• Job Description

  Req#: 1420
  Position Type:
  Elementary School Teaching
  
  
  Date Posted:
  5/21/2025
  
  
  Location:
  Oaks Elementary School
  
  
  Closing Date:
  06/04/2025
  
  
  Provides direct assessment services to students in regular and/or special education environments to determine instructional levels, rates of acquisition and retention.
  Schedules and leads MTSS Core Team meetings.
  Assesses the students’ degree of need(s) and provides recommendations for specific instructional interventions to the building principals, teachers, and other members of the MTSS Core Team. Documents the intervention plan and monitors progress toward goals.
  Adapts materials for instructional purposes and measures student progress.
  Determines specific occurrences of inappropriate and appropriate behaviors and devises behavior management techniques for teachers to increase appropriate behavior in individual students.
  Collaborates with classroom staff and behavior specialists to devise behavior management techniques to increase appropriate behavior in individual students as part of the Functional Behaviors Assessment process and development of the individual student’s Positive Behavior Support plan.
  Facilitates collaborative consultation techniques with regular and special education staff, parents, the school psychologist, and outside agencies.
  Performs formal and/or informal diagnostic evaluations, i.e., academic, behavioral and/or perceptual for the purposes of defining and refining student needs.
  Supports and reviews student progress with classroom staff who have implemented suggested strategies and performs periodic data reviews to determine whether to continue, update, or discontinue those student strategies.
  Conducts formal student observations and gathers data for multidisciplinary evaluations.
  Acts as a liaison between building staff and itinerant service providers including, but not limited to speech therapists, occupational therapists, physical therapists, itinerant teachers of the deaf and hard of hearing, and the audiologist.
  Provides direct instruction to a small group of students during school-wide remediation periods.
  Provides in-service programs for school personnel regarding materials, interventions, assessment techniques, and appropriate strategies.
  Assumes any other responsibilities as assigned by the Building Principal.
  MTSS Coordinator at Spring-Ford Area School District's Oaks Elementary School – for the 2025-2026 School Year
  
  Spring-Ford Area School District is actively recruiting an MTSS Coordinator. This position works in collaboration within their assigned building(s) with Administrators, school counselors, district staff, students and their families to increase student achievement using data informed processes and to facilitate the MTSS support team process, academic interventions and the special education identification process.
  
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  Essential Responsibilities:
  • Provides direct assessment services to students in regular and/or special education environments to determine instructional levels, rates of acquisition and retention.
  • Schedules and leads MTSS Core Team meetings.
  • Assesses the students’ degree of need(s) and provides recommendations for specific instructional interventions to the building principals, teachers, and other members of the MTSS Core Team. Documents the intervention plan and monitors progress toward goals.
  • Adapts materials for instructional purposes and measures student progress.
  • Determines specific occurrences of inappropriate and appropriate behaviors and devises behavior management techniques for teachers to increase appropriate behavior in individual students.
  • Collaborates with classroom staff and behavior specialists to devise behavior management techniques to increase appropriate behavior in individual students as part of the Functional Behaviors Assessment process and development of the individual student’s Positive Behavior Support plan.
  • Facilitates collaborative consultation techniques with regular and special education staff, parents, the school psychologist, and outside agencies.
  • Performs formal and/or informal diagnostic evaluations, i.e., academic, behavioral and/or perceptual for the purposes of defining and refining student needs.
  • Supports and reviews student progress with classroom staff who have implemented suggested strategies and performs periodic data reviews to determine whether to continue, update, or discontinue those student strategies.
  • Conducts formal student observations and gathers data for multidisciplinary evaluations.
  • Acts as a liaison between building staff and itinerant service providers including, but not limited to speech therapists, occupational therapists, physical therapists, itinerant teachers of the deaf and hard of hearing, and the audiologist.
  • Provides direct instruction to a small group of students during school-wide remediation periods.
  • Provides in-service programs for school personnel regarding materials, interventions, assessment techniques, and appropriate strategies.
  • Assumes any other responsibilities as assigned by the Building Principal.
  This in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by the employee occupying this position. The teacher will be required to follow any other job-related instructions and perform other job-related duties requested by the Superintendent and/or their designees.
  
  Experience: Minimum of 5 years of successful teaching experience.
  
  Certification:
  Must have a valid and active PA Grades PK-4 or Grades K-6 certification.
  
  Compensation:
  Spring-Ford Area School District offers a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, vision and prescription insurance, as well as paid time off and a tuition reimbursement program.
  Salary is based on the salary matrix from the current Collective Bargaining Agreement.
  
  For reference purposes, the following are the step 1 salaries in the current agreement for the 2025-2026 school year.
  Column & Step	Salary
  B, Step 1	$59,000.00
  M, Step 1	$66,675.00
  M+18, Step 1	$68,300.00
  M+30, Step 1	$72,300.00
  
  
  Position Available: August 19, 2025
  
  Spring-Ford Area School District is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
  
  
  
  

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