Eligibility Pool - 2025-2026 - Deaf and Hard of Hearing (DHH) Teacher, Itinerant - $6000 Signing Bonus na Poway Unified School District

The Poway Unified School District is seeking applications for the 2025-2026 school year. Please note that this is posting is for an ELIGIBILITY POOL only. As positions become available, candidates may be contacted directly by school sites. For more information, please contact Tiffany King, Director, Special Education at [email protected], or Heather Schauder, Executive Director, Special Education at [email protected] or Jodi Payne, Director, Special Education at [email protected].

REQUIRED DOCUMENTS: All required documents MUST be scanned and attached prior to submitting an application for this position. Incomplete applications will not be considered. 1. Applicants must have an English Language Learners (CLAD credential) in order to be considered for the position. 2. Copy of valid teaching credential (Education Specialist Instruction Credential in Deaf & Hard of Hearing or other valid California Special Education Credential authorizing the teaching of hearing impaired students). 3. Copy of Transcript (Official transcripts are required upon hiring). 4. Current resume. 6. Letter of introduction, addressed to Kelly Burke, Ed.D., Director of Human Resources. 7. Three (3) letters of reference, signed/dated within the past 12 months. Applicants are encouraged to include at least one (1) letter of reference from a supervising or site administrator. Applicants who have never held a full-time position, are encouraged to have a letter of reference from a site administrator where they completed their student teaching. 8. For phone references, be sure to include the reference's most current cell phone number and email address. 9. All applications must be submitted through EDJOIN; no hard copy documents will be accepted. EXPLANATION OF SIGNING BONUS PAYMENT: $6,000 signing bonus for a full time (100%) position and prorated for a less than 100% position. The $6,000 signing bonus will be paid out at $750 at the end of the first eight (8) semesters employed in this position. TEACHER INDUCTION: Poway Unified School District offers a teacher induction program to clear the CA preliminary credential to qualified individuals at no cost to the employee.

Applicants must submit all required documents to be considered, including a valid teaching credential. CREDENTIALS REQUIRED: Education Specialist Instruction Credential in Deaf & Hard of Hearing or other valid California Special Education Credential authorizing the teaching of hearing impaired students.

Up to 10 years of service credit will be granted resulting in placement up to Step 11

The Poway Unified School District (PUSD) is an equal opportunity employer/program and is committed to an active Nondiscrimination Program. PUSD prohibits discrimination, harassment, intimidation, and bullying based on actual or perceived protected characteristics under the law, including but not limited to ancestry, age, color, disability, gender, gender identity, gender expression, nationality, race or ethnicity, immigration status, religion, sex, sexual orientation, or association with a person or a group with one or more of these actual or perceived characteristics. For more information, please contact the Title IX/Equity Compliance Officer, Associate Superintendent of Personnel Support Services, Poway Unified School District, 15250 Avenue of Science, San Diego, CA 92128-3406, 858-521-2800, extension 2121.