English Language Learner Teacher FTE

English Language Learner Teacher – .6 FTE

Multnomah ESD, Multnomah County - Various Classrooms, Portland, Oregon

Job : 5748628
Final date to receive applications: Posted until filled
Posted: May 29, 2026 7:00 AM (UTC)
Starting Date: Aug 10, 2026

Department: Student Services Program: School Improvement Reports to: Regional Instructional Practices Program Administrator Classification/Range: Licensed Schedule: .6 FTE

The English Language Learner (ELL) Teacher provides specialized instruction and culturally responsive educational services for multilingual students in alternative and specialized educational settings. Students served may experience significant behavioral regulation challenges, cognitive disabilities, mental health needs, interrupted schooling, and complex educational support needs.

The ELL Teacher fosters affirming, trauma-informed, and relationship-centered learning environments that honor students’ linguistic, cultural, and lived experiences while promoting equitable access to instruction, communication, behavioral support, and educational opportunities. The ELL Teacher supports students’ academic, language, social-emotional, behavioral, communication, adaptive, and functional skill development through collaboration with multidisciplinary teams, families, and community partners.

This position is subject to board policies, administrative rules and procedures, department regulations, and applicable state and federal statutes. This position does not carry administrative authority.

The ELL Teacher collaborates with administrators, special education staff, counselors, related service providers, behavior specialists, community agencies, and families to support multilingual learners, including students receiving special education services and students enrolled in alternative educational programs. The position may require travel between school sites and educational programs.

• Identify and assess multilingual learners eligible for English Language Development (ELD) services.
• Provide direct English language development instruction using evidence-based language acquisition practices.
• Create safe, predictable, inclusive, and relationship-centered learning environments that support student engagement and emotional regulation.
• Utilize trauma-informed, culturally responsive, restorative, and strengths-based instructional practices.
• Plan and implement differentiated instruction aligned with students’ language proficiency, academic needs, behavioral supports, communication needs, and individualized learning goals.
• Adapt instruction, communication systems, and instructional materials for students with cognitive, communication, adaptive, and developmental disabilities.
• Support functional communication development and language access across educational settings.
• Utilize visual supports, structured routines, sensory supports, augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) systems, and individualized behavioral supports as appropriate.
• Modify instructional pacing, language demands, environmental supports, and behavioral expectations to meet individualized student needs.
• Collaborate with classroom teachers to integrate language development supports and sheltered instructional strategies across content areas.
• Support implementation of evidence-based instructional frameworks including SIOP, Universal Design for Learning (UDL), and culturally sustaining pedagogy.
• Collaborate with special education teachers, speech-language pathologists, behavior specialists, occupational therapists, and related service providers to support multilingual learners with disabilities and complex support needs.
• Participate in IEP meetings, student support teams, evaluation planning, eligibility determination, behavior support and transition planning, while providing timely reports, narratives, and measurable goals to support IEP development and implementation.
• Assist teams in distinguishing language acquisition needs from disability-related learning needs.
• Implement positive behavior supports, de-escalation strategies, and Safety-Care practices in accordance with…