Certificated employees include teachers, counselors, librarians, media specialists, psychologists, process coordinators, principals, assistant principals and certificated department directors.

Support employees include all non-teaching staff such as secretarial, clerical, paraprofessionals, custodial, bus drivers, food service employees, maintenance workers, nurses, computer technicians and programmers and a variety of other non-teaching positions.

View the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education Departments Certification Requirements

After a paraprofessional with 60+ college hours has been hired, they must apply for a substitute certificate annually and submit official transcripts (Faxes, photocopies, grade reports and computer-generated copies are not acceptable). 

The number of years of experience in a full-time certified/contracted position (maximum 10 years) equals what step you will be placed on the salary schedule.

Please contact HR Services at 417-523-GOHR (4647) or you may email humanresources@spsmail.org  

We keep applications active for one year. After one year applications are moved to inactive for one year and then they are deleted.