Teach the part you love.
Skip the part you don't.
Licensed special education teachers — work from home, 5 to 10 hours a week, paid weekly. No IEPs to write. No meetings to sit through. Just kids who need you, and time you actually have.
Why teachers say yes.
W-2, not 1099.
5 to 10 hours a week.
$23–$25 an hour, paid weekly.
Now hiring in:
We hire licensed special education teachers in Tennessee and Florida. If you live in either state and hold (or held within the last five years) a state-issued special education teaching license, we want to hear from you.
Tennessee
No state income tax · Working teachers & retirees
Learn more →Florida
No state income tax · Bilingual teachers in demand
Learn more →Live somewhere else? We'll be expanding. Apply anyway and we'll keep your information for when we open in your state.
How this is different from anything else you've seen.
Versus freelance tutoring marketplaces (Outschool, Wyzant, Varsity Tutors)
On marketplaces, you're a contractor. You market yourself. You set your rates. You chase no-shows. You handle your own taxes. You compete with hundreds of other tutors for every booking. We do all of that for you. You're an employee with a steady schedule, matched students, and a paycheck that doesn't depend on whether you remembered to update your profile last week.
Versus picking up extra hours at your district
After-school tutoring at your school means staying later in a building you've been in since 7 a.m. Driving to a student's house in rush hour. Setting up at someone else's kitchen table. With us, you log in from your living room. No driving, no rain, no extra building time.
Versus staying retired
You spent decades earning that license. You went into special education because you wanted to help kids that nobody else was helping. That doesn't go away when you leave the classroom. We give you a way to keep doing it, on your terms — five hours a week, in your slippers, from your couch.
Why this exists.
Our son was diagnosed with autism. Then with Duchenne muscular dystrophy. We watched the public school system try, and try, and miss. Suzie and I started SpecialEdResource in 2014 because we wanted families like ours to have somewhere to go that actually understood what they were dealing with.
12 years later, we have 44 tutors and we've worked with thousands of children. The teachers on our team are the difference. We built this because we know what good special education teachers can do when they're given the room to do it.
— Luke Dalien, Co-founder
From the teachers who already do this with us.
"I was skeptical at first — another tutoring platform? But this is different. I'm an actual employee, not a gig worker. The families are matched to me, not the other way around. And the kids actually need what I know how to do."
"After 28 years in the classroom, I wasn't ready to stop teaching — just ready to stop everything else that came with it. This gives me the kids without the chaos."
"The W-2 thing sounds small until you've done 1099 work. Having taxes handled, getting a real paycheck every Friday — it's the difference between a side hustle and an actual job."