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NOTE: Before you read on, please read the Commitments to Educational Equity that AVC strives to adopt across our organization. We seek to add employees to our team who can help us make these commitments a reality and influence how we lead, learn, innovate, design, collaborate, and serve our students, families, partners, and communities. We are in the process of developing a shared leadership model to engage stakeholders across the organization in learning, leading, designing, and decision-making. Still interested? See below:
Who We Are:
Qualifications:
Job-specific Details: AVC is seeking to hire a teacher who:
The ideal candidate would possess or demonstrate the following:
Schedule:
Physical Demands:
Competitive Benefits include:
Special Education Teacher (FT)-Evolution Transition Program 18-22-year-olds.
NOTE: Before you read on, please read the Commitments to Educational Equity that AVC strives to adopt across our organization. We seek to add employees to our team who can help us make these commitments a reality and influence how we lead, learn, innovate, design, collaborate, and serve our students, families, partners, and communities. We are in the process of developing a shared leadership model to engage stakeholders across the organization in learning, leading, designing, and decision-making. Still interested? See below:
Who We Are:
Assabet Valley Collaborative (AVC) is an educational service agency in Metrowest/Central Massachusetts. Our services include K-12 and post-graduate school programs, wraparound services, transportation services, professional development, cooperative purchasing, and consulting. AVC hosts multiple services internally, including 3 clusters of the Evolution program. The open position is within Evolution.
AVC’s Evolution is a transition program for young adults aged 18-22 who have a diverse range of cognitive abilities, and physical and social-emotional needs. The Cluster 2 teacher, in collaboration with three paraeducators, a counselor, a nurse, and rotating related services providers (i.e., OT, SLP, PT, Music, Vision, etc.), serves a classroom of approximately 10-15 students.
Qualifications:
We’re looking for a Teacher who serves as a leader and as a learner; a team member who is flexible, resourceful, and thrives in a fast-paced, non-traditional, collaborative environment, and who understands educational and human service institutions. This person demonstrates a learning mindset and ability to receive feedback, self-reflect, and adapt, as well as an ability to effectively facilitate the learning of others by pushing their thinking, building their skills, and sparking their self-reflection and curiosity.
Job-specific Details: AVC is seeking to hire a teacher who:
- Believes students are successful when they are given positive reinforcement and behavioral supports
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Prioritizes and instructional focus with a blend of the following:
- Functional social and life skills, Vocational and higher education training and support, Community based learning opportunities.
- Cultivates and facilitates communication between school and vocational sites.
- Empowers and fosters the skills for students to become problem solvers and independent decision-makers.
- Is skilled at co-designing and adapting a comprehensive curriculum to best meet the daily and personalized learning needs of students through individual, small and whole group activities.
- Balances high academic and behavioral expectations with necessary accommodations and modifications.
- Co-designs and collaborates with families, sending districts, adult service agencies, employers, and in-home service providers.
- Partners with students and all those invested in their success to develop, present, and implement team-drafted IEPs.
- Provides ongoing supervision and coaching of paraeducators.
- Works with team members to establish and implement student-centered and sustainable data systems that will inform instruction and generate progress reports.
- Conducts necessary assessments and compiles the assessment results of the related service providers for the 3-year re-evaluations.
The ideal candidate would possess or demonstrate the following:
- Gains enjoyment from using their skill set to support diverse learners reach their full potential.
- Ability to thrive within a team while also being able to work independently.
- Ability to engage with conflict and core tensions.
- Bilingual or multilingual is a plus.
- Encourages and fosters passion and enthusiasm for the work of the classroom community.
- Adhere to established federal, state, and local laws and regulations (FERPA, HIPAA, and IDEA).
- Experience working in schools, nonprofits, and human service organizations.
- Bachelor’s Required; Masters’s Degree Preferred.
- Licensed or working toward licensure from MA DESE in Moderate or Severe Disabilities.
- Valid driver’s license, safe driving record, and ability to transport students in AVC vehicles (vans).
Schedule:
- 185 day schedule.
- Operating hours of the program, 8:15am-3:15pm.
- Summer hours are also available, but not required.
Physical Demands:
This is an active position. It requires frequent physical movement to meet the needs of our young adult students in order to support them in accessing learning, leisure, activities of daily living, and their community.
Competitive Benefits include:
- Compensation competitive within public school employees sector.
- School-year position; additional compensation available for summer school service.
- 3 personal days, 10 sick days.
- 75% of health insurance premiums are covered by AVC.
- Participation in MA state pension systems (MTRS or MSERS).
- Voluntary benefits: Flex Spending, Life, Short-term, Long-term Insurance; Dental.
For more information and to apply http://www.avcollaborative.org/employment
About Assabet Valley Collaborative:
Assabet Valley Collaborative (AVC) is an educational service agency in Metrowest/Central Massachusetts. Our services include school programs, wraparound services, transportation services, professional development, cooperative purchasing and consulting. We are in the process of developing a shared leadership model to engage stakeholders across the organization in learning, leading, designing, and decision-making. To achieve shared leadership, we need to engage in continuous study of the principles of cultural proficiency, culturally responsive practices, human-centered design, design thinking, and social innovation.
