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The primary duties of this position are located within 30 miles of the state border; therefore, this position is exempt from the residency requirements. Applications will be considered from residents and non-residents of Colorado.

This announcement is open to potential candidates who are legal residents of the United States. All legal residents of the United States are eligible to apply and compete. If appointed to a position, applicants from outside of Colorado will be required to relocate to Colorado prior to their start date, at their own expense

and have a current Colorado Department of Education Professional Teaching License

Please note: This recruitment may be used to fill multiple vacancies at the locations below.

Most State of Colorado employees are eligible for a great benefit package! Please see the Supplemental Information section below for details!

About the Division of Youth Services: The Division of Youth Services (DYS) provides a continuum of residential and non-residential services that encompass juvenile detention, commitment, and parole. DYS is the agency statutorily mandated to provide for the care and supervision of youth committed by the District Court to the custody of the Colorado Department of Human Services. The Division operates fifteen secure facilities that serve youth between the ages of 10 and 21, who are pre-adjudicated, sentenced, or committed. The Division also contracts with numerous private residential and non-residential service providers throughout the State. For pre-adjudicated youth, the Division is also responsible for the management and oversight of Colorado Youth Detention Continuum, a State-funded, locally administered program that provides services to youth at risk of further progressing into the juvenile justice system. In addition to residential programming, the Division administers juvenile parole services throughout the State.


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Description of Job

This work unit exists to provide academic, vocational, and other education-related services to youth in institutional facilities, to provide professional consultation to community programs that serve DYS youth, and to establish and maintain collaboration with other state and community agencies that provide or monitor education services.

This position exists to provide classroom instruction in Social Studies, careers, and other content as determined by principal and/or business needs. This position will teach secondary and post-secondary youth. This position is also responsible for including Social Emotional Learning topics for committed youth in a safe and trauma-informed environment. A valid and current Colorado Department of Education license is required for this position. The teacher takes responsibility for knowledge of current state standards in the area of Social Studies, careers, and the assigned content areas as required. This includes best practices and research in teaching and learning. This position will support the students, teachers, and school administration to ensure all education requirements, supports, and services are implemented at Grand Mesa Youth Services Center.

Primary Job Duties:

Classroom Teacher .

• Establishes and maintains an appropriate classroom setting through the use of effective classroom management skills and engagement strategies specific to student needs to include progressive discipline, progressive skills, and interventions for behavior and academics.
• Assesses new and continuing students using multiple assessment methods and collects multiple pieces of evidence of learning that include progress monitoring and standards-based education with appropriate rigor and to reflect reading and writing tasks.
• Prepares daily and unit lesson plans that are aligned with state standards, DYS power standards, and the critical skills needed and/or the CCSS content standards. Must document and submit digitally.
• Implements a variety of research-based education strategies (including technology) to accommodate multi-age/multi-level students including project-based learning and skills-orientated focus.
• Ensures that the DYS instructional framework is followed with daily learning objectives and relevant learning that is scaffolded to meet the needs of all youth. This includes implementing interventions, IEP accommodations and modifications, IGCP goals, and behavioral plans with fidelity.
• Must utilize a curriculum that is personally designed or prescribed.
• Ensures educational records are in IC and/or Trails while meeting deadlines to include daily attendance and weekly grades based on academics.
• Selects behavior and classroom management techniques to apply within the framework of DYS. Ensuring effective accommodations are followed for special education students while also communicating growth and data needed for progress monitoring.
• Uses these skills for subbing in other classrooms as required; ensure that if a substitute is needed for the classroom, robust lessons are left and timely.

Meetings, Professional Development, and Progress Monitoring .

