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POSITION: ELEMENTARY SPECIAL EDUCATION TEACHER &#8211; (FTE 1.0) LOCATION: New City Charter School, 1500 6th St NE Minneapolis, MN 2024-2025 Schol year Description: The Special Education Teacher designs and provides specialized instruction to students with disabilities. This valued team member also facilitates the Individualized Education Plan process to develop student programming in collaboration with related service providers, families, and community resources. Job Summary: * Develop and implement specialized programming to meet the physical, emotional, and educational levels of development for students with disabilities. * Plan and facilitate the Individualized Education Plan process * Confer with parents, administrators, related service providers, and others to develop IEP for the student * Create learning materials to meet the needs and interests of each student * Provide instruction to improve academic skills, perception, memory, language, cognition, social, emotional and behavioral development, and transition skills * Support students to increase motivation, provide consistent reinforcement to skill acquisition, continuous assessment of the level of academic and functional performance, and continuous feedback to students * Implement a variety of intervention strategies, including positive behavior interventions to enhance achievement and pro-social skills of learners with IEPs * Work well with persons of different cultures, races, and socio-economic backgrounds * Communicate and collaborate effectively with students, school staff, parents, and outside agencies regarding students&#8217; special education needs, utilizing these linkages to develop effective school program components * Adhere to due process timelines and complete special education paperwork in compliance with MDE standards * Conduct special education evaluations as appropriate, including planning and summary reports * Work with parents and service providers to develop skills in supporting the student related to disability * Direct the work of paraprofessional staff * Other job related duties as assigned Qualifications: * A valid MN Special Education Teaching License * Interpersonal skills, including the ability to work well with others, be polite, helpful, courteous, and compassionate * Conflict resolution skills, team player, and professional demeanor * Classroom management skills * Knowledge and understanding of child find and special education due process. * Ability to consistently and effectively design student instructional activities and adjust teaching strategies to meet individual needs. * Ability to work with a wide variety of students in a calm, patient, understanding, creative, flexible, student-centered environment * Skill in planning, organizing, and writing IEPs and evaluations in a multi-disciplinary team within timeline constraints * Ability to utilize instructional and assistive technologies * Ability to communicate effectively both orally and in writing * Ability to follow directives from supervisors * Ability to maintain confidentiality of student information at all times * Experience with and a proven passion for working with urban youth and an unshakeable belief in their potential * Experience with restorative practices preferred The duties of this position may change from time to time. NCS reserves the right to add or delete duties and responsibilities at the discretion of NCS and its Directors. This job description is intended to describe the general work level. It is not intended to be all-inclusive. Hours: M-F, school hours Additional hours as needed to fulfill the duties of this position Physical Demands: The physical demands described here represent those that an employee must meet to perform the essential functions of this job successfully. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit and talk or hear. The employee must frequently stand, walk, and use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls. The employee is occasionally required to reach with hands and arms, climb steps, stoop, kneel, or crouch. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 10 pounds and occasionally may have to lift a student who could weigh over 100 pounds. The employee must be willing to be trained in and use de-escalation/restraint techniques for managing crisis situations. Specific vision abilities this job requires include close vision and the ability to adjust focus. Non-discrimination Notice: New City School does not discriminate in employment or in any of its programs and activities based on race, color, creed, religion, national origin, sex, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, familial status, membership, or activity in a local human rights commission, disability, sexual orientation, age or genetic information. New City School Mission: New City Charter School is an innovative K-8 public charter school in its seventeenth year in Northeast Minneapolis. Guided by its mission to effectively integrate social, emotional, and academic learning and to honor the diversity and individuality of each of each student, New City meets daily in &#8220;Crew&#8221; with a teacher guide for support, team-building, and anti-racist/exclusion work, limits class sizes, integrates arts, intentionally cultivates both the student and staff community and, through a pervasive growth orientation, aspires to launch students to high school and beyond to foster a new and better city. Student day is from 9:15-3:45 Staff day is typically from 8:00 to 4:00 with flex. Send Resume, Cover letter, license information, and three professional references to Hiring@newcitycharterschool.org<mailto:Hiring@newcitycharterschool.org>