Elementary School: Lead Teacher, Special Education, Substantially Separate Program - Boston (2026-2027)

About the role

The Special Education Sub-Separate Lead Teacher will instruct a small group of students in some or all core content areas (Math, Reading, Humanities and Science) and collaborate with classroom teachers to support students during inclusion opportunities. They will also be responsible for working collaboratively with classroom teachers to support students' during inclusion opportunities. This role involves ensuring all students are growing and achieving by providing a variety of supports in social/emotional skills and academic skills.

Responsibilities

• Create and internalize daily aligned lesson plans, unit plans, rubrics and assessments
• Modify standards across 1-4 content areas to meet the needs of students in the program
• Set specific, ambitious goals with all students and identify and leverage all necessary resources to ensure they meet them
• Infuse core values into daily lessons and every school practice
• Provide healing-centered instruction and create a healing-centered environment as part of the classroom culture
• Collaborate with psychologist to develop and run trauma-informed, social-emotional, and life skills group
• Ensure that all children feel affirmed, valued, and challenged every day
• Execute MCAS Alt portfolios (for applicable students)

Requirements

• Obtain required MTEL and SEI endorsements with financial support from KIPP MA within the first year of employment
• Prior experience in working with students with moderate to severe disabilities and/or who present with challenging behavior and/or social/emotional needs is preferred
• Prior experience with Special Education laws and paperwork is a bonus, but is not required for the role; Special Education Sub-Separate Lead Teachers receive training and assistance from our regional Special Education team

Qualifications

• Empowerment to use expertise to help students succeed
• Consistent and reliable demonstration of essential job functions and key responsibilities
• Embody KIPP MA’s Code of Conduct by acting with integrity, leading with humanity, centering self-awareness and critical consciousness, taking personal responsibility, and engaging productively
• Demonstrated ability to collect and interpret data, evaluate, reason, define problems, establish facts, draw valid conclusions, and make reasonable judgments and decisions in a timely manner in accordance with the needs of the school
• Self-awareness, flexibility and emotional intelligence to navigate a setting with students who express diverse needs
• Effective communication skills to perform assigned duties and to meaningfully exchange information with students, staff, families and others in person, through written communication, in front of groups, and on virtual platforms
• Physical mobility to move self in various positions in order to execute duties effectively, which may include kneeling, walking, pushing/pulling, squatting, twisting, turning, bending, stooping and reaching overhead
• Physical strength sufficient to periodically lift and/or carry 20 pounds of materials or supplies and to physically restrain a student to keep from harming themself and/or others in an emergency situation
• Manual dexterity sufficient to perform repetitive hand/wrist/arm motions and to operate a computer and office equipment