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Hermiston, Oregon, United States

Hermiston, Oregon, United States

• Manage compliance with documents and timelines according to state requirements. • Engage and manage dispute resolution procedures such as mediation, state complaints, and requests for facilitated IEP meetings. • Assist the Special Education Director in creating sustainable systems to support district special education needs. • Manage a caseload of 150 students with special education services.• Facilitate elementary and secondary Special Education meetings such as IEPs, eligibilities, and manifestation determinations as the district representative.• Provide direct support, collaboration, and coaching to administrators, dean of students, and staff to create legally defensible documents and data-driven programming for students.• Provide instructional support to special education staff throughout the continuum of special education services.• Collaborate with school teams to create intervention plans for students identified as struggling orat risk.• Build professional and working relationships with parents of students with disabilities.• Ensure services for students with disabilities are implemented as determined by the IEP team.• Maintain knowledge of special education laws and guidance from the Oregon Department of Education.• Create a highly structured and supported classroom environment to support students behavioraland academic needs.• Supervise para-professionals assigned to Behavior Classroom.• Closely collaborate with general education content teachers to ensure students' success.• Develop lessons addressing students social-emotional, executive functioning and academic needs.• Create and provide professional development for teachers and administrators.• Collaborative team member on M-Team and Behavior Team.

Denver, Colorado, United States

• Work closely with the district transition team to implement a Work Study Course of Study.• Proficient in Rethink and Cempatico data collection.• Supervise and collaborate with Para Professionals to develop a cohesive and consistent team in order to support student needs. • Manage students with varying academic, cognitive, and emotional disabilities.• Provide students with direct instruction in academic, social, daily living, recreational, and community skills.• Develop and implement crisis plans, FBA, and behavior intervention plan to support students’ socio-emotional and educational needs.• Collaborate with special education teachers and general educators.• Create an inclusion program for students placed in the multi-intensive severe needs center and general education students.• Developed classes accessible by students with intellectual disabilities and serious emotionaldisabilities simultaneously.• Co-teaching multiple sections of integrated support language arts and pre-algebra.• Generate annual and triennial assessments and reports evaluating student progress to support recommendations for further student development.• Collaboratively working with the special education team, speech/language therapist, psychologist,social worker, nurse, general education teams and outside agencies to access, develop and implement all aspects of a comprehensive individual education plan.• Administers and interprets both formal and informal individualized assessments, including butnot limited to Key Math, GORT-5, WIAT, TOWL, and TOWRE.• Incorporate individual learning strategies, positive behavior modification, modeling, identifying and providing specific accommodations and modifications to support individual student needs.

Aurora, Colorado, United States

• Developed an interdisciplinary education program for students with significant behavioral issues and educational delays.• Utilized and applied curriculum for a wide variety of subjects including but not limited tophysics, chemistry, biology, geography, reading, algebra one, and practical arts.• Implemented de-escalation techniques within the classroom.• Utilized positive behaviors support to increase the use of socially acceptable behavior.• Created and implemented a curriculum for an Affective Needs center in a facility-based setting.• Collaborated with and assigned duties to the assistant teacher in the classroom.• Organized and escorted students on outings to support post-secondary goals for community and education.• Utilized behavior modification to support students with Emotional Disabilities.

Master'S Degree, Educational Leadership And Administration, General

Master Of Arts - Ma, Educational Leadership And Administration, General

Master Of Teaching, Special Education And Teaching

Master'S Degree, Special Education And Teaching

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Sport And Exercise Psychology

Activities and Societies: Crew team. Water Safety Instruction. Wilderness First Aid. Lifeguard Instructor.