Job Description

Position Title:    Director of Exceptional Learners       

Salary Range:   $85,000-$110,000   

Contract Length:  Administrative 12 month Contract   

Immediate Supervisor:     Assistant Superintendent of Academics  

Application Deadline: The preferred application deadline to apply for this position is April 8, 2022. After this date, we do not guarantee review of submissions.       

 

Basic Function: Responsible for leading and providing oversight to departments that provide services to students in the areas related to special education and related services. Researches and identifies best practices, programs, and organizational structures that provide the most useful assistance in closing achievement gaps for South Bend students in urban school systems. Provides direct supervision to the staff that oversees Special Education.  Ensures that SBCSC complies with students’ civil right protections with regards to disproportionality and the 1981 US Department of Education Consent Decree. 

 

Essential Duties & Responsibilities:

1. Researches and identifies best practices, programs, and organizational structures that provide the most useful assistance in closing achievement gaps for Special Education and twice-exceptional students in urban school systems. 
2. Manages curriculum support and specialized services in coordination with the Assistant Superintendent of Academics and other departments to accurately provide tools to ensure equitable access to curriculum and instruction for all student demographic groups. 
3. Manages and develops budgets, in collaboration with the Assistant Superintendent of Academics revenue and expenditure, for all components of Special Education including Medicaid reimbursements. 
4. Establishes and maintains policies, protocol, and structure to ensure quality instructional, intervention and compliance services to campuses to assist them with providing services to special education students. 
5. Develops procedures to manage and implement policies established by federal and state law, State Board of Education, and local board policy as it relates to the listed specialized programs. 
6. Collaborates with the Directors of School Learning to develop protocols for routine monitoring of services and interventions, both academic and socioemotional, to students receiving the listed exceptional learner services, grants or program initiatives. 
7. Develops a training and professional learning plan to ensure that all district stakeholders are adequately trained to implement services and support to students who require them. 
8. Stays abreast of the district’s curriculum, instructional practices, and current and learning platforms and tools for students receiving exceptional learner services and general education learners receiving targeted interventions. 
9. Develops strategic partnerships with SBCSC departments, educational support organizations, and community agencies to ensure quality programming for high ability, dyslexia, and MTSS Implementation. 
10. Ensures that all processes for collecting and submitting the data needed for Medicaid- reimbursement earned by the district are followed. 
11. Informs, advises, and collaborates with the Office of Equity and Office of Curriculum of the equitable application of the South Bend Shared Rights and Responsibilities to students served by the Exceptional Learners Department. 
12. Ensure that all instructional and compliance issues regarding the least restrictive environment, homebound services, individual education plans, and student discipline are addressed and monitored. 
13. Promotes and encourages professional development activities for staff including: Annual Special Education Back-to-School meetings; Back-to-School University 

14. Plans, organizes, and directs all approved special education programs: 

• Provides a comprehensive plan for special education services for students age through age 22 

• Determines future plans are in line with state and national trends 
• Promotes the integration of special and general education 
• Works with the corporation attorney regarding due process hearings, appeals, and related litigation 

• Prepares reports and presentations to the SBCSC Board of School Trustees and other stakeholders 

• Other duties as assigned to support and promote the special education department, students, staff and parents 

15. Responds to administration requests for information and performs other job-related duties as assigned. 

 

Qualifications:  Master’s degree in school administration, Special Education, or Curriculum studied. Minimum of five years of successful principal/supervisory experience preferred. Indiana administrative, Special education director, High Ability certificate or eligible.  Experience in an urban, public school district is preferred.   Experience in grant writing and application activities is also preferred. 

 

Physical Demands:

Primary functions require sufficient physical ability and mobility to work in an office; dexterity of hands and fingers to operate a computer keyboard and other technologies and office equipment, sitting, standing and walking for extended periods of time; kneeling; bending at the waist; lifting; pushing; pulling and carrying equipment, supplies and materials weighing up to 25 pounds; repetitive hand movement and fine coordination to use a computer keyboard; emotional stability to work effectively under pressure and to keep all aspects of the job under control; hearing and speaking to exchange information in person or on the telephone; seeing to read; prepare and assure the accuracy of documents.

 

It is the policy of SOUTH BEND COMMUNITY SCHOOL CORPORATION to forbid acts of discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, marital status, limited English proficiency, national origin, age or disability in its educational programs or employment policies as required by the Indiana Civil Rights Act, Titles VI and VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Equal Pay act of 1973, Title IX (1972 Education Amendments), Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, and Title I and Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1991.  (Educational Policy #1200)

Information about designated compliance coordinators and grievance processes may be obtained by contacting the receptionist at the Administration Building, 215 S. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., South Bend, IN 46601 at 574-393-6000.

How to Apply

Please apply here.

Bureaus: Indiana. Job Categories: Full-Time. Job Types: School Network Staff.