Director of Special Education
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Job Description
POSITION: DIRECTOR OF SPECIAL EDUCATION
POSITION SUMMARY:
To provide district leadership and facilitate the implementation of the individuals with Disabilities Act (IDEA) for students age 3 through 21 and serve as the district 504 coordinator for students with disabilities.
QUALIFICATIONS:
- Appropriate Kentucky certification
- Experience and other qualifications as the superintendent may find appropriate and acceptable.
REPORTS TO:
Assistant Superintendent of Instruction
SUPERVISES:
School psychologist occupational therapists physical therapists and special education teacher consultants
PERFORMANCE RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Coordinate the functions and activities of the special education curriculum and instruction design and delivery systems.
- Provide leadership and expertise in assessing identifying formulating and implementing the districts special education goals and objectives in compliance with state and federal legal mandates and guidelines.
- Provide leadership in the development of processes strategies and feasibility planning and recommend the necessary human and monetary resources in order to achieve the special education result expectancies.
- Conduct annual child find activities for students 3 through 21.
- Assist in the planning organization development and conduct a variety of staff development and in-service training programs.
- Establish communication feedback systems and processes for monitoring and auditing the special education program functions.
- Assist in the planning monitoring and review of speciation education teachers and instruction assistants functions and activities.
- Coordinate services (OT-PT speech psychological) agencies and school evaluation personnel.
- Furnish leadership to provide continuum of services throughout the district.
- Act as the districts liaison officer with other public and private agencies providing services to the students with special needs.
- Advise the local school administration and Board of Education on all matters concerned with special education.
- Serve as chairperson of Administrative Admission and Release Committees.
- Represent the school district in Special Education Due Process Hearings.
- Keep abreast of current federal court decisions on Special Education and inform ARC chairpersons and staff.
- Assist in the planning organization and implementation of special education budget planning guidelines and procedures and expenditure control strategies.
- Coordinate special education programs for students age 3 through 21 in the Trigg County Public School.
- Make sure intellectual assessments are conducted by certified psychologists or guidance counselors with a Kentucky endorsement for intellectual assessment.
- Evaluate the effectiveness of procedures for developing implementing and monitoring IEPs.
- Arrange for a variety of placement options in order for each child with a disability to receive the special education and related services specified on the IEP.
- Provide training on confidentiality due process and referral to district staff.
- Review revise as necessary and submit policy and procedures to the Kentucky Department of Education related to: evaluation Least Restrictive Environment Delivery of Services confidentiality and comprehensive system of personnel development.
- Maintain a data base on all students receiving special education and related services in the district.
- Conducts annual child count report and other reports as required by the Kentucky Department of Education.
- Assure appropriate timelines as specified in policy and procedures for the referral evaluation placement and re-evaluation of students with disabilities are followed.
- Perform related duties as assigned.
TERMS OF EMPLOYMENT:
220 day contract with salary determined by the adopted certified and administrative salary schedules of Trigg County Board of Education.
EVALUATION:
Performance of this job will be evaluated in accordance with provisions of the Boards policy on evaluation of certified personnel
BOARD APPROVAL DATE:
January 12 2006 #06-11
Required Experience:
Director
Employment Type
Full-Time