• Meets informally and in scheduled meetings with the Central Education Office members, principal, treatment providers, and other teachers to review student and school progress; this may include MDT meetings, IEP meetings, or BID meetings as determined by leadership.
• Develop comprehensive plans for implementation of the subject matter and student goals in alignment with school development plans, expressed processes and expectations, and DYS quality standards.
• Participate in professional and staff safety development and apply learning accordingly. Assure appropriate boundaries and effective presentation in the classroom and workplace while monitoring professionalism.
• Use data effectively and with MTSS processes, progress monitoring, educational advocacy, and multidisciplinary team meetings (MDT).
• Monthly reviews of progress/classroom to principal to include grades, progress, and content.

Supportive to Culture and Safety of Facility.

• Assist in the safety and security of the school and facility by supervising residents as needed and providing immediate assistance as necessary within the facility.
• Consistently knowing and following policy and procedures of the Division of Youth Services and the facility to include safety procedures for classrooms and youth.
• Adhere to the trauma-informed culture and expectations. Know and use Motivational Interviewing, Sanctuary Model to include small group processes and Restorative Justice language and frameworks; documentation of processes as required.
• Adhere to the Code of Conduct and perform duties with professionalism and within expectations. Follow leave procedures.

And Other Duties as Assigned. Performs other school related assignments as necessary such as, but not limited to, student staffings, entering data into Student Information System and substituting for teachers who are absent as needed.

Minimum Qualifications, Substitutions, Conditions of Employment & Appeal Rights

*** PLEASE READ THE ENTIRE JOB ANNOUNCEMENT AND FOLLOW ALL OF THE INSTRUCTIONS PRIOR TO COMPLETING THE APPLICATION. YOU MUST PROVIDE DOCUMENTATION TO BE GIVEN CREDIT FOR IT. THERE WILL BE NO EXCEPTIONS ON TIMELINES TO PROVIDE DOCUMENTATION - ALL DOCUMENTS MUST BE UPLOADED AND ALL TRANSCRIPTS MUST HAVE SCHOOL NAME, YOUR NAME, AND ALL PAGES- THIS IS THE FIRST EVALUATION IN THE SELECTION PROCESS***



MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

• Education:
  • Bachelor's degree from an accredited institution in education or a field of study related to the work assignment
• AND
  
  License Requirement:
  • Current, valid Initial or Professional Teacher license issued by the Colorado Department of Education.
• Substitutions:
  The following will substitute for the Colorado Initial or Professional Teacher license:
  • Current, valid Interim Teacher license, or Temporary Educator Eligibility Authorization.
  • Current, valid Colorado Adult Basic Education Authorization, Initial Special Services, or Special Services license.
  • Other license, credential, or endorsement issued by the Colorado Department of Education.

Preferred Candidates will possess the following qualifications:

• Dual endorsements or documentation of ability to be Highly Qualified in multiple content areas.
• Experience working with at-risk or adjudicated youth.
• Experience with differentiated instruction; developing lessons/curriculum and providing differentiated instruction.
• Proficient use of assessment data to inform instructional practice.
• Relevant years of state service.
• A CDE endorsement in Social Studies.

Essential Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Experience with implementing articulated systems and structures with fidelity
• Understandings of classroom-based behavioral interventions
• Able to build rapport with students while maintaining boundaries
• Experience with urban and at-risk populations
• Secondary school experience
• Education and Training
• Interpersonal Skills
• Oral Communication
• Oral Comprehension
• Problem Sensitivity & Solving
• Ability to adhere to Safety and Security protocols
• Technology enhanced instruction

Highly Desirable Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Colorado Academic Standards for K-12 education.
• Demonstrated knowledge in Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and Excel. Attention to detail.
• Strong decision-making skills and follow through.
• Ability to positively and professionally interact with administrators, staff, parents, clients, community members and the judicial system.
• Ability to collaboratively problem solve, ask for and use feedback, and create positive culture and climate.

