Who runs Texas SPED Tutor Jobs

SpecialEdResource, the employer

SpecialEdResource, also written Special Ed Resource or SER, was founded in 2014 by Luke and Suzie Dalien and is based near Phoenix, Arizona. It employs special education teachers in a part-time, remote W-2 role: live, one-on-one online tutoring. If you tutor with us, you have a real person you can text or email when something comes up. We are truly a family that works hard to support one another.

• Name: SpecialEdResource (also Special Ed Resource; SER)
• Legal name: Special Education Resource LLC
• Founded: 2014
• Founders: Luke and Suzie Dalien
• Based: near Phoenix, Arizona
• Website: specialedresource.com
• Questions about an application you’ve sent: studentsuccess@specialedresource.com
• Where tutors can live: SpecialEdResource can currently employ tutors who live in 15 states, Texas among them.

How this site, the hiring site and specialedresource.com fit together

• texasspedtutorjobs.com (this site) describes the tutoring job for teachers who live in Texas. It also has guides to Texas teacher topics: working after retirement under TRS, Texas teaching certificates and special education certification, teacher salaries, and Social Security. It has no form and collects nothing that identifies you (see the privacy page).
• hiring.specialedresource.com is where you apply. Every Apply button on this site opens it, and the application takes about two minutes. The same application is used in all 15 states where SpecialEdResource can currently employ tutors. What happens after you apply is on How it works. Interview invitations follow team review. Your first interview is with Erin, and the second is with Luke Dalien, one of SpecialEdResource’s founders.
• specialedresource.com is SpecialEdResource’s main website.

Why the guides cover Texas rules

The rules a teacher may want to check before taking a part-time job sit with different bodies. Rules for retirees of the Teacher Retirement System of Texas (TRS) who go back to work are set by Texas law and TRS’s own rules, and applied by TRS, which explains them in its brochure Employment After Retirement: How it Works for You, its Benefits Handbook and on its website. Texas teaching certificates are issued by the Texas Education Agency (TEA) under the rules of the State Board for Educator Certification (SBEC). The Social Security earnings test is federal law, applied by the Social Security Administration. The guides gather those rules in one place, explain them in plain English, and quote the agencies and laws that set them.

How we check what we publish

• Official sources, quoted. Rules and numbers come from the bodies that set or publish them: the Texas Education Agency (TEA) and the rules of the State Board for Educator Certification (SBEC); the Teacher Retirement System of Texas (TRS); Texas statutes, such as the Government Code and the Education Code; the Social Security Administration and federal laws and rules published on govinfo.gov; the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics; and other public agencies where a page needs them. When the exact words of a rule decide something, the guide quotes them and says where they come from. The sources behind each guide are named on the guide itself.
• AI use. The guides are drafted with AI help. Each rule and figure from a public agency is then checked against the source the guide cites.
• Checked dates. Each guide gives the date its facts were last checked against their sources; that date changes only after a new check.
• Real tutors only. We publish a tutor’s first name, photo or words only with that tutor’s permission, and never use stock photos or invented quotes in their place.
• Not advice. The guides explain rules in general. How a rule applies to you is for TRS, TEA or the Social Security Administration to say, so confirm your own case with them.