Hybrid Elementary Special Education Teacher (Multiple Subjects)

Overview

By completing an application, you have applied to be considered for anticipated vacancies in the 2024-2025 school year. Please note that our formal interview process will begin January 2024 contingent on our confirmed vacancies. 

Friendship Public Charter School operates a thriving network of college preparatory public charter schools. Headquartered in Washington, DC., Friendship serves over 4,800 students in preschool to grade 12 and guides a growing network of alumni to college completion annually.  Our mission is to prepare students to become ethical, literate, well-rounded, and self-sufficient citizens by providing a world-class education that motivates students to reach high academic standards, to enjoy learning, to achieve success, and to contribute actively to their communities. For 25 years, with the support and guidance of our exceptional faculty, our students have risen to the challenge with high graduation rates, college acceptances, and unparalleled success academically and socially.

Friendship is looking for responsible, confident, respectful, caring, committed, persistent, and patient professionals to join our family for the 2024-2025 school year starting in August 2023. Friendship Public Charter Schools is committed to the idea that each and every child can make it to and through college. If you share that belief, please apply. 

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Please see the available salary scales: FPCS Compensation

Responsibilities

• Team members working at one of Friendship’s Online Academies will work the majority of time virtually in collaboration with other team members, scholars and learning coaches. Throughout the year, there will be times when team members will report in-person to support testing, participate in check and connect sessions, field trips, in-person tutoring, professional development, etc. Friendship’s Online Academy Team Members are required to participate in all in-person activities. The number of in-person days varies from month to month depending on scheduled activities.
• Create a virtual classroom culture of high achievement and student ownership of their learning that helps foster students’ intellectual, social and emotional development.
• Provide daily instruction, including clear learning outcomes, well-designed lessons and high-quality assessments that align to Friendship’s curriculum and standards.
• Incorporate into lessons creative, hands-on learning experiences that broaden students’ exposure and interests, help foster student ingenuity and require application of knowledge and skills acquired through daily instruction.
• Provide a classroom environment that is visually appealing, rich with resources aligned to curriculum and standards and honors student’s achievement with current and accurate displays of exemplary student work.
• Communicate to students to understand their talents, interests and needs and to convey learning expectations and their progress toward meeting those expectations.
• Communicate regularly with families to identify students’ talents, interests and needs and update parents regarding students’ achievements and progress.
• Collaborate with school-based staff and throughout the Friendship network in staff meetings, regular analysis sessions and professional learning designed to enhance students’ learning experience and increase student achievement.

Excellent Instructional Practices & Behavioral Support

• Exhibit an in-depth knowledge of students with disabilities including but not limited to specific learning disability, emotional disability, other health impairments (ADHD), autism, speech & language impairment, hearing impaired, and vision impairment.
• Demonstrate continued mastery of content area and skills to tailor the content for students with disabilities (i.e., learning, attention, social functioning, and self-regulation)
• Lead students to high levels of academic success through rigorous, targeted, and differentiated instruction
• Track the individual progress of students with disabilities (i.e., academic and social-emotional)
• Design and deliver engaging instruction addressing a full range of student needs and learning styles through an online platform
• Utilize research-based literacy strategies across all content areas
• Use data driven Instruction by analyzing student data collected from assessments and continually adjusting teaching practices to ensure student understanding
• Provide strategic instruction for struggling students through co-teaching models, 1 to 1, and/or small groups in an online platform

Comply with Special Education Law and Procedures

• Maintain productive communication about the Special Education Program (i.e., student progress) with multiple stakeholders including the parent
• Be knowledgeable of and comply with, relevant federal and state district regulations governing special education, including placements, timelines, notifications, IEPs, parental roles, reevaluations, and procedural safeguards
• Provide ongoing support for parents of students with disabilities, informing them of special education rights and procedures as well as exchanging insights about the needs and progress of their child

Environment Conducive to Learning

• Hold students accountable to high academic and behavioral expectations
• Align practices and routines to an achievement-oriented online program
• Foster a safe online environment that encourages curiosity, academic risk-taking, accountability, and collaboration

Outstanding Leadership

• Reflect on success and areas of improvement to continuously develop practice
• Contribute to the online program by collaborating, seeking professional development
• Plan with online classroom colleagues, swapping expertise and following up with supportive instruction, strategic modeling, and tailored instructional materials

Organizational Strength & Viability

• Promote parent involvement through meaningful and consistent communication
• Maintain high professional standards in communication with students, teachers, parents, and school administrators

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited university
• Commitment to providing a world-class education through an online platform for students who have a medical exemption and cannot attend school in person.
• 2  years relevant urban teaching experience with significant academic gains strongly preferred
• Undergraduate GPA of 3.0 and above required
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced and rapidly changing environment
• Experience with providing online educational services is preferred 
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• At least ONE of the following:
  • Successful completion of the content area ETS Praxis II Exam
  • Valid Special Education Teaching License
  • Degree in content area

Praxis Information:

• For upcoming Praxis test date please visit the website at www.ets.org/praxis
• For HQ requirements visit http://osse.dc.gov

FPCS’s policy is to provide equal employment opportunity to all qualified applicants and employees regardless of their race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, genetic information, veteran status, status as a special disabled veteran, or any other protected criteria as established by federal, state, or local laws.  This policy applies to recruitment and hiring, training, promotion, compensation, benefits, transfer, layoff, termination and all other terms and conditions of employment.  Employment decisions at FPCS are based solely upon relevant criteria, including an individual’s capabilities, qualifications, training, experience and suitability.