Position Type:
Related Service Provider
Date Posted:
2026-03-20
Location:Administration or As Assigned
ABOUT CLEVELAND METROPOLITAN SCHOOL DISTRICT
The Cleveland Metropolitan School District (CMSD) is Ohio's third-largest public school system, serving more than 35,000 students.
CMSD strives to ensure that every child receives a high-quality education, regardless of the provider. To that end, CMSD lets families choose which District schools their children attend, with options that include STEM, the arts, single-gender education, International Baccalaureate, Montessori, and early college.
Our schools have autonomy over human and financial resources in exchange for accountability for performance. The principal has primary responsibility and accountability for establishing their school as a high-quality, high-expectation academic center focusing on personalized instruction, professional support for teachers, and school-wide practices that lead to measurable results.
CMSD ensures that students have access to technology and training to prepare them for the future. The District provides a free laptop or tablet for every student and connects every family that needs internet access. Graduating seniors leave commencement with not only a diploma but also a laptop.
In our pursuit of a more fair, just, and good system of education, we strive to ensure that all of our learners, both scholars and educators, to be challenged with academically and intellectually complex tasks that are worthy of their efforts and provide them opportunities to demonstrate their best work.
BUILDING BRIGHTER FUTURES
The Cleveland Board of Education adopted the Building Brighter Futures (BBF) initiative on December 9, 2025. Building Brighter Futures is a strategic and data-driven plan shaped by more than a year of community engagement, information analysis, and thoughtful deliberation. The goal of this plan is to strengthen enrollment and ensure scholars attend a newer school building that offers more educational opportunities, including algebra in the eighth grade, more sports and extracurricular activities, and college credits and college and career pathways in high school. BBF is ensuring academic excellence so every CMSD scholar can thrive.
THE OPPORTUNITY:
Location: As Assigned
Reports To: Director, Speech, Lanaguage, and Communication Services
Compensation: Related Service Provider Salary Schedule
Union: Cleveland Teachers Union 279
2026 - 2027 School Year
Conducts speech, hearing, and language screenings, initial evaluations, and/or three-year re-evaluations as needed for individual children, preschool through age twenty-two in all public/non-public schools, as necessary, and all related duties
Responsibilities
- Conducts speech, hearing and language screenings, initial evaluations and/or three-year re-evaluations as needed for individual children, preschool through age twenty-two in all public/non-public schools, as necessary
- Serves as a member of the educational team and as a liaison to the Office of Related Services, related agencies and the community
- Completes all mandated process and procedures including Individualized Education Program (IEP) development and Evaluation Team Report (ETR) documentation, as part of the Multi-factored Evaluation (MFE) process
- Provides classroom collaborative and/or direct speech-language therapy services to individual children as appropriate, in whatever is determined to be the Least Restrictive Environment (LRE)
- Develops communication skills programs for all children served: uses assistive technology and/or various other alternative/augmentative non-verbal/total communication strategies as appropriate to individual need
- Served as a resource person to all parents and staff
- Interfaces therapy services with school-based Academic Achievement Plans (AAPs) developing literacy skills, and with student performance on mandated proficiency exams
- Provides consultation and/or in-service for staff, parents and/or other speech-language pathologists regarding appropriate speech and language instructional strategies for classroom, home and/or community use
- Provides individual student services as mandated by the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) and if appropriate, as recommended by the American Speech/Language/Hearing Association
- Maintains accurate records, prepares and submits all required statistical reports as appropriate, including but not limited to federal child count data, hearing screening reports, state data requirements, final reports, Community Alternative Funding Services (CAFS) Medicaid documentation log forms, etc.
- Completes any additional duties as requested by the Office of Related Services Administrator and/or the Administrator(s) of the Division of Special Education
Qualifications
- Valid Ohio Speech and Hearing Pathologist Department of Education Certificate/License
- Master’s degree in Speech-Language Pathology required; related field considered
- American Speech-Language and Hearing Association certification strongly preferred
- State of Ohio Licensure as a Speech-Language Pathologist, required
- Potential for State of Ohio Professional Experience Year (PEY)/American Speech/Language/Hearing Association Clinical Fellowship Year (CFY)
- Must be "Highly Qualified" in subject area.
- Experience as a Speech-Language Pathologist in an urban school setting
- Knowledge of learning styles and development growth patterns of children
- Demonstrated ability in providing speech and language services to children
- Interest in creating developmentally appropriate curriculum and classroom/collaborative models for instruction and/or therapeutic intervention
- Demonstrated ability in providing speech and language services to children
- Interest in creating developmentally appropriate curriculum and classroom/collaborative models for instruction and/or therapeutic intervention
- Demonstrated ability and willingness in working as a team member
- Bilingual (Spanish) candidates strongly encouraged to apply
WORKING CONDITIONS/PHYSICAL DEMANDS
The characteristics listed below are representative of the work environment typically encountered by an individual while performing the essential duties of this position.
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential duties.
Expected moving, walking, and standing consistent with a school environment, and occasionally lifting up to 15 pounds
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand, walk, and sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; and reach with hands and arms
The employee is frequently required to talk and/or hear.
Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, color vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is exposed to a normal school environment.
Local travel may be required for training/meetings.
NOTE: The above-stated duties are intended to outline those functions typically performed by individuals assigned to this classification. This description of duties is not intended to be all-inclusive or to limit the discretionary authority of management to assign other tasks of a similar nature or level of responsibility.
Education
To Apply
Please submit your resume and application using Workday, our online human capital management system. Please note that an offer of employment will be subject to the successful completion of an FBI/BCI background check and drug screen.
EEO Statement
We believe that equity and inclusion at CMSD is an essential call to action, a catalyst to ensure value and appreciation among all our employees, so we may be fair and welcoming now and in the future. CMSD provides equal opportunities for employment, retention and advancement of all personnel by administering all terms and conditions of employment regardless of race, color, ethnicity, ancestry, national origin, sex, disability or genetic information, age, citizenship status, military status, sexual orientation or expression, socio-economic status, title, other dimensions of identity, or any other characteristic protected by law.
The District’s Policy Prohibiting Discrimination, Discriminatory Harassment, and Sexual Harassment and the District’s Title IX grievance procedures, including information on how to report or file a complaint of discrimination, how to report or file a formal complaint of sexual harassment, and how the District will respond, may be accessed on the District’s Civil Rights Notices webpage, available at ClevelandMetroSchools.org/domain/105. The District’s Title IX Coordinator / Director of Equal Employment Opportunity may be reached at:
1111 Superior Avenue East, Suite 1800
Cleveland, Ohio 44114
(216)-838-0070
TitleIX_EEO@ClevelandMetroSchools.org