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Openings as of 4/27/2025

Special Education/Learning Behavior Specialist

JobID: 3358

Position Type:
  Elementary School Teaching/Special Education


Date Posted:
  3/19/2025


Location:
  Cherokee School


Date Available:
  08/18/2025


Closing Date:
  05/02/2025


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Lake Forest School District 67 is seeking a full-time Learning Behavior Specialist for Cherokee Elementary School for the 2025-2026 school year.
 
Description: The Special Education/Learning Behavior Specialist implements current best practices, shows a deep understanding of strategies to maximize student engagement, and a passion for teaching and learning. The Special Education/Learning Behavior Specialist possesses the ability to communicate and collaborate effectively with students, faculty, and parents. The Special Education/Learning Behavior Specialist monitors progress, advocates for, and teaches student(s) with an Individual Education Plan and/or assigned students to their caseload enabling each student to reach his or her fullest potential.

Salary: Per LFEA CBA

Benefits: 
• Insurance - medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance are available
• Leaves - paid sick and personal days provided
• Retirement - TRS 
• Professional Development/Tuition Reimbursement

Qualifications:
Education, Experience, and Licensure (required and preferred)
• A current Professional Educator License (PEL) with a LBS1 Special Educator endorsement (required)
• Master's Degree in relevant area preferred
• Possesses strong knowledge of curriculum design, strategies, and assessment regarding Illinois State standards and behavioral principles
• Trained in Multi-Sensory approach to Structured Literacy (i.e. Orton Gillingham, Wilson) - preferred
• Ability to initiate Non-Violent Crisis Intervention techniques, including physical restraints and time out with students - preferred
• Experience working with students with Autism - preferred
• Experience working with students who have social/emotional and behavioral supports - preferred
• Experience supporting students in a highly structured learning environment - preferred
Competencies (Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities)
• Effective communication, collaboration and interpersonal skills for problem-solving, promoting initiatives and conveying expectations
• Presentation and facilitation skills
• Experience in analyzing data to plan for intervention and instructional methods
• Demonstrates ability to function as a positive member of a team
• Proficient use of technology including Google Apps for Education and school-based processing and management systems
• Demonstrates interest and engagement in ongoing professional learning and reflection
• Demonstrates the ability to communicate in a professional manner both orally and in writing
• Demonstrates strength in planning, organization, communication in scheduling and efficiently meeting deadlines
• Demonstrates a commitment to excellence, high expectations and to the academic and personal well-being of all students
• Maintains confidentiality
• Adhere to Board of Education policies and procedures

Essential Functions:
• Promote inclusive practices for students with disabilities when appropriate
• Deliver and/or co-deliver instruction to students utilizing the District's approved curriculum with appropriate modifications and accommodations
• Create lesson plans and implement instructional practices that reflect an accurate understanding of the prerequisite relationships among topics and concepts and which reflect familiarity with a wide range of effective pedagogical approaches related to the discipline
• Develop and implement specially designed instruction aligned to students' needs, learning styles, and IEP goals
• Facilitate natural supports in the general education environment for students through heterogeneous groupings, scaffolds, and pre-teaching
• Foster a classroom culture which includes setting up the environment that promotes positive behavior, developing shared classroom norms, using reinforcements that students personally value, and making attempts to understand student behavior
• Develop a data collection system, monitor progress and share data with the IEP team and other Related Services Staff (i.e., assessments, interventions, data charts, rubric data, grading procedures, etc.) for updating IEP goals and Behavior Intervention Plans
• Provide intensive academic or behavioral support to students going through the MTSS process
• Collaborate, coordinate, and ensure students receive the appropriate modifications and accommodations identified in the IEP
• Implement research based practices and implements a variety of instructional practices to teach students academic, functional, community based instruction and vocational skills
• Provide performance feedback in a timely fashion using data derived from assessments, observations and grades (performance compared to peers, observable behaviors/habits, common assessment data, relationships with teachers/peers, etc.)
• Utilize the District's learning management tool (e.g. Schoology) in the classroom to help students understand and organize course expectations and requirements including listing the course learning targets, posting assignments on the calendar and posting weekly lesson plans
• Prepare lesson plans for teaching assistants in the classroom and teach and model for them on how to meet various student needs
• Plan, attend, and participate in IEP meetings - including, but not limited to: IEP amendment meetings, domain meetings, transition meetings, attendance meetings, Manifestation Determination Review meetings, and evaluation meetings as appropriate
• Write, manage, and implement Individualized Education Plans (IEPs) for all students on caseload to ensure students receive a free and appropriate education and related services
• Support students who are in crisis with collaboration with the related service staff members, faculty and administration
• Communicate with parents and administration regarding matters related to the student performance in the classroom and classroom expectations
• Attend problem solving meetings for students, reentry meetings and referral meetings
• Case manage IEP caseload including collaboration
• Collaborate with other specialists in the building (i.e. Related Service Faculty, Coaches, etc.) and outside agencies to develop plans to support students, implement plans in the classroom and share data with the IEP team to support plans
• Assist with administering state and local assessments
• Co-plan with faculty consistently to identify a variety of teaching activities, strategies, and alternate forms of assessment to foster student learning and growth
• Demonstrate a commitment to professional growth through reflection and collaboration
• Participate in regularly scheduled professional development as assigned
• Assists with student toileting, self-care, hygiene, transferring as needed
• Performs other job related duties as assigned by direct supervisor

