special education teacher

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The mission and students deserve far better than the internal environment employees are expected to tolerate. Behind the public image is an organization marked by extremely high turnover, unpredictable top-down leadership, frequent unexplained terminations, inconsistent accountability, and constant instability. Employees are often expected to take on responsibilities far beyond their roles without proper support, while basic operational issues such as payroll delays, lack of supplies, poor communication, and inconsistent facility conditions remain ongoing concerns. The workplace culture can feel more driven by internal politics, favoritism, rumors, and reactive decision-making than professionalism or structure, and concerns involving workplace conduct and harassment did not always feel appropriately addressed. There were also ongoing concerns among employees regarding transparency around how funding and resources were being managed within the organization. Many talented and dedicated staff members leave burned out, unsupported, or abruptly dismissed.
If you value stability, transparency, professionalism, and fair leadership practices, ask very detailed questions before accepting a position here.

This place has an incredible amount of potential with all the amazing students and how their pathologies present. the providers and the paras work hard and manage to provide services despite the toxic work culture due to incapable administration that lack empathy and the aptitude to work in either healthcare or research. People (sometimes criminals) hired without a background check, greedy CEO who is constantly looking to maximize profits rather than prioritizing the daily needs/ supplies for the children or the well being of the ground staff that keep the place running which leads to quick burnout and hence contributes to the high turnover rate. pay is adequate but staff is overworked and pay is not proportionate to the amount of work thrust upon them. 
kids are beautiful and the best part of this job by far. 
has potential to be a pioneer in education and research but terrible hierarchical structure with power concentrated at the top (as most non-profits with a power hungry CEO tend to be)

If you are considering a job with this company I urge you not to take it. I read every review and thought it couldn't be that bad but it's WORSE.

There are no words to describe how awful management is, there practically is none until you are getting yelled at.

The culture is bizarre - no one wants to be there -most people quit or are fired with just a few months. You will hear talk of conservative politics very often. 

Whatever job you take will likely not at all align with your actual responsibilities once you start. The "office" is unclean with leaks occurring weekly and the only two bathrooms being out of order all the time. There is a team of employees working in the scorching, unfinished basement with no windows and low hanging ceilings. 

I could go on and on and frankly on about how bad this job was. PLEASE DO NOT WORK HERE. I felt the same desperation of needing a job but it was not worth the emotional turmoil and daily discomfort I experienced.

Working with the students and the providers was the only positive part of this job. The management is unresponsive and ineffective at listening to employees' needs. The benefits were poorly managed / communicated. The DC staff was given two days to set up a school before open, and there was no furniture in the poorly maintained complex with no wheelchair-accessible bathroom. It took us weeks to get any supplies. It was irresponsible, almost unethical, to welcome students as soon as we did; leadership refused to delay, despite our repeated warnings. Paraprofessionals were not sufficiently trained or managed to help this vulnerable population. Never actually participated in any research, despite that being the first half of the job description. 

The willingness to hire inexperience paraprofessionals says a lot about this company. I gave them a shot and man…. So dysfunctional. A few years ago at their old location, I was assigned to a young girl who was new to the school and we were placed in an area with just a folding table. It was streaming hot and we just had a box fan. My summary for my employment would be “going through the motions”.  Every day was lead with no concrete direction. Eventually, the paras would have to submit a research thesis on neuroscience to keep their jobs and that’s the time I knew this was a wrong fit for because how can I do this without no experience?They set you up to fail and i got out of dodge fast. The best part was the children, but professionally I would never recommend this place.

I was told this job that this was a research heavy position in my job description and in my interview but instead it was nothing more than a caregiver job. RAs/Paras are treated terrible for the amount of work they did, they were often overlooked and sometimes are treated with no respect. No room for growth. Management/ administration is a mess, there was never a solid team. I never seen so many people quit in the short time I’ve worked there but I understand why. Everything was a mess. I don’t understand the need to expand when there is so much work to be done at the current locations, it screams money hungry tactics. The only thing that kept me going was the sweet kids but they deserve better. Please avoid working here at all costs. 

Company has seen some turbulent times amidst covid over this past year that I've been a part of the organization, however I would say that there have been substantial strives for improvements. We're here for the kids and appreciate the support I get from my co workers. Think that communication between departments and management has some further room for improvement. Also wish management was a little more lenient with unexpected time off requests.

The company iBrain works closely with a political organization as well as a law firm. Employees of one firm are often used for work across other companies without fair compensation for the increase in labor/transportation. After complaining that I wasn't being utilized for work I was hired to do - instead just support the political party that was trying to get petitions signed - my workload started to diminish until they let me go and then failed to pay me for a whole month. Management is bad. Work culture is bad. Only positive is that you work with/ and or around sweet children - but the company shouldn't be trusted. 

Its a scary thing when all the awful things that people say about a company somehow end up being true!  Such is the case at iBrain where they treat some of the best, most altruistic and talented people like garbage.  Wish I had listened to the reviews.

There are plenty of jobs in education now that will serve a great need.  Regrettably this organization is failing them terribly and working here is not a good career path or even a good path to help this deserving population.  

Sad to leave the students but this is a horrifically toxic and unpleasant place to work. 

It is a terrible place to work.  They don't have any plan for future research.  I think since 2018, they didn't publish any single technical paper.  Without a viable or an achievable plan, how can you reach the goals.  They don't have any protocol, SAP, TFLs shells, no software for analysis data, even no MS office.  When I was there, I use my own powerful laptop and my own MS office to do the work.  That's why I call it is terrible place to work.  Before you are joining, don't deny the job offer.  Keep it. After 2-4 weeks then you decide what to do next.  

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Special education teacher 3 salaries reported	$77,500 per year
Research assistant 1 salary reported	$45,000 per year
Operations agent 9 salaries reported	$107,500 per year
Research manager 1 salary reported	$82,500 per year
Social worker 1 salary reported	$70,000 per year

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