Regional Special Education Director

5 days ago

Gary, Indiana, United States 21st Century Charter School at Gary Full time

GEO Academies is a national, non-profit network of open-enrollment, public charter schools committed to empowering students to accelerate their academic pathways, advance their social mobility, and achieve their career and lifelong goals. Our innovative and award-winning K-16 GEO Academies Model begins with personalized, competency-based learning and accelerates students into post-secondary immersion as early as 9th grade.  GEO Academies students have the opportunity to earn a full college degree or career credential even before graduating from high school - at no cost to families.

ABOUT US: 21st Century Charter School at Gary is a free K-12+ public charter school. We are building a team of excellence. We are the top performing charter school in Gary, Indiana. We are one of the few Indiana schools offering an early college program, which allows our qualifying high school students to take real college courses for real college credit, free of charge to our students and their families. Our curriculum and our teaching methods are designed using Core Knowledge in K-8, Project Lead the Way beginning in middle school, and a blended learning model in middle school through high school. We are a TAP school Please join us if you are committed to excellence, mission driven, and ready to take 21st Century Charter School @ Gary to uncommonly high levels of achievement Our teachers cultivate in our students the critical thinking skills they will need to understand how the world around them works and to become leaders and agents of positive change in the world.

REPORTS TO/TERM:

Dr. Peter Morikis, Superintendent, NW Indiana GEO Schools

This is a 12-month position.

ESSENTIAL POSITION FUNCTIONS:

A Director of Special Education will perform the following duties:


• Keep the SPED program compliant with the state of Indiana


• Maintain Indiana state reporting data


• Maintain PowerSchool data


• Work with parents to address concerns or complaints


• Conduct initial testing requests


• Public agency representative of case conference meetings


• CPI training


• Facilitate manifestation determination meetings


• Coordinate state testing


• Provide and conduct professional development for SPED staff


• TAP evaluations and observations


• Attend all required staff meetings


• Coordinate and supervise related SPED services (Speech, O.T., Social Work)


• Hire and supervise all SPED staff


• Other related functions assigned by supervisor


• Follow all school policies


• Dress professionally


Requirements

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:


• A Master's Degree with 27 credit hours in content area


• Valid Indiana License as SPED Teacher or Director


• At least one (or more) of the following:  TAP Experience (sign on bonus for TAP certification); Core Knowledge Experience;   Experience with Blended Learning; At least two years of successful teaching in an urban environment 

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