IDEA High School Special Education Teacher

Job Description

Required Certificates and Licenses: Texas Special Education and ESL preferred

Residency Requirements: Texas

Salary: This position offers a base salary around $52,000

Start Date: School Year 2025/2026

K12, a Stride Company, believes in Education for ANYONE. We provide families an online option for a high-quality, personalized education experience. Students can thrive, find their passion, and learn in an environment that encourages discovery at their own pace.

Passionate High School Educators are needed at the Stride K12 partner school, Texas Virtual Academy of Hallsville (TVAH). We want you to be a part of our talented team!

The mission of Texas Virtual Academy of Hallsville (TVAH) is to provide an exemplary individualized and engaging educational experience for students by incorporating school and community/family partnerships coupled with a rigorous curriculum along with a data-driven and student-centered instructional model. Student success will be measured by valid and reliable assessment data, parent and student satisfaction, and continued institutional growth within the academic community.

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IDEA Special Education Teacher is the teacher of record for their students and provides instruction, support and guidance and manages the learning process focusing on self-contained and ALT students’ individual needs as defined by each student’s Individual Education Program (IEP). This role is also responsible for progress monitoring on goals and service logs as required in serving special education students and for all compliance documents required in serving self-contained and ALT students.

• Collaborate with parents and colleagues to manage coarse goals, curriculum, and materials that enhance the learning experience;
• Manager to create compliant IEP’s, progress reports and other state specific required special education documentation;
• Participate and provide input for collaborative special education meetings such as annual IEP meetings;
• Actively participate in Professional Learning Communities (or professional development);
• Provide rich and engaging synchronous and asynchronous learning experiences for students;
• Analyze student data to prescribe remediation and enrichment as needed;
• Participate in data analysis meetings to monitor student growth;
• Collect data and work samples to monitor student progress toward IEP goals and objectives;
• Document all contact with parents, collaborations with general education teachers, and interventions with students;
• Using provided resources to ensure accommodations and modifications for students with disabilities such as assistive technology, supplemental curriculum, and accessible text;
• Provide special education services to students; support general education teachers and parents with student accommodations to promote the attainment of IEP goals;
• Ensure inclusion and success of student in the general education classroom;
• Provide personalizing learning for all students;
• Demonstrate abelief in all students’ ability to succeed and meet high expectations;
• Maintain grade book ensuring student academic integrity, provide input for student placement and promotion decisions, and alert administrators to concerns about student performance and progress;
• Prepare students for high stakes standardized tests;
• Understand that a primary responsibility is to establish and maintain positive rapport with families and regularly communicate with and respond to students and learning coaches/parents in a timely manner;
• Support learning coaches/parents with student curricular and instructional issues, as well as basic troubleshooting in a virtual classroom environment that is in line with academy policies and procedures;
• Support in-person student testing;

This position has no formal supervisory responsibilities.

• Ability to work collaboratively with other teachers to interpret and produce numeric, tabular, and graphic representations of student data, and use it to drive instructional decisions;
• Receptive to receiving coaching on a regular basis with administrators;
• Ability to embrace change and adapt to ensure excellent…