Secondary Dyslexia Teacher

Wayside Schools•Austin, TX

11d•Onsite

About The Position

Wayside Schools is an open-enrollment, tuition-free Pre-K3-12 th grade public charter school network that provides over 2,200 scholars across its four South Austin campuses with a rigorous International Baccalaureate education. Since 2012, Wayside schools has striven to empower historically underserved scholars, providing them with the instructional experiences, academics skills, intellectual habits and social and emotional competencies needed to become graduates from four-year colleges and universities, providing them with the access and opportunities they need to narrate their own futures and positively impact and empower the families and communities to which they belong. The purpose of the Dyslexia Teacher position is to provide identified students with an appropriate scientifically-based, structured, sequential, systematic and multi-sensory reading program; Provide academic intervention support and requisite progress monitoring/documentation for students experiencing difficulty in attaining mastery of reading and other content area subject matter.

Requirements

Bachelor’s Degree/Master’s Degree in Education or related field (required)
Valid Texas teaching certification (required)
Minimum of three years of successful teaching experience with students with learning differences within various multicultural settings, particularly with reading disabilities
Knowledge of services under Federal Law PL 93-112, §504, and Texas Education Code §38.003 - Dyslexia and Related Disorders
This position requires a working knowledge about curriculum and instruction.
Incumbent should have experience in urban schools with diverse student populations.
Incumbent must have experience with delivery of professional development in literacy and dyslexia intervention, and/or other scientifically-based reading research programming.
Incumbent must have excellent written and oral communication skills, the ability to collaboratively guide other professionals, and to work cooperatively with external partners in the community.
This position requires extensive personal experience and knowledge of best practices for students with disabilities, specifically students with reading disorders/dyslexia.
Incumbent must have the ability to communicate effectively using a variety of media, work with others as a team, organize and maintain records, and manage time and resources effectively and efficiently.
This position requires the ability to guide, lead and involve other professionals to provide quality programs.
Incumbent must be able to work cooperatively and positively with adults and children and have extensive personal experience and knowledge of best educational practices in working with students with disabilities.
Incumbent must have knowledge of research-based instructional practices for reading, specifically for dyslexia.
Employees in this position must be able to read, write, and speak/communicate in English in order to receive and to provide work-related information in a timely manner to other employees, supervisors, principals, school personnel, volunteers and where appropriate, visitors and students.

Nice To Haves

Specific Dyslexia training (preferred)
Bilingual preferred
Knowledge of a student-focused coaching model is preferred.

Responsibilities

Assist with professional development for teachers in the areas of 504/Dyslexia compliance, best instructional practices, differentiating instruction for students with learning differences, and other areas as needed.
Support campuses with dyslexia interventions and assist teachers in developing strategies to accommodate student needs more effectively.
Provide forums for parents to receive information and support for their children.
Collaborate with members of other district teams that interface with dyslexic students.
Respond promptly to correspondence and phone calls from students, parents, administrators, and teachers relating to services for students with identified with dyslexia and related disorders.
Attend campus 504 meetings as requested.
Assist in helping campuses stay in compliance with Section 504 of the ADAAA and the Texas Dyslexia Mandate.