Teacher Speech and Language Pathologist, (0.6FTE PART TIME) (SY26-27)

About UP Education Network
UP Education Network manages and operates three schools in Boston We serve over 1500 elementary and middle school students. UP is invited by local school districts to restart chronically underperforming district schools as UP Academies. Each UP Academy shares the same mission: to ensure that students acquire the knowledge skills and strength of character necessary tosucceed on the path to college and to achieve their full potential.

Role

The Speech-Language Pathologist will provide speech and language services to students exhibiting a full range of communication disorders. The Speech and Language Pathologist will reportto the Dean of Special Education of UP Academy Boston.

Specific Responsibilities

• Evaluate and screen students to assess speech and language abilities and needs
• Conduct assessments in collaboration with others that help to identify students with communication disorders as well as to inform instruction and intervention
• Write evaluation reports including all speech/language assessments goals and plans;
• Meet federal and state mandates as well as local policies in performance of duties;
• Determine needs of individual students within the classroom setting and provide services within the classroom as deemed appropriate
• Work in conjunction with the classroom teacher to incorporate the speech/language program into the curriculum
• Work in conjunction with team to create IEPs for annual reviews and provides input for students who are involved with the three-year re-evaluation
• Collaborate with the Principals and Leadership Teams in providing FAPE LRE and specialized instruction and services for students with disabilities and differentiated instruction for all students
• Participate in special education meetings
• Participate in dispute resolution meetings hearings and mediation settlement meetings as needed
• Manage Medicaid reimbursement activities

Qualifications

• A strong belief in UP Education Networks core values: Students CommunityHumility Resilience and Humor
• Bachelors degree is required
• Masters level degree in Speech Pathology
• Certificate of Clinical Competence in Speech and Language Pathology (CCC-SLP)
• Possession of MA DESE license in Speech Language and Hearing Disorders
• Current authorization to work in the United States A candidate must have such authorization by hisor her first day of employment

Compensationand Benefits

Your salary is commensurate with experience; UP Academy follows the salary scales of each UP Academys host school district. As an employee of UP Academy and your respective school districtyou will receive the same access to personal and sick days health insurance and dental insurance as others within your union.

Working at UPEducation Network

We know that great staff members directly lead to the success of our UP your career is shaped by:

• Opportunities forimmediateimpact: UP offers a chance to bring best practices found in high-performing schools to students previously enrolled in struggling schoolsand to rapidly unlockthe potential of these students
• Talented mission-driven colleagues: Our staff is enthusiastic dedicated and willing to do whatever it takes to put everystudent on the path to college
• Collaboration and teamwork: Staff members collaborate and work closely together on grade-level or content area teams using data to track student performance as well as guide instructional practice
• Consistent professional growth and development: Members ofour staff typically have bi-weekly check-in meetings with their managers where they receive targeted coaching and supportand theentire staff participates in weekly professional development sessions during the school year kick-started byextensive training in August.

We encourage applicants of diverse backgrounds to apply for any open position in which they feel believe that we have a responsibility to recruit retain develop and reward a diverse and talented staff. Our students must be exposed on a daily basis to a diverse group of powerful role models - in their teachers their school leaders and their supporters in the network office. With this in mind we are committed to recruiting the most talented individuals from the widest possible range ofbackgrounds to join our creative mission-driven team.

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