Special Education Teacher 2025-2026
Special Education Teacher 2025-2026
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Special Education Teacher Job Description
The School
Nashville Classical East opened in July 2013 with one grade Kindergarten. Since then the school has grown to enroll 550 scholars in Grades K8 and become the citys most popular elementary school enrolling families from 26 unique Zip Codes.
In the past five years our school has been
- Named the citys best nonprofit by the Nashville Business Journal
- Named a Tennessee Reward School by the TN Department of Education
- Achieved top 5 growth in the state in both Math and ELA
- Awarded 3 Blue Ribbon Awards for Teaching Excellence: Most in the city!
- Profiled in The Tennessean Newsweek and in Doug Lemovs recent books Teach Like A Champion 3.0 and Reconnect.
The Position
Nashville Classical East seeks Special Education teachers to join our Scholar Supports Team who are committed to working hard having fun and making history. Our team educates a diverse community through a joyful rigorous curriculum and within a structured intentional culture building a foundation of knowledge and habits for high school college and life.
Our teachers:
- Internalize and execute common curricula including unit plans lesson plans and materials.
- Build achievementoriented cultures during key moments like morning motivation lunch recess and closing circle.
- Implement schoolwide systems for scholar culture.
- Communicate regularly with families and attend quarterly events in the evenings such as Report Card Conferences Cultural Heritage Nights etc.
- Engage in ongoing professional development including once weekly until 4:30pm.
- Commit to teaching a daily schedule from 7:17am 3:37pm.
- Commit to attending 3 weeks of summer professional development starting in July 2024.
- Do whatever it takes to achieve the mission of Nashville Classical.
Additionally our Special Education teachers:
- Support scholars with exceptional needs in grades Kinder8th across the school.
- Provide instruction across subjects via small group pull out lessons and push in support to specific scholars.
- Collaborate with and support general education teachers on curriculum instructional strategies assessments and Individual Education Plans compliance.
- Collaborate with other Special Education/EL staff on curriculum instructional strategies assessments and Individual Education Plans.
- Provide behavior and social emotional support to scholars through interventions.
- Monitor compile analyze and report scholar data through meetings reports and other required compliance.
- Communicate progress to families and engage families through formal meetings and informal phone calls home visits bus rides and notes.
The Qualifications
The ideal candidate possesses:
- Valid Tennessee teaching license with the appropriate Special Education or Interventionist endorsement or a clear pathway toward Tennessee state certification
- ESL endorsement is highly preferred
- Bachelors degree
- Experience with a Special Education caseload
- Fulltime teaching experience in a school setting
- Experience and demonstrated success teaching in a highperforming school serving a culturally and socioeconomically diverse school community is highly preferred
The Compensation
Nashville Classical pays 5 above our local school district. For teachers base 2425 salaries range from $55670 $89877. Teachers can select from three generous medical plans and are eligible for full state retirement benefits. This position will follow a 10month schedule.
We also offer yearly stipends for teacherleader roles extracurricular clubs coaching and additional roles. We offer all employees a Macbook computer all necessary classroom supplies and a $500 discretionary budget for classroom purchases.
As an equal opportunity employer we hire without consideration to race religion creed color national origin age gender sexual orientation marital status veteran status or disability.
The Outcomes
Our ideal candidate for this position would be invested in achieving the following outcomes in the next school year:
- Support the effort to increase the percentage of scholars scoring in the 50th percentile or higher on our benchmark assessment AimsWeb which is a nationally normed assessment.
AND
- Increase the number of scholars scoring on track or mastered on TCAP in 38 Math and ELA and 68 Science and Social Studies by:
- Providing strong tier I II and III instruction to scholars.
- Utilize datadriven instruction to target and close academic gaps.
- Participating in regular observation feedback cycles with your coach to strengthen instruction.
- Partner with families to ensure the percentage of chronically absent scholars decreases from previous school years by:
- Partnering with our Scholar and Family Support Coordinator to identify needs and create a plan to meet them.
- Communicating regularly with families about academic progress and any potential impacts of attendance.
As an equal opportunity employer we hire without consideration to race religion creed color national origin age gender sexual orientation marital status veteran status or disability.
Required Experience:
Manager
Employment Type
Full-Time
