Special Education Teacher - Ponaganset Middle School

Special Education Teacher – Ponaganset Middle School (1 Year Only)

Foster-Glocester Regional Schools, Ponaganset Middle – Glocester, Rhode Island

Starting Date: Aug 24, 2026

Foster-Glocester Regional School District is currently accepting applications for a highly effective Special Education Teacher who wants to work as a collaborative member of a team to lead and support our high-performing middle school.

Our learning community of educators, students, and parents is one of the best kept secrets in RI. Located in scenic Northwest Rhode Island, Ponaganset Middle School serves approximately 420 students. Our school is staffed by a dedicated team committed to advancing learning and teaching in a collaborative, relevant, and personalized 1:1 blended learning environment.

Ponaganset Middle School is a member of the Association for Middle Level Education, New England League of Middle Schools and fully embraces middle-level practices. The current school building was built and opened its doors to students in September 2007. Our middle school has six team suites – a group of five classrooms organized around a central meeting room – to support and enhance our middle school teams.

We have strong academic, music, unified arts, and athletic programs.

The school sits on more than 50 acres of a living campus that supports learning in and out of school. Our school has built-in common planning time for teachers, advisory for students, an enrichment period, and supports for students who are struggling and students who excel.

In order to enhance learning and teaching and involve parents in the education of their children, our school district uses a Learning Management System (LMS) that provides a virtual space for student and teacher collaboration and enables teachers and staff to produce lessons, assignments, communicate with students and families, and to run analytics.

Through sound fiscal management, our school district has been able to reallocate resources to meet student and adult needs, adding numerous courses designed to prepare our students for college and careers.

The teacher works cohesively as a member of a team with staff, colleagues, and administrators to improve the learning and achievement of all students by implementing academic, behavioral, and functional instructional practices and supports. The teacher educates students in a manner that is consistent with the mission of the district and goals of the school to develop, implement, and continuously improve a personalized, rigorous, relevant, and collaborative learning environment supported by technology.

• Serve as a member of a professional learning community to actively provide a collaborative, rigorous, relevant, and personalized education supported by technology that prepares students for college and careers.
• Collaboratively create and implement performance tasks, formative and summative assessments aligned to the Common Core and 21st-century skills, including task validation and calibration.
• Disseminate accurate and positive information about the school’s and district’s goals and initiatives in a variety of print and electronic formats.
• Support the efficient, effective, and collaborative management of school operations to ensure learning experiences, promote positive discipline practices, and advance school safety.
• Reinforce and foster identified opportunities to generalize skills within the classroom and expanded school environment.
• Maintain confidentiality of students and serve as the primary contact for communication with families and others directly involved in that student’s education.
• Use a cooperative approach by working as an effective team member (sharing strategies, techniques, and materials).
• Exhibit attributes of reliable attendance, promptness, dependability, and professional ethics.
• Use effective communication skills with students, colleagues, families, and related agencies (spoken, written, and non-verbal).
• Complete case-management responsibilities as identified by the district and state/federal regulations.
• Complete all requested forms, reports, and data…