Interventionist (Available 2024-2025) - Public Preparatory Network
Bronx, NY 10451
About the Job
An Invitation to Apply for the Position of
Interventionist (Available 2024-2025)
Boys Prep Bronx Middle School (Grades 5-8)
Girls Prep Bronx Elementary School (Grades Pre-K - 5)
Bronx, NY
What Sets Public Prep Apart?
Public Prep is a network of single-gender K-8 schools and co-ed PreK rooted in the belief that all scholars can and will achieve exemplary academic results. In addition to rigorous, joyful and engaging academics, Public Prep emphasizes social-emotional learning as critical to supporting the whole child. Strong learning partnerships between families and staff are key to living out our core value of communityand building the collaborative structures needed to ensure that our scholars are loved and supported both at school and at home. Each school has a deeply committed leadership team and staff that strives to work collaboratively to build a warm, joyful, and rigorous culture.
Public Prep is committed to investing in our adult learning culture. As a team member at Public Prep, you can anticipate a learning environment where the best interest of scholars, their growth, and success is at the center of everything we do. As such, we tailor adult development opportunities to ensure that high expectations, the embodiment of a growth mindset, displays of humility, and data-informed decision-making is evident in our work. Our professional development takes place within coaching cycles, ongoing observation and feedback, and targeted professional development opportunities within the network and from outside providers.
Public Prep offers a competitive salary commensurate with experience, qualifications, and internal equity. The salary range for this position is $67,000-$89,000. We know that the quality of our benefits is important for our adults and their families, so we offer a comprehensive total rewards package that includes Oxford Medical, United Dental/Vision, life insurance, wellness benefits, a flexible spending account, paid time off/leave benefits, commuter benefits, referral bonuses, professional development, student loan repayment assistance, homeownership programs, and a 403(b) package with a 5% employer match. Our employees also qualify for both NYS Teacher Loan Forgiveness and Public Service Loan Forgiveness.
Public Preparatory Network is an Equal Opportunity employer. Public Preparatory Network is committed to the principles of equal employment opportunity for all employees and applicants for employment.
Primary Function & Position Overview
As an educator at Public Prep Academies we encourage our students to build independence as learners. We fully support the development of our educators to broaden their interpretation of culturally and linguistically diverse students' learning behaviors.
Interventionists work closely with the teachers and students on their assigned caseload in order to provide direct and indirect services. They prioritize inclusion and academic growth through a variety of service models, including small group evidence based interventions, parallel teaching, and alternative teaching. The Interventionist will directly provide specialized instruction to small groups of students. Interventionists use their expertise in special education to collaborate with all teachers and support staff in the school community at the direction of the Academic Director/Principal.
The Interventionist will coordinate and guide his/her school's implementation of Multi-Tiered Systems of Support (MTSS) by creating plans that support a range of student needs and building capacity within the school to improve outcomes for all students. The Intervention Specialist will connect all students with a range of social, emotional, behavioral, and academic supports.
Duties & Responsibilities
- Facilitating evidence-based decision making by guiding teams in the consistent use of data within all meetings for students who are identified for Tier 2 and Tier 3 interventions
- Ensuring appropriate accommodations are given to students during assessments and meeting with all other related service providers
- Directly providing small-group instruction to ALL students in intervention classes
- Actively engaging in individual and network-wide learning of best practices that facilitate effective team functioning and case management while seeking feedback and coaching that supports their own improvement as practitioners
- Designing and implementing systems that ensure strategic and equitable management of resources, i.e. scheduling of student services, communicating with families, maintaining school records of IEP files, and student interventions
- Collaborating with teachers to individualize instruction and to discuss students' access to curriculum and learning goals.
- Ensuring that modifications, scaffolds and interventions align with pre-designed, content standards and Common Core State Standards and address students' individual needs and learning styles
- Delivering direct service and instruction to students
- Providing indirect support through co-planning, accommodations, modifications and scaffolds to address students' individual needs and learning styles, ensuring students have access to grade-level content standards
- Using coaching tools and strategies that maximize their own performance and their students' performance
- Providing feedback and evaluation to students based on the development of individualized goals for performance that are specific, measurable, action-oriented, rooted in data and time-bound including, but not limited to, students' formal IEP goals
- Maintaining records of students' progress toward Intervention and IEP goals
- Fulfilling equitable schedules to serve at-risk students and students with IEPs
- Communicate with families and building community with them through annual home visits and other school events
- Attending IEP and RtI meetings, as needed
- Providing assessment accommodations
- Fulfilling additional responsibilities as they are assigned by the Academic Director and/or Principal
Qualifications
- A bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university
- An M.A., Ed.M or master's degree in Special Education or related field, preferred
- New York State Certification in Special Education or a related field; additional certification a plus
- A minimum of four years of demonstrated success as a full-time special education teacher or special education services provider
- A demonstrated aptitude for effective case management and a proven ability to manage complex systems of data
- Demonstrated success working in a high-performing, urban school setting preferred
- Evidence of excellence in teaching through continuous learning and data analysis
- Exceptional organization and planning skills
- Superior communication skillsAn ability to work collaboratively
- A commitment to single-sex education
- A strong work ethic and a sense of humor
- Fluency in Spanish is a plus
- Training in Wilson, Just Words, R180, System 44, LLI, Fundations, and/or Math 180, preferred
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