As an Education Specialist Extensive Support Needs, you will instruct students with Individualized Education Plans in an inclusive environment. You will work directly within a school site and collaborate regularly with Special Education staff and may work with outside consultants and district personnel as needed.
Requirements
- Administer academic assessments, write the academic assessment report and present at IEP meetings
- Consult and communicate with faculty and parents via meetings, phone, and email regarding the needs and progress of students
- Maintain knowledge of current regulations pertaining to special education
- Collaborate with faculty to ensure that students modifications and accommodations are being appropriately implemented in the general education classroom
- Meet the minimum IDEA requirements related to case management
- Maintain a high level or rigor for students with disabilities in order to ensure equitable access to common core and/or alternate curriculum standards
- Regularly collaborates with team members for the purposes of: reviewing student data, ensuring IEP implementation, co-planning and/or co-teaching
- Develop, provide and oversee alternate curriculum and testing for eligible students
- Implement health and mobility supports (i.e. provide 1:1 support to student in classroom, support student/s with toileting needs, assist with health-related needs (g-tube, feeding, administration of medication) (under supervision of school nurse) and assist with the physical needs of students (lifting/ assisting with mobility, implementing student stretching/exercise routines.)
- Oversee, teach and implement a student’s behavior intervention plan, including gathering and analyzing relevant data on a regular basis, and collaborating with staff members around student plan and progress
- Input weekly IEP service tracking and meet all IEP timelines
- Create and maintain notifications, records, files, and reports as required by federal, state, and SELPA regulations
- Coordinate the development and implementation of a student’s Individualized Transition Program, especially students in the 16-22 program
- Be able to effectively run a program for students with extensive needs with specially designed instruction to meet their IEP goals, and support students’ progress within the general education class with appropriately modified/accommodated work
- Collaborate with related service providers to ensure the proper implementation of AAC/functional communication, behavior intervention plans, physical/mobility needs, etc.
- Utilizes Aspire’s Alternate Curriculum guidelines to inform student programming
- Daily oversight of paraprofessional support, including the staff schedule and implementation of IEP services
- Develop a thorough progress monitoring tool for students, that is regularly shared with staff and parents and used for team decision-making
- Communicate on a frequent basis with parents of students around student progress, and collaborate to gain parent input
- Collaborate with outside providers as needed and appropriate, with parent consent
- Perform other related duties as required and assigned
Benefits
- Paid time off
- 100% core health benefits coverage on select plans
- Life insurance/long-term disability
- Participation in a CA state retirement plan
- Tuition reimbursement plan
- Adoption assistance program