Conditions of Employment:

• Full Background - CBI name check and fingerprint check, ICON Colorado court database, Medicare fraud database, Reference checks, Professional License Verification (if applicable), Drug Screen, PREA (Division of Youth Services Only), For those with direct contact with children: Trails check - For those with direct contact with adults at the Mental Health Institutes, Regional Centers and Veterans Community Living Centers: CAPS.
• Must be 21 years old or older.
• Travel to Education training may be required.
• Special Qualifications:
  • CDE Teaching License
• Continued employment is contingent upon successful completion of the DYS Pre-service Training Academy, Field Training Program (FTO), and mandatory annual training in all subject areas.
• Former State employees who were disciplinarily terminated or resigned in lieu of termination must (1) disclose that information on the application (2) provide an explanation why the prior termination or resignation should not disqualify the applicant from the current position, (3) provide the employee number from the applicant’s prior State employment. Absent extraordinary circumstances, prior disciplinary termination or resignation in lieu of termination and failure to provide this information will disqualify the applicant from future State employment with CDHS.

Appeal Rights:

If you receive notice that you have been eliminated from consideration for this position, you may file an appeal with the State Personnel Board or request a review by the State Personnel Director.

An appeal or review must be submitted on the official appeal form, signed by you or your representative. This form must be delivered to the State Personnel Board by email (dpa_state.personnelboard@state.co.us), postmarked in US Mail or hand delivered (1525 Sherman Street, 4th Floor, Denver CO 80203), or faxed (303.866.5038) within ten (10) calendar days from your receipt of notice or acknowledgement of the department’s action.

For more information about the appeals process, the official appeal form, and how to deliver it to the State Personnel Board; go to spb.colorado.gov; contact the State Personnel Board for assistance at (303) 866-3300; or refer to 4 Colorado Code of Regulations (CCR) 801-1, State Personnel Board Rules and Personnel Director's Administrative Procedures, Chapter 8, Resolution of Appeals and Disputes, at spb.colorado.gov under Rules.

Supplemental Information

How to Apply

The Assessment Process

For additional recruiting questions, please contact bryan.stephen @state.co.us.

About Us:

If your goal is to build a career that makes a difference, consider joining the dedicated people of the Colorado Department of Human Services (CDHS). Our professionals strive to design and deliver high quality human and health services that improve the safety, independence, and well-being of the people of Colorado. In addition to a great location and rewarding and meaningful work, we offer:

• Strong, secure, yet flexible retirement benefits including a PERA Defined Benefit Plan or PERA Defined Contribution Plan plus 401(k) and 457 plans

• Medical and dental health plans

• Employer supplemented Health Savings Account

• Paid life insurance

• Short- and long-term disability coverage

• 11 paid holidays per year plus vacation and sick leave

• BenefitHub state employee discount program

• Employee Wellness program MotivateMe

• Excellent work-life programs, such as flexible schedules, training and more

• Remote work arrangements for eligible positions

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  Some positions may qualify for the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program. For more

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Our Values:

We believe in a people-first approach: To serve the people of Colorado, we develop a culture and work environment that creates an energized, inspired, and healthy team capable of giving their best to Coloradans .

Balance creates quality of life: We want our team to be resilient through a supportive workplace that values flexibility, health and wellness, and employee engagement.

We hold ourselves accountable: We take responsibility through our actions, programs, and results for the state of health and human services in Colorado.

Transparency matters: We are open and honest with employees, our partners, the Coloradans we serve, and the public.

We are ethical: We abide by what is best for those we serve by doing what is right, not what is easy.

Collaboration helps us rise together: We work together with all partners, employees, and clients to achieve the best outcomes for Coloradans.

We are committed to increasing the diversity of our staff and providing culturally responsive programs and services. Therefore, we encourage responses from people of diverse backgrounds and abilities.

ADAA Accommodations: CDHS is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, our agency will assist individuals who have a disability with any reasonable accommodation requests related to employment, including completing the application process, interviewing, completing any pre-employment testing, participating in the employee selection process, and/or to perform essential job functions where the requested accommodation does not impose an undue hardship. If you have a disability and require reasonable accommodation to ensure you have a positive experience applying or interviewing for this position, please direct your inquiries to our ADAAA Coordinator, Nancy Schmelzer, at cdhs_ada@state.co.us or call 1-800-929-0791.

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