Special Education Coordinator - Primary/ECSE
Special Education Coordinator - Primary/ECSE
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Job Description
Job Summary:
Essential Duties and Responsibilities: Other duties may be assigned.
Organization and Administration
- Coordination:
- Convene and facilitate quarterly meetings of the Springfield School District Early Education Partnership.
- Convene and facilitate other meetings as needed between members of the Partnership.
- Consult with EEE coordinator and lead teacher to support appropriate placement of EEE eligible children in pre-k programs.
- Consult with Public Pre-K Partners to ensure appropriate referral of children with developmental concerns and address placement needs.
- Serve on the professional development committee of the Springfield Building Bright Futures Council to ensure that professional development activities address the needs of pre-k partner staff.
- Collaboration
- Work with each of the entities in the partnership to address the needs of the various programs.
- Participate in Head Start self-assessment process to support continuous program improvement efforts.
- Work with the Building Bright Futures Council to ensure meeting the needs of all area preschool children and ensure best practice for members of the SSD Partnership.
- Work with Springfield School District to provide and share appropriate professional development opportunities to pre-k partners.
- Financial
- Help develop the Partnership budget.
- Oversee the Partnership budget.
- Develop contracts with SEVCA and Private Providers
- Organization
- Schedule quarterly partnership meetings and other meetings with members as needed.
- Assure that all preschools with the partnership meet publicly funded pre-k requirements.
- Partners maintain licenses.
- Partners are served by a licensed teacher
- Partners maintain StARS and/or NAEYC accreditation.
- Partners are trained to assess using Teaching Strategies GOLD assessment tool.
- Partners use a play-based curriculum using the Vermont Early Learning Standards.
- Support programs as feasible to meet Act 166 quality criteria through:
- Supporting appropriate pre-k partnership staff to obtain a Vermont teaching license with an early childhood education endorsement.
- Providing services to programs to meet Act 166 criteria for high quality publicly funded pre-k programs.
- Maintain files of information such as licenses DCF Childcare License Field Form etc.
- Compile student data and enter into a data base for management.
- Student census data
- Attendance
- Maintaining pre-k child registration files
Communication
- Public Relations with local community
- Develop and maintain website.
- Present information about the Partnership to the community in a variety of ways:
- School Board meetings
- Public information sessions
- Newspaper articles
- Brochures and other advertising media
- Relationship with the State
- Attend state-wide trainings related to Publicly Funded Pre-K and Early Education as appropriate.
- Be informed of Legislative changes that affect preschool funding and share them with Partnership members and School Administrators.
- Request support from the Agency of Education to compile and analyze data related to child outcomes.
Perform all other duties as directed by the Supervisor
Required Experience:
IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
