About City Garden Montessori School

City Garden Montessori School (City Garden) is the only Montessori charter school in Missouri, and we are one of the highest-performing charter schools in the state. Our team possesses passion and determination to implement the Montessori approach to educating children in a diverse, public school environment. City Garden is committed to being an anti-biased, anti-racist community and seeks others who are passionate about these values. We are committed to fostering excellence for all City Garden children.

At City Garden we are redefining education, reimagining community, and reinvigorating our world.

City Garden is a community-centered and people-centered organization in an exciting point in our growth and expansion. Ours is an environment that celebrates vulnerability and centers humanity in the workplace.

Special Education Teacher

The state-certified Special Education Teacher serves as a highly-organized case manager to provide on-site special education services for students in grades K through 8. The Early Childhood Special Education Teacher at City Garden Montessori School needs a distinct personality to handle the different kinds of children and parents and maintain a level of professionalism.

Responsibilities

The following represents a summary of the responsibilities of this position. A detailed job description may be downloaded at: https://www.citygardenschool.org/careers.

• Writing individualized education plans (IEPs)
• Working with academic teachers to implement the IEP
• Working with students on academic and executive functioning skills
• Facilitating IEP meetings with parents and staff
• Writing and monitoring behavior intervention plans
• Communicating effectively with parents, administration, classroom lead guides/teachers, and the special education team
• Keeping detailed records relating to student conditions, care plans, therapies, and progress

In order to fulfill these responsibilities, the ideal Special Education Teacher candidate will also:

• Have strong rapport with young children and their parents and guardians
• Be familiar with Montessori education, and aligned to Montessori’s holistic approach to child development
• Have a strong grounding in anti-bias education and antiracist values and principles, and is excited to be part of a school that is reimagining education through these lenses
• Have an ability to meet people where they are, build and nurture strong relationships, collaborate across stakeholders, build community, and lead with empathy

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree
• Valid Missouri (or a state with educational certification reciprocity) license/ certification in Special Education
• At least one year experience working with students
• Familiarity with Spedtrack (MO) or other Special Education software
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Exemplary organizational skills
• Experience working with students on the Autism Spectrum
• Experience with the transfer process of student with IEP's
• Attentive and caring with the ability to develop individualized education plans (IEPs)

Schedule

School hours: 8:00 am to 4:00 pm Monday through Friday

Length of Work Year: August 1 to last week in May (10 month contract), including but not limited to professional development, parent/teacher conferences, and preparatory work.

Benefits

City Garden offers a range of benefits for Full-time employees such as:

• Generous Paid Time-off (Fall, Winter and Spring breaks, holidays, and additional days)
• Paid Health Benefits (Medical, Dental, Vision and Life Insurance)
• Pre-Tax savings for family health premium costs
• Retirement Plan
• Enrollment preference to City Garden Montessori for child(ren) grades K through 8 who reside in Missouri
• Discount tuition for our Preschool program

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $41,000.00 - $49,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Dental insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Retirement plan
• Vision insurance

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

Education:

• Bachelor's (Required)

Experience:

• public school: 1 year (Preferred)

License/Certification:

• MO or IL state certification in Special Education (Required)

Work Location: In person

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