Watauga County Schools is in need of two EC Bus Monitors. One is for five days a week, 1.5 hours every morning to ride from Blowing Rock to WHS and back. The second is for a morning & afternoon route, five days per week from WHS to a student's home. If interested, apply ASAP!

And away we go! The 2022-23 School Year is underway. May this be the best year ever for our students, families, teachers and all our staff that support all that we do. Time to move forward maskless and fearless into the great wide open! Watch out future, here we come!

Looking for a job in the best place to learn and work in NC? The Watauga County Schools EC Department has 3 teacher assistant position openings: 1 at Blowing Rock, 1 at Watauga High School & 1 at Parkway. Great work with great benefits with great students and staff. Apply now!

The Watauga County Schools EC Department is looking for a BK/Early Childhood certified teacher. This Itinerant PreK position provides special education services in NC PreK classes, community daycares/PreK centers and drive-in services @ schools. Apply at Wataugaschools.org

Watauga County Schools EC Department is in need of a certified teacher for our Self-contained class for students w/cognitive disabilities at Watauga High School. This class has a great student to adult ratio with great transition opportunities! Apply at wataugaschools.org

A collaborative CO team is essential to support services for students w/disabilities. WCS Transportation, Auxiliary Services, Accountability, C & I, HR, Student Services, Finance, and IT departments all work together to help SWD achieve and succeed! Thank you for all you!

It takes an awesome team of educators to run the EC Program. For Teacher Appreciation week, a shout out to our WCS EC Team! We have 4 School Psychs, 2 Behavior Specialists, 17 School administrators and 2 CO staff who help make it all work. Thanks for all you do for our students!

Today we shout out to EC staff who aren't "teachers" but who teach students everyday--Our EC Teacher Assistants. Thank you for all you do to teach, support, enable & encourage students to be successful! You are vitally important to our students! We couldn't do it without you!

Today we send out special thanks to our Related Services staff: Speech Language Pathologists, OT & PT Therapists and Assistants. You may not have the title of "teacher" but teach is exactly what you do. You are an integral part our student's education. Thank you for all you do!

Shout out to our Watauga County Schools Beginning EC Teachers! It is so rewarding to watch a new EC teacher grow in their skills, knowledge and dedication and to see them become teacher leaders in their school and our school district! Our early career EC teachers are our future!

As we begin Teacher Appreciation Week, here is a big shout out to Watauga County Schools wonderful Exceptional Children Teachers. Everyday each of you go above and beyond to meet the needs of your students, pushing them to be successful and excel in all they do! Thank you!

Watauga County Schools has or will have several job openings for EC teachers, Occupational Therapists, a School Psychologist, a SLP, a PT Assistant and EC Teacher assistants for the 2022-23 school year. Check out the listings at wataugaschools.org under the "Careers" tab.

The WCS EC Department is looking for people for the following interim positions: EC Middle School Resource teacher at Parkway School, EC Self-contained teacher at WHS, either an OT or COTA and EC Teacher Assistants. Contact us at 828-264-7190 if interested!

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Join us for EC Parent Night at Hardin Park School on Tuesday, December 7 from 5:30-7:00. Our topic is "Strategies for Improving Executive Functioning in Your Child". WCS SLPs Holly Klein & Megan Kilby will be presenting. Homework help, Child Care and Dinner will be provided.

This past Tuesday, 10/19,21,we had our first face to face EC Parent Night since February 2020! Maria Matarazzo (Left) and Brooke Chiarolanzio (Right) ASU School Social Worker Interns at Hardin Park School, did an excellent presentation on Adversity and Resilience.

It's been a great First Day of School for all of our Exceptional Children Programs in Watauga County Schools! A wonderful beginning for a wonderful year.

Our internet went down at work today. Felt kinda like 1994. I kept an eye out for Marty and the Delorean time machine to take me back to 2021.

Lighting It Up Blue for World Autism Awareness Day is the EC Self-contained Classroom teachers and staff. Thanks to all for all you do day in and day out to support for our students with Autism and to Celebrate Neurodiversity for all students.

The Mabel Elementary School staff Lit it Up Blue yesterday for World Autism Awareness Day !!!