1421 - RESOURCE TEACHER

EARL MONROE NEW RENAISSANCE BASKETBALL CHARTER SCHOOL•New York, NY

14h•$70,000 - $95,000

About The Position

The Teacher: Special Education (SPED) is the subject matter expert at EMNRBS in understanding that all students deserve an equal chance to develop, grow and learn through the use of integrated and differentiated methodologies. Working within the Department: Humanities, this role is central to ensuring students with Individualized Education Programs (IEPs) receive the high-quality, inclusive education they deserve, which is standards-aligned and supports the academic and social-emotional development of this specific subset of students. This position requires a deep contextual understanding teaching pedagogy best practices, a high-level of technical skills in scope and sequence curriculum development; lesson plan creation and delivery (particularly differentiated lesson concepts and creation), very strong collaboration and organizational skills, and a real-world understanding that teaching is truly an act of servant leadership that goes beyond an 8 hours/day, 5 days/week job. Reporting to EMNRBS’ Director: Exceptional Learning and Wellness, this full-time instructional staff position will work in an Integrated Co-Teaching (ICT) model with an assigned Teacher within the Department: Humanities to ensure all students have a robust ecosystem that supports academic achievement and high accountability standards. This position can also expect to work in close collaboration with an assigned Counselor: Guidance

Requirements

Masters Degree in Special Education (strongly preferred); Bachelors Degree in Special Education (required)
Valid NYS Special Education Teaching Certification (or in the active process of completing program)
A passion for continued learning of advanced instructional strategies for students with specific learning disabilities, autism, developmental delay, and behavior disorders
Experience teaching in a public or charter high school, with a track record of excellent student growth
Experience writing/designing curriculum and lessons
Experience differentiating for students of many abilities
A demonstrated commitment to working with BIPOC teens from the South Bronx
A demonstrated commitment to holding students accountable to high academic and personal standards and actively modeling these behaviors to students on a daily basis

Responsibilities

Work with the Director: Exceptional Learning and Wellness to gather and use data to help improve the SPED program in order to deliver excellent results, teaches students to develop both their creative and expository writing skills, master editing techniques, merge historical content with modern themes in today’s literature, and show students the connections between the humanities and technology
Co-Teach sections of Humanities, leveraging both class time and prep opportunities like Mock Exams and Saturday prep to help ensure that all identified IEP students are on track to pass the Regents Exam in grade and have all necessary accommodations as required by NYS
Possibly teach one section of grade SETSS
Regularly communicate with students’ families in order to build strong relationships with students, families, and the Bronx community
Lead an advisory, supporting and mentoring 20-25 students and building close relationships with their families
Collaborate with faculty, students, and parents to build an innovative, exciting, and effective school model that achieves our mission and impacts education reform nationwide
Work closely with assigned Teacher: Humanities to ensure all class materials are differentiated for SpEd students well-ahead of time; to develop lesson plans, provide students with grades and timely feedback, modify instruction, incorporate high leverage co-teaching models, utilize study data to inform lesson planning, schedule and attend regular planning and norming meetings, prepare for and attend IEP meetings
Attend weekly 2x1 meetings with direct manager and co-teacher, attend 1x1 meetings with direct manager, attend weekly department meetings
Attend professional development opportunities both on campus and in collaboration with outside organizations
Incorporate equity into curriculum, lesson design, instruction
Collaborate with teachers across the SPED department and Humanities department to execute on interdisciplinary initiatives and competency/standard alignment
Be receptive to receiving vertical and lateral feedback from colleagues as well as managers
Performs other related duties as assigned, which may include: Various “After” School Day Activities such as 9th Grade Orientation, Back to School Night, Parent-Teacher & Student-Teacher Conferences, etc.
Instructional Evaluations