Special Education Teacher - Thrive (LTS)
for sections like About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Use - for any list of duties/requirements/benefits, and
for prose. Do NOT repeat job title as heading. Do NOT put Job ID/requisition numbers as headings. Preserve all substantive info. Remove boilerplate: cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, application instructions. Include a section ONLY when posting has real, specific content for it — never emit heading followed by filler/placeholder text (e.g., "commensurate with experience", "not specified", "N/A", "varies", "TBD") and never create Pay/Schedule/Benefits sections unless posting actually states them. Prefer few substantive sections over many thin ones.
We need to extract content: The posting includes:
- Description: Special Education Thrive Teacher (previously SMI) 1.0 FTE (LTS) Effective Date Of Employment Anticipated Dates: January 1, 2027 until April 2, 2027 Application Deadline October 2, 2026 4:00 p.m. Application Procedures Internal and External Candidates: Apply on-line at www.district196.org
- Job Summary: Teach curriculum of Independent School District 196. Support students in the Thrive program which serves students with unique health needs who have significant educational needs in the areas of communication, self-regulation and functional skills, and require a highly supported, small group instructional environment. Develop and demonstrate culturally responsive practices that lead to equitable outcomes for all students, particularly those groups of students that are over-represented in special education. Demonstrate proactive response to support students with emotional regulation difficulties. Provide instruction in strategies to support students in developing social emotional skills for success. Demonstrate current knowledge of various forms of assistive technology to support students in accessing the appropriate tools for efficiency. Employ high expectations for students using a variety of instructional techniques and instructional media. Collaborate with others to plan, teach and support students with disabilities in the least restrictive environment. Advocate for students with disabilities to ensure high levels of achievement. Promote and develop strong communication and collaboration with staff, parents and other professionals. Carry out responsibilities as defined by the master contract.
- Qualifications: Licensed by the Minnesota Department of Education in ABS, ASD, EBD, DD, or LD (Dual special education licensure preferred). Strong general education background. Experience working with and providing service to persons of diverse cultures, races, and socioeconomic backgrounds. Evidence of a growth mindset and ability to accelerate growth in academic and social/emotional skills using a strengths based model. Ability to work efficiently, effectively, and cooperatively with multidisciplinary teams. Strong oral and written communication skills. Ability to relate positively to students, staff, and community. Experience working in a school setting or with children ages birth through 21. Ability to follow directions and procedures and facilitate collaborative teaming around students. Ability to facilitate, write and implement Individual Education Plans (IEPs) and Behavior Support Plans. Ability to collaborate with nursing staff to support and perform the necessary delegated health tasks. Ability to direct the work of paraprofessionals and an understanding of practices for training and supporting paraprofessionals. Knowledge of best practices in the field of special education and implementation strategies for sensory activities, positive behavior support, academic instruction, development of routines, etc. Understanding and ability to conduct a comprehensive evaluation. Thorough understanding of the laws, rules and regulations of special education. Ability to lift up to 50 pounds of weight. Valid driver's license or ability to provide travel for self between locations. Demonstrated experience and proficiency working with a culturally, ethnically, racially and socioeconomically diverse school community is preferred.
- Responsible To: Building Principal and Special Education Coordinator
- Compensation / Benefits: According to contractual agreement. If benefit eligible, benefits are available to new employees effective the first day of active employment. Benefits include medical insurance, dental insurance, life insurance, long term disability insurance, sick-leave, state pension plan, tax-deferred retirement savings account, and flexible spending account. Some employee groups also receive vacation, holidays or personal leave. Benefit information is available at Employee Benefits - Rosemount-Apple Valley-Eagan ISD 196
- Then there is a paragraph about the district mission, core values, culture, vision, district stats, etc. This is likely boilerplate but not EEO? It's describing district. Might be considered substantive? It's not job-specific but could be considered "About the district". The instruction says remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions. The district description may be considered boilerplate but not explicitly listed. However, we need to preserve ALL substantive information; do NOT invent or summarize away detail. The district description is substantive about the employer; but the instruction says "Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones." We could include an "About the district" section? Not among allowed headings list (About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). The allowed headings are those; we should only use those headings. So we should not create a heading like "About the district". We could incorporate that info into maybe "About the role"? But that's not appropriate. The instruction says use
for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). It implies we can use those headings; we could also use others? It says "use for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule)." The e.g. suggests those are examples; we could possibly use other headings if needed, but they gave a list. Safer to stick to those.
We need to decide which sections have real, specific content.
- About the role: Could be the Job Summary. That is substantive.
- Responsibilities: Could be derived from Job Summary? But we already have Job Summary as about the role. Could also separate responsibilities list. However, the Job Summary already contains many responsibilities. We could put them under Responsibilities as a list.
