Elementary School Interventionist Teacher

About the role

The Interventionist at Missouri Virtual Academy (MOVA) supports the academic goals of the "At-Risk" student population through individualized and small group sessions, collaborating with general education teachers to meet the unique needs of each student.

Responsibilities

• Modifies and adapts the K12 curriculum to align with state standards and meet the unique needs of each student.
• Collaborates with general education teachers to implement individualized and small group sessions.
• Educates parents on various instructional strategies.
• Ensures the implementation of the Response to Intervention (RTI) instructional system to increase student achievement.
• Collects and maintains all RTI data, including lists of eligible students and intervention plans.
• Serves as a daily resource to school administrators, school leadership teams, and other stakeholders regarding RTI issues.
• Collaborates with homeroom teachers, advisors, counselors, and additional district personnel to coordinate and track Tier 2 interventions.
• Supports teachers in documenting student progress and facilitates eligibility for special education.
• Provides ongoing training and support to school/district staff regarding RTI and the implementation of the RTI and data collection procedures.
• Works with the special education team to facilitate eligibility for special education.
• Ability to work independently, typically 40+ hours per week.
• Ability to maintain a professional home office without distraction during workday, typically 9-5 (or 8-4).
• May travel up to 20% of the time for face-to-face professional development, student testing, and/or as required by the school.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree
• Active state teaching license
• Missouri Elementary Teaching Certification
• Preferred: Special Education certification
• Residency requirement: Must reside in Missouri

Qualifications

• Receptive to receiving coaching regularly with administrators and teacher trainers.
• Ability to embrace change and adapt to ensure excellent student outcomes.
• Proficient in Microsoft Excel, Outlook, Word, PowerPoint.
• Ability to rapidly learn and adapt to new technologies and teaching platforms.
• Ability to maintain teacher certification/professional development hours and fluency in K12 systems, programs and curriculum.

Skills

• Ability to work collaboratively with other teachers to interpret and produce numeric, tabular, and graphic representations of student data, and use it to drive instructional decisions.
• Ability to modify and adapt the K12 curriculum in alignment with the state’s content standards to meet the unique needs of each student.
• Ability to collaborate with general education teachers to meet the goals of the targeted students through individualized and small group sessions.
• Ability to educate parents on various instructional strategies.
• Ability to oversee data collection and progress monitoring at every tier.
• Ability to use data to help teachers plan whole and small group instruction.
• Ability to provide guidance to teachers on identifying and grouping students who need additional help.
• Ability to collect and maintain all RTI data (lists of eligible students, intervention plans).
• Ability to serve as a daily resource to school administrators, school leadership teams, and other stakeholders regarding RTI issues.
• Ability to collaborate with homeroom teachers, advisors, counselors, and additional district personnel to coordinate and track Tier 2 interventions.
• Ability to provide ongoing training and support to school/district staff regarding RTI and the implementation of the RTI and data collection procedures.
• Ability to support teachers in documenting student progress.
• Ability to facilitate eligibility for special education.
• Ability to work independently, typically 40+ hours per week.
• Ability to maintain a professional home office without distraction during workday, typically 9-5 (or 8-4).
• Ability to travel up to 20% of the time for face-to-face professional development, student testing, and/or as required by the school.

Benefits

Stride, Inc. offers a robust benefits package for eligible employees that can include health benefits, retirement contributions, and paid time off. The exact details of the benefits package are subject to change and will be communicated to eligible employees upon hire.

Pay

Stride, Inc. considers a person’s education, experience, and qualifications, as well as the position’s work location, expected quality and quantity of work, required travel (if any), external market and internal value when determining a new employee’s salary level. Salaries will differ based on these factors, the position’s level and expected contribution, and the employee’s benefits elections. Offers will typically be in the bottom half of the range. Exempt (salary): We anticipate the salary range to be $48,752-$60,940. Eligible employees may receive a bonus.

Schedule

This position is remote and strongly prefers candidates that reside in Missouri. May consider candidates that reside in surrounding states.