The Academy is hiring a full-time Special Education Paraprofessional for grades K-2 for the 2026-2027 school year.
The Academy of Charter Schools Is…
The Academy of Charter Schools is a public PK-12 school of choice located in Westminster, Colorado. We pair a rigorous, content-rich curriculum with opportunities to explore strengths and passions to achieve the highest standards for all. Our mission is to help all students grow into college ready, exemplary citizens by combining academic mastery with personal empowerment to drive lifelong success. We serve our full community by intentionally developing a school culture that embraces diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Our approach to vertically aligning the full educational experience for our students from youngest to oldest centers around three notions – Prepare, Explore, and Empower – that keep us grounded in The Academy’s mission and vision as we set priorities and make decisions that impact instruction and school culture.
Academy Employees Are…
At The Academy, employees embody our mission, vision, and values every day. They guide and support staff to prepare students for academic mastery by delivering evidence-based curricula; they collaborate with students, staff, and families to design student-centered learning experiences that create opportunities to explore strengths and passions; and they support the implementation of social-emotional skills lessons that empower students to become leaders of their own learning. Academy employees work hard to provide an engaging, inclusive, and joyful learning environment. They embrace relationships and positive communication with a diverse community of students, staff, and families while helping maintain a culture of high expectations for all. Experience in school environments, strong people skills, and ability to work within a team is required.
What Makes a Good Academy Employee?
The Academy is looking for committed leaders who are prepared to perform at a high level in a demanding environment. Some of the characteristics that make for a successful employee at The Academy include:
At The Academy, we know that diversity makes us stronger and challenges us to think differently every day. The Academy provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, religion, sex, national origin, age, veteran status or disability.
The online application should include a cover letter and resume.
Visit our website at www.theacademyk12.org. The Academy’s comprehensive benefits package includes a number of different plans for full-time employees. Refer to Employee Benefits Enrollment Guide for details at https://www.theacademyk12.org/about-us/working-for-us. Information on employee paid leave is also available at this same location.
SUMMARY:
A Special Education Paraprofessional will support the students and service providers within the Special Education Department. Assist students by helping individuals or small groups of students with achieving reading, writing, and basic math skills, implementing instruction, reinforcing learning skills, and reinforcing school-wide discipline procedures. Assist instructor with preparation of classroom materials, monitoring students, and evaluating and recording student achievement.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
1. Co-teach small groups the in-resource room under the direction of Learning Specialists.
2. Pull small groups for testing.
3. Manage online programs.
4. Extrapolate lesson plans in reading and math; this includes organizing testing materials, organizing lesson materials, and supplements weekly.
5. Collect classroom IEP summaries from teachers at end of year and create new files for the upcoming year’s teachers.
6. Filing progress monitoring data and other data/info into IEP working files.
7. Email Notice of Meetings.
8. Mail Notice of Meetings, Consent for Evaluations/Parent Rights.
9. Finalize all IEPs (This includes print/copy and distribute Classroom Summaries to teachers, mail home copy, put original in master file, copy in sped classroom file, take out old IEP and shred)
10. Front load initial IEPs with demographic info, grades.
11. Manage work completion time for students on work completion goals including helping as needed, monitoring and recording the time spent in work completion.
12. Push-in to general education classes depending on caseload needs and scheduling. May provide general education student support in general education classrooms.
13. Monitors and supervises students during breaks, recess, time-outs, etc.
14. Assists with special projects.
15. May administer first aid and/or assist students to clinic or nurse.
16. May monitor and supervise students during teacher breaks, lunch, recess, time-outs, etc.
17. Perform other duties as assigned.
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The Academy is a K-12 school offering education with a focus on student success. They provide competitive compensation and benefits for their employees.