- Requirements: Could be Qualifications.
- Skills: Could be overlapping with Qualifications; maybe we can combine.
- Benefits: We have Compensation / Benefits section with details.
- Pay: Not specified (just "According to contractual agreement." No specific pay amount). That's placeholder; we should not create Pay section because it's not specific.
- Schedule: Not specified (just FTE 1.0, dates). Could we consider schedule? The posting includes Effective Date Of Employment Anticipated Dates: Jan 1 2027 until Apr 2 2027. That's a schedule (temporary). Could be considered schedule. But the instruction says never create Pay/Schedule/Benefits sections unless posting actually states them. It does state dates, so we could create a Schedule section with those dates. However, we need to avoid filler like "not specified". The dates are specific. So we can include Schedule.
But we also have Application Deadline and Application Procedures; those are application instructions, which we should remove per instruction: "Remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions." So we should drop Application Deadline and Application Procedures lines.
Also drop the Effective Date Of Employment? That's schedule info; we keep.
We also have "Compensation / Benefits" which we keep as Benefits.
We need to preserve all substantive information: job summary, qualifications, responsibilities, benefits, schedule (dates), reporting line (Responsible To). The reporting line could be part of About the role or Responsibilities.
We need to avoid duplication.
Let's structure:
About the role
Teach curriculum of Independent School District 196. Support students in the Thrive program which serves students with unique health needs who have significant educational needs in the areas of communication, self-regulation and functional skills, and require a highly supported, small group instructional environment. Develop and demonstrate culturally responsive practices that lead to equitable outcomes for all students, particularly those groups of students that are over-represented in special education. Demonstrate proactive response to support students with emotional regulation difficulties. Provide instruction in strategies to support students in developing social emotional skills for success. Demonstrate current knowledge of various forms of assistive technology to support students in accessing the appropriate tools for efficiency. Employ high expectations for students using a variety of instructional techniques and instructional media. Collaborate with others to plan, teach and support students with disabilities in the least restrictive environment. Advocate for students with disabilities to ensure high levels of achievement. Promote and develop strong communication and collaboration with staff, parents and other professionals. Carry out responsibilities as defined by the master contract. Responsible to Building Principal and Special Education Coordinator.
That includes responsibilities and reporting line.
Then Requirements
We can list qualifications as - ... each bullet.
We need to ensure we capture all qualifications items.
List them:
- Licensed by the Minnesota Department of Education in ABS, ASD, EBD, DD, or LD (Dual special education licensure preferred).
- Strong general education background.
- Experience working with and providing service to persons of diverse cultures, races, and socioeconomic backgrounds.
- Evidence of a growth mindset and ability to accelerate growth in academic and social/emotional skills using a strengths based model.
- Ability to work efficiently, effectively, and cooperatively with multidisciplinary teams.
- Strong oral and written communication skills.
- Ability to relate positively to students, staff, and community.
- Experience working in a school setting or with children ages birth through 21.
- Ability to follow directions and procedures and facilitate collaborative teaming around students.
- Ability to facilitate, write and implement Individual Education Plans (IEPs) and Behavior Support Plans.
- Ability to collaborate with nursing staff to support and perform the necessary delegated health tasks.
- Ability to direct the work of paraprofessionals and an understanding of practices for training and supporting paraprofessionals.
- Knowledge of best practices in the field of special education and implementation strategies for sensory activities, positive behavior support, academic instruction, development of routines, etc.
- Understanding and ability to conduct a comprehensive evaluation.
- Thorough understanding of the laws, rules and regulations of special education.
- Ability to lift up to 50 pounds of weight.
- Valid driver's license or ability to provide travel for self between locations.
- Demonstrated experience and proficiency working with a culturally, ethnically, racially and socioeconomically diverse school community is preferred.
We could also include "Strong general education background" etc.
Now Benefits:
Benefits
According to contractual agreement. If benefit eligible, benefits are available to new employees effective the first day of active employment. Benefits include medical insurance, dental insurance, life insurance, long term disability insurance, sick-leave, state pension plan, tax-deferred retirement savings account, and flexible spending account. Some employee groups also receive vacation, holidays or personal leave. Benefit information is available at Employee Benefits - Rosemount-Apple Valley-Eagan ISD 196.
Schedule:
Schedule
1.0 FTE (LTS). Anticipated employment dates: January 1, 2027 through April 2, 2027.
We could also mention that it's a long-term substitute (LTS). Already included.
We should not include Pay section.
We should not include Skills section separately if we already have Requirements covering skills. But we could add Skills if we want; but better to keep few sections.
Thus final HTML fragment:
About the role
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Requirements
- ...
