Special Educator: Life Skills

2025-2026 School Year Job Posting Special Educator; Life Community Skills At WSESU, we are committed to engaging hearts and minds for a limitless future - where students want to learn, staff want to work, and families want to live. We celebrate all dimensions of diversity and strive to be a place where everyone feels a sense of inclusion and belonging. We are actively seeking to create a more diverse institutional culture because teams are stronger and more innovative with different perspectives and experiences. Summary: WSESU is seeking a Special Education Teacher or General Education Middle school/High school certified teacher with relevant experience. This position as a special educator is assigned as an essential skills community focused middle/high school position. A demonstrated commitment to collaboration with all school staff and families is required. Qualified candidates will document a strong work ethic, excellent written and verbal communication skills, and proven instructional skills. Remedial literacy and math instruction, curriculum planning, trauma informed practices, case management experience, within student-centered practices are highly desirable traits. Experience with collaboration with teaching staff, support staff, and community agencies is a plus. Qualifications: Special education teacher licensure through grades 12 or any middle school/high school teacher licensure with experience teaching within special education classrooms/programs. Essential Duties and Responsibilities: ● Work as member of multidisciplinary team for determining eligibility for special education services, IEP development, consultation services, and service delivery models. ● Assure compliance with established state and federal laws, regulations, policies, and procedures. ● Create appropriate, individualized goals, objectives, and transition plans with an IEP team. ● Prepare written reports (e.g. progress notes, data tracking) and present findings at team meetings as needed. ● Utilize instructional and community based experiences that are appropriate for each student’s age, developmental level, and goals. ● Assess, select, and develop community partnerships necessary to support student learning. 105 Main Street, Suite 200 • Windsor, Vermont 05089 Phone (802) 674-2144 • Fax (802) 674-6357 ● Supervise, model, and support paraeducators working with students in school and community settings. ● Remain current concerning instructional and technological advances and other matters concerning school to work approaches. . Attend and participate in professional workshops and conferences. Maintain appropriate professional licensure at state level. ● Attend staff meetings. ● Interest, willingness, and/or experience integrating and advancing practices of diversity, equity and inclusion ● Anticipated Life Skills Special Education Teaching Position 2024-2025 ● A demonstrated commitment to collaboration with all school staff and families is required. ● Remedial literacy and math instruction, curriculum planning, trauma informed practices, case management experience, within student-centered community practices is required. ● Experience with collaboration with teaching staff, support staff, and community agencies WSESU is a diverse community of learners where: ● Every learner has the potential to be a leader ● Students have a strong voice in shaping their school experiences ● Learning is personal, connected, and relevant ● High expectations exist in caring, nurturing environments ● Individuals grow into larger communities, while also broadening a sense of self ● Positive relationships define the interactions between school and the community ● Students get better at making decisions by making decisions ● Everyone is able to bring their full selves to the learning experience We encourage women, people of the global majority, LGBTQIA individuals, people with disabilities, foreign-born residents, older members of society, and individuals from diverse lived experiences and backgrounds to apply. Please apply on SchoolSpring.com or send a cover letter, resume, three current letters of reference, transcripts, and references to: Windsor Southeast Supervisory Union Att: Katie Ahern, Director of Student Support Services 105 Main Street, Suite 200 Windsor, VT 05089 katie.ahern@wsesu.net EOE