Coordinator Of Special Education

Coordinator of Special Education JobID: 3422

Position Type:

Student Support Services

Date Posted:

6/25/2024

Location:

District-Wide ALL Locations

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Job Title: Special Education Coordinator, Coordinator of Related Services

Reports to: Director of Student Services

Qualifications & Requirements

• Massachusetts Licensure through the Department of Elementary And Secondary Education

• Bachelor's Degree

• Master's Degree

Responsibilities

The following responsibilities are not meant to be an exhaustive list.

Instructional Leadership

• Promotes the learning and growth of all students and the success of all staff

• Provides staff with effective, timely and meaningful supervision and evaluation in alignment with state regulations, contract provisions and district/school improvement goals

• Provides regular, high quality professional feedback and resources to support all educators

• Supports staff to uphold high expectations for all students to meet or exceed grade level standards by ensuring that instructional practices across all settings and disciplines include:

• Use of evidence based practices to provide equitable opportunities

• Supports, scaffolds and tools to meet students' needs

• Clear criteria for success (rubrics and exemplars)

• Provides professional learning, feedback and resources for educators to accommodate and support individual differences in all students' learning needs, abilities, interests and levels of readiness

Management and Operations

• Understands and complies with state and federal laws and mandates, school committee policies and collective bargaining agreements. Identifies and advocates for changes to laws, mandates, policies and guidelines that inhibit equity

• Coordinate the delivery of special education services

• Promotes the learning and growth of all students and the success of all staff by ensuring a safe, efficient and effective learning environment, using resources to implement appropriate curriculum staffing and scheduling

• Provides educators with access to, and monitors the impulse of high quality, differentiated professional learning opportunities

Family and Community Engagement

• Promotes success for all students by nurturing and sustaining a school culture of reflective practice, high expectations, and continuous learning for staff

• Models, sets clear expectations for and provides appropriate supports to educators regarding partnering with families through regular, two-way communication in a manner that is culturally and linguistically sustaining, aligned with family preferences and in languages that families understand. Ensures access to high quality translation and interpretation services as needed.

Professional Culture

• Lead the creation, design and implementation of staff professional development

• Routinely engages staff, students and families and community members in developing and implementing a shared, equity oriented educational vision

• Measures of student learning

• Feedback from staff, students and families

• School culture and climate data

• Classroom observation and educator evaluation data

• Uses two way channels to communicate frequently and effectively with faculty, staff members, students, families and community members in a manner that is culturally and linguistically responsive with a student centered, asset based focus

All other duties and responsibilities as assigned by the principal or other direct supervisor.