Private Elementary Special Educator

Thrive Education Partners • Heath, TX

7d • $70,000 - $75,000 • Onsite

About The Position

Thrive Education Partners partners with families to design and manage educational experiences that extend beyond a traditional classroom model. We are seeking a full-time Private Special Education Teacher to work alongside one family and Thrive’s Education Management team to build a joyful, rigorous, and highly individualized home-based learning program for one elementary-aged student. This role is designed for an exceptional educator who combines strong elementary intervention skills with warmth, creativity, sound judgment, and genuine respect for a child’s potential. The student is a bright, affectionate, socially engaged multi-level learner who enjoys art, music, drama, swimming, travel, church, hands-on projects, and shared experiences. She has a medically complex history that affects stamina and access to learning, so her program must be both ambitious and thoughtfully flexible. The educator will lead individualized instruction in literacy, mathematics, writing, science, social studies, executive functioning, and adaptive/life skills. They will also collaborate with the family, Thrive’s Education Manager, a caregiver, and licensed providers so academics, therapies, access supports, and real-world learning function as one coherent program. IMPORTANT ROLE BOUNDARY: This is an educational position, not a nursing or therapy role. The educator will follow family- and provider-approved written protocols, complete required training, and support only those routines clearly assigned to the position. Clinical decisions and treatment remain with the family and licensed care team.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in education, special education, child development, or a closely related field, or substantial equivalent preparation and experience.
• Minimum of 10 years relevant teaching experience, including demonstrated success with students who have significant developmental differences, complex learning profiles, or multiple disabilities.
• Strong elementary instructional knowledge, particularly in foundational literacy, reading comprehension, written expression, number sense, and foundational mathematics.
• Experience using assessment information to identify instructional entry points, set goals, design explicit lessons, and monitor progress.
• Warm, patient, emotionally steady, and relationship-oriented, with the ability to maintain clear expectations and respond to avoidance with curiosity and skill.
• Excellent collaboration, organization, written documentation, professional judgment, discretion, and communication.
• Comfort working in a medically complex home environment and willingness to follow written family/provider protocols without working outside professional scope.
• Willingness to obtain and maintain CPR/first aid certification and complete any additional role-specific training required by the family or licensed care team.
• Alignment with and respect for the family’s values, including faith and character
• Eligible to work in the United States and able to work on-site at their home in Heath, Texas.
• Ability to perform the essential functions of the role, with reasonable accommodation. Final physical functions and safety expectations will be clearly defined before hire.

Nice To Haves

• Master's degree in education related field
• Special education certification or substantial equivalent specialized experience.
• Structured literacy, reading intervention, language-development, or dyslexia-informed training.
• Experience collaborating with OT, PT, SLP/feeding, assistive technology, nursing, or medically complex student teams
• Experience teaching functional academics, adaptive/life skills, executive functioning, and self-advocacy.
• Background in regulation-aware, trauma-informed, or relationship-based practice.
• Experience in private education, homeschooling, microschooling, or another highly personalized educational environment.
• Interest or expertise in art, music, drama, STEM, project-based learning, or travel

Responsibilities

• Assess the student’s instructional profile and deliver explicit, scaffolded instruction in reading fluency and comprehension, written expression, foundational mathematics, science, and social studies.
• Design age-respectful lessons at the student’s actual point of readiness, using visual supports, manipulatives, movement, demonstrations, projects, real objects, music, art, and lived experiences.
• Build vocabulary, listening comprehension, retelling, questioning, expressive language, and self-advocacy across the curriculum.
• Teach executive-function skills through visual schedules, task initiation supports, checklists, planned choices, transition cues, organization routines, and gradual release toward independence.
• Integrate functional academics and adaptive/life skills such as communication, personal organization, safety, money, shopping, meal participation, household contribution, and community navigation.
• Develop lesson plans, maintain work samples and progress data, document relevant observations, and use evidence to adjust instruction.
• Create a predictable, relationship-centered learning environment with short purposeful work cycles, appropriate breaks, and gradual stamina-building.
• Collaborate closely with parents and Thrive’s Education Manager on goals, curriculum, progress monitoring, scheduling, communication, and long-term planning.
• Follow written health, safety, access, emergency, and incident-reporting protocols; communicate promptly when the student appears fatigued, uncomfortable, unsteady, or otherwise unable to access learning safely.
• Support selected community-based, artistic, faith-aligned, and experiential learning opportunities that build confidence, belonging, communication, and independence.
• Maintain professional discretion and respect the privacy, routines, and boundaries of a family home.

Benefits

• Anticipated annual W-2 salary of $70,000–$75,000, subject to final schedule, credentials, experience, benefits, and candidate market response.
• A deeply personalized, relationship-centered teaching opportunity with one student.
• Professional coaching and instructional partnership with Thrive’s Education Management team.
• Support with curriculum selection, assessment, goal setting, progress monitoring, provider coordination, and educational strategy.
• A collaborative family that values the child’s strengths, dignity, joy, faith, and long-term independence.
• The opportunity to build a cohesive learning ecosystem rather than reproduce a traditional classroom at home.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior