Special Education Facilitator

About This Role

Supporting students with disabilities and their families, teachers, and administrators is the core of this role, assisting in the planning, coordination, and delivery of special education programs at both school and District levels. The special education facilitator works under the supervision of the Director of Special Education to ensure effective program delivery and compliance.

Responsibilities

• Communicate and collaborate with staff, parents, community, and advocates on issues pertaining to services for students with disabilities
• Provide guidance, support, and technical assistance to special education professionals and school administrators regarding technical compliance issues related to the placement of newly identified and comparable program placement eligible students
• Promote appropriate special education programs for specific disabilities, including mental retardation, emotional disabilities, learning disabilities, auditory, vision, special education instruction, speech/language, physical disabilities, and autism with certified personnel in those fields
• Support a response to intervention model, including methods to support students within the Tier 4 – special education, level of the framework
• Serve as a liaison between special education and general education programs to support students with disabilities
• Assist in the monitoring of academic progress of students with disabilities
• Assist in the development of rosters and monitoring the enrollment in special education programs
• Meet with staff, parents, and students for the purpose of reevaluation, IEP, and transition planning and development
• Provide training in current practices and strategies to administrators, staff, parents, and students regarding special education laws and instructional practices
• Work within a team process to facilitate a variety of formal and informal assessment and progress monitoring procedures for students with disabilities
• Assist in the provision of disseminating information to families, students, and staff about transition-related education and services, and post-high school options
• Confer with teachers, students, and parents concerning educational and behavioral problems in school
• Read, analyze, and interpret professional journals, studies of best practices, and federal, state, and local regulations
• Write reports, correspondence, and procedure manuals and memoranda
• Present information and respond to questions from groups of faculty, support staff, students, parents, and the general public
• Perform such other tasks and assume such other responsibilities as may be assigned or delegated by the Director of Special Education

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree with a major in special education, or a related field; master's preferred