Sy2024-25 Middle School Special Education Teaching Assistant

NOTICE: All Ingenuity Prep employees must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 before their start date. All persons offered a position will be required to provide valid proof of vaccination prior to starting employment or must be approved for a medical or religious exemption.

Ingenuity Prep prepares students in Ward 8 to succeed in college and beyond as impactful civic leaders. Our innovative instructional model promotes small group learning for students, collaborative teaching teams, and robust coaching and professional development opportunities for teachers. Our teacher career ladder rewards strong performance over time, giving teachers the opportunity to earn higher levels of base compensation and bonuses as they demonstrate effectiveness with their students and colleagues.

Our middle school program, which opened in 2019,  focuses on rigorous academics and using education as a means of emancipation. We are looking for an experienced Middle School Special Education Teaching Assistant who is deeply committed to students, has a passion for civic leadership and equity, and wants to work closely with their colleagues to build the final grade of a new program for Ingenuity Prep’s students and families during the 2021-2022 school year.  This is an ideal role for candidates who are looking to build their skills on their paths to becoming full-time special education teachers.

WHAT WE’RE ABOUT

• Mission: We’re closing the opportunity gap. Students and families in Southeast D.C. have too few options for high-quality elementary, middle, and high schools.  Ingenuity Prep aspires to right this systemic injustice providing an exemplary educational option for Southeast D.C.’s students and families.
• Model: We pair high expectations with high support. Too often, our students are underestimated.  At Ingenuity Prep, an innovative teacher development model, paired with best-in-class training from strong instructional leaders, allows us to grow great teachers who, ultimately, lead high-expectation and high-support classrooms.
• Results: Our students are defying expectations. Ingenuity Prep’s students outperform their neighborhood peers on rigorous, national, college-track assessments.  Already out-performing many of their more privileged peers around the city, in the coming years, Ingenuity Prep’s students will provide an expectation-defying and achievement-gap-closing proof point — showing what our kids are capable of when we provide the right opportunities, expectations, and support.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

As a Middle School Academy Special Education Teaching Assistant at Ingenuity Prep, you will:

• Assist the Lead Teacher with classroom management, lesson planning, and behavior support in a special education self-contained classroom serving grades 5-8th.
• Along with classroom teachers, support the development of a joyful, efficient, learning-focused classroom culture — in alignment with the school’s vision of excellence for classroom culture.
• Along with classroom teachers, support exemplary student growth — both academically and socio-emotionally.
• Support students with self-care activities.
• Support classroom instruction with fidelity to plans and flexibility in responding to student understanding & misunderstanding.
• Consistently communicate and collaborate with families and students' influencers to cultivate productive partnerships.
• Collaborate with and support colleagues in both formal and informal professional development opportunities.
• Maintain the highest standards of professionalism.

WHO WE’RE LOOKING FOR

Ingenuity Prep may be the right fit for you if:

• You have experience working in a low-income school, special education experience preferred.
• You want to work closely with your peers in a collaborative teaching setting.
• You want to work in a feedback-rich culture, and are eager to grow your practice through individual coaching and professional development opportunities.
• You have the ability to effectively use academic data to drive whole-group and small-group instruction.
• You believe effective instruction is full of joy and rigor.
• You want to consistently partner with families as part of your plan for student success.
• You hold high expectations for yourself and your students.
• You have a High School Diploma.

MORE ABOUT US

Ingenuity Prep offers among the strongest compensation and benefits packages of any public charter school in Washington, D.C. Our compensation and benefits package includes:

• An innovative compensation structure (salary and bonus) for instructional positions based on demonstrated effectiveness and retention.
• Highly competitive compensation for non-instructional positions.
• 100% of medical and dental premiums for employees paid for by Ingenuity Prep, along with 100% of dependent premiums.
• 100% of employee’s short­ and long-term disability and life insurance plans paid for by Ingenuity Prep.
• A minimum of two weeks maternity/paternity leave at 100% pay for all staff -- regardless of gender. Over time, that increases to as much as six weeks -- all at 100% pay.
• A 100% match -- up to 3% -- on your 401K retirement plan.
• A 100% Ingenuity Prep-paid cell phone plan. You can even bring your current number into our plan.
• MacBook Air computer for professional and personal use

Pay: $$20.57-$25.69 hourly (commensurate with years 1-10 years experience)

Ingenuity Prep does not make hiring decisions on the basis of race, color, creed, ethnicity, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, socio-economic background, age, disability, veteran status, religion, political affiliation or any other characteristic protected by state, federal, or local law.