Job Details

• Student and Families: GCCS teachers strive to form strong relationships with our students and their families. Our organization grew out of Guadalupe Centers, the longest continuously operating agency serving the Latinx community in the US. These community ties are integral to who we are.
• Staff Autonomy: Teachers at GCCS appreciate having the autonomy to try proven and new approaches in their classroom and are encouraged to innovate. The experience of teachers is valued and they are given space to collaborate and share their best practice with each other.
• Coaching and Development: Staff at GCCS collaborate with their leaders on their growth and development. GCCS teachers set a professional development goal in collaboration with their coaches, colleagues and in district initiatives. All staff are aligned on working on their development over the course of the year.

• Evaluates students for speech language and social communication disorders.
• Conducts formal assessments for special education process.
• Carries out multiple comprehensive language assessments.
• Conducts Goldman Fristoe Test of Articulation for speech.
• Provides direct services in efforts to remediate errors in speech.
• Ensures that student individual education programs are implemented.

• Works with students to provide therapy to remediate sounds and stuttering.
• Provides instruction in using words, developing words and communicating with others in an individual and group setting.

• Provides consultation to regular education teachers and delivers in classroom strategies.
• Organizes early intervention methods and consults with staff for early intervention.
• Provides subject matter on what is development appropriate for speech.

• Provides training for staff for disorders and how to identify them.
• Designs individual education programs.
• Identify what is development appropriate speech and provides training to staff.
• Coordinates curriculum for IDEA and the Missouri state plan for education.

• Conducts hearing screening assessments.
• Provides pass/fail results to managers.

• Maintains records of services provided for auditing purposes.
• Reports services provided to Medicaid on a monthly basis.
• Utilizes a therapy log and progress reports to maintain records and conformation of therapy provided to be submitted at the end of the year.

• Participates in annual training related to Medicaid billing and SDAC school district administrative training.
• Partakes in administrative claiming Medicaid reimbursement programs for school district.

• Participates in random selections for state of Missouri and provides information and stats related to Medicaid therapy and billing.
• Answers all related questions related to Medicaid therapy such as what therapy was provided, reason for therapy, frequency of therapy and when therapy occurred.
• Provides all information for reimbursement purposes.

• Maintains data to determine progress and mastery for individual education programs and goals.
• Reports quarterly and completes all required special education paperwork.
• Adheres to locale state regulation and ethical practices.

• Participates in student intervention if speech and language concerns are identified.
• Attends weekly meeting if students have speech and language concerns.
• Provides strategies and ideas and screens students.

• Ability to interpret data outlined by Missouri Department of Education.
• Ability to interpret standardized assessments with fidelity.
• Ability to analyze data for program planning and IP development.
• Knowledge of current best practices in the area of speech and language.
• Ability to use augmented communication devices.
• Ability to use instruments for hearing screenings.
• Ability to meet tight deadlines for federal and state timelines.

• Prolonged periods standing and walking throughout the school and classroom.
• Must be able to lift up to 15 pounds at times.
• Must be able to access and navigate all areas of the school and other facilities as needed.