Elementary Special Ed Resource Room Teacher — Impact & Growth

1.0 FTE 025-2026 posting

Washougal School District

Posting for the 2026-27 School Year

Position Type:Certificated,continuing contract after required provisional status

Position Title:Elementary Special Education Teacher - Resource Room

Position Location: Gause Elementary School

Position Posting: May 7, 2026

This recruitment may close at any time on or after the first review date with no additional notice.

Position Begins:8/24/2026

Salary: $66,137- $124,653 Basedon 2025-26salary schedule and placement is basedupon experience

5 days per week

184 days/180 student attendance (per District calendar)

District salary schedule

Internal Posting for WAE members closes at 4:00 p.m. on May 13, 2026.

Anticipated open to the public

The Washougal Strategic Planis centered on our commitment to know, nurture and challenge all students to rise and includes our six guiding pillars that steer our work and prioritize our decisions and actions:

• Effective Instruction -We will invest in attracting, retaining, and developing excellent teachers and staff. We will provide relevant, rigorous and supportive instruction with high expectations for all students.
• Career & College Readiness -We will prepare students to contribute to the community they live in, whether in skilled trades, higher education, or professional careers.
• Equity-We will engage in intentional efforts to identify disparities that create opportunity gaps, and take action to eliminate the achievement gap. We will develop and strengthen students' agency, so they are prepared for careers, college and life.
• Educational Engagement -We will ensure all students are involved in innovative, artistic, creative, vocational, and intellectual pursuits, so they develop confidence, understanding, and agency in the classroom and beyond.
• Partnerships to Support Students -We will partner to build culturally responsive schools, where all children are known, supported and connected through positive relationships in a safe environment.
• Stewardship of Resources -We will maximize resources to create opportunities for our students through a transparent budget process that aligns with our priorities for student achievement and operations of the district. Every dollar matters.

Purpose

The Washougal School District is committed to attracting, developing, and retaining a highly qualified workforce that appreciates the diversity of our community and is committed to practices that are responsive to the needs ofallstudents and families.

The Washougal School District desires inclusive schools and classrooms that celebrate the diversity of our school and community. We welcome candidates representing the diversity of the world.

A Washougal School District educator knows, nurtures, and challengesallstudents with high expectations, a love of learning, and a focus on helping every student rise to their highest potential and learn at high levels. Effective educators recognize individual students’ strengths and needs, and use multiple strategies to help all students be successful while creating collaborative, equitable, safe, and welcoming communities of learners.

Required Endorsements:OSPI/WA state

Teaching Certificate with K-12 Special Education endorsement or multiple subject areas

Essential Functions

• Teach to district approved course goals and objectives.
• Select teaching strategies for implementing IEP goals and objectives for assigned students with developmentally delayed disabilities.
• Make instructional decisions. Monitor and adjust teaching strategies to the students changing needs.
• Coordinate specialized instruction with general education curriculum as appropriate.
• Establish classroom behavior management programs for students. Utilizing pro-social skill/intrinsic model and a behavioral accountability system in…