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1.0 FTE 040-2025 posting ID

Washougal School District

Posting for the 2025-26 School Year

Position Type: Certificated, One-Year-Only Leave Replacement

Position Title:  Elementary Special Education Teacher - Resource Room

Position Location: Gause Elementary School 

Position Posting: October 16, 2025, First review of candidates will be October 23, 2025. This recruitment may close at any time on or after the first review date with no additional notice.

Position Begins: Immediately 

Salary: $66,137 - $124,653 Based on 2025-26 salary schedule and placement is based upon experience

POSTED: October 16, 2025

5 days per week

184 days/180 student attendance (per District calendar)

District salary schedule

Internal Posting for WAE members closes at 4:00 p.m. on October 23, 2025.

Anticipated - Open to the public

The Washougal Strategic Plan is centered on our commitment to know, nurture and challenge all students to rise and includes our six guiding pillars that steer our work and prioritize our decisions and actions: 

• Effective Instruction - We will invest in attracting, retaining, and developing excellent teachers and staff. We will provide relevant, rigorous and supportive instruction with high expectations for all students.
• Career & College Readiness - We will prepare students to contribute to the community they live in, whether in skilled trades, higher education, or professional careers.  
• Equity - We will engage in intentional efforts to identify disparities that create opportunity gaps, and take action to eliminate the achievement gap. We will develop and strengthen students' agency, so they are prepared for careers, college and life. 
• Educational Engagement - We will ensure all students are involved in innovative, artistic, creative, vocational, and intellectual pursuits, so they develop confidence, understanding, and agency in the classroom and beyond.
• Partnerships to Support Students - We will partner to build culturally responsive schools, where all children are known, supported and connected through positive relationships in a safe environment.
• Stewardship of Resources - We will maximize resources to create opportunities for our students through a transparent budget process that aligns with our priorities for student achievement and operations of the district. Every dollar matters.

Purpose

The Washougal School District is committed to attracting, developing, and retaining a highly qualified workforce that appreciates the diversity of our community and is committed to practices that are responsive to the needs of all students and families. The Washougal School District desires inclusive schools and classrooms that celebrate the diversity of our school and community. We welcome candidates representing the diversity of the world. 

A Washougal School District educator knows, nurtures, and challenges all students with high expectations, a love of learning, and a focus on helping every student rise to their highest potential and learn at high levels.  Effective educators recognize individual students’ strengths and needs, and use multiple strategies to help all students be successful while creating collaborative, equitable, safe, and welcoming communities of learners.

Required Endorsements: OSPI/WA state Teaching Certificate with K-12 Special Education endorsement or multiple subject areas

Essential Functions

• Teach to district approved course goals and objectives.
• Select teaching strategies for implementing IEP goals and objectives for assigned students with developmentally delayed disabilities.
• Make instructional decisions. Monitor and adjust teaching strategies to the students changing needs.
• Coordinate specialized instruction with general education curriculum as appropriate.
• Establish classroom behavior management programs for students. Utilizing pro-social skill/intrinsic model and a behavioral accountability system in conjunction with the team coordinator.
• Instruct students in citizenship and basic subject matter specified by state law and administrative regulations of the school district.
• Train, supervise, and teach staff assistants, specialized personal assistants, and volunteers.
• Provide individual and group instruction so that each student can achieve scholastic educational objectives.
• Identify student needs and cooperate with other professional staff members in assessing and helping students solve health, attitude, and learning problems.
• Keep up-to-date and apply current special education practices/theories.
• Participate cooperatively with the appropriate administrator in the evaluation process in conformance with the approved district guidelines.
• Develop and use instructional materials suitable for the instruction of students with wide ranges of mental, physical, and emotional maturation.
• Establish, monitor, and adjust behavior management for individual needs. Establish and maintain standard of student behavior needed to achieve effective participation in all activities.
• Work effectively with multidisciplinary team and other professionals (OT, PT) regarding needs of special students for assuring appropriate learning experiences.
• Evaluate intellectual and social growth of students and keep appropriate records.
• Communicate with parents. Hold parent conferences to discuss the individual student's progress.
• Maintain records and submit reports as required or appropriate.
• Participate in curricular and other developmental programs as required.
• Supervise students in out-of-classroom activities during the assigned periods.
• Perform other duties as assigned.
• Assists other personnel for the purpose of ensuring a efficient and effective work environment.                                                

Other Functions

• Serves on staff committees as needed.
• Performs related tasks consistent with the scope and responsibility of the position. 

Qualifications

• Must qualify for a valid Washington State teaching certificate with appropriate endorsements as required by law.
• Ability to implement classroom management procedures for large and small groups of students, providing an environment conducive to learning.
• Ability to communicate clearly and effectively in written and oral form.
• Ability to integrate relevant technology for the purpose of student learning across curricular areas.
• Flexibility and adaptability in varied conditions and settings.
• Ability to assess the needs of students and implement effective lessons to meet those needs through the use of appropriate instructional materials.
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with a variety of staff and stakeholders.
• Ability to establish positive relationships with students, in a mutually respectful, supportive and accessible manner.
• Ability to relate positively to students and adults of varying socioeconomic, cultural, ethnic backgrounds, learning styles and/or disabilities.
• Ability to process information in order to make sound judgments and decisions.

Experience: Prior special education experience is preferred.

Education: Bachelor’s degree in job related area

Certificated & License Requirements:

WA State Teaching Certificate with K-12 Special Education Endorsement

Valid First Aid Certificate

Clearances

WSP/FBI Background Clearance

WA State Sexual Misconduct Inquiry

This recruitment may close at any time on or after the first review date (10/23/25) with no additional notice.

The Washougal School District is a Drug & Tobacco Free workplace. 

COVID-19 vaccination or a medical/religious exemption is required.

AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER

The Washougal School District complies with all federal and state rules and regulations and does not discriminate on the basis of sex, race, creed, religion, color, national origin, age, honorably discharged veteran or military status, sexual orientation including gender expression or identity, the presence of any sensory, mental, or physical disability, or the use of a trained dog guide or service animal by a person with a disability in its programs and activities and provides equal access to the Boy Scouts and other designated youth groups. This holds true for all district employment and educational programs.  The following employees have been designated to handle questions and complaints of alleged discrimination:

Title IX/RCW 28A.640 Compliance Officer: Brian Wilde (360) 954-3104

ADA Compliance Officer:Connor McCroskey (360) 954-3021

and Section 504 Coordinator: Connor McCroskey (360) 954-3021

Inquiries regarding compliance and/or grievance procedures may be directed to the school district's Title IX/ RCW 28A.640 & ADA compliance officer and Section 504 coordinator.