Intervention Specialist - WPFA

Job Purpose

The Intervention Specialist ensures that students receiving special education services are provided the appropriate academic, social, and behavior support. It is the responsibility of the Intervention Specialist to collaborate with team members, which include but are not limited to: the parent, classroom teacher(s), principal, related service providers, school psychologist, and regional director to ensure the individual needs of students are met.

• Provide high quality service delivery to all students with active IEPs, 504 Plans, and/or BIPs consistent with best practice in special education interventions, as well as school policies.
• Collaborate with general education teacher(s) on supporting students with disabilities in the general education setting by providing appropriate co‑teaching instruction.
• Provide a copy of each student’s IEP at a glance to the general education teacher. Review the classroom accommodations and supports, as outlined in the IEP, 504 Plan, and/or BIP to ensure that accommodations are being appropriately implemented. Report to Principal, Special Education Director, or Superintendent immediately if they are not.
• Determine the appropriate testing accommodations for all students with active IEPs or 504 Plans based on data presented and input from School Psychologist, Regional Director, related service providers, and classroom teacher. Implement such accommodations for all state mandated tests and ensure that classroom teachers implement such accommodations regularly.
• Complete and submit to Principal intervention service logs and test preparation logs to accurately reflect services provided.
• Provide high quality lesson plans, schedules of services, and other related information to Regional Director of Student Services, Principal, Assistant Principal, and/or Superintendent as required.
• Advocate for students with special needs within the school and community.

• In conjunction with Regional Director and School Psychologist, write high quality IEPs, FBAs, BIPs, ETRs, 504 Plans, and IAT reports, consistent with state, federal, Performance Academies, School Sponsor, and ODE guidelines.
• Obtain all required signatures on all Special Education documents within given deadlines and provide completed documents to parents and team members.
• Maintain electronic special education files, including all required signatures and dates – this includes, but is not necessarily limited to IAT reports, ETR’s, IEP’s, 504 Plans, Medicaid Consent and Evaluation Consent Forms, PR-01s, and Parent Meeting Invitations.
• Implement a progress monitoring system for students’ IEP goals and objectives in order to write and send home high quality progress reports, for all students with active IEP’s and/or BIP’s according to given deadlines.
• Actively and professionally manage all student referrals, active IEPs, IEP meetings, IAT meetings, MFEs. Follow up on all deadlines, procedures and policies pertaining to re‑evaluations and review IEPs, BIPs, or 504 Plans.
• Keep and maintain student assessment data, behavioral reports, work samples, curriculum‑based measures, medical information, psychologist reports, speech reports, medication information, behavioral observations, parent correspondences, former school reports, grades, achievement test results, IQ test results, interim reports and progress reports, etc.
• Include speech therapists, occupational therapists, or other appropriate professionals routinely in IAT/IEP meetings and educational decision making as appropriate or necessary; collaborate with speech therapists, occupational therapists, or other professionals as appropriate or necessary in the writing of IEP’s, BIP’s, ETR’s, and other similar documents.
• Review, in coordination with School psychologist and Regional Director, all special education paperwork for newly enrolled students with disabilities to determine if incoming documents are able to be adopted. Provide FAPE to students with disabilities until all paperwork is received.
• Implement the State of Ohio Model Policies and Practices for Students with Disabilities to the fullest extent possible.
• Follow all…