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Specialized Education Services, Inc.

SPED Teacher

🇺🇸 Greeley, Colorado 🕑 Full-Time 💰 $50K - $58K 💻 Teaching 🗓️ October 3rd, 2026

Edtech.com's Summary

Specialized Education Services, Inc. is hiring a SPED Teacher to serve special and alternative education students in smaller, in-district classroom settings built around their academic, behavioral, and social-emotional needs. The teacher works to uncover and close each student’s learning, social, and emotional skill gaps using SESI’s own evidence-based instructional models. Partnering with school teams and families, the role turns that work into personalized guidance and documented student growth.

Highlights
  • Instruct students from diverse developmental, cultural, and socioeconomic backgrounds with SESI’s curricula and strategies.
  • Build and maintain individualized lesson plans suited to each student’s skill level.
  • Use de-escalation, crisis management, and physical restraint when needed to keep students and staff safe.
  • Keep IEPs, behavior intervention plans, incident reports, and high-risk evaluation forms current.
  • Record and monitor student progress toward academic, social, and emotional goals.
  • Monitor students as they move between locations within the school.
  • Bring a bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution and a valid teaching credential suited to the role.
  • Notice and respond to students’ non-verbal cues while staying calm in demanding situations.
  • Teach within SESI’s CASE positive behavioral interventions and support framework, with paid training and tuition reimbursement.
  • Earn a posted salary of $50,000 - $58,000 per year, plus healthcare, 401(k) with employer match, and mental health support.

SPED Teacher Full Description

Overview
Shine On As A Special Education Teacher.
Specialized Education Services, Inc. (SESI), a division of FullBloom, is a premier provider of education services for K-12 students who require additional supports to overcome challenges that impede success in a traditional school setting. SESI partners with school districts to run in-district classrooms and standalone schools that meet the academic, behavioral, and social-emotional needs of special and alternative education students. Partnering with over 600 school districts nationwide, SESI serves more than 7,000 students. Join our team members who shine a positive light on our students and uncover the unique learner within. Have a profound impact, grow, learn, and thrive as part of our team.

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 $50,000.00 - USD $58,000.00 /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.