction to achieve significant student academic achievement gains.
- Bilingual Spanish speakers preferred.
- English Language Learner authorization or in process.
- Receptiveness to feedback and desire to continuously improve to meet outcomes.
LOCATION & VACCINATION POLICY
This position is onsite. Envision Education's vaccination policy requires that all instructional candidates are fully vaccinated. Masks are optional and encouraged.
