Inclusion Aide

Educare Chicago provides high-quality care, best-in-class education, and a stimulating learning environment to children from birth to five years old on Chicago’s South Side. As a program that serves low-income families, Educare’s research-based program helps children develop the literacy, language, early math, and social-emotional skills they need to succeed in kindergarten and beyond. We are recruiting individuals who want to join us in this mission and share a commitment to our core values of appreciation & respect , empowerment , diversity , excellence , learning , and communication .

The Inclusion Aide will assist students with disabilities and special needs, including safety, personal care needs, facilitating total inclusion in the daily curriculum, and execution of classroom activities. The Inclusion Aide will help maintain a developmentally appropriate classroom environment and meet the individual needs of children as mandated by federal, state, and local standards. The Inclusion Aide will also ensure the execution of individualized Implementation and interim plans, as well as Conscious Discipline curriculum support.

Reporting to the Disabilities & Mental Health Supervisor, you will: Provide information to the Lead Teacher that will assist in the referral process for children with special needs. Assist the teaching team in maintaining a classroom environment that includes positive guidance techniques that meet state and local licensing regulations and Head Start performance Standards. Collaborate with the internal team to implement the Interim & Implementation plans and other identified needs related to special needs development.

Complete monthly progress reports regarding children with Implementation and Interim Plans. Assist the teaching team in gathering documentation such as assessment data, work samples, observations, and reports. Assist the teaching team in implementing the Conscious Discipline curriculum.