Teacher-Elementary Affective

Teacher-Elementary Affective Needs

Location: Thornton, CO

Position Type: Replacement

Salary

Schedule:

Certified Salary Schedule (amount based on education and experience)

Standard Hours Per Week: 40

FTE: 1.0

Months per Year: 9

Job Code: 1750EL

Adams 12 Five Star Schools is deeply committed to a community of excellence, equity, and inclusion. We aim to elevate student success for every student, every day, in every classroom.

Elementary Affective Needs Teachers provide academic and social/emotional instruction to students with disabilities in center-based K‑5 specialized programs, demonstrating competencies in advocacy, assessment, collaboration, and compliance.

• Advocate for students with disabilities to ensure access to learning opportunities and equity in discipline processes; model and promote inclusive language.
• Assess and determine eligibility of students with disabilities; develop and monitor progress of SMART learning goals; conduct Functional Behavior Assessments; develop and monitor Behavior Intervention Plans; create and manage incentive plans, point sheets, and data collection systems.
• Supervise, schedule, and monitor paraprofessionals; collaborate with classroom teachers, school psychologists, speech/language pathologists, school social workers, and other special education service providers to develop integrated plans for students with disabilities; collaborate with families to ensure students’ strengths, needs, services and progress are regularly communicated.
• Implement IDEA and ECEA regulations; develop and implement legally compliant, instructionally sound IEPs; ensure IEP implementation across settings; abide by all district policies and procedures.
• Identify students’ current social‑emotional instructional levels; implement AN Quality Indicators and the AN Rubric; develop trajectories toward CASEL standards; plan lessons incorporating evidence‑based practices and identifying resources; implement specially‑designed instruction across special education and general education settings; be willing to learn to plan and implement social‑emotional learning for students with disabilities; differentiate instruction for learners with diverse needs; demonstrate and model effective classroom management;
  
  participate in ongoing professional development.

• Bachelor’s degree or higher.
• Minimum age 18.

• Criminal background check required for hire.
• Must possess or obtain a Colorado Educator License within 30 days of hire.

Preference given to candidates with ELL Training and/or an ESL or (LDE) Linguistically Diverse Education Endorsement.

Voluntary transfers must occur fifteen working days before the start of the school year and may continue until the end of the school year. The transfer period can last up to four weeks and may be adjusted with appropriate approvals.

We offer a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, vision, life insurance, an employee assistance program, voluntary life insurance, and 401(k), 403(b), and 457(b) plans available immediately upon hire.