SPED Para Educator - R6
for section headings: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We need to include sections only when posting has real specific content. Let's parse the posting.
Content:
- Opening line: "***Open until filled*** Paraprofessionals in the Springfield Public Schools have a substantial benefit package including competitive wages, paid sick leave, and Professional Development opportunities including a robust Para to Teacher Pipeline program."
- Role description: "The Special Education Paraprofessional holds primary responsibility for overseeing the implementation of effective, rigorous academic and behavior intervention systems with a small case load of students. The Special Education Paraprofessional will work closely with a small case load of students who need additional supports to be successful in the classroom. This individual will support those students, their families, and their teachers in an effort to fundamentally change the successes they are realizing."
- Specific Responsibilities: list bullet points: "Work alongside an experienced special educator to support a small case load of students, driving the academic achievement of students with moderate to severe need; Implement an effective, rigorous academic and behavior intervention system with a small case load of students; Provide consistent and high academic and behavioral expectations; Support student mastery of state, city, and school academic and behavioral standards; Lead daily individual and small group tutoring sessions; and Communicate effectively with students, families, and colleagues."
- Qualifications: list: "A passionate belief in SPS's mission, values, and educational model; An extraordinarily high bar for student behavior and expectations; An eagerness to set ambitious, challenging, and tangible goals, and a relentless drive to achieve them; An ability to thrive in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment and a capacity to remain calm and focused when faced with unexpected challenges; Proven track-record of high achievement; Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, including strong public speaking skills; A sense of humility in the face of success; Drive to improve the minds and lives of students in and out of the classroom; A high-school diploma or GED; and Sixty (60) Credit Hours of College Coursework or an Associate’s Degree, or a passing score on one of the two following Formalized Standardized Assessments: ParaPro Assessment (http://www.ets.org/parapro/ ) or WorkKeys Certificate of Proficiency for Teacher Assistants (http://www.act.org/workkeys/profcert/index.html ); and Current authorization to work in the United States – A candidate must have such authorization by his or her first day of employment.A passing score on the Work Keys Exams in the following areas:Reading: 5Math: 4Writing: 3"
- Then "If you BELIEVE, we have a place for YOU on our team! Come work for us!" (maybe tagline)
- About Our District: description of district, etc.
- "In addition to offering competitive salaries and benefits, we provide numerous cutting-edge professional development opportunities for all staff." etc.
- Contact email: Carmen Molina-Figueroa.
- Then EEO statements etc which we must remove (cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions). So we need to strip all EEO statements, nondiscrimination statements, Title IX etc.
We need to preserve substantive information: benefit package, role description, responsibilities, qualifications, about district, professional development opportunities, maybe contact email? The instruction: "Remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions." The contact email might be considered application instructions? It says "If there is something that you would like to know specifically about the position that you are applying for or assistance with matching your skills to a position, Carmen Molina-Figueroa will be happy to assist you at molina-figueroac@springfieldpublicschools.com." That's contact for assistance, maybe considered application instructions? It's not exactly instructions to apply, but it's a contact for help. Might be considered application instructions? The instruction says remove application instructions. Likely we should remove that line. Also "If you BELIEVE, we have a place for YOU on our team! Come work for us!" maybe tagline but could be considered motivational fluff; we can keep as prose? It's not boilerplate. Might keep as a short paragraph.
We need to decide sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule.
We have content for:
- About the role: we have role description paragraph.
- Responsibilities: we have bullet list.
- Qualifications: we have list.
- Benefits: we have mention of "substantial benefit package including competitive wages, paid sick leave, and Professional Development opportunities including a robust Para to Teacher Pipeline program." Also later: "In addition to offering competitive salaries and benefits, we provide numerous cutting-edge professional development opportunities for all staff." Also mention of mentors etc. So we can include Benefits section with those details.
- Pay: we have "competitive wages" but not specific numbers. The rule: never create Pay/Schedule/Benefits sections unless the posting actually states them. It does state competitive wages (but not specific). Is that enough? It says "competitive wages" is a statement about pay. So we could include Pay section with that statement. However the rule says "never emit a heading followed by filler/placeholder text (e.g. "commensurate with experience", "not specified", "N/A", "varies", "TBD")". "competitive wages" is not filler? It's vague but still a statement. Might be acceptable. But we also have "competitive salaries and benefits". So we could include Pay: competitive wages/salaries.
