Careers

Please see below for our current open positions.

Immediate start. 5 days per week/10 months per year, 8:30 a.m. – 3:10 p.m.

School One is a private high school in Providence. Celebrating our 50th year, we enroll under 100 students in a college preparatory program focused on arts and creativity.

The Academic Support Program currently includes approximately two dozen students with identified learning differences. Several students are referred by area public school districts. Students receive Academic Support services at one of three tiers of frequency based on demonstrated need. The Special Education Coordinator, in conjunction with two part-time colleagues, is responsible for scheduling these regular sessions, providing the services to the students, collaborating with each student’s other teachers, and coordinating communication with the family of each student receiving Academic Support.

Mission Statement: At School One, we teach students to think, write, analyze, and create. As a community, we treat each other with care and respect. We appreciate each other’s differences as people and as learners.

Major responsibilities include:

I. Advising

Serve as an advisor for no more than eight students, with two advisee group meetings per week
Serve as the main communication link between the school and home and between the advisees and/or parents and teachers, department coordinators and
administrators
Run advising periods and evaluation week meetings with advisees
Monitor student attendance, contracts, folders, graduation requirements and progress toward them
Help advisees to formulate post-secondary plans and help them apply to college, art school, or other placements
Attend and monitor advisee attendance at General Meetings and other school events.

II. Teaching

Teach three to four resource classes per trimester
Responsible for arriving in class by the beginning of the period and remaining in class throughout the period and responsible for keeping accurate records of student attendance, tardiness, and work completion
Liaise with regular education teachers to learn expectations for students and provide supports in the resource classroom to help students meet teachers’ expectations
Responsible for timely and carefully written evaluations and course descriptions
Provide timely notice and educationally valuable, period-long activities for classes
when absent.

III. Special Education Coordination

Coordinate the development and implementation of all Individual Education Plans (IEP’s) in accordance with student needs and state regulations
Ensure that IEP goals are met by communicating relevant information to all teachers and helping them modify classroom materials and pedagogy as appropriate
Provide consultation to regular education teachers on learning differences.
Supervise teachers’ and advisors’ use of weekly monitoring process for identified students
Collaborate with Admissions Coordinator to interview prospective students with identified learning differences, helping to evaluate whether they are likely to succeed at School One
Collaborate with School One Counselor/Social Worker to coordinate social and emotional supports for identified students
Ensure special education program is in compliance with state regulations via accurate record keeping, yearly reporting, and coordinating School One’s participation in the state’s monitoring process
Administer required state exams to identified students and assist with seeking appropriate testing accommodations for identified students via The College Board
Serve as primary special education point of contact with school districts (LEA’s) and other key stakeholders

IV. Service to the School Community

Responsible for maintaining appropriate boundaries, professional behavior, and upholding all school rules per the Staff Handbook
Responsible for teaching physical education or health
Responsible for running one student service committee
Responsible for helping to organize events that enhance the students’ experience such as performances and exhibitions, dances and proms, R-Days, trips and other school events
Responsible for attendance at and participation in school events including Parents’ Nights, the Fall Festival, staff meetings, the prom, the Student Art Show and
graduation and a reasonable number of other school events and activities
Responsible for taking an active role in continually improving one’s own practice
Responsible for participating in the staff goal-setting and self-evaluation process in a timely and productive way

The above position may be filled by a RI-certified secondary special education teacher. The ideal candidate will also be a RI-certified special education administrator.

Other reasonable duties may occasionally be assigned by the Head of School.

To express interest, please send a cover letter and resume to careers@sports-im.net

At School One, we believe that our staff should reflect the diverse community of students we serve. We
encourage applicants from groups that have historically been underrepresented in the workplace, and
we continuously strive to create an inclusive community for all. School One is an equal opportunity
employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, age, sex, religion, sexual orientation, gender
identity or expression, national origin, color, disability or veteran status.