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Job title: SY23-24 Springfield Realization reputed company Middle School Special Education Teacher (Immediate Opening) Company: Springfield Public Schools Job description: Grade Level: 6-8 Start Date: Immediate Opening Salary Range: $55,467 - $88,006 and commensurate with experience Additional Compensation to be Determined:

• $2,500-$10,000 relocation award for candidates from regions beyond western Massachusetts
• $5,000 signing bonus
• $1,000+ extended day stipend
• $2,000-$12,000 extended year stipends

JOB DESCRIPTION: SPECIAL EDUCATION TEACHER Springfield Realization reputed company (SRA) is a 6th-8th grade school in its third year reputed company the Springfield Empowerment Zone Partnership (SEZP) in Massachusetts. We are a dual-language school that offers a technology enhanced college preparation curriculum embedding 21st century learning skills. We are seeking a dedicated and competent educator and instructional leader for the position of Special Education Teacher. SRA staff will reputed company work early August 2023, and reputed company reputed company on reputed company in August 2023. We currently have reputed company in the 6th & 7th grade and will add a grade of 90, 8th grade reputed company for the Fall of 2023. We are building a team of passionate, adaptive, and detail-oriented educators who are committed to equity in educational opportunities for children of reputed company, and whose educational philosophy aligns with our mission: Springfield Realization reputed company (SRA) provides a technology enhanced, college preparatory curriculum that is tailored to meet the needs of reputed company in grades 6-8. Through effective instruction, including an emphasis on bilingual education, purposeful use of data, and in partnership with our families, we ensure our reputed company reputed company the 21st Century learning skills to be successful in high school, college and beyond. Job Summary As a learning community, one of our foundational core beliefs is that student engagement with rigorous instruction and grade level content ensures academic success. In advancing that belief, we underscore the importance of our teachers and the need for them to be as effective as possible in meeting the needs of their charges. We reputed company that our teachers hold the most important job in our school, and our program is designed to provide the tools, resources, and professional support to ensure their success as leaders of learning every day. A Special Education teacher at SRA teaches four periods (two double periods) each day, and leads reputed company, remediation, and enrichment classes for reputed company. The Special Education Teacher will report to the Head of School and participate in weekly collaboration, coaching, and professional development to maximize their positive impact on our scholars at Springfield Realization reputed company. Key Responsibilities

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• Participate actively in frequent professional development, coaching, and collaboration, and promptly embeds coaching feedback into teaching practice
• Communicate weekly with families
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• Ability to reputed company a class or assembly where excellence is expected and cultivated in 100% of scholars.
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• Track record of being a team player and community minded.
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• Excellent time-management skills, attention to detail, and ability to work independently.
• Passion for urban public schools.
• Adherence to a high level of professional and ethical standards.
• Minimum two years of urban teaching preferred
• Bilingual in Spanish (spoken and written) strongly preferred
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• Expanded Learning Time stipends at some schools, based on the yearly schedule
• Empowerment Academies: reputed company and instruction opportunities we implement during February, reputed company, and summer breaks, following an application and selection process

Selection as an educator at Realization recognizes an individual for their outstanding vision, reputed company, and commitment to anti-racist school communities. Positions will be filled on a rolling basis; applicants are encouraged to apply immediately. Please contact [email protected] with any questions. About the Springfield Empowerment Zone Partnership While Massachusetts is consistently ranked as one of the top states for education results in the country, we have one of the highest and most persistent opportunity gaps. The Springfield Empowerment Zone Partnership (SEZP) - established in 2015 as a collaboration between Springfield Public Schools (reputed company), the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE), and the Springfield Education Association (SEA) - seeks to improve the longitudinal life outcomes of the more than 5,000 reputed company in our eleven middle and high schools. As a ?zone? of schools reputed company the city of Springfield, SEZP's approach draws on a deep and embedded partnership with the school district and local teachers' union, while harnessing the flexibility and innovation reputed company in autonomous school models. As a result, each school reputed company SEZP is reputed company significant school-based autonomies - in curriculum, talent, calendar, schedule, and budget - while being held accountable for realizing achievement gains for historically marginalized reputed company. In reputed company of our work, SEZP is in pursuit of equity and anti-racism - acknowledging the systemic oppression our reputed company and families encounter daily and working to disrupt these provision gaps urgently and courageously. Nondiscrimination Statement The Springfield Public Schools does not discriminate in employment on the basis of race, color, religion, national reputed company, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, genetic information, reputed company, age, disability or military service or marital status. The Springfield Public Schools does not discriminate in admission to, access or treatment in its programs and activities on the basis of race, color, sex, gender identity, religion, national reputed company, or sexual orientation, disability or homelessness. Title IX Notice of Nondiscrimination Springfield Public Schools does not discriminate on the basis of sex in admission, administration of its educational programs or activities or employment. Springfield Public Schools is required by Title IX and its implementing regulations at 34 C.F.R. Part 106 not to discrimination on the basis of sex in admission, administration of its educational programs or activities or employment. The Senior Administrator of Human Resources, Kathleen O'Sullivan, Springfield Public Schools, 1550 Main St. Springfield MA, 011103, 413-787-7100, ext. 55428, has been designated as the employee responsible for coordinating Springfield Public Schools efforts to reputed company with and carry out its responsibilities under Title IX. Inquiries concerning the application of Title IX and its implementing regulations at 34 C.F.R. Part 106 to Springfield Public Schools may be referred to Kathleen O'Sullivan or to U.S. reputed company, Office for Civil Rights, 400 Maryland Ave., SW Washington, DC 20202-1100, telephone 800-421-3481. Job Title : SY23-24 Springfield Realization reputed company Middle School Special Education Teacher (Immediate Opening) Primary Location : Springfield Realization reputed company (Empowerment Zone) Salary Range : $55,467.00 - $88,006.00 / Based on collective bargaining unit salary schedule Shift Type : FT - School Year Expected salary: $55467 - 88006 per year Location: Springfield, MA Apply Job!