- Schedule: not mentioned. No schedule info. So we should not create Schedule section.
- Skills: maybe we could extract from qualifications some skills like interpersonal communication, public speaking, etc. But we already have Qualifications section; Skills could be separate if we have specific skills list. The posting includes "Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, including strong public speaking skills;" that's a skill. Also "Ability to thrive in fast-paced entrepreneurial environment", "capacity to remain calm and focused", etc. Could be considered skills. But we already have Qualifications covering many. The instruction: "Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones." So maybe we combine Skills into Qualifications or omit Skills section. Since we already have Qualifications, we can skip Skills.
- Requirements: maybe we could separate educational requirements (high school diploma, 60 credit hours, etc.) from qualifications. But we have Qualifications already includes those. Could make Requirements for educational/certification requirements. However we risk thin sections. Better to keep Qualifications as one section covering all.
- About the district: could be About the role? Actually "About the role" is for role description. "About Our District" is separate. Could be a section like "About the district" but not in allowed headings list. Allowed headings are About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. So we should fit district info under About the role? Or maybe we can omit district info? But we must preserve ALL substantive information. The district description is substantive. Where to put? Could be under About the role as a paragraph describing the organization. Or we could create a section "About the role" and include both role and district info. That seems okay.
- Professional Development opportunities: part of Benefits.
- Contact email: we decided to remove as application instructions.
- Tagline "If you BELIEVE, we have a place for YOU on our team! Come work for us!" could be a short paragraph maybe under About the role or as a motivational statement. We'll keep as a paragraph.
Now we need to output HTML fragment with headings and - for lists,
for prose.
We need to preserve all substantive information, not invent or summarize away detail. So we must keep the exact details: e.g., "Sixty (60) Credit Hours of College Coursework or an Associate’s Degree, or a passing score on one of the two following Formalized Standardized Assessments: ParaPro Assessment (http://www.ets.org/parapro/ ) or WorkKeys Certificate of Proficiency for Teacher Assistants (http://www.act.org/workkeys/profcert/index.html ); and Current authorization to work in the United States – A candidate must have such authorization by his or her first day of employment.A passing score on the Work Keys Exams in the following areas:Reading: 5Math: 4Writing: 3". Need to keep that exactly, but we can format as list items.
We need to remove duplicated lines. There's some duplication: The benefit package line appears at start and later "In addition to offering competitive salaries and benefits, we provide numerous cutting-edge professional development opportunities for all staff." That's not duplicate exactly but similar. We'll keep both.
We need to remove EEO etc. So we will cut after the district description and before the EEO statements. The district description ends at "Our students and staff share their ideas and perspectives, learning from and appreciating each other. We are a district that is committed to equity and excellence." Then after that there is "Join a team that Empowers Educators In addition to offering competitive salaries and benefits, we provide numerous cutting-edge professional development opportunities for all staff." That's still substantive (professional development). Then after that there is contact email and then EEO statements. We'll keep the "Join a team that Empowers Educators..." paragraph as part of Benefits or About the role? It's about professional development, so Benefits.
Now we need to decide sections:
- About the role: includes role description paragraph and maybe district description? Could combine.
Better: About the role: includes role description paragraph (the paragraph starting "The Special Education Paraprofessional holds primary responsibility...") and maybe also the opening line about Paraprofessionals benefit package? That opening line is about benefits, not role. So maybe we keep opening line in Benefits.
Thus About the role: just the role description paragraph.
Responsibilities: bullet list of specific responsibilities.
Qualifications: bullet list of qualifications (including belief, high bar, etc., plus educational requirements, etc.)
Benefits: includes opening line about benefit package, plus "In addition to offering competitive salaries and benefits, we provide numerous cutting-edge professional development opportunities for all staff." plus maybe mention of mentors etc. Also "We let our data shape the professional development of the district, therefore, it is relevant and actionable. We support our teaching staff with mentors such as instructional leadership specialists and effective educator coaches to work with them throughout the year in lesson planning, data analysis and management. Our district offers career advancement opportunities and is invested in “Grow our Own” and educational pipeline programs. These programs help our staff achieve a college degree or lead to certification pathways." That's from the district description after "Join a team that Empowers Educators". Actually that paragraph is part of district description but still about professional development and career advancement. So we can include in Benefits.
