2026-27 Paraeducator Moderate/Severe Hiring Pool - Rancho Cordova

Application deadline: August 4, 2026. Anticipated start date: as soon as possible.

About the role

Under the supervision of an administrator and general direction of a classroom teacher, assists students with severe disabilities to meet their physical and emotional requirements throughout the instructional day. Assists the teacher with record keeping and performs a variety of instructional support duties in developing life skills and/or physical care activities. The work need not be performed in the presence of the teacher, but the teacher retains responsibility for instruction and supervision.

Paraeducators work in special education settings where students have behavior, emotional, physical, language/communication, or learning disabilities. May spend a substantial portion of their time providing intervention to students who exhibit disruptive, aggressive, depressive, and/or self-injurious behaviors.

Responsibilities

• Assist students with severe disabilities to meet physical and emotional needs during the instructional day
• Support classroom teacher with record keeping and instructional duties
• Develop and implement life skills and physical care activities
• Provide intervention for students exhibiting disruptive, aggressive, depressive, or self-injurious behaviors

Requirements

• High School Diploma or equivalent
• Completion of one of the following:
  • A.A. degree, or
  • 48 units beyond high school diploma, or
  • Successful completion of the District Instructional Assistant Proficiency Test in reading, math, and writing per the Federal No Child Left Behind Act
• Willingness to complete required training courses or in-service upon employment
• Preferred: experience in the care of children with learning disabilities and/or emotional disturbances
• Preferred: training in crisis intervention

Qualifications

Upon conditional offer of employment:

• DOJ and FBI Criminal Background Check
• TB Test within the last 60 days (Education Code 49406, Assembly Bill 1667)
• Complete district Mandated Reporter training, Sexual Harassment training, and other required trainings
• Obtain and maintain a First Aid/CPR Certificate (In-Person Training ONLY)
• Pre-Employment Physical Evaluation conducted through the District (minimum 50 pounds lifting requirement)

Physical demands

• Ability to lift up to 50 pounds, with or without aids
• Sufficient strength to lift non-ambulatory students and move adaptive equipment
• Ability to physically restrain and control a student up to 200 pounds with assistance
• Body movement and mobility to demonstrate gross motor activities, climb in/out of vehicles, walk/run with students, and maneuver students into/out of vehicles, wheelchairs, and toilets
• Sufficient vision to read printed material (with or without aids)
• Sufficient hearing to hear normal and telephone conversations (with or without aids)
• Ability to speak in an understandable voice with sufficient volume
• Manual dexterity to write and use telephone/office machines
• Occasional climbing, balancing, stooping, kneeling, crouching, reaching
• Ability to understand and follow oral and written directions

Pay

$21.33 to $25.97 per hour

Schedule

9.5 work months per year
5.75 hours per day, 5 days a week