Alternative Education: Learning Specialist- .5 FTE

Tigard-Tualatin Sd 23J • Tigard, OR

6d • Onsite

About The Position

Creekside Community High School is seeking a half-time Special Education Teacher to support a small number of students in Creekside Roots, our alternative middle school program within the Tigard-Tualatin School District. This position will serve as a special education case manager and provide direct academic interventions for students who benefit from a smaller, more relational, and more flexible school setting. Creekside Roots is designed for middle school students who may need a different kind of school experience in order to feel successful, connected, and hopeful. Creekside’s approach is grounded in strong relationships, high expectations, restorative practice, flexible problem-solving, and the belief that students do best when adults work together to understand and remove barriers. We are not simply trying to help students "fit" into school as it already exists. We are trying to create a school experience that is more humanizing, responsive, and developmentally supportive. At Roots, adults work as a collaborative team to understand what each student needs, what barriers may be getting in the way, and what structures can help the student take the next step forward. The Special Education Teacher in this role will manage IEPs, provide targeted academic interventions, monitor student progress, collaborate with teachers and support staff, partner with families, and help design creative, individualized supports for student success. This is a hands-on, direct service position for someone who is relational, organized, flexible, calm under pressure, and able to balance special education compliance with responsive, humanizing practice. The ideal candidate will bring strong case management skills, creativity in intervention design, and a commitment to working as part of a team serving students with diverse academic, behavioral, social-emotional, and executive functioning needs.

Requirements

• Minimum of Bachelor’s Degree in Education
• Proven track record of work with at-risk student population required
• Valid Oregon Teaching Certificate Special Education: Generalist
• Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists.
• Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.
• Talk and hear
• Stand; walk; sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl
• Occasionally climbing or balancing
• Frequently lifts and/or moves up to 10 pounds and occasionally lifts and/or moves up to 25 pounds.
• Specific abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.

Nice To Haves

• Possess the characteristics and understanding to be an effective member of an educational support team
• Comprehend and follow oral and written instructions and complete work within established time lines.
• Communicate with appropriate student age group requiring the exercise of both empathetic and disciplinarian approaches
• Maintain a confidential, non-preferential manner an non-judgmental attitude towards the students, staff, and program
• Develop and maintain effective working relationships with supervisor, staff, and general public

Responsibilities

• Manage IEPs
• Provide targeted academic interventions
• Monitor student progress
• Collaborate with teachers and support staff
• Partner with families
• Help design creative, individualized supports for student success
• Teaches classes following District approved curriculum
• Conducts conferences and communicates with parents as necessary
• Follows District standards including reporting concerns, abuse and infractions of student handbook policies
• Works effectively and collaborates with the building administrator and work team or grade level
• Demonstrates effective classroom management techniques
• Understand and complies with Oregon Teacher’s Stands of Competent and Ethical Performance

Benefits

• Tigard Tualatin School District pays the 6% employee PERS contribution, upon eligibility

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Part-time
• Career Level: Entry Level