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Benefits
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Schedule
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Check for any duplicated lines: Ensure we didn
for prose. Do NOT repeat job title as heading. Do NOT put Job ID/requisition numbers as headings. Preserve all substantive info. Remove boilerplate: cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, application instructions. Include a section ONLY when posting has real, specific content for it — never emit heading followed by filler/placeholder text (e.g., "commensurate with experience", "not specified", "N/A", "varies", "TBD") and never create Pay/Schedule/Benefits sections unless posting actually states them. Prefer few substantive sections over many thin ones. We need to extract content: The posting includes: - Description: Special Education Thrive Teacher (previously SMI) 1.0 FTE (LTS) Effective Date Of Employment Anticipated Dates: January 1, 2027 until April 2, 2027 Application Deadline October 2, 2026 4:00 p.m. Application Procedures Internal and External Candidates: Apply on-line at www.district196.org - Job Summary: Teach curriculum of Independent School District 196. Support students in the Thrive program which serves students with unique health needs who have significant educational needs in the areas of communication, self-regulation and functional skills, and require a highly supported, small group instructional environment. Develop and demonstrate culturally responsive practices that lead to equitable outcomes for all students, particularly those groups of students that are over-represented in special education. Demonstrate proactive response to support students with emotional regulation difficulties. Provide instruction in strategies to support students in developing social emotional skills for success. Demonstrate current knowledge of various forms of assistive technology to support students in accessing the appropriate tools for efficiency. Employ high expectations for students using a variety of instructional techniques and instructional media. Collaborate with others to plan, teach and support students with disabilities in the least restrictive environment. Advocate for students with disabilities to ensure high levels of achievement. Promote and develop strong communication and collaboration with staff, parents and other professionals. Carry out responsibilities as defined by the master contract. - Qualifications: Licensed by the Minnesota Department of Education in ABS, ASD, EBD, DD, or LD (Dual special education licensure preferred). Strong general education background. Experience working with and providing service to persons of diverse cultures, races, and socioeconomic backgrounds. Evidence of a growth mindset and ability to accelerate growth in academic and social/emotional skills using a strengths based model. Ability to work efficiently, effectively, and cooperatively with multidisciplinary teams. Strong oral and written communication skills. Ability to relate positively to students, staff, and community. Experience working in a school setting or with children ages birth through 21. Ability to follow directions and procedures and facilitate collaborative teaming around students. Ability to facilitate, write and implement Individual Education Plans (IEPs) and Behavior Support Plans. Ability to collaborate with nursing staff to support and perform the necessary delegated health tasks. Ability to direct the work of paraprofessionals and an understanding of practices for training and supporting paraprofessionals. Knowledge of best practices in the field of special education and implementation strategies for sensory activities, positive behavior support, academic instruction, development of routines, etc. Understanding and ability to conduct a comprehensive evaluation. Thorough understanding of the laws, rules and regulations of special education. Ability to lift up to 50 pounds of weight. Valid driver's license or ability to provide travel for self between locations. Demonstrated experience and proficiency working with a culturally, ethnically, racially and socioeconomically diverse school community is preferred. - Responsible To: Building Principal and Special Education Coordinator - Compensation / Benefits: According to contractual agreement. If benefit eligible, benefits are available to new employees effective the first day of active employment. Benefits include medical insurance, dental insurance, life insurance, long term disability insurance, sick-leave, state pension plan, tax-deferred retirement savings account, and flexible spending account. Some employee groups also receive vacation, holidays or personal leave. Benefit information is available at Employee Benefits - Rosemount-Apple Valley-Eagan ISD 196 - Then there is a paragraph about the district mission, core values, culture, vision, district stats, etc. This is likely boilerplate but not EEO? It's describing district. Might be considered substantive? It's not job-specific but could be considered "About the district". The instruction says remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions. The district description may be considered boilerplate but not explicitly listed. However, we need to preserve ALL substantive information; do NOT invent or summarize away detail. The district description is substantive about the employer; but the instruction says "Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones." We could include an "About the district" section? Not among allowed headings list (About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). The allowed headings are those; we should only use those headings. So we should not create a heading like "About the district". We could incorporate that info into maybe "About the role"? But that's not appropriate. The instruction says use
for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). It implies we can use those headings; we could also use others? It says "use for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule)." The e.g. suggests those are examples; we could possibly use other headings if needed, but they gave a list. Safer to stick to those.
We need to decide which sections have real, specific content.
- About the role: Could be the Job Summary. That is substantive.
- Responsibilities: Could be derived from Job Summary? But we already have Job Summary as about the role. Could also separate responsibilities list. However, the Job Summary already contains many responsibilities. We could put them under Responsibilities as a list.
- Requirements: Could be Qualifications.
