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Academic Interventionist - Title I (Multiple Schools)

Des Moines Public Schools is seeking qualified applicants for the 26-27 school year to serve as an Academic Interventionist. The role starts in August 2026.

Job : 5647559

Final date to receive applications: May 31, 2026 11:59 PM (Central Standard Time)

Re-Posted: May 06, 2026 5:00 AM (UTC)

Starting Date: Aug 10, 2026

• Required: Valid Iowa teaching license with a K-8 reading endorsement
• Desired: Previous teaching experience;
  Experience in an urban school setting
• Skills, Knowledge, and Abilities: Knowledge of subject, curriculum, effective teaching methods;
  Effective communication skills both oral and written

• Coordinate and provide strategic supplemental academic instruction to meet the individual needs of students.
• Identify students in need of supplemental interventions to support core instruction.
• Collaborate with classroom teachers, administration, and families to identify best practices for individual and small groups of students.
• Plan and teach interventions based on the learning needs of students using high quality materials based in research.
• Monitor student learning daily using multiple data points to guide group and individualized instruction.
• Ensure intervention sequence aligns with classroom instruction and building MTSS.
• Document interventions in Panorama Students success and record monitoring data there.
• Participate in professional learning communities, literacy and math training for staff, and ongoing professional development opportunities for Interventionists.
• Assist in the planning and implementation of building professional development.
• Communicate with families on a regular basis.
• Demonstrate consistent progress on meeting the eight Iowa Teaching Standards.

• Attend work on a prompt and regular basis.
• Maintain confidentiality.
• Maintain satisfactory and harmonious working relationships with the public, students, and other employees.
• Assist with other duties as may be assigned.

Building Principal

Director of Teaching and Learning

• Citizenship, residency, or work visa required.

• All candidates offered a position will be required to successfully pass a criminal background check, a child and adult abuse registry check.
• Certain positions may require fingerprinting, a drug and alcohol test, a physical capacity test and/or a motor vehicle record check.

• Emily Carlyle, Talent Support, Human Resources - emily.carlyle