Special Education Ed Tech III, Breathe Program (Behavioral and Social-Emotional Support) - Multiple Openings at King Middle

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• Support direct instruction to students individually, in small groups, and in classroom settings to ensure achievement of academic goals.
• Demonstrate cultural proficiency and actively foster relationships that respect, embrace and celebrate students’ diverse backgrounds, identities, strengths, and challenges.
• Learn about and leverage students’ strengths and opportunity gaps and adapt learning methods that appropriately guide, engage and challenge student(s).
• Collect, organize, and share data to ensure proactive and ongoing communication with all relevant stakeholders in service of student achievement of academic and behavioral goals.
• Foster an engaging and inclusive learning space and relationship that establishes positive student expectations conducive to learners' needs through developmentally appropriate and supportive routines and practices; manages student behavior using prescribed and adapted approaches.
• Collaborate and communicate across the students’ teachers and all relevant staff to ensure students receive necessary additional forms of academic assistance and/or relevant social-emotional support.
• Collaborate and communicate with the students’ families/caregivers and all relevant stakeholders to ensure necessary stakeholders are engaged in understanding and supporting the students’ learning and social emotional needs.
• Performs other related duties as requested by the Principal

• An understanding of the teaching and learning process at the middle school level.
• The ability to provide adjustments to instructional approaches and materials that reflect diverse perspectives and trauma-informed practices.
• Excellent human relations skills; the ability to work effectively with students, colleagues, school and non-school based service-providers, parents/caregivers and community members.
• An understanding of data collection, organizing, and sharing best practices that support student achievement of academic and behavioral goals.
• Applicants must be able to lift up to thirty-five pounds.

• Committed to challenging personal perspectives, examining one’s own biases and a willingness to take feedback, learn and grow around diversity, equity and inclusion related ideas.
• Exhibits the necessary mindsets to hold self as well as others accountable for supporting the district’s goal of becoming an

• Ability to collaborate across lines of differences with a diverse student population and staff, as well as community partners, and families/caregivers.
• Engages with families/caregivers and builds collaborative, respectful relationships with them in service of student learning.

• Highly responsive and oriented towards transparency and proactive, explicit communication.
• Communicates ideas in ways that demonstrates respect and is digestible for varied audiences.

• Is effective at collaborating and is open to accepting new ideas.
• Is aligned with the Portland Promise and offers a diverse perspective and approach.

• Approval as an Educational Technician III by the Maine Department of Education. In the alternative, Maine provisional or professional teacher certification.
• Preference will be given to candidates with a college degree that includes nine credit hours related to an education field such as behavior management or classroom strategies, and to candidates who have at least one year of experience working with students in structured situations.
• Must be willing to take Safety Care and/or Behavioral Health Professional training.
• Additional combinations of applicable education, training, and experience are welcome.
• Portland Public Schools values linguistic diversity and believes that candidates who speak another language bring added value to the classroom, school, and district culture and diversity.

• Maine State fingerprint (CHRC) authorization (

• School-year position
• Full time, 1.0 FTE
• Permanent
• Overtime eligible
• Covered under the Ed Tech contract (see 2024-2027 CBA

• Eligible for benefits as outlined

Portland Public Schools