ABOUT ALLIANCE COLLEGE-READY PUBLIC SCHOOLS

Alliance College-Ready Public Schools is one of the largest and most successful nonprofit public charter school networks in the nation, operating 26 high-performing, middle and high schools that educate nearly 13,000 scholars who make up the heart of Los Angeles’ Latinx, Black, and recent immigrant communities. Alliance schools have been recognized as among the best in the nation by U.S. News & World Report, Newsweek, the U.S. Department of Education, and the California Department of Education. Since opening our first school in 2004, 95% of Alliance scholars have graduated from high school. We strive to uplift our scholars and their communities by fostering unparalleled educational opportunities that encourage scholarly thought, resilient learning, powerful communication, mind-body wellness, and community advocacy. To learn more, visit www.LAalliance.org.

ROLE SUMMARY

WHY TEACH AT ALLIANCE?

• At Alliance, when we say that all scholars can learn and achieve, we mean all. 

  • We aspire to have 75% or more of our scholars complete a four-year college degree. 

  • To attain this goal, Alliance launched the “All Means All” initiative last year to ensure that every student who walks through our doors is served to the best of our ability and has equitable access to rigorous grade-level materials to meet their academic potential. 

  • This initiative includes our scholars with disabilities—currently 12% of Alliance’s 13,000 scholars. 

• We provide teachers with the autonomy to adjust their practices to meet the individual needs of their scholars. 

  • Teachers can focus on individuals due to small class sizes and ancillary resources, including English learner and special education interventions, counselors, and instructional assistants. 

  • We also provide teachers with resources such as curriculum maps, a repository of instructional materials and videos, interim assessments and item banks, one-on-one teacher coaching, weekly professional development, and freedom to innovate. 

  • Our School Strategy Team is dedicated to building a research-based academic intervention model and dramatically strengthening our support of scholars’ social-emotional learning and mental health.

ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES

Provide Excellent College-Preparatory Instruction to all Scholars

• Use a variety of instructional strategies, including modifications to the core curriculum based on information about individual scholars’ academic strengths and needs.  

• Design activities to engage scholars in cognitively challenging work aligned to their Individualized Education Program (IEP) goals, Individualized Transition Plan (ITP) and/or alternative curriculum standards.  

• Establish a classroom environment that is safe and supportive, risk-taking is encouraged, scholars feel free to contribute their ideas, and teacher and scholar interactions are respectful and polite to promote a positive learning environment for all scholars.  

• Collaborate with general education teachers and other service providers to ensure that scholars with moderate to severe disabilities are supported in the least restrictive environment for the maximum extent possible. 

• Lifts, maneuvers, and positions scholars into and out of assistive and/or ambulatory devices to meet the requirements of the IEP.  

• Attend to the basic needs of the scholars, such as feeding, cleaning, toileting, and diapering to meet the requirements of the IEP.  .

• Ensure that scholars  with disabilities are receiving modifications in the classroom, per the requirements of their IEPs. 

• Complete assessments as required for evaluation requirements and complete any reports associated with the assessments, including but not limited to the Woodcock Johnson. 

• May act as the liaison between the general education teacher and parent, scholar  and administrator, scholar  and general education teacher, and the administrator and parent.

• Monitor and maintain special education compliance according to school, district, state, and federal regulations.

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