Job Summary: 

• Drive Transformational Change in Special Education Classrooms
• Help create and drive an unparalleled vision and plan for ensuring that students in nearly 100 special education classrooms across the region are achieving path-changing academic outcomes. 
• Contribute to developing and leading robust learning experiences and resources that go beyond traditional professional development 
• Produce significant and sustained programmatic results for special education teachers across the region. 
• Exercise excellent analytical skills and judgment to assess the unique needs of corps members who are at varying stages of proficiency
• Help ensure that Content Facilitators adapt learning experiences to meet those unique needs based on observable trends and underlying causes. 
• Build the capacity of coaches who support corps members with the knowledge and skill needed to drive path-changing outcomes in classrooms. 
• Coach small cohorts of corps members that need more and differentiated support. 
• Help foster strategic innovation in classrooms and programming – pilot and test new ideas, learn from and scale what works, and adjust course rapidly. 
• Build Catalytic Relationships with Teachers

Skills on Resume: 

• Leadership (Soft Skills)
• Strategic Planning (Hard Skills)
• Program Development (Hard Skills)
• Data Analysis (Hard Skills)
• Coaching (Soft Skills)
• Adaptive Learning (Hard Skills)
• Collaboration (Soft Skills)
• Innovation (Soft Skills)

Job Summary: 

• Quickly build relationships with teachers and staff members that engender trust and action and lead to dramatically improved outcomes in classrooms. 
• Work one-on-one and in small groups with special education teachers 
• Gather data on student learning and teacher proficiency and problem-solve with teachers to prioritize actions that most impact student success. 
• Help Design and Implement a New Paradigm of Teacher Pre-service Training
• Help design and implement the vision and strategy for an entirely new approach to incoming teacher pre-service. 
• Design and lead the special education component of pre-service and summer training. 
• Contribute to broader organizational vision, mission, and culture
• Interview, select, and matriculate incoming corps members. 
• Engage in regional learning through attending meetings and professional development opportunities. 
• Attend and participate in staff events. 

Skills on Resume: 

• Relationship Building (Soft Skills)
• Data Analysis (Hard Skills)
• Problem Solving (Soft Skills)
• Curriculum Design (Hard Skills)
• Teacher Training (Hard Skills)
• Recruitment (Soft Skills)
• Collaboration (Soft Skills)
• Professional Development (Soft Skills)

Job Summary: 

• Provides leadership and expertise in the coordination of programs and services for students with disabilities.
• Leads and monitors systemwide initiatives that support the implementation of Individualized Education Programs (IEPs) that are aligned with standards and reflect the use of research-based and evidence-based best practices.
• Observes and evaluates the delivery of instructional, compliance, and placement services to schools by Office of Special Education staff.
• Supports school staff in complying with and implementing federal and state mandates, Baltimore County Public Schools procedures, administrative law judge and court decisions, and Letters of Finding from MSDE complaints.
• Directs the planning, budgeting, controlling, and assessing of department expenditures and grants.
• Develops the Baltimore County Public Schools Special Education Staffing Plan. 
• Develops partnerships with state and local agencies providing services to families of students with disabilities. 
• Develops, implements, and assesses an IEP Team and placement model for all students with disabilities that results in improved least restrictive environment percentages and increased compliance.
• Designs and develops a unified process for the placement of students with disabilities for whom the neighborhood school is not the least restrictive environment.
• Responds to, manages, and provides required follow-up when the Maryland State Department of Education or the U.S. Department of Education, Office for Civil Rights conducts inquiries or investigations of Baltimore County Public Schools.

Skills on Resume: 

• Program Coordination (Soft Skills)
• Compliance Management (Hard Skills)
• Staff Evaluation (Soft Skills)
• Budgeting (Hard Skills)
• Partnership Development (Soft Skills)
• IEP Development (Hard Skills)
• Process Design (Hard Skills)
• Legal and Regulatory Knowledge (Hard Skills)