Elementary Severe Special Needs Teacher​/BCBA

Location: Manchester-by-the-Sea

The Mission of the Manchester Essex Regional School District (MERSD) is to provide a high quality, comprehensive, student-centered educational experience that prepares them for a post-secondary educational or service experience, a career, and life as an engaged member of society.

MERSD, with the partnership and support of member communities, will provide educational opportunities and resources so that all students can realize their individual, unique, and highest potential, achieve academic excellence, value integrity, and honesty, and become intellectually curious and critical thinkers.

Core Values

Student Centered
We believe schools must establish a safe environment that supports the development of all students. Schools must engage all aspects of a child's development, including knowledge, a sense of self, emotional well-being, physical health, and skills and strategies to negotiate an ever-changing and unpredictable world.

Student Achievement
We believe MERSD should foster a learning environment that encourages academic achievement, social and emotional freedom and engagement, collaboration and creative problem-solving; the skills to confront new ideas with both rigor and sensitivity, and the awareness to and ability to extend the skills beyond the academic core to include experiential learning, the arts, cultural awareness, and physical and social-emotional health.

Equity
We believe our schools must strive to create a just and equitable environment that respects individual differences and the diversity of our communities, country, and world.

Family & Community Partnerships
Schools are a reflection of their communities. We believe that providing a quality education that prepares our students for an unpredictable world is a shared responsibility, fostered by partnerships among the schools, families, educational non-profits, businesses, and the community-at-large.

Resources
We believe the District and our community partners should collaborate to provide the necessary funding to equip our students with the essential critical thinking, analytic, communication, and problem-solving skills they need to be productive, contributing members of our local and global communities and deliver on the promise of our students' potential.

Special Education Liaison

Job Description

Oversight of student programs:

* Serve as Case Manager and primary contact for parents and teachers associated with assigned students' special education program, including special education service providers

* Oversee assigned caseload of students' IEPs

* Communicate student disability-related needs and IEP requirements to teachers, counselors, nurse, and building staff

* Act as point person for all parent communication relating to special education

oEstablish initial telephone contact within first two weeks of school
oRespond to parent inquiries and concerns within twenty four hours
oProvide progress reporting on IEP goals and objectives each quarter/trimester
oTrouble shoot issues relating to student academic performance

* Formally and informally monitor and report on student progress in identified goal areas, including check-ins weekly with all service providers and 2-3 times per quarter with general education teachers

Implementation of IEP:

* Coordinate support services with specialists (speech/language, occupational therapy, physical therapy, etc.)

* Supervise services provided other special education professionals (i.e., TAs, special teachers)

oTrain teaching assistants on IEPs and understanding disabilities of assigned students
oCreate and oversee system for progress monitoring of goals and objectives

* Determine instructional methods and materials to be used in direct service instructional time (Resource Room and Co-Teaching)

* Plan lessons and provide direct instruction/support as determined by scheduled responsibilities

Regulatory compliance:

* Conduct student assessments (informal, formal, initial and 3 year evaluations) and generate written reports

* Responsible for the development of student IEP and coordination of related paperwork and Team recommendations

* Support grade and building level transitions

* Implement strategies for transition planning and disability awareness as appropriate to the student's age in accordance with District policy.

* Maintain a system of caseload record keeping (student files, phone log, IEPs)

* Participate in Team meetings, special education department meetings, building and district meetings as required

* Maintain familiarity of regulations and policies related to special education