Physical Demands and Work Environment:
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit, stand, walk, talk, hear, and see. The employee frequently is required to use hands to handle or feel materials. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 30 pounds. 
 
In the work environment, the employee is regularly exposed to video display and regularly works in office environmental conditions.  The employee is occasionally exposed to outdoor weather conditions and occasionally works with the use of a personal vehicle. The employee will have contact with the public which requires appropriate demeanor and apparel.  The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

The physical demands and work environment described are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Application Procedure: Interested candidates must apply online. Click here to access the online application.

To learn more about Lake Forest School District 67, visit our website at www.lakeforestschools.org.

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Openings as of 4/27/2025

Teaching Assistant

JobID: 3288

Position Type:
  Support Staff/Teaching Assistant


Date Posted:
  11/18/2024


Location:
  Cherokee School


Date Available:
  01/06/2025


Closing Date:
  12/20/2024


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Lake Forest School District 67 is seeking a Teaching Assistant at Cherokee Elementary School for 2 days a week.

Description: The teacher assistant will assist the teachers and school with various assigned duties including classroom work, supervision of student(s) (e.g. bus, lunch, playground, assemblies, etc.) and other duties assigned by the building administrator.

Qualifications:
Education, Experience, and Licensure (required and preferred)
 
• Holds teacher or teacher aide certification in Illinois (only high school diploma); is in good health as proven by physical examination; passes police and hospital tests as designated by the district
Competencies (Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities)
• Maintains a high level of ethical behavior, confidentiality, and professionalism as is expected of certified staff members.
• Possesses the proven ability to work harmoniously and effectively with teachers, students, parents, and district administrators in accomplishing the purposes of the position.

Essential Functions:
• Works with individual student(s), small groups of students, or the whole class to provide instruction and support the lessons taught by the teacher
• Adapts/modifies and implements instruction using the regular education curriculum and/or implements instruction using the modified curriculum when appropriate under the direction of the teacher
• Assists student(s) with independent assignments/activities, enrichment work, and/or as assigned by the teacher
• Assists student(s) in any/all classes away from the child's homeroom class when appropriate
• Collects data at the direction of the teacher
• Supports students' behavior plans as directed by the teacher
• Employs positive behavioral strategies when dealing with student behavior
• Observes student(s) behavior and performance, and informs the teacher of any information deemed important
• Assists the substitute in the absence of the regular teacher. Can, with prior permission from the teacher, serve as the substitute teacher in the absence of the regular teacher
• Eligible to substitute for teachers if necessary credentials are held. Serves as substitute teacher for other teachers should the need arise
• Assists the teacher in developing instructional strategies and materials for student use
• At the discretion of the building administrator, can attend workshops and conferences
• Operates and cares for equipment used in the school
• Supervises student(s) at lunch, recess, before and after school for bus arrival and departure, during assemblies, and at other times as assigned by the building administrator
• Performs any other duties assigned by the building administrator
• The length of the work days is 8 hours to equal 7.5 hours of work and a 30 minute duty free unpaid lunch

Physical Demands & Work Environment
• Must be able to perform, with or without reasonable accommodation, the following functions:
  • Speak, hear, and see on a continuous basis
  • Document and retrieve information via writing and/or keyboarding
  • Be able to stand and walk about continuously for us to 4 hours
  • Occasionally be able to lift objects weighing up to 30 pounds
  • Crouch or stoop as needed in order to speak to seated students
  • Maintain consistent attendance
The physical demands and work environment described are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of the job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to  perform the essential functions.

Application Procedure: Click here to access the online application.

To learn more about Lake Forest School District 67, visit our website at www.lakeforestschools.org.

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