Paraeducator

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Assabet Valley Collaborative provided pay range: $22.00/hr - $37.00/hr.

We are seeking Paraeducators for our REACH Program!

Assabet Valley Collaborative (AVC) is an educational service agency in the Metrowest/Central Massachusetts region. Our services include school programs, wraparound services, transportation services, professional development, cooperative purchasing and consulting. AVC’s REACH is a program designed to meet the diverse physical, medical, and learning needs of students ages 3-18.

AVC operates a shared leadership model that engages stakeholders across the organization in learning, leading, designing, and decision‑making. To thrive within this model, team members must be self‑reflective, embrace partnership, and honor a mutual responsibility for giving and receiving feedback.

AVC’s Commitments to Educational Equity are the vision for our future. We are committed to continuous study of principles such as human‑centered design, social innovation, cultural proficiency, and culturally responsive practices.

• Establish and maintain positive and nurturing rapport with students.
• Be flexible and adapt to the evolving needs of students and the school environment.
• Be aware of student accommodation needs.
• Respect and appreciate multiple differences, including learning, communication, behavioral, cultural, and familial differences.
• Participate in routine community‑building activities.
• Support and collaborate with colleagues.

• Assist and reinforce elements that support an effective teaching and learning environment.
• Understand the similarities and differences among students’ cognitive, communicative, physical, social, and emotional needs, and the factors that influence them.
• Assist with instruction and activities for groups and individuals as assigned.
• Assist with day‑to‑day operation of the school environment by monitoring, supervising, and helping students throughout program space.
• Collect and submit data regarding goals and outcomes related to students’ IEPs, Transition Plans, and other plans as assigned.
• Assist with instructional service delivery as indicated.
• Accompany students to field trips.

• Assist and reinforce elements that support a safe, healthy learning environment.
• Redirect behaviors and offer positive reinforcements as needed.
• Collect and record performance data on students under the direction of licensed professionals.
• Meet physical requirements necessary to intervene in a crisis or emergency.
• Assist ambulatory children to young adults and lift them for hygiene changes and positioning equipment.
• Engage in physical movements such as bending, twisting, pushing, pulling, climbing, squatting, crawling, and kneeling as needed.

• Experience working in schools, nonprofits, or human service organizations.
• Flexibility, versatility, and follow‑through.
• Teamwork skills, including conflict navigation.
• Ability to seek and provide clear, direct feedback.
• Bilingual or multilingual skills are a plus.
• Ability to thrive within a team while working independently.
• Valid driver’s license, safe driving record, and preferred ability to transport students in AVC vehicles.
• Physical ability to execute job responsibilities that include transferring, lifting, or shifting students or equipment.

• Competitive hourly pay range ($22.00/hr to $37.00/hr).
• Paid leave: 10 sick days and 3 personal days per year.
• $1,200 tuition reimbursement.
• $1,500 stipend (only for paras) usable flexibly.
• School‑year position with additional summer compensation.
• 75% health insurance premiums covered (High Deductible Health Plan).
• Health Savings Account with 50% deductible contribution.
• Participation in Massachusetts state pension system.
• Voluntary benefits: life, short‑term, long‑term insurance; dental.

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About Assabet Valley Collaborative:
We believe that everyone in our community is a leader and learner who possesses inherent brilliance. Every community member has the responsibility to support the learning and growth of themselves and others.