This posting is for the 2024 - 2025 School Year

SUMMARY

Coordinate the Individual Education Plan (IEP) process at assigned campuses, including scheduling and conducting IEP meetings, ensuring appropriate services and timely completion and dissemination of paperwork.  Work collaboratively with administrative, assessment and instructional personnel to support service delivery to students with disabilities. 

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES include the following:

Coordinates/collaborates with regular education personnel to maximize opportunities for student success.

• Schedules and prepares paperwork for all Admission, Review, and Dismissal (ARD) committee meetings on assigned campuses.

• Leads the ARD committee meetings regarding the development of the individual education plan (IEP) and appropriate placement of students eligible for services under IDEA.

• Implements and follows the ARD agenda during all ARD meetings.

• Ensures that all federal, state, and district requirements are met when conducting ARD meetings.

• Makes recommendations to the ARD Committee, when necessary, for educational programming, based on student’s goals, needed services, and federal/state/district requirements.

• Promptly locks IEP documents and submits paperwork to FHAO and campus staff.

• Takes deliberations during the ARD meeting and reads them to the committee at the conclusion of the ARD.

• Ensures all required documents and supplemental forms are reviewed and included in the IEP paperwork.

• Maintains a positive and effective relationship and communicates professionally with supervisors, Principals, colleagues, and parents.

• Coordinates with assessment staff and Campus Testing Coordinator to provide appropriate documentation of testing accommodations for state assessments.

• Assists special education teachers with strategies to help students achieve success.

• Initiates and maintains effective communications with community and parents.

• Manages grievances of students, parents, district staff, and others in a constructive manner.

• Manages a continuing program of professional self-development through attendance at local, regional, and state professional meetings.

• Keeps informed on latest rules, regulations, court cases, educational trends and materials and disseminates information to appropriate campus personnel.

• Keeps current on local policies.

• Performs other tasks as assigned by Supervisor/Superintendent.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES 

None 

QUALIFICATIONS

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.  The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.  There may be alternatives to the below qualifications as the Board of Trustees may find appropriate.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE

Bachelor’s degree; Valid Texas Teaching Certificate; 3 years Special Education teaching experience

LANGUAGE SKILLS 

Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general educational periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental laws and regulations.  Ability to write reports, educational correspondence, and procedure manuals.  Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from administrators, faculty, parents, students and the community.  Strong communications, public relations, and interpersonal skills. 

MATHEMATICAL SKILLS 

Ability to calculate figures and amounts such as discounts, interest, commissions, proportions, percentages, area, circumference, and volume.  Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs. 

REASONING ABILITIES 

Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions.  Ability to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables. 

CERTIFICATES, LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS 

Special Education Certification required.   

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit and talk or hear.  The employee is occasionally required to stand and walk.  The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 75 pounds.  Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, peripheral vision, distance vision, and ability to adjust focus.  

WORK ENVIRONMENT

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. 

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally exposed to outside weather conditions and is regularly required to travel in-district.  The employee must be able to maintain emotional control under stress.  The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.