High-School Academic Support Team Coordinator

Liberty Common High School is seeking a fulltime 912^thgrade Academic Support Team Coordinator to begin in August 2025. Liberty Common High School in Fort Collins Colorado is a Poudre School District charter school dedicated to Core Knowledge principles and collegepreparatory instruction.

LCHS provides excellence and fairness in education by teaching: 1 a contextual body of organized knowledge 2 the skills of learning and 3 the values of a democratic society. This is done through parental choice partnership with teachers and student acceptance of responsibility for his/her academic effort.

The Academic Support Team (AST) Coordinator is part of the Liberty Academic Support collaborative team serving special education students and students at high risk. Additionally the AST Coordinator serves the staff and the school as a whole on a consultative basis.

FLSA CLASSIFICATION: Salary Exempt

EMPLOYMENT STATUS: Regular Fulltime

WORK HOURS: 3540 hours per week

COMPENSATION: $45000.00$65000.00 (possibly higher based on background experience and/or institutional alignment).

REPORTS TO: Principal

REVISION DATE: October 2024

Essential Functions:

• Administrative oversight of all IEP 504 and ELD service plans and meetings. This includes developing plans communicating with parents students and teachers and coordinating staffing and meetings for IEP and 504s.
• Plan and deliver instruction to identified students in the classroom or intervention room as needed to help students meet IEP and AIP goals.
• Ensure compliance with all legal requirements in areas served by AST.
• Administrative oversight of MTSS/RtI process for 7th12th grade students.
• Crisis intervention and social/emotional liaison.
• Monitor progress and maintain documentation for academic social and emotional progress and/or needs of students.
• Oversight/support of enrollment process for students with academic concerns.

• Act as liaison between parents students and school support staff in a collaborative environment.

• Instruct Guided Study classes within the framework of the Liberty Common curriculum and state content standards.
• Assist with designing intervention and monitoring progress for students who are struggling but not identified for special education services.
• Assist general education teachers with identifying struggling students implementing interventions and monitoring student progress (MTSS/RtI).
• Produce timely evaluation reports goals and objectives and documentation for IEP services.
• Maintain confidentiality of information as required by federal law and school policy.
• Create master schedule for AST with regard to standardized testing classes and finals.
• Refer review and monitor progress/ maintain documentation for STAT (StudentTeacher Assistance Team) process in coordination with STAT team.
• Attend weekly faculty meetings.

Supervisory duties:

• Supervise special education department.
• Organize and facilitate schedules for students resource teachers and paraprofessionals.
• Supervise special education paraprofessionals and resource teachers.
• Report to LCHS administration and BOD.
• Attend regular quarterly and other meetings with PSD Integrated Services.
• Evaluate AST Team.

Minimum Requirements:

• Desire and willingness to learn about Libertys history and philosophy and to uphold and promote the
• mission and values of the school.
• Bachelors degree with teaching license program required mild/ moderate needs and/or affective needs.
• Experience working with special needs students in the classroom setting.
• Demonstrated ability to work with a team and to effectively manage others.
• Excellent leadership and organizational skills.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills.

Preferred Characteristics:

• Background in secondary school resource programs preferred.
• Knowledge and ability to apply the Exceptional Childrens Educational Act when making decisions regarding specialeducation services.
• Knowledge of curricular content and instructional practices.
• Knowledge of behavior and classroom management techniques.
• Proficiency in computer skills including PowerSchools administrative applications.
• Understanding of LCHS education philosophy and mission.
• Commitment to character education.
• Excellent interpersonal skills.
• Experience working with outside agencies and working within applicable laws and regulations.

Physical Requirements:

• Must be able to maneuver uneven surfaces.
• Must be able to carry or transfer up to 20lbs of supplies frequently.
• Must be able to work in occasionally loud environments.
• Must be able to frequently use office technology including computers copiers and printers.

Benefits:

• Enrollment in Colorados Public Employees Retirement Association (PERA) and employer contributions to your PERA retirement account.
• Health dental vision longterm disability shortterm disability insurance.
• Earned sick leave in accordance with Colorados Healthy Families and Workplaces (HFWA) Act.

ATWILL EMPLOYMENT

All employment with Liberty Common School is voluntary and is subject to termination by you or Liberty Common School atwill with or without cause and with or without notice at any time. There is no guarantee in any manner Liberty Common School will continue employment for any set period of time. This applies to all aspects of employment at Liberty Common School including but not limited to recruiting hiring promotion placement discipline layoff recall transfer leaves of absence compensation and access to benefits and training.

EEO STATEMENT
Liberty Common School is an EEO employer. Applicants are considered for positions for which they have applied without regard to gender (regardless of gender identity or gender expression) race color religion creed national origin ancestry age marital status disability sexual orientation genetic information pregnancy or other characteristics protected by law.

Studies indicate women and people of color are less likely to apply for jobs unless they believe they can perform all job descriptions identified in the jobvacancy announcement. Liberty Common School prioritizes identifying the best candidate for the job and that candidate may come from a lesstraditional background. Liberty Common School may consider an equivalent combination of knowledge skills education and lived experiences to meet minimum qualifications.

Liberty Common School is located in the City of Fort Collins in Northern Colorado. Northern Colorado is an integral part of the traditional and ancestral homelands of the Arapaho Cheyenne and Ute Nations. EuropeanAmerican trappers and traders arrived by the early 1800s but rarely established permanent settlements. Gold and silver discoveries in the Colorado mountains in the mid1800s and the prospect of land for farming and ranching attracted people from across the globe to the Colorado Territory including what would become the town of Fort Collins; an agricultural colony that emerged from its founding days as a military fort. The expansion included the sugarbeet industrys growth which brought new residents whose descendants still live here today including MexicanAmerican families from southern Colorado New Mexico and northern Mexico as well as Germans from Russia. Since 1879 Fort Collins has been the home of the states landgrant institution Colorado State University which currently enrolls 34000 students. Along with the university the citys major hightech and manufacturing companies and high performing charterpublic schools attract new residents from all over the country and world. The communitys overall social diversity continues to grow.

Liberty Common School is an EEO employer.

ADDITIONAL DUTIES
Please note that this job description is not a comprehensive list of activities duties and responsibilities that are required of this position. Duties responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice with direction from Liberty Common School.

A complete application includes nothing less than the following items:

1. Letter of application
2. Resume
3. Statement of educational philosophy
4. Educational Transcript
5. References with phone numbers 3

This job posting will remain open until positions are filled.

Mail to:

Dr. Robinson Principal

Liberty Common High School

2745 Minnesota Dr. Fort Collins CO 80525.

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