Job Description

POSITION SUMMARY:

To provide district leadership and facilitate the implementation of the individuals with Disabilities Act (IDEA), for students age 3 through 21 and serve as the district 504 coordinator for students with disabilities.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Appropriate Kentucky certification
• Experience and other qualifications as the superintendent may find appropriate and acceptable.

• Coordinate the functions and activities of the special education curriculum and instruction design and delivery systems.
• Provide leadership and expertise in assessing, identifying, formulating, and implementing the district’s special education goals and objectives in compliance with state and federal legal mandates and guidelines.
• Provide leadership in the development of processes, strategies, and feasibility planning and recommend the necessary human and monetary resources in order to achieve the special education result expectancies.
• Conduct annual child find activities for students 3 through 21.
• Assist in the planning, organization, development and conduct a variety of staff development and in-service training programs.
• Establish communication feedback systems and processes for monitoring and auditing the special education program functions.
• Assist in the planning, monitoring, and review of speciation education teachers’ and instruction assistants’ functions and activities.
• Coordinate services (OT-PT, speech, psychological) agencies and school evaluation personnel.
• Furnish leadership to provide continuum of services throughout the district.
• Act as the district’s liaison officer with other public and private agencies providing services to the students with special needs.
• Advise the local school administration and Board of Education on all matters concerned with special education.
• Serve as chairperson of Administrative Admission and Release Committees.
• Represent the school district in Special Education Due Process Hearings.
• Keep abreast of current federal court decisions on Special Education and inform ARC chairpersons and staff.
• Assist in the planning, organization, and implementation of special education budget planning guidelines and procedures, and expenditure control strategies.
• Coordinate special education programs for students age 3 through 21 in the Trigg County Public School.
• Make sure intellectual assessments are conducted by certified psychologists or guidance counselors with a Kentucky endorsement for intellectual assessment.
• Evaluate the effectiveness of procedures for developing, implementing and monitoring IEP’s.
• Arrange for a variety of placement options in order for each child with a disability to receive the special education and related services specified on the IEP.
• Provide training on confidentiality, due process and referral to district staff.
• Review, revise as necessary, and submit policy and procedures to the Kentucky Department of Education related to: evaluation, Least Restrictive Environment, Delivery of Services, confidentiality and comprehensive system of personnel development.
• Maintain a data base on all students receiving special education and related services in the district.
• Conducts annual child count report and other reports as required by the Kentucky Department of Education.
• Assure appropriate timelines as specified in policy and procedures for the referral, evaluation, placement and re-evaluation of students with disabilities are followed.
• Perform related duties as assigned.