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_Are you looking for a supportive teaching environment with low student-teacher ratios and the ability to make a significant impact on student outcomes?_ _Do you want to join a multi-disciplinary team with a strengths-based approach, emphasizing applied behavior analysis and positive behavior supports?_

If you answered YES, then consider joining our Devereux team! We are currently seeking Certified Special Education Teachers who are comfortable working with children with disabilities and with the team, helping those students in a functional classroom. This unique position at our approved private school in West Chester, PA is a 52 week year round teaching position.

Being a Special Education Teacher at Devereux has its Advantages

You will work with other dedicated education professionals who share your passion for helping individuals in need.

Every day as a Special Education Teacher you will.....

+ Ensure the safety of all students

+ Deliver education lessons in a small classroom setting

+ Implement IEPs and track education goals

+ Support and reinforce PBIS goals and objectives

You will be offered:

+ **Compensation:** **$61,689/yr-$70,325/yr (Instructional I or II)**

+ **Emergency Certification Special Education Teacher= $58,604/yr**

+ **Shift: 8am-4pm, Monday-Friday [52 week position]**

+ A multi-disciplinary supportive environment - great for those new to the field!

+ A supportive teaching environment - small classes and small ratios.

+ Staff throughout school use a strengths-based approach emphasizing positive behavioral supports.

+ **BENEFIT ELIGIBILITY AFTER 30 DAYS OF EMPLOYMENT** (learn more atmydevereuxbenefits.org)

+ **ASCEND - Career Accelerator Program**

**The School for Integrated Learning** focuses on building upon the unique strengths of each student. Our school strives to offer a breadth of opportunities for students to express themselves and find personal levels of accomplishment through activities such as: Special Olympics, talent shows and school dances, student government, peer mentoring, service learning, community gardening, and employment education, both in the classroom and in the community. The goal of the School for Integrated Learning is to create individualized educational opportunities that enable each student to live as a positive, healthy and socially-connected individual in his or her community. The School for Integrated Learningis licensed to serve students in grades K-12 who have been identified with the following primary disabilities: behavioral and cognitive differences, autism, intellectual disabilities and speech and language impairments. The core curriculum has been aligned with the Pennsylvania Core Standards, as well as the curricula of our partner school districts. This innovative special education programs that work in tandem with families and school districts to ensure that students can return to their local schools and communities with the tools they will need to succeed. The goal of the curriculum is to provide students with learning experiences that foster increased engagement and success through differentiated instruction, evidence-based instructional strategies, and rigorous learning expectations. Each student has an Individualized Educational Plan (IEP), which outlines goals for skill development and the best strategies by which the student can reach his/her goals. A multi-disciplinary team, including the individual’s parent(s) or guardian, regularly reviews the plan to discuss challenges, progress and adjustments to goals as appropriate. A primary focus throughout the program is the philosophy of Program-Wide Positive Behavior Intervention and Support (PW-PBIS), a program-wide system of care that promotes and rewards positive behaviors, and prevents negative behaviors, to create safe, supportive living environments.

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Qualifications

**EDUCATION:** Bachelor’s degree and an active Special Education Instructional I or II Pennsylvania teacher certification or eligible for Pennsylvania Special Education Instructional I certification. Emergency certification available.

**EXPERIENCE:** Special Education Teacher experience preferred.

Devereux has a zero-tolerance policy for abuse and maintains policies and procedures to systematically reduce the risk of abuse to occur in our organization. Devereux fosters a culture of reporting abuse, and will cooperate with the authorities to the fullest extent possible.

**Posted Date** _8 hours ago_ _(5/22/2025 8:29 AM)_

**_Requisition ID_** _2025-44492_

**_Category_** _Education_

**_Position Type_** _Full-Time_

**_Remote_** _No_

The employment policies of Devereux Advanced Behavioral Health are to recruit and hire qualified employees without discrimination because of race, religion, creed, color, age, sex, marital status, national origin, citizenship status, ancestry, disability, veteran status, communication ability, gender identity or expression or sexual orientation and to treat them equally with respect to compensation and opportunities for advancement - including upgrading, promotion and transfer - consistent with individual skills and the needs of Devereux.