About the Role
Urban Dove Team Charter School seeks a manager of special populations support to develop, implement, and monitor Individualized Education Programs (IEPs) for students with special needs. This role involves collaborating with faculty, communicating with parents and special education teams, and utilizing data to enhance student outcomes within a sports-based education model.
Responsibilities
- Provide comprehensive support to teachers for implementing SDI and MLL supports.
- Conduct regular classroom observations and provide feedback on SDI implementation and MLL support.
- Monitor teacher progress in delivering needs-specific instruction and develop plans for growth.
- Collaborate to identify students needing a BIP and ensure its implementation.
- Lead sessions with teachers to analyze student data and inform instructional practices.
- Identify and share resources to enhance classroom instruction and student achievement.
- Communicate and monitor deadlines.
- Collaborate with C&I leadership to create and implement professional development plans for instructional staff.
- Coordinate with the Charter Center Collaborative to ensure teacher attendance at professional development sessions.
- Engage in ongoing professional development to expand knowledge of instructional practices.
- Maintain current demographics and documents for students with IEPs, 504s, ELLs, and those in the referral process.
- Support NYSESLAT administration as needed.
- Send and collect IEP reports to all relevant parties.
- Review IEPs and provide feedback.
- Collaborate with teachers to synthesize IEPs into comprehensive class learning plans.
- Write effective IEPs aligned with student needs and educational goals.
- Provide feedback to special education teachers on writing high-quality IEPs.
- Participate in and facilitate all IEP meetings while