Collaboration & Job Opportunities

On Points

NIUSI seeks writers (researchers, practitioners, and family members) who wish to help us further develop our On Point series on publications that focus on ideas and practices that support inclusive schooling. For more information, please contact Elaine Mulligan, Project Coordinator.

Education

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Job Opportunities

• Elementary and Secondary Teachers - University of Chicago Charter School: The University of Chicago Charter School is seeking teachers who will create and deliver rigorous and engaging learning opportunities for students in prekindergarten, kindergarten through grade five, middle school, and high school. At the middle school and high school levels, they welcome applications from teachers who can provide effective inquiry-based instruction in mathematics, English/language arts, the sciences, the social sciences, world languages, the performing arts, and physical education/wellness education. At the prekindergarten and elementary school levels, they value teachers with knowledge and experience in using balanced literacy frameworks and Everyday Mathematics. At all levels, they seek teachers with expertise and commitment to teaching students with exceptional needs, both in resource and inclusion settings.
  Qualified applicants are licensed teachers with a bachelor's degree and have at least two years of urban teaching experience who believe in the unlimited potential of urban children and youth to learn deeply and achieve at high levels, regardless of race, ethnicity, or socioeconomic class. They value evidence-based decision making, making their classroom practices public for observation and feedback, engaging families as collaborators in the academic and social development of students, learning how to become instructional leaders who add value to the quality of education for each and every child, and learning and working in collaboration with colleagues at other campuses of the School.
  For more information or to apply for a teaching position, please visit the University of Chicago Charter School’s employment website at https://cusi.schoolrecruiter.net/index.aspx.
• The School of Education and Human Development and the Center for Evidence-Based Practice in Early Learning at the University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center (UCDHSC) announce a competitive early intervention (EI)/early childhood special education leadership (ECSEL) post doctoral fellowship program beginning August 15, 2008. The program (Project ECSEL) is supported by a grant from the US Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs. The fellowship program is designed to provide knowledge and experiences to post doctoral fellows that result in the competence to provide state and national leadership needed to address pressing policy and systems issues in EI/ECSE. Up to four post-doctoral fellows will be selected for a 12 month appointment.
  For additional information on this position, please download the announcement from the University of Colorado at Denver.
• The School of Education and Human Development (SEHD) at the University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center announces an open rank tenure-track faculty position in the Special Education program with an emphasis in English as a second language beginning in Fall Term 2008. The faculty member filling this position will assume a leadership role in Special Education for English as second language learning in the initial licensure program and in the development of an MA program leading to a Special Education Specialist with that emphasis. This individual will also have the opportunity to be a member of the School's doctoral faculty.
  For additional information on this position, please download the announcement from the University of Colorado at Denver.