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<div></div><div><ul><div><div>JobID: 2736</div></div><br>
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Position Type:</b><br>
 Student Support Services/Teacher/Special Education Teacher<br>
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Date Posted:</b><br>
 11/3/2025<br>
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Location:</b><br>
 Independence Elementary<br>
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Date Available:</b><br>
 02/05/2026<br>
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Closing Date:
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 Open until Filled<br>
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 <b>Job Summary: </b>Under the direction of district administrators, the Special Education Teacher is responsible for assisting the District in assessing and identifying students with special needs such as learning disabilities, emotional/behavioral disorders, health impairments, developmental cognitive delays or other similar needs according to State of MN eligibility criteria. The Special Education Teacher plans for, develops and implements individualized education programs and instruction in academic areas in collaboration with other educational professionals and administrators in designing, modifying and delivering programming to special needs students. This is a long call subtitute position that will start roughly around February 5th, 2025 and will end at the end of the school year. This teacher will work primarily with SLD students.<br>
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<b>Qualifications: </b>Minimum licensure area in SLD. Multiple SPED licensure areas preferred. Certified teaching certificate from the State of MN in the required subject area.<br>
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<b>Working Conditions: </b>Duty day as per teacher contract<br>
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<b>Salary and benefits: </b>This position is paid $245.20 per day and is not eligible for benefits.<br>
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<b>Application Procedure:</b> Candidates may apply for this opportunity via the school website at <b>www.biglake</b><b>schools.org</b><br>
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Big Lake Schools is an equal opportunity employer: applicants will receive consideration for employment regardless of their race, color, creed, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, or status with regard to public assistance.</div></ul></div><p></p>

Long Term Substitute position for SLD Special Education Teacher

<div></div><div><ul><div><div>JobID: 2732</div></div><br>
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Position Type:</b><br>
 Elementary School Teaching/Classroom Teacher<br>
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Date Posted:</b><br>
 10/15/2025<br>
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Location:</b><br>
 Liberty Elementary<br>
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Date Available:</b><br>
 around 2/25/26<br>
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Closing Date:
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 Until Filled<br>
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 <b>Location</b>: Liberty Elementary<br>
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<b>Dates</b>: Approximately Feb. 25 - May 29<br>
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<b>About Big Lake Schools</b>: At Big Lake Schools, we pride ourselves on being the perfect size. We are small enough to offer the many benefits that come with being a small school district, but we are large enough to be able to offer exceptional programming that only large districts are able to offer. We have a student population of 3100 spread across four schools; Liberty (EC-2), Independence (3-5), Middle School (6-8), and High School (9-12).<br>
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Big Lake Schools is always looking for future employees who:<ul><li>
Have a strong work ethic</li>
<li>Are energetic and passionate about their work</li>
<li>Enjoy working collaboratively</li>
<li>Embrace technology as a core tool in their everyday lives</li>
<li>Recognize the importance of education</li>
</ul>If the above attributes sound like you, we encourage you to consider becoming a Hornet!<br>
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<b>Job Summary</b>: Under the direction of district administrators, the Classroom Teacher is responsible for developing lesson plans to present district curriculum in assigned instructional subjects; instructing students using lesson plans and instructional material; and evaluating and assessing student progress against instructional outcomes and objectives. Teachers also participate and collaborate with other instructional professionals, administrators, parents, counselors, and other district personnel concerning student needs, issues and district learning initiatives.<br>
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<b>Successful teachers at Big Lake Schools deliver the following</b>:<br>
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Creates Community and Builds Relationships
<ul><li>Establishes positive and supportive relationships with students</li>
<li>Develops a plan to sustain, repair, and/or improve relationships with students</li>
<li>Establishes and will continue to promote the development of relationships between and among students</li>
<li>Creates and will sustain the development of a classroom culture that fosters collaboration, promotes inclusion, and focuses on student engagement, learning and achievement</li>
<li>Develops professional and collaborative relationships among peers</li>
<li>Develops procedures and practices to communicate effectively and frequently with families (generally and for specific students as needed)</li>
</ul>Establishes Routines, Rituals, and Procedures
<ul><li>Identifies, models, and reinforces procedures that build and sustain a collaborative community</li>
<li>Identifies, models, and reinforces procedures that support effective classroom management</li>
<li>Identifies and communicates procedures that promote student engagement, learning and achievement</li>
<li>Models and reinforces procedures, routines, rituals, and expected behaviors through direct instruction, individual coaching, and feedback.</li>
<li>Plans for and responds appropriately to student behaviors disruptive to teaching and learning.</li>
<li>Integrates routines, rituals, and procedures to promote effective transitions and to maximize teaching and learning time (time on task for teachers and students)</li>
</ul>Organizes for Engagement
<ul><li>Structures a learning environment which facilitates collaborative learning opportunities</li>
<li>Structures a learning environment which responds to learning preferences and needs</li>
<li>Displays and uses culturally inclusive resources and materials aligned to curricular concepts</li>
<li>Arranges the learning environment to support effective behavior management</li>
<li>Proactively addresses behaviors and maintains orderly learning environment</li>
<li>Facilitates the use of instructional strategies which promote student agency</li>
</ul>Utilizes and Responds to Data/Information including the Development and Use of Assessments
<ul><li>Identifies, analyzes, and responds to a variety of student data/information to address learner variability</li>
<li>Applies understanding of student needs and characteristics into instructional planning and assessment development</li>
<li>Uses metacognitive strategies by utilizing self- and peer-assessment</li>
<li>Develops, communicates, and engages students in understanding success criteria for lesson-sized learning targets, formative assessments and summative assessments</li>
</ul>Plans and Delivers Effective Instruction
<ul><li>Applies understanding of learner variability to inform the development of instructional planning</li>
<li>Accesses and utilizes curricular resources and materials aligned to the essential learning outcomes (ELOs) and lesson-sized learning targets for units of instruction</li>
<li>Demonstrates the effective use of instructional planning components: Launch, Explore, Summarize</li>
<li>Reflects on instruction (demonstrated use of metacognitive practices)</li>
<li>Consistently employs teacher as facilitator strategies and promotes student agency</li>
</ul><b>Qualifications</b>: Requires a minimum of a Bachelor's Degree in Education K-5 Licensure or Birth-Third Grade Licensure. Certified teaching certificate from the State of MN in the required subject area. Candidates with a background in structured literacy and an understanding of the importance of social emotional learning (SEL) preferred.<br>
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<b>Application Procedure</b>: Candidates may apply for this opportunity via the school website at <b>www.biglakeschools.org</b><br>
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<b>Salary and benefits: </b>This position is paid $245.20 per day and is not eligible for benefits.<br>
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Big Lake Schools is an equal opportunity employer: applicants will receive consideration for employment regardless of their race, color, creed, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, or status with regard to public assistance.</div></ul></div><p></p>

Long Term Sub - Elementary Classroom Teacher (Primary)

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Long Term Substitute position for SLD Special Education Teacher

Long Term Sub - Elementary Classroom Teacher (Primary)