Assistant Principal - Special Education Lead; Pool

Reports to:

Site Principal & Director of Special Education and Student Support Services

Education for Change is looking for dynamic and visionary instructional leaders who will engage students, staff, and families to ensure high student achievement. The assistant principal of student support services collaborates closely with the principal and the Student Support Services department in communicating and supporting the mission of Education for Change, maintaining the focus on high student achievement for all students, creating a collaborative, results-oriented professional learning community, analyzing and responding to data, supporting teachers in their growth, and evaluating and responding to the effectiveness of interventions and instructional practices.

S/he engages community partners and families in serving the whole child and ensuring ALL children achieve at high levels prepared to succeed in any setting. S/he will know how to successfully work in an urban elementary school with a high English Learner and low-income population.

Founded in 2005, Education for Change (EFC) is a charter management organization that was created as a partnership between Oakland Unified School District and the education reform community in order to leverage the flexibilities in charter law to facilitate greater innovation and to address the underperformance of our most vulnerable student populations. EFC is Oakland’s largest charter operator, serving over 3,000 students in the Fruitvale and Elmhurst neighborhoods of East Oakland.

Five of seven of our schools were formerly OUSD schools that converted to EFC to leverage the flexibility and agility provided by charter law for greater outcomes for our students.

• Serve as Student Support Services Coordinator, acting 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.
• 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.
• Maintain current systems and assist in designing, coordinating and monitoring implementation of research-based interventions aligned to a multi-tiered intervention framework. Facilitate effective integration of educational, clinical, and behavioral program components.
• Collaborate with principal 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.
• 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
• Case manage Section 504 plans.
• Other duties as assigned.

• Establish and maintain an instruction- and results-oriented professional learning community
• Analyze performance and observational data to determine…