Special Ed Community Access & Transitions Paraeducator

Job Class: Special Education Community Access/Transition Para educator (S10W)

Salary Range: $31.52 - $36.87/hourly

Location: High Schools

Calendar: Part Time, School Term

Who We Are

The San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) is the seventh largest school district in California, serving more than 50,000 students who speak more than 44 documented languages across 130 schools in the city of San Francisco every year. We aim for every student who attends SFUSD schools to discover his or her spark, along with a strong sense of self and purpose, and that all students graduate from high school ready for college and career, and equipped with the skills, capacities and dispositions outlined in SFUSD’s Graduate Profile
. Every day in our quest to achieve this mission we provide each and every student the quality instruction and equitable support required to thrive in the 21st century.

What It Means to Work Here

The SFUSD community is unified by ourCore Values:

• Student-centered:
  We put students’ needs first
• Fearless:
  We persist through challenges
• United:
  We celebrate and build on each other’s strengths
• Social Justice:
  We stand with those most vulnerable in our community
• Diversity-driven:
  We respect and seek to understand each person

We are also inspired by Vision, Values and Guardrails which captures our aspirations and vision for the future of public education in San Francisco. Alongside the District’s strategic plan.SFUSD is reimagining how public education will change over the next decade to meet the dynamic future of San Francisco. As a
CORE district, SFUSD is also a leader in critical systems change for more comprehensive school accountability and innovations that help strengthen the instructional core, which is the foundation of our strategic plan and Vision 2025.

Who We Want

We want talented people from diverse backgrounds and experiences, who are inspired by our mission, steeped in equity, and who are motivated to unleash our children’s potential. We want people who are strong collaborators, skilled communicators, and problem solvers who are comfortable in a community of continuous learning.

Under supervision of a teacher/administrator, paraprofessional facilitates access to the community, providing instructional and functional support as determined by an individualized education program (IEP). The role of the Community Access Transition Program (CAT) paraprofessional is to provide support to students, identified with moderate to severe disabilities, while participating in community based instructional experiences. The CAT paraprofessional will support students in the community on foot or by public transportation for the majority of the school day.

A CAT paraprofessional serves as a representative for the CAT program, portraying each student’s uniqueness positively at all times. The employee assists certificated staff by: implementing lesson plans (activities which include reviewing and correcting the work of pupils), participating in parent conferences, proctoring examinations, keeping relevant records, operating instructional equipment in appropriate instructional settings, as well as performing related duties as required.

A paraprofessional serves as a “public relations” representative for the CAT program. Responsibilities may include an ability to translate and adapt materials to and from English into that language(s) may also be required. In positions that require an employee to drive, the employee shall furnish a certificate of clearance from the Department of Motor Vehicles in order to meet District insurability.

Essential Duties

Under the supervision of a special education teacher/administrator, employee works with a moderately-severely impaired population between ages 18-22. Duties include…