Posting # 1156

Posting date: February 9, 2023

Interviews begin: Week of February 28, 2023

Start Date: July 11, 2023

Location: Sioux City

Overview

Northwest AEA provides visionary leadership and quality, student-centered services through relationships with families, schools, and communities. In short, our focus can be summed up in these four words: Inspiring Learning. Changing Lives.

Our vision is to be the first contact for timely and ongoing support to improve the performance outcomes and well-being of all learners.

About the Agency

Northwest AEA provides special education and school improvement services to 34 public school districts and 32 accredited, non-public schools. The agency serves 45,000 students and more than 5000 educators in a 10-county area of Northwest Iowa (Lyon, Osceola, Sioux, O'Brien, Plymouth, Cherokee, Woodbury, Ida, Monona, and Crawford).

Our headquarters is located across from the Morningside College campus in Sioux City with regional offices in Cherokee, Denison, Le Mars, Onawa, and Sioux Center.

Why Northwest AEA?

Our vision, mission, and anchors guide our actions. Staff at Northwest AEA believe that what they do inspires learning and leads to changed lives for the students, staff, and families we serve. Our work is anchored in building positive, professional relationships with stakeholders and with one another. We embrace responsiveness in how we serve so that students, staff, and families can see improved results.

Qualifications:

• State of Iowa teacher license with appropriate certification
  • Instructional Strategist I (5-12) or K-12 Instructional Strategist II (BD/LD OR ID).

Job Purpose: Serve as a teacher for a juvenile home education program at either a detention center or shelter care facility.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities:

• Develop appropriate curriculum.
• Develop individual student programs of study.
• Provide direct instruction and tutorial assistance for students.
• Provide for a positive and productive classroom environment.
• Develop and maintain excellent relationships with facility staff, schools and related agencies.
• Provide anecdotal documentation of daily program and student progress.
• Seek and provide appropriate student information with home school districts.
• Provide student achievement reports to schools and other appropriate individuals and agencies.
• Implement appropriate individualized education programs (IEPs).
• Compile required program statistical data and reports.
• Communicate pertinent information in a timely manner at all levels of responsibility.
• Participate in periodic program effectiveness review and planning.
• Understand current and emerging trends and participate in appropriate staff development.
• Serve on NWAEA and other committees as assigned.
• Other duties as assigned

A transfer shall be considered a change in an employee’s assigned region (East, North, West). Assigned regions are based on the school buildings/districts, including non-public PK-12 buildings, to which an employee is assigned. Certified employees not assigned to specific districts/schools will have “Agencywide” as their assigned region. If you are interested in a transfer to this position, please contact Sherri Wing (swing@nwaea.org) for the appropriate transfer application.

It is the policy of Northwest Area Education Agency not to discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, disability, religion, creed, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity and socioeconomic status in its educational programs and its employment practices. There is a grievance procedure for processing complaints of discrimination. If you have questions or a grievance related to this policy, please contact Jerome Schaefer, Equity Coordinator, 1520 Morningside Avenue, Sioux City, Iowa, 51106, 712-222-6114.