Private Elementary Special Educator

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Thrive Education Partners partners with families to design and manage educational experiences that extend beyond a traditional classroom model. We are seeking a full-time Private Elementary Special Educator to work alongside one family and Thrive’s Education Management team to build a joyful, rigorous, and highly individualized home-based learning program for one elementary-aged student.

This role is designed for an exceptional educator who combines strong elementary intervention skills with warmth, creativity, sound judgment, and genuine respect for a child’s potential. The student is a bright, affectionate, socially engaged multi-level learner who enjoys art, music, drama, swimming, travel, church, hands-on projects, and shared experiences. She has a medically complex history that affects stamina and access to learning, so her program must be both ambitious and thoughtfully flexible.

This is an educational position, not a nursing or therapy role. The educator will follow family- and provider-approved written protocols, complete required training, and support only those routines clearly assigned to the position. Clinical decisions and treatment remain with the family and licensed care team.

• Full-time W-2 position based in Heath, Texas.
• Four to five days per week, with approximately three to four hours of direct educational programming per day plus paid time for planning, documentation, coordination, preparation, and related professional responsibilities.
• Instruction will take place primarily in the family’s home, with selected community outings, enrichment activities, and real-world learning experiences.
• A flexible school-year rhythm with modified summer continuity is anticipated.
• The schedule must adapt thoughtfully to medical appointments, therapy, illness, family travel, and the student’s stamina while maintaining educational continuity.
• Exact start date, daily hours, calendar, and occasional travel expectations will be finalized with the selected candidate.

Assess the student’s instructional profile and deliver explicit, scaffolded instruction in reading fluency and comprehension, written expression, foundational mathematics, science, and social studies.

• Design age-respectful lessons at the student’s actual point of readiness, using visual supports, manipulatives, movement, demonstrations, projects, real objects, music, art, and lived experiences.
• Build vocabulary, listening comprehension, retelling, questioning, expressive language, and self-advocacy across the curriculum.
• Teach executive-function skills through visual schedules, task initiation supports, checklists, planned choices, transition cues, organization routines, and gradual release toward independence.
• Integrate functional academics and adaptive/life skills such as communication, personal organization, safety, money, shopping, meal participation, household contribution, and community navigation.
• Develop lesson plans, maintain work samples and progress data, document relevant observations, and use evidence to adjust instruction.
• Create a predictable, relationship-centered learning environment with short purposeful work cycles, appropriate breaks, and gradual stamina-building.
• Collaborate closely with parents and Thrive’s Education Manager on goals, curriculum, progress monitoring, scheduling, communication, and long-term planning.
• Follow written health, safety, access, emergency, and incident-reporting protocols; communicate promptly when the student appears fatigued, uncomfortable, unsteady, or otherwise unable to access learning safely.
• Support selected community-based, artistic, faith-aligned, and experiential learning opportunities that build confidence, belonging, communication, and independence.
• Maintain professional discretion and respect the privacy, routines, and boundaries of a family home.

• The student develops a trusting relationship with her educator and approaches learning with greater confidence and less avoidance.
• She makes measurable progress in reading fluency and comprehension, communication and writing,…