Pay: includes "competitive wages" and "competitive salaries". We'll combine: "competitive wages" and "competitive salaries". Could phrase as "competitive wages and salaries". We'll keep as a paragraph.
Schedule: none, omit.
Skills: maybe we could extract some skills but we already have qualifications covering many. To avoid thin section, we omit Skills.
Requirements: maybe we could separate educational requirements but we already have them in Qualifications. To avoid thin, we omit Requirements.
Thus we will have sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Qualifications, Benefits, Pay.
Check if any content left out: district description about languages, size, etc. That's substantive. Where to put? Could be under About the role as a paragraph describing the district. Or we could add a section "About the district" but not allowed. So we incorporate into About the role or Benefits? It's about the district, not role. But we can put under About the role as a paragraph describing the organization where the role sits. That seems acceptable.
Thus About the role will contain two paragraphs: role description and district description (including size
- for lists,
for prose. We need to preserve all substantive information, not invent or summarize away detail. So we must keep the exact details: e.g., "Sixty (60) Credit Hours of College Coursework or an Associate’s Degree, or a passing score on one of the two following Formalized Standardized Assessments: ParaPro Assessment (http://www.ets.org/parapro/ ) or WorkKeys Certificate of Proficiency for Teacher Assistants (http://www.act.org/workkeys/profcert/index.html ); and Current authorization to work in the United States – A candidate must have such authorization by his or her first day of employment.A passing score on the Work Keys Exams in the following areas:Reading: 5Math: 4Writing: 3". Need to keep that exactly, but we can format as list items. We need to remove duplicated lines. There's some duplication: The benefit package line appears at start and later "In addition to offering competitive salaries and benefits, we provide numerous cutting-edge professional development opportunities for all staff." That's not duplicate exactly but similar. We'll keep both. We need to remove EEO etc. So we will cut after the district description and before the EEO statements. The district description ends at "Our students and staff share their ideas and perspectives, learning from and appreciating each other. We are a district that is committed to equity and excellence." Then after that there is "Join a team that Empowers Educators In addition to offering competitive salaries and benefits, we provide numerous cutting-edge professional development opportunities for all staff." That's still substantive (professional development). Then after that there is contact email and then EEO statements. We'll keep the "Join a team that Empowers Educators..." paragraph as part of Benefits or About the role? It's about professional development, so Benefits. Now we need to decide sections: - About the role: includes role description paragraph and maybe district description? Could combine. Better: About the role: includes role description paragraph (the paragraph starting "The Special Education Paraprofessional holds primary responsibility...") and maybe also the opening line about Paraprofessionals benefit package? That opening line is about benefits, not role. So maybe we keep opening line in Benefits. Thus About the role: just the role description paragraph. Responsibilities: bullet list of specific responsibilities. Qualifications: bullet list of qualifications (including belief, high bar, etc., plus educational requirements, etc.) Benefits: includes opening line about benefit package, plus "In addition to offering competitive salaries and benefits, we provide numerous cutting-edge professional development opportunities for all staff." plus maybe mention of mentors etc. Also "We let our data shape the professional development of the district, therefore, it is relevant and actionable. We support our teaching staff with mentors such as instructional leadership specialists and effective educator coaches to work with them throughout the year in lesson planning, data analysis and management. Our district offers career advancement opportunities and is invested in “Grow our Own” and educational pipeline programs. These programs help our staff achieve a college degree or lead to certification pathways." That's from the district description after "Join a team that Empowers Educators". Actually that paragraph is part of district description but still about professional development and career advancement. So we can include in Benefits. Pay: includes "competitive wages" and "competitive salaries". We'll combine: "competitive wages" and "competitive salaries". Could phrase as "competitive wages and salaries". We'll keep as a paragraph. Schedule: none, omit. Skills: maybe we could extract some skills but we already have qualifications covering many. To avoid thin section, we omit Skills. Requirements: maybe we could separate educational requirements but we already have them in Qualifications. To avoid thin, we omit Requirements. Thus we will have sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Qualifications, Benefits, Pay. Check if any content left out: district description about languages, size, etc. That's substantive. Where to put? Could be under About the role as a paragraph describing the district. Or we could add a section "About the district" but not allowed. So we incorporate into About the role or Benefits? It's about the district, not role. But we can put under About the role as a paragraph describing the organization where the role sits. That seems acceptable. Thus About the role will contain two paragraphs: role description and district description (including size