Dean of Instruction: Special Education Coordinator; Student Support Services

Reports To:

Director of Special Education and Student Support Services

Education for Change is looking for dynamic and visionary instructional leaders with a special education background who will engage students, staff, and families to ensure high student achievement.

EFCPS is committed to serving all students, regardless of need. Our approach addresses the diverse needs of our students by offering a myriad of program designs to meet individual needs. We offer inclusion, resource instruction, combined programs that include both inclusive and small group instruction, and specialized programs for students with autism, those in need of emotional supports, and students with more moderate needs.

Utilizing a Multi-Tiered System of Supports, our multidisciplinary team works collaboratively to analyze and problem solve around student and staff needs. We employ a child approach that not only meets the basic needs of our students, but also takes into consideration their socio‑emotional, academic and behavioral needs.

• Collaborate with other Special Education Coordinators and school site leaders to ensure alignment across school sites in systems and implementation of programs.
• Iterate and implement EFCPS network‑wide Student Support Services systems.
• Evaluate and analyze complex problems, issues, concerns and recommend appropriate alternative solutions to make effective and timely decisions.
• Create a culture where the staff works as a dedicated professional team.
• Other duties as assigned.

• Serve as the LEA coordinator for the school site, interfacing with the Director of Special Education.
• Establish and maintain an instruction‑ and results‑oriented professional learning community.
• Serve as liaison between student support services staff and school site leadership. Represent student support staff and act as a voice for students with diverse learning needs. Advocate for student support services staff needs. Involve student support staff in decision making appropriate to the situation including school site planning, committees, etc.
• Responsible for compliance related to initial, annual, and triennial IEPs for site.
• Work with school site principals and home office student support services leadership to lead, manage, and evaluate effectiveness of special education program and use data as the driver for PD, teacher support, and programmatic shifts.
• Coordinate transition IEPs for incoming students, including 30‑day transfer IEPs. Serve as contact for incoming students.
• Lead the Learning Lab Team.
• Provide direction, coaching and support for education specialists, speech and language pathologists, clinicians, para educators, and other service providers.
• Develop agendas and facilitate weekly Learning Lab team meetings.
• Create Learning Lab procedures and resources.
• Collaborate with Learning Lab Team to coordinate special education services: support with scheduling of services, ensure schedules meet required minutes; ensure all service providers have rooms to serve students; coordinate space/time for collaboration between various service providers; ensure appropriate testing accommodations for all statewide testing, assessments related to IEPs, and teacher‑made assessments; ensure parent engagement and understanding throughout the IEP process;
  
  attend complex IEP meetings; serve as Administrative Designee at IEP meetings as needed (is qualified to provide or supervise the provision of specially designed instruction to meet the unique needs of individuals with exceptional needs, is knowledgeable about the general curriculum, and is knowledgeable about availability of resources of the LEA).
• Other duties as assigned.

• Lead the Coordination of Services Team (COST) to oversee referral of students requiring support (academic, speech/language, and social emotional/behavioral), timely implementation of interventions, the progress monitoring of students receiving interventions, and the evaluation of intervention effectiveness.
• Ensure COST systems and…