2026-2027 School Year Teaching Opening: Itinerant Special Education Teacher
Position: This is an Itinerant Special Education position, meaning you will be overseeing a caseload, and working with general education teachers to meet student goals at multiple sites. Experience in elementary levels is beneficial. This position requires flexibility in working in classrooms, as well as working one-on-one with students.

Reports to: Itinerant Principal and SPED Director
Salary: Appropriate Placement on Teacher's Salary Scale
Posting Date: January 26, 2026
Closing Date: February 4, 2026 Open Until Filled Afterwards
Starting Date: August 26, 2026
Location: Chignik Lagoon or Nondalton, Alaska

QUALIFICATIONS: EDUCATION, EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS:
? Possess teaching certificate with a Special Education endorsement
? Familiar with a Standard-Based System
? Knowledge and experience with RTI/MTSS preferable
? Experience in a cross cultural setting is highly desirable
? Strong interpersonal skills including collegiality and collaboration
? Positive, enthusiastic, energetic and optimistic. Committed to Excellence!
? The ability to implement the District's mission, vision, and instructional goals
? Meet professional teacher requirements of school, district and State

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS:
? Be part of a team that plans a program of instruction for students with disabilities using a variety of methodology including direct instruction, co-teaching, and consultative models
? Assume duties such as testing, IEP writing, collecting and interpreting data, maintaining case files and records
? Provide instruction that meets students' individual needs, abilities and interest as determined by tests, records and observations
? Effectively provide program direction to paraprofessionals
? Create individual student and paraprofessional schedules
? Work with students that experience cognitive disabilities and behavioral challenges
? Develop students' academic, social, adaptive, and pre-vocational skills
? Plan, prepare and deliver lesson plans and instructional materials that facilitate active,
standards-based learning
? Assess student progress and proficiency and adjust instruction accordingly
? Use relevant technology to support and differentiate online instruction
? Manage student behavior in the classroom by establishing and enforcing rules and
procedures
? Encourage and monitor the progress of individual students and use information to adjust
teaching strategies. Provide appropriate feedback on work
? Maintain accurate and complete records of students' progress and development using
PowerSchool
? Participate in district professional development.
? Communicate necessary information regularly to students, colleagues, and parents regarding
student progress, needs and concerns
? Able to create strong partnerships with parents and guardians to improve student learning
? Establish and communicate clear objectives for all learning activities
? Ability to travel in small aircraft to provide SPED services at itinerant sites

SALARY:
Accepting all teaching experience, both in and out of Alaska, for initial placement. Starting at $51,772 (BA+0yrs) to $87,272 (BA72/MA36+13yrs).

BENEFITS:
Open communities and welcoming students; $1,600 relocation reimbursement, Subsidized Housing; Premium Health Insurance Plan; Personal and Sick Leave; $6,000 Service Incentive after three-years continuous service; Travel Benefits including flights to/from your Village; Subsidized M.Ed. program in Culturally Responsive Education with option of reimbursement upon successful completion.
SCHOOL YEAR: LPSD operates under a "Subsistence Calendar" in which students receive 150 days of instruction. New teacher contracts are 174 days, one of the shortest in the nation. Teachers start in late August, and are done in early May!

FOR CONSIDERATION: Please go to https://www.lpsd.com/employment.html to apply for this position. Email Bill Cornell, Director of Personnel at bcornell@lpsd.com with questions you have.

DISCLAIMER: The preceding job description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive description. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, handicapping condition, or national origin.

About

The Lake and Peninsula School District is located on the Alaska Peninsula and comprises an area, in square miles, roughly the size of the state of West Virginia. Extending 400 miles from Lake Clark in the north to Perryville in the south, it contains three National Parks; two National Wildlife Refuges; and numerous designated Wild and Scenic Rivers. The central office of the District is located in King Salmon, approximately halfway between Port Alsworth, the northern most school, and Perryville, the southernmost. None of the school sites can be reached by roadway; all transportation is by means of boat or small planes.

The Lake and Peninsula Borough provides large amounts of high quality habitat that support a phenomenal amount of flora and fauna. The Bristol Bay region is recognized as a world leader in salmon productivity. Commercial fishing, sport fishing and hunting, bear viewing, recreation and tourism, and subsistence are important economic activities that rely on the bounty of the Borough's landscape. Salmon spawning streams attract some of the largest concentrations of brown bear in Alaska. Approximately 10,000 brown bears populate the region, making them more numerous than people. Abundant moose and caribou inhabit the region. Other mammals include wolves, wolverines, river otters, red fox, and beaver. Sea Otters, sea lions, harbor seals and migratory whales inhabit the shoreline and offshore waters. Coastal estuaries are home to waterfowl while nesting eagles, peregrine falcons, and thousands of seabirds inhabit the sea cliffs.

The mission of the Lake and Peninsula School District is to nourish student growth by investing in partnerships & implementing culturally responsive, place-based education. We accomplish this through growing self-directed, life-long learners who are grounded in their culture & contribute to their communities.

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