Special Education Coordinator

About Young Audiences Charter Schools

Young Audiences Charter Schools (YACS) offers a unique and highly desired arts-integrated model that seamlessly aligns with the identity of the Greater New Orleans Area. With multiple schools in New Orleans and Jefferson Parish, YACS works arduously to achieve its mission of educating the whole child through arts integration and equipping all creative learners to flourish as leaders in life and learning. YACS Creative Learners from Pre-Kindergarten through 12th grade are provided appropriate arts-integrated learning activities and experiences designed to fulfill their potential for intellectual, emotional, physical, and social growth.

What is a Creative Educator?

YACS Creative Educators work collaboratively to develop sound instructional strategies rooted in the foundations of arts integration. With a dedicated focus on improving student outcomes, our school-level and network-level leadership is committed to supporting teachers in becoming transformative educators. YACS is a family of Creative Educators committed to "Academic Excellence with an Artistic Edge".

Major Responsibilities:

Overall Vision and Leadership

• Develops and implements systems to ensure timely service provision in accordance with student IEPs
• Ensures collaborative planning and professional development between special education coordinators and their school based teams, related service providers, and RTI coordinators and school based interventionists
• Facilitates the on-going embedding of the core values of Passion, Creativity, Discipline, and Teamwork across each of the student support service areas
• Develops and implements systems to identify students at risk for poor learning outcomes and ensures appropriate interventions are conducted in the areas of academics and behavior across schools through collaboration with school based RTI Coordinators and network leaders
• Serves as a liaison between community partners and related service providers
• Coordinate with the school leader and principal, and school-based RTI Coordinators, to train staff, identify students, evaluate programming, and track outcomes for students in need of interventions in the areas of behavior and academics.
• Lead SPED teachers to develop an overall vision for the Special Education program, including the development and implementation of a comprehensive plan for curriculum, instruction, documentation, and professional development for special education coordinators, teachers, and support service providers.

Leadership and Programming Support Across Student Support Services

In addition to the areas of direct management, the Special Education Coordinator ensures high quality services in Special Education and Speech through:

• Strategic management: Leads long-term and annual strategic planning processes with needs assessments, clear priorities, measurements of progress, action steps, and annual budgets
• Performance evaluation: Assists school leaders with performance evaluations of special education personnel and gifted and talented coordinators
• Professional development : Designs and implements professional development for special education teachers and their grade level teams, related service providers, and RTI coordinators and interventionists and facilitates the on-going embedding of the school values (Commitment, Collaboration, Creativity, Composure, Consistency, and Care) across each of the student support service areas

Direct Management Responsibilities

• The Special Education Coordinator directly manages SPED teachers and SPED paraprofessionals
• The Special Education Coordinator develops and implements systems to ensure compliance with local and federal law related to special education and communicates regularly with district compliance monitors.
• The Special Education Coordinator will directly manage and support the SPED teacher to ensure an annual cycle of assessment of regular review of compliance data (IEP timelines, evaluation timelines, IEP folder quality, and IEP quality).

Suggested Qualifications

• Love and appreciation for the arts and arts education
• Bachelor's degree (required)
• Teaching certification (required)
• Certificate in Special Education (required)
• 3+ Years of Teaching Experience (required)

Salary and Benefits

Salary is highly competitive and commensurate with experience. YACS offers a comprehensive benefits package, including health, vision, dental, life insurance, a 401k plan and more.

Reports to:

• Principal

Direct Reports:

• Special Education Teachers
• Paraprofessionals

Job Type: Full-time

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Referral program
• Retirement plan
• Vision insurance

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift

Education:

• Bachelor's (Required)

Experience:

• Special education teaching: 3 years (Preferred)

License/Certification:

• Teaching Certification (Preferred)

Ability to Relocate:

• Gretna, LA 70053: Relocate before starting work (Required)

Work Location: In person