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RESPONSIBILITIES When you teach at MPS, leading effective lessons in class is just the beginning. You’ll collaborate with other passionate educators, customize your instruction to engage students of all different abilities, find ways to both challenge and encourage young minds, and create an environment where children feel safe and respected. As an MPS teacher, you will: * Assess students’ developmental, cognitive and social needs and provide developmentally appropriate academic and social skills instruction to meet those needs. * Establish and communicate developmentally appropriate instructional and behavioral expectations for students with students and their families * Manage students’ individual education plans and maintain appropriate due process files * Use a variety of assessment strategies diagnostic, formative and summative to inform instructional decisions and increase students’ ownership of their learning * Facilitates positive interactions between students and teachers, peers, and other adults * Collaborate with an interdisciplinary team to develop, plan and implement innovative practices based on students’ needs/abilities * Create learning environments that are safe, respectful and interesting as well as fair for students from various cultural backgrounds, gender identities, races, ability levels, and developmental needs * Collaborate and communicate regularly with families * Apply your knowledge of the Minnesota State Standards, district graduation requirements, subject matter, classroom management techniques, current researched best practices and strategies, as well as students’ learning styles and needs, both academic and affective * Work to help your school achieve the goals of your school improvement plan and the Minneapolis Public School District strategic plan * Assess own instructional effectiveness through the Professional Development Process (PDPLC). Participate in ongoing and regular staff, team and individual professional development.

We are currently seeking a 1.0 FTE Occupational Therapist to work at Oak Park Elementary and Stillwater Junior High School for the upcoming 2016-2017 school year.

The Stillwater Area Public School District has a long and proud tradition of high expectations, high standards and outstanding achievement. Our schools are safe and welcoming places where students receive personal attention from adults who care about them. Every year our schools and students rank among the highest performing in the state. We are currently seeking a Speech Language Pathologist, 1.0 FTE at Oak Park Elementary and Stillwater Junior High School for the 2016-2017 school year.