Teacher of Students Cognitive Impairments

Starting 2026/2027 School Year

The WISD's Mission is to educate, serve, and advocate with students, families, schools, and the community. We disrupt racial inequities, build just educational systems, and expand access for all learners. We value human potential while striving to support current and future generations of Washtenaw County to enrich as many lives as we possibly can.

The WISD’s Vision is to be a leader in empowering, facilitating, and delivering high-quality, boundary-spanning, educational system that educates all children through an equitable, inclusive, and holistic approach.

The Teacher of Students with Cognitive Impairments is responsible for the instructional program and implementation of activities for disabled students from Washtenaw County.

• Demonstrates a strong commitment to equity, social justice, and inclusion in all practices and position responsibilities.
• Demonstrates the ability to examine how his/her/their position (directly or indirectly) impacts educational inequities in student achievement outcomes.
• Engages in reflection and ongoing learning and development on critical concepts and terms identified in the Washtenaw ISD Educational Equity Policy including concepts such as cultural proficiency, racial equity, and systemic and structural inequities.
• Provides and coordinates the instructional program for students in the assigned area of responsibility and evaluates results on a continuous basis.
• Assesses students' achievement and develops instructional strategies to meet individual educational needs of students in the assigned area of responsibility.
• Plans curriculum and prepares lessons and other instructional materials to meet individual needs of students, considering such factors as physical, emotional, and educational levels of development.
• Participates in Multidisciplinary Evaluation Team (MET) meetings and prepares reports for assigned students.
• Convenes and chairs Individualized Education Program Team (IEPT) meetings.
• Develops and implements student IEP goals and instruction based on individual student needs.
• Participates in the implementation of health care procedures in accordance with administrative operating procedures.
• Develops, coordinates, and implements behavior intervention plans in accordance with District policy, administrative operating procedures and state/federal rules and regulations.
• Convenes a team to evaluate and develop a functional behavioral assessment.
• Maintains accurate attendance records and appropriate reports.
• Participates in District level staff meetings, in-service activities, staff development/special programs, school improvement teams and planning committees as appropriate to the assignment.
• Documents student progress using assessment tools, monitoring through observations/evaluation and/or collecting data.
• Utilizes student progress data to improve instruction.
• Confers with other staff members to plan programs designed to promote educational, physical independent and social development for students.
• Confers with parents, teacher assistants, related service providers and administration to develop an individual educational plan for students.
• Monitors student needs and implements programs.
• Develops a program that includes community-based learning activities, small group, and individualized community access activities.
• Develops and implements opportunities for students to interact with community resources, participate in career and job readiness activities, visit work sites and employers.
• Establishes and maintains open communications with parents, staff, administration, and outside agencies.
• Supervises and implements instruction for students in class and in the community; directs the activities of teacher assistants in all areas of instruction as well as other activities.
• Maintains accurate records in a manner consistent with state and federal law as required by the District.
• Performs billing functions for Medicaid reimbursement where applicable.
• Adheres to District health and safety rules, policies, and procedures.
• Supports the guiding principles of Student Independence, Student safety and Student Staff Success.
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