KEYS Special Education Teacher

Job overview

KEYS Special Education Teacher in Culpeper, VA. This is a full-time, onsite position with Health Connect America, Inc. Compensation is not specified. KEYS Academy is a network of Private Special Education Day schools serving students across Virginia.

What you'll do

• Lead a structured, trauma-informed classroom designed to help students feel safe, dignified, and available to learn.
• Deliver meaningful instruction aligned to the Virginia Standards of Learning.
• Support students’ communication skills, social development, and emotional regulation.
• Work with students who have emotional, behavioral, and developmental needs, using evidence-based practices.
• Develop and deliver lesson plans aligned to the Virginia Standards of Learning (SOLs), school curriculum, and individual student IEP goals.
• Differentiate instruction to meet varied needs.
• Implement evidence-based teaching strategies.
• Embed communication development and social-emotional learning instruction.
• Utilize online instructional platforms.
• Create and maintain a structured master classroom schedule.
• Establish and maintain a safe, dignified, predictable, and student-centered classroom environment.
• Follow classroom management systems and behavior intervention strategies.
• Use posted learning objectives and structured routines.
• Provide supervision during transitions, lunch, recreation, and school activities.
• Proactively support students’ sensory and behavior regulation needs.
• Model and reinforce expected communication and social skills strategies.
• Establish Present Levels of Performance and baseline data.
• Collect and analyze data.
• Conduct formal and informal assessments.
• Provide constructive and timely feedback.
• Use assessment results to adjust instruction.
• Maintain accurate documentation.
• Serve as case manager for assigned students.
• Develop Present Levels of Performance, Transition Plans, and IEP goals.
• Monitor and document student progress.
• Attend and participate in IEP meetings.
• Collaborate with families and providers.
• Complete required reports.
• Actively teach and reinforce the KEYS for a Big Life Curriculum.
• Incorporate Social Thinking language and concepts.
• Provide direct instruction and feedback related to expected vs.
• unexpected behaviors.
• Help students develop awareness of how their actions impact others.

What we're looking for

Education

Bachelor's degree

Experience

Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university required. Active Virginia teaching license in Special Education required (license eligible candidates accepted).

Skills & competencies

special education teacher

teacher

full-time

culpeper

virginia

education

classroom management

iep

student support

trauma-informed

Benefits & perks

• Paid time off, paid holidays, medical, dental, vision, EAP, 401(k)

About the employer

HEALTH CONNECT AMERICA, INC is hiring for this role. Industry: Offices of Physicians (except Mental Health Specialists). Sector: 62.