Job Description:
City Garden Montessori School (City Garden) is the only Montessori charter school in Missouri, and we are one of the highest-performing charter schools in the state. Our team possesses passion and determination to implement the Montessori approach to educating children in a diverse, public school environment. City Garden is committed to being an anti-biased, anti-racist community and seeks others who are passionate about these values. We are committed to fostering excellence for all City Garden children.

At City Garden we are redefining public education, reimagining community, and reinvigorating our world.

City Garden is a community-centered and people-centered organization in an exciting point in our growth and expansion. To learn more about City Garden’s impact on the community, please read some recent articles about us, found HERE and HERE.

Special Education Teacher

The state-certified Special Education Teacher serves as a highly-organized case manager to provide on-site special education services for elementary-age students. The Special Education Teacher at City Garden Montessori School needs a distinct personality to handle the different kinds of children and parents and maintain a level of professionalism.

The Most Exciting Part of the Job

• Joining a great special education team, who exemplifies compassion, kindness and patience when dealing with students, parents, and classroom lead guides/teachers
• Building good relationships with children, parents, teachers and social workers
• Working with children from different backgrounds who have different abilities
• Devising and adopting new techniques for teaching and keeping the class orderly
• Showcasing your excellent leadership and becoming a mentor for students

Responsibilities
The following represents a summary of the responsibilities of this position. A detailed job description, may be downloaded HERE.

• Writing individualized education plans (IEPs)
• Working with academic teachers to implement the IEP
• Working with students on academic and executive functioning skills
• Facilitating IEP meetings with parents and staff
• Writing and monitoring behavior intervention plans
• Communicating effectively with parents, administration, classroom lead guides/teachers, and the special education team
• Keeping detailed records relating to student conditions, care plans, therapies, and progress

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree
• Valid Missouri state license or certification in Special Education
• At least one year experience working with students
• Experience working with elementary students (Grades K to 8)
• Familiarity with Spedtrack
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Exemplary organizational skills
• Experience working with students on the Autism Spectrum
• Experience with the transfer process of student with IEP's
• Attentive and caring with the ability to develop individualized education plans (IEPs)

Compensation
This is full-time, 10 month academic year position. This non-exempt position offers a salary ranging from $41,000.00 to $49,000.00 based on level of education and years of experience.

What We Offer

• Ongoing professional development
• Opportunity to contribute to the only high-quality public Montessori program in St. Louis

Benefits
City Garden offers a range of benefits for Full-time employees such as:

• Generous Paid Time-off (Fall, Winter and Spring breaks, holidays, and additional days)
• Paid Health Benefits (Medical, Dental, Vision and Life Insurance)
• Pre-Tax savings for family health premium costs
• Retirement Plan
• Enrollment preference to City Garden Montessori for child(ren) grades K through 8
• Tuition discount for Early Childhood program (Pre-K)

To Apply
Visit our Career Page at this LINK.