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Specialized Education Services, Inc.

Special Education Teacher

🇺🇸 Moline, Illinois 🕑 Full-Time 💰 $60K - $70K 💻 Teaching 🗓️ September 25th, 2026

Edtech.com's Summary

Specialized Education Services, Inc. is hiring a Special Education Teacher to work in in-district classrooms and standalone schools built for special and alternative education students. SESI partners with more than 600 school districts nationwide, and this teacher applies its instructional models and positive behavioral framework to close learning, social, and emotional skill gaps. Small classes and paid training back the role.

Highlights
  • Come with a 15K sign-on bonus, as advertised in the posting title.
  • Lead instruction using SESI's instructional models, strategies, and curricula.
  • Support students from diverse developmental, cultural, ethnic, racial, and socioeconomic backgrounds.
  • Write and update individualized lesson plans suited to each student's skill level.
  • Handle de-escalation, crisis management, and, when necessary, physical restraint to keep students and staff safe.
  • Maintain IEPs, behavior intervention plans, incident reports, and high-risk evaluation forms.
  • Record student growth and progress toward academic, social, and emotional goals.
  • Bachelor's degree from an accredited institution and a valid teaching credential appropriate to the role.
  • Salary range of $60,000 - $70,000 per year.
  • Benefits include comprehensive healthcare, a 401(k) with employer match, mental health support, fertility and family building support, tuition reimbursement, and paid training.

Special Education Teacher Full Description

15K sign on bonus: Special Education Teacher
Shine On As A Special Education Teacher.

What you can expect from us.
  • Diverse career pathways, mobility up and across our national network, and ongoing professional and leadership development.
  • Paid training, tuition reimbursement, and credentialing support.
  • Data-driven, evidence-based learning and instructional models, including SESI’s own positive behavioral interventions and support (PBIS) framework called CASE.
  • An attractive and robust suite of benefits, including comprehensive healthcare benefits, 401(k) with employer match, employee assistance program, mental health support, fertility and family building, and more.
  • Smaller class sizes in diverse educational settings.
Uncover the light and potential in each student by diagnosing and addressing learning, social, and emotional skill gaps. Collaborate with school teams and families to offer personalized guidance and deliver SESI’s own evidence-based learning and instructional models, as well as positive behavioral interventions and support framework. You’ll inspire, empower, and transform with our innovative learning approach, unique instructional environments, smaller class sizes, and the support services students need to shine.

Responsibilities
  • Work with a diverse group of students from varying developmental, cultural, ethnic, racial, and socioeconomic backgrounds.
  • Use SESI’s instructional models, strategies, and curricula to teach knowledge and skills, nurture confidence and character, and meet the needs of all students.
  • Develop and maintain individualized skill-appropriate lesson plans.
  • Implement behavior management and intervention strategies, including de-escalation techniques, crisis management, and physical restraint when necessary to maintain the safety of students and staff.
  • Maintain student documents such as individualized education plans (IEPs), behavior intervention plans (BIPs), incident reports, and high-risk evaluation forms.
  • Drive, record, and track student growth and progress toward academic, social, and emotional goals.
  • Supervise and monitor students, including to and from locations within the school.

Qualifications
  • Bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution of higher learning.
  • Valid teaching credential appropriate to the role.
  • Commitment to learning and implementing feedback.
  • Adaptability and flexibility.

Posted Salary Range
USD $60,000.00 - USD $70,000.00 /Yr.

Physical Requirements
  • Ability to run short distances and move swiftly in response to student needs, including bending, kneeling, and crouching.
  • Ability to lift and assist students with mobility challenges, often requiring the handling of up to 50 pounds or more.
  • Skill in managing fine motor tasks, such as helping students with writing, manipulating small objects, or using adaptive devices.
  • Ability to operate a computer or tablet for up to 8 hours daily.
  • Capacity to notice and respond to non-verbal cues from students.
  • Capacity to remain calm and composed during physically and emotional demanding situations, ensuring student safety and well-being.
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of this position.