Academic Specialist (K-6th) at Aspire Charter Academy

Located in Gary IN Aspire Academy opened in 2008 and serves 650 K-8 students every year. At Aspire you can connect passion with purpose.

• Starting pay above traditional public schools market scales.

• Competitive benefitsat affordable rates.

• Demonstrates consistent outperformance against local districts on state tests.

• Access to a best-in-class curriculum with advanced instructional tools and resources.

• Personalized development and coachingopportunities.

• High level of support for all staffby an experienced leadership team.

• Emphasis on maintaining a safe and conducive learning environment.

• Believe that all children can and will learn at high levels.
• Supports supplements and extends classroom teaching and works collaboratively to implement a quality intervention program that is research-based and meets the needs of at-risk students.
• Uses specialized knowledge of assessment and diagnosis for developing implementing and evaluating academic interventions for individual students.
• Assess the strengths and needs of students and provide that information to classroom teachers parents and specialized personnel such as psychologists special educators or speech teachers in order to provide effective instruction.
• Acts as a resource to other educators parents and the community.
• Reviews test scores and diagnostic assessments to help determine eligibility for intervention services.
• Monitors student progress for the purpose of providing feedback on a regular basis to students teachers parents and determining intervention effectiveness so modifications can be made to student plans as appropriate.
• Groups and schedules students according to student needs.
• Provides instruction to individual or small groups of students using research-based best practices for intervention instruction of core content subjects.
• Manages student behavior for the purpose of providing a safe and an optimal learning environment.
• Manages allotted learning time to maximize student achievement.
• Completes necessary paperwork (including student plans and logging services) accurately and completely as required by the law and school.
• Collects analyzes and prepares data for the purpose of interpretation and reporting.

• Must hold a valid teacher license in the subject and/or grade level or meet alternative requirements in the state you are applying.

• 3 years of teaching experience preferred.