2024-2025 High School Special Education Teacher

High School Special Education Teacher {2024-2025}

Freire Schools is seeking a full-time Special Education teacher for the 2024-2025 school year. Exact grade to be determined, but possible grade levels range from 9th - 12th grade at either our Tech High School or Center City High School Campus.  Freire staff members are forward-thinking team players passionate about working with and unleashing the potential of urban youth. We seek candidates who value diversity, are highly motivated, and who will demand excellence from themselves and their students.

TECH Freire Charter School (9-12): 2221 N Broad St, Philadelphia, PA 19132

Freire Charter High School (9-12): 2027 Chestnut St, Philadelphia, PA 19103

Successful candidates will have the following attributes:

• Appropriate PA certification or willingness to pursue alternative certification
• Strong Math content knowledge.
• Positive attitude, sense of humor, and willingness to do whatever it takes to get a job done
• Ability to work well individually and as part of a team

Responsibilities:

Compliance:

• Familiarize yourself with IEPs and evals of all students on caseload, know their history, goals, accommodations, and specially designed instruction
• Schedule all IEP meetings in compliance
• Modify IEP draft to reflect current needs before meetings
• Collaborate with school psychologist for any students being evaluated
• Conduct ongoing progress monitoring, complete progress monitoring reports each quarter
• Attend all IEP meetings
• Write, facilitate and implement PBSPs
• File Compliance ensure signatures, teacher input, paperwork is set
• Gather teacher input for progress monitoring

Manage caseload:

• Set up system to routinely monitor student grades and progress
• Set up system to ensure student comprehension of curriculum material
• Make proactive remediation plans for struggling students early in the quarter that involves parent, teachers, student, and dean/academic heads

Collaborate:

• Collaborate with grade level team daily/weekly/bi-weekly
• Collaborate with co-teachers daily/weekly to plan effective lessons
• Modify all materials for major assignments and assessments in advance of teacher distributing to class
• Modify gradebooks bi-monthly
• Work with teachers, deans, school heads on PBSPs, behavior strategies

Schedule/Instructional Duties:

• Daily Co-Teaching
• Transitions lessons implemented
• Support Facilitation
• Pull-Outs & Direct Instruction based on student need

About Freire Schools

Freire Schools has 23 years of success with raising student achievement and preparing historically underserved students for college. We're a network of four schools with one mission! Our students are at the center of all that we do, and we’re looking for educators who have an undeniable belief that every student who walks through our doors is capable of success. 

Our mission is to provide a college-preparatory education that equips students with the knowledge, skills, and character to succeed in college and beyond. 

Our Impact

• Across the network, at least 95% of our Class of 2023 were accepted to college. Students were accepted to 151 unique colleges and universities – including the University of Pennsylvania, Cornell University, and 30 historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs).

• The Class of 2023 received over $23.8 million in college  scholarships and financial aid. 

• Freire students’ college persistence rates consistently exceed local, state, and national averages. In each graduating class, 89% to 92% of our college-attending graduates return to college for their sophomore year, compared to just 69% nationally.

• Freire Charter School just was awarded a $2M grant and Freire Wilmington a $1.8M 5-year grant to continue their 21st CCLC programs for the next five years.  

• TECH Freire was one of only five schools, out of 39 total applications, approved to open a new Philadelphia charter school in 2016.

Freire Schools Values

The core values of Freire schools are centered around empowering students to become critical thinkers and problem solvers in a community of mutual respect, openness, and a commitment to peace. 

EQUITY: Freire schools aims to promote social justice by providing quality, accessible education regardless of their background or socio-economic status.

LOVE: We insist that every member of our community be accepted at face value, without judgment, and be supported in inhabiting their fullest self. Our connections create our community. As a Freire Family, our shared struggles, joy, challenges, and successes give us strength.

CRITICAL THINKING: Freire schools prioritize inquiry-based learning, which involves encouraging students to ask questions, explore their interests, and question the status quo.

DIVERSITY: We embrace and celebrate our differences, because we know they make us stronger as a community and as individuals.

Compensation

Our salary scales are generally in alignment with surrounding school districts. We also offer a quality benefits package, a strong commitment to developing all staff as professionals invested in life-long learning, and the opportunity to work with the best students in Philadelphia. 

For questions about career opportunities with Freire Schools, please contact gloria@freireschools.org.