Special Education Teacher (Middle School)
Apply NowCompany: Steilacoom Historical School District
Location: Pioneer, CA 95666
Description:
Position Type:
Middle School Teaching/Special Education Teacher
Date Posted:
3/31/2025
Location:
Pioneer Middle SchoolSpecial Education Teacher (Middle School)
Structured Learning Classroom
Start Date: August 25, 2025
Hours Per Day: 7.50 (1.0 FTE)
Days Per Year: 183
Location: Pioneer Middle School
Base Salary Range: $60,678 - $114,367*
Professional Learning Stipend: $6,660- $12,552*
Supplemental Contract: Six (6) additional days (per diem)*
Special Education Day: Join your special education colleagues prior to the start of the year to review updates, receive caseloads and plan with your teams (per diem - one (1) day)
Caseload and Class size:12 students
Supports: ParaEducator assigned to classroom, in addition to any student-assigned paraeducator support
*The 2025-26 SEA Salary Schedule has not been finalized -- please refer to the 2024-25 salary schedule here
Are you committed to building a classroom where every student feels seen, supported, and empowered to learn? Pioneer Middle School is seeking a talented Special Education teacher to support a small group of students, typically with autism, in a highly structured classroom. This position focuses on meeting each student's unique learning needs, including academics, communication, self-management, and daily living skills. The classroom uses evidence-based, neurodiversity-affirming practices-such as TEACCH-to create a predictable, supportive, and individualized learning environment. Strong collaboration with general education teachers and support staff is essential to ensuring student growth and success across settings.
Minimum Qualifications and Skills
Internal candidates will receive first consideration.
Steilacoom Historical School District No. 1 provides equal access to all programs or activities without discrimination based on race, creed, religion, color, national origin, age, veteran or military status, sex, sexual orientation, gender expression or identity, marital status, disability, or the use of a trained dog guide or service animal and provides equal access to the Boy Scouts and other designated youth groups. Allegations or concerns can be reported to Susanne Beauchaine at 511 Chambers Street, Steilacoom 98388, 253.983.2222 or sbeauchaine@steilacoom.k12.wa.us.
Attachment(s):
Middle School Teaching/Special Education Teacher
Date Posted:
3/31/2025
Location:
Pioneer Middle SchoolSpecial Education Teacher (Middle School)
Structured Learning Classroom
Start Date: August 25, 2025
Hours Per Day: 7.50 (1.0 FTE)
Days Per Year: 183
Location: Pioneer Middle School
Base Salary Range: $60,678 - $114,367*
Professional Learning Stipend: $6,660- $12,552*
Supplemental Contract: Six (6) additional days (per diem)*
Special Education Day: Join your special education colleagues prior to the start of the year to review updates, receive caseloads and plan with your teams (per diem - one (1) day)
Caseload and Class size:12 students
Supports: ParaEducator assigned to classroom, in addition to any student-assigned paraeducator support
*The 2025-26 SEA Salary Schedule has not been finalized -- please refer to the 2024-25 salary schedule here
Are you committed to building a classroom where every student feels seen, supported, and empowered to learn? Pioneer Middle School is seeking a talented Special Education teacher to support a small group of students, typically with autism, in a highly structured classroom. This position focuses on meeting each student's unique learning needs, including academics, communication, self-management, and daily living skills. The classroom uses evidence-based, neurodiversity-affirming practices-such as TEACCH-to create a predictable, supportive, and individualized learning environment. Strong collaboration with general education teachers and support staff is essential to ensuring student growth and success across settings.
Minimum Qualifications and Skills
- Successful experience or demonstrated commitment toward working with culturally and racially diverse students, families and communities.
- Successful completion of a teacher certification program at an accredited college or university and valid Washington state certification with endorsements in Special Education.
- Knowledge of strength-focused instructional strategies for students that promotes autonomy, cooperation and student voice.
- Experience or skill in creating a caring classroom environment that is orderly, purposeful and facilitates student learning.
- Experience or skill in planning, preparing and delivering differentiated instruction that facilitates active learning.
- Experience supporting adult learners about best instructional strategies for students with disabilities, including recognition of the role anxiety may play in a student's progress with services.
- Demonstrated skill or experience supporting and contributing to the success of students with disabilities, including supporting students who exhibit unsafe stress responses.
- Understanding of how injustice or racial inequity may impact students and families experience with school and special education.
- Exceptional interpersonal skills and ability to collaborate with others.
- Experience or skill in leading, scheduling and supporting para-educators assigned to the classroom.
- Training or experience with Right Response or desire to be trained.
- Strong relationship building skills to work with other educators and partners to provide services.
- Ability to maintain confidentiality, work effectively under pressure, and remain flexible.
- Ability to maintain records with strong attention to detail.
- Ability to meet and maintain punctuality and attendance expectations.
Internal candidates will receive first consideration.
Steilacoom Historical School District No. 1 provides equal access to all programs or activities without discrimination based on race, creed, religion, color, national origin, age, veteran or military status, sex, sexual orientation, gender expression or identity, marital status, disability, or the use of a trained dog guide or service animal and provides equal access to the Boy Scouts and other designated youth groups. Allegations or concerns can be reported to Susanne Beauchaine at 511 Chambers Street, Steilacoom 98388, 253.983.2222 or sbeauchaine@steilacoom.k12.wa.us.
Attachment(s):
- Cert Benefits 2025-26
- Special Ed Teacher Middle School_March 2025.pdf