- Skills: Could be overlapping with Qualifications; maybe we can combine.
- Benefits: We have Compensation / Benefits section with details.
- Pay: Not specified (just "According to contractual agreement." No specific pay amount). That's placeholder; we should not create Pay section because it's not specific.
- Schedule: Not specified (just FTE 1.0, dates). Could we consider schedule? The posting includes Effective Date Of Employment Anticipated Dates: Jan 1 2027 until Apr 2 2027. That's a schedule (temporary). Could be considered schedule. But the instruction says never create Pay/Schedule/Benefits sections unless posting actually states them. It does state dates, so we could create a Schedule section with those dates. However, we need to avoid filler like "not specified". The dates are specific. So we can include Schedule.
But we also have Application Deadline and Application Procedures; those are application instructions, which we should remove per instruction: "Remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions." So we should drop Application Deadline and Application Procedures lines.
Also drop the Effective Date Of Employment? That's schedule info; we keep.
We also have "Compensation / Benefits" which we keep as Benefits.
We need to preserve all substantive information: job summary, qualifications, responsibilities, benefits, schedule (dates), reporting line (Responsible To). The reporting line could be part of About the role or Responsibilities.
We need to avoid duplication.
Let's structure:
About the role
About the role
Teach curriculum of Independent School District 196. Support students in the Thrive program which serves students with unique health needs who have significant educational needs in the areas of communication, self-regulation and functional skills, and require a highly supported, small group instructional environment. Develop and demonstrate culturally responsive practices that lead to equitable outcomes for all students, particularly those groups of students that are over-represented in special education. Demonstrate proactive response to support students with emotional regulation difficulties. Provide instruction in strategies to support students in developing social emotional skills for success. Demonstrate current knowledge of various forms of assistive technology to support students in accessing the appropriate tools for efficiency. Employ high expectations for students using a variety of instructional techniques and instructional media. Collaborate with others to plan, teach and support students with disabilities in the least restrictive environment. Advocate for students with disabilities to ensure high levels of achievement. Promote and develop strong communication and collaboration with staff, parents and other professionals. Carry out responsibilities as defined by the master contract. Responsible to Building Principal and Special Education Coordinator.
That includes responsibilities and reporting line. ThenRequirements
We can list qualifications as- ... each bullet.
We need to ensure we capture all qualifications items.
List them:
- Licensed by the Minnesota Department of Education in ABS, ASD, EBD, DD, or LD (Dual special education licensure preferred).
- Strong general education background.
- Experience working with and providing service to persons of diverse cultures, races, and socioeconomic backgrounds.
- Evidence of a growth mindset and ability to accelerate growth in academic and social/emotional skills using a strengths based model.
- Ability to work efficiently, effectively, and cooperatively with multidisciplinary teams.
- Strong oral and written communication skills.
- Ability to relate positively to students, staff, and community.
- Experience working in a school setting or with children ages birth through 21.
- Ability to follow directions and procedures and facilitate collaborative teaming around students.
- Ability to facilitate, write and implement Individual Education Plans (IEPs) and Behavior Support Plans.
- Ability to collaborate with nursing staff to support and perform the necessary delegated health tasks.
- Ability to direct the work of paraprofessionals and an understanding of practices for training and supporting paraprofessionals.
- Knowledge of best practices in the field of special education and implementation strategies for sensory activities, positive behavior support, academic instruction, development of routines, etc.
- Understanding and ability to conduct a comprehensive evaluation.
- Thorough understanding of the laws, rules and regulations of special education.
- Ability to lift up to 50 pounds of weight.
- Valid driver's license or ability to provide travel for self between locations.
- Demonstrated experience and proficiency working with a culturally, ethnically, racially and socioeconomically diverse school community is preferred.
We could also include "Strong general education background" etc.
Now Benefits:
Benefits
According to contractual agreement. If benefit eligible, benefits are available to new employees effective the first day of active employment. Benefits include medical insurance, dental insurance, life insurance, long term disability insurance, sick-leave, state pension plan, tax-deferred retirement savings account, and flexible spending account. Some employee groups also receive vacation, holidays or personal leave. Benefit information is available at Employee Benefits - Rosemount-Apple Valley-Eagan ISD 196.
Schedule:Schedule
1.0 FTE (LTS). Anticipated employment dates: January 1, 2027 through April 2, 2027.
We could also mention that it's a long-term substitute (LTS). Already included. We should not include Pay section. We should not include Skills section separately if we already have Requirements covering skills. But we could add Skills if we want; but better to keep few sections. Thus final HTML fragment:About the role
...
Requirements
- ... ...
Benefits
...
Schedule
...
Check for any duplicated lines: Ensure we didn