2026-2027 | Middle School Paraprofessional

Middle School Paraprofessional

You believe in creating an educational experience where students are able to see themselves reflected in the content of your class. As a member of the Middle School team, you are responsible for the following:

Key Responsibilities of the Role:

Teaching Support and Services

• Provide support to individual student(s) with learning, behavior, and health needs in a variety of settings (push in, pull out, inclusion, sub-separate, 1:1, as needed)
• Meet regularly with fellow special educators, content teachers, paraprofessionals and related service providers to collaborate care for students and to provide coaching and support
• Collaborate with the grade level teams to ensure students are successful within the school setting
• Ensure all students with disabilities in an inclusion and sub-separate setting are succeeding academically and behaviorally
• Communicate the philosophy that all students, regardless of disability should be given the opportunity to succeed at the same level as their peers and should be fully expected to do so
• Provides direct services in accordance with individualized educational plans or established 504 Plans

Compliance & Accountability

• Partner with the school's leadership team to ensure all state testing accommodations and other requirements are met for students with disabilities

Partnering with Students and Families

• Communicating frequently with students, families, and school leaders around academic and behavioral progress
• Attending occasional after-school events

Building of School Culture

• Partnering with team members, students and families, to actively uproot racism and inequality in our community
• Modeling empathy, embodying the mindset that "kids do well if they can"
• Upholding school and grade level systems and structures with fidelity
• Assuming extracurricular responsibilities, if desired

Maintenance of Organizational Culture

• Actively engaging in one's learning; seeking and acting on feedback regularly
• Actively pursuing professional development, inside and outside of the school
• Collaborating with other teachers and school leaders to advance the school's mission

Qualifications:

• Familiarity with high school academic content and skills as well as behavioral needs
• Experience working with students with complex profiles
• Two years or more of college experience (a plus)

This role would be for the remainder of the 2025-2026 school year only.

Compensation:

Salary range for this role is $48,192-$53,210

One Mission. One Team. One School. We are Boston Prep.