Speech Pathologist Pre-K

The Oxford Hills School District is seeking excellent candidates for the position of Speech Pathologist PreK for the Districtwide. This Position is to start with the 2025/26 School year.

Join our staff in serving students in lovely Western Maine foothills. Responsibilities include providing direct and consultative speech/language therapy services to students with moderatesevere impairments conducting evaluations serving on multidisciplinary IEP teams and assisting in RTI procedures and referrals for students with speech/language impairments.

As a District we are committed to our four Strategic Pillars: Healthy and Resilient Students Maximizing Our Facilities to Support Learning Recruiting and Growing Talent and Rigorous Relevant and Responsive Learning. We are invested in the wellbeing of our students and our staff and you will find our classrooms both indoors and outdoors as evolving spaces intentionally designed to optimize learning.

OUR MISSION

The Oxford Hills School District in partnership with families and communities engages and supports all students in diverse and challenging learning opportunities to prepare them to graduate as healthy responsible and productive citizens ready to succeed in our global societies.

CORE BELIEFS

Therefore the Oxford Hills School District in collaboration with its parents and communities will:

• Meet students where they are motivating and helping them develop their individual learning paths.
• Hold students to high expectations and provide adequate time and support to achieve them.
• Prepare students for success by helping them develop critical thinking and problemsolving skills.
• Foster high aspirations and the skills of selfdetermination selfcontrol and selfadvocacy.
• Guide students to be curious learners and ethical leaders able to adapt to changing times.
• Provide learning experiences in a safe caring and welcoming environment.

OXFORD HILLS REGION

The Oxford Hills School District (MSAD 17) comprises the towns of Norway South Paris West Paris Oxford Waterford Harrison Hebron and Otisfield. MSAD 17 shares vocational resources and accepts students in its Oxford Hills Technical School programs from the RSU10 School District towns of Buckfield Hartford and Sumner. Oxford Hills/Nezinscot Adult Education is located within the Oxford Hills Comprehensive High School.

The Oxford Hills offer a variety of outdoor resources for anyone wishing to enjoy the region whatever the season. The area boasts more than ten lakes and ponds for outdoor recreation a land trust with hundreds of acres for skiing snowshoeing and is in close proximity to several downhill skiing areas! Community support for Oxford Hills athletics and extracurricular activities is very strong and represents the robust regional commitment to the students and schools within the district.

Expectations of Oxford Hills School District Staff:

As contributing members of the districts learning community all district staff members are expected to:

1. Model a strong work ethic perseverance and grit as well as responsibility and respect;
2. Utilize best practices for motivating todays students in a safe supportive learning environment;
3. Demonstrate knowledge in the development of realworld learning experiences and community partnerships to provide students with opportunities for extensions of learning applied learning community service and citizenship;
4. Demonstrate a willingness and ability to collaborate engage and communicate with colleagues parents and the public.

Further instructional staff will emphasize and employ practices that lead to improvement in student achievement by:

1. Instilling problemsolving and critical thinking as a new basics for learning across all grade levels;
2. Delivering strong literacy instruction across content areas;
3. Helping student develop skills to apply interpret analyze and evaluate the vast everexpanding amount of information;
4. Employing effective lesson design by adjusting to students personal learning needs and preferences including appropriate technology applications.

Equal Employment Opportunity
The Oxford Hills School District is an EEO/AA employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion gender national origin sexual orientation age disability protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.