Evergreen employees reside in Oregon, this position has an initial limited term of 2 years
Overview?
Evergreen Virtual Academy (EVA) is an independently managed, public charter school for Kindergarten through 12th grade students in Oregon. When you join the team at EVA, you join a team of dedicated professionals working all over the state in a virtual environment to ensure the success of our families and students meet their educational needs and goals. EVA is authorized by the North Bend School District and accredited through Cognia.
Job Summary?
The Alternative Pathways Special Education Teacher is a highly qualified, state certified educator responsible for case management, case oversight, goal tracking, and consultation Specially Designed Instruction in an online environment. Alternative Pathways Special Education Teachers work within the EVA@Home and District Partner models within Evergreen Virtual Academy. In regard to EVA@Home, they conduct intake IEPs, respond to assessment requests, case manage initial assessments, case manage all IEP students, provide consultative SDI with oversight of independent practice, manage goal progress. In regard to the District Partner program, they oversee students with IEPs, provide IEP input and goal progress to districts, communicate with district partners about specific students, ensure staff have access to IEPs, ensure accommodations are being implemented, support teachers in developing modifications. Alternative Pathways Special Education Teachers typically work from home but must travel occasionally throughout the year to various school functions, for state testing and as may be otherwise required by the school.?This is a temporary 2-year position with an opportunity to become permanent. The status of this position will depend on student enrollment maintenance and growth within Alternative Pathways.
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Essential Duties, Responsibilities, and Abilities
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Instructional:?
- Takes ownership for student’s academic progress and attendance, communicating high expectations and showing active interest in student’s achievement.?
- Conducts consultative Specially Designed Instruction for EVA@Home students
- Asynchronously supports objectives, including composing/sending emails and using data to determine student needs.?
- Ensures all assigned students are accessing their outlined IEP accommodations in the classroom through consistent communication with GE Teachers.??
- Prepares students for high stakes standardized tests and school-based assessments by ensuring appropriate accommodations are utilized based on the nature of the student’s disability and needs.?
- Makes placement and promotion decisions by generating formal and informal reports regarding student progress, alerting administrators to concerns about student performance and progress.??
- Maintains progress monitoring on all assigned student IEP goals with a minimum of 5 data points through the school year (at the end of each quarter and at the annual IEP). Reviews this data and elicits appropriate follow up based on progress. ??
- Reports progress to all IEP goals of assigned students at the end of each semester and at the annual IEP.??
- Collaborates with district partners regarding shared students and oversight ?
- Receptive and responsive to coaching from administrators and instructional coaches on a regular basis.?
- Use of effective presentation skills when addressing students, staff, parents, and the community, including appropriate vocabulary and examples, clear and legible visuals, and articulate and audible speech.?
- Promote high standards and expectations for all students and staff for academic performance and responsibility for behavior.?
Case Management and Compliance:?
- Special Education IEP Case Management for all assigned students.??
- Holds all IEPs within legal timeframes for assigned students??
- Intake IEPs held as soon as possible, within 10 days of enrollment whenever possible?
- IEPs held at least annually??
- Re-Eligibility meetings held at least tri-annually??
- Initial Eligibility meetings held within 60 days of signed Evaluation Plan??
- Ensures all ODE General Supervision items are in compliance on IEPs for all assigned students.??
- Gathers all required compliance documents for assigned students.?
- Orders Related Services and assessments immediately upon receiving the IEP or consent.????
- Ensures assessors have all the necessary information from the school to conduct a comprehensive evaluation (i.e., previous reports, academic data, classroom information, classroom observation) for all assigned students being evaluated.??
- Plans for IEP meetings at least 30 days in advance to ensure staff and parent attendance (exceptions for emergency situations).?
- Schedules IEP meetings with all required and optional participants, communicating with each participant as to what their role will be and what they may need to prepare.?
- Uploads and maintains all procedurally documents into IEP software system.?
- Uploads and maintains all IEP paperwork in EVA’s student records system within expected timelines while following procedural outline of documents and naming conventions.??
- Follows ODE Best Practices for writing IEP’s guide.?
- Reports student progress to goals at the end of each semester and at annual IEP.?
- Completes classroom observations of initial and re-evaluation evaluation students to share with assessors
- Follows EVA’s Special Education Procedural Manual and direction from Director of Special Programs & Alternative Pathways / Dean of Special Education for all other procedural and compliance items.?
- Adhere to Oregon school law, State Board of Education rules and regulations, Board of Education policies and regulations, school regulations and procedures, and contractual obligations.?
- Additional special education duties may be assigned based on workload
Communication and Relationship Building:?
- Establishes and maintains positive rapport with families and regularly communicates with students and learning coaches/parents.
- Supports students and learning coaches with the set-up and maintenance of their learning environment including basic computer troubleshooting.?
- Understands how both diverse and unique characteristics of students and their families impact required support.?
- Works collaboratively with other staff to ensure that all students are successfully progressing through the program, that parents have a central point of contact, and that tasks are distributed among the stakeholders.?
- Contact students and/or learning coaches that need extra support and guidance.?
- Responds to students, parents, and colleagues in timely manner.?
- Conduct regular conferences with parents/responsible adults and students to assess each child’s progress, learning style, and any other academic, social, or developmental issues.?
- Attend grade band staff meetings, Special Programs staff meetings, assigned PLC’s, and review all school newsletters/emails when received??
- Represent the school and district at community, state, and professional meetings and conferences.?
- Maintain appropriate levels of communication with the General Education staff and other Special Programs Coordinators regarding shared students.?
- Ensure all General Education Teachers and all appropriate staff have been provided with the most updated IEP/IEP-At-A-Glance for all assigned students.??
- Inform all appropriate staff and update documents for any changes to student diploma type
- Contacts assigned families for schoolwide initiatives such as universal assessments, Re-Registration status, Summer School participation, etc.?
- Meet with Principal/Dean/Director as needed or on scheduled basis for compliance assurance items.??
- Support EVA administrators with school information sessions and PD presentations as needed.?
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Other Essential Functions:?
- Work with support staff, coordinators/specialists, and administrators to support students, collect and analyze data.?
- Maintain a tracker to monitor progress of students.?
- Travel for in person events, PD, and testing
- Participate in committees as
- Helps with any enrollment retention efforts as directed
- Pedagogical knowledge of content being taught and ability to apply critical thinking.?
- Knowledge of state content standards and ability to align those with the curriculum.?
- Ability to embrace change/ adapt to ensure excellent student outcomes.?
- Ability to problem solve independently and have a high level of organization.?
- Proficient in Microsoft Office 365?
- Ability to rapidly learn and adapt to new technologies and teaching platforms
- Other duties as assigned, depending on workload and school needs
Supervisory Responsibilities
- This job has no supervisory responsibilities
Qualifications
Minimum Required Qualifications:????
- Six (6) months teaching experience OR Equivalent combination of education and experience
- Meet requirements for Highly Qualified Teacher (HQT) in subject area by TSPC
- Ability to clear background check
Certificates and Licenses:??
- TSPC Special Education Teaching License
Other Desired Qualifications:????
- Experience working with proposed age group and disability severity level
- Experience working in a virtual classroom
- Experience with various online platforms, such as Canvas
Physical/Mental Demands
The employee is required to possess excellent communication skills, both written and oral. Human relations and communication skills are necessary to handle frequent personal and telephone inquiries received from students/families, administrators, teachers, classified employees, and others. Work requests are often received which require immediate attention setting up conflicting priorities for timely response. Sound judgment and a pleasant attitude are in stressful situations. The employee needs to be able to lift/move/carry materials, equipment or boxes weighing up to 30 pounds.