Job title: SY2025-26 Elementary School Academy Lead SPED Teacher
Company: Ingenuity Prep
Job description: NOTICE: All Ingenuity Prep employees must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 before their start date. All persons offered a position will be required to provide valid proof of vaccination prior to starting employment or must be approved for a medical or religious exemption.Ingenuity Prep is a supportive school community dedicated to academic rigor and civic leadership, preparing students for the path to colleges and careers of their choosing. Our innovative instructional model promotes small-group learning for students, collaborative teaching teams, and robust coaching and professional development opportunities for teachers and staff. We are one of the highest-performing schools in Ward 8 and proud recipients of a Bold Performance School award.We are looking for an experienced Elementary (1-4) literacy and math teacher, with experience in Special Education settings, who is deeply committed to students, has a passion for rigorous literacy instruction, and wants to be part of a dynamic community to join our team.WHAT WE’RE ABOUT
- Mission: We’re closing the opportunity gap. Students and families in Southeast D.C. have too few options for high-quality elementary, middle, and high schools. Ingenuity Prep aspires to right this systemic injustice providing an exemplary educational option for Southeast D.C.’s students and families.
- Model: We pair high expectations with high support. Too often, our students are underestimated. At Ingenuity Prep, an innovative teacher development model, paired with best-in-class training from strong instructional leaders, allows us to grow great teachers who, ultimately, lead high-expectation and high-support classrooms. In our commitment to support, Ingenuity Prep exercises a Co Teaching Model in each classroom across all academies.
- Results: Our students are defying expectations. Ingenuity Prep’s students outperform their neighborhood peers on rigorous, national, college-track assessments. Already out-performing many of their more privileged peers around the city, in the coming years, Ingenuity Prep’s students will provide an expectation-defying and achievement-gap-closing proof point – showing what our kids are capable of when we provide the right opportunities, expectations, and support.
WHAT YOU’LL DOAs the ESA Special Education Leader and Interventionist, you will:Support special education leadership:
- Lead professional development for special education teachers on all aspects of the IEP process.
- Provide IEP and progress report feedback to special education teachers.
- Support with maintaining 100% special education compliance in the elementary academy by assisting in scheduling and coordinating meetings, completing relevant paperwork, and coordinating with appropriate stakeholders.
- Collaborate with the Special Education Vice Principal to analyze teacher data and provide targeted additional support for teachers in areas of greatest need.
Provide Intervention to students:
- Provide data-driven individual and small group instruction for students in reading and math
- Use a range of summative and formative assessment data, including Achievement Network data, DIBELs, and iReady to create groups, inform and differentiate instruction.
- Work with academy classroom teams to establish and administer growth plans for students.
- Build strong relationships with each of your students to ensure you have a strong foundation for academic instruction.
- Collaborate with and support colleagues in weekly professional development opportunities, RTI meetings, and meetings.
- Provide emotional constancy and support for your students — and your colleagues.
- Communicate and work closely with students’ families.
- Utilize teaching techniques to ensure that routines and transitions are quick and effective.
- Receive regular, individualized coaching from IP’s instructional leadership team to grow your practice.
WHO WE’RE LOOKING FORIngenuity Prep may be the right fit for you if:
- You are an exemplary special education teacher, well-versed in writing IEPs, progress reports, and communicating with families about progress towards IEP goals.
- You’re detail oriented and able to manage the legal specificities of special education compliance work.
- You have a history of effectively using academic data to drive small-group instruction.
- You have experience as a lead teacher and a history of raising student achievement in a low-income school.
- You have a strong background in the Science of Reading research and teaching practices.
- You have strong systems for collecting and analyzing student data on a daily basis.
- You want to work closely with your peers in a collaborative setting.
- You want to work in a feedback-rich culture, and are eager to grow your practice through individual coaching and professional development opportunities.
- You believe effective instruction is full of joy and rigor.
- You have consistently partnered with families as part of your plan for student success.
- You have a track record of holding high expectations for yourself and your students.
- You have a Bachelor’s Degree, and ideally certification to teach in D.C.
MORE ABOUT USIngenuity Prep offers among the strongest compensation and benefits packages of any public charter school in Washington, D.C. Our compensation and benefits package includes:
- Highly competitive compensation for instructional and non-instructional positions.
- 100% of medical and dental premiums for employees paid for by Ingenuity Prep, along with 100% of dependent premiums and 50% of spouse’s or domestic partner’s premiums.
- 100% of employee’s short and long-term disability and life insurance plans paid for by Ingenuity Prep.
- A minimum of two weeks maternity/paternity leave, up to 6 weeks, at 100% of pay (60% from IP and remaining pay from DC Paid Family Leave ) for all staff – regardless of gender.
- A 100% match — up to 3% — on your 401K retirement plan.
- A 100% Ingenuity Prep-paid cell phone plan. You can even bring your current number into our plan.
- MacBook Air computer for professional and personal use
Salary Range: $72,616 – $90,687 (commensurate with 1-10 years of experience)Ingenuity Prep does not make hiring decisions based on race, color, creed, ethnicity, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, socio-economic background, age, disability, veteran status, religion, political affiliation, or any other characteristic protected by state, federal, or local law. Covid-19 vaccination is required prior to the first day of employment.
Expected salary: $72616 – 90687 per year
Location: Washington DC
Job date: Wed, 12 Mar 2025 07:37:22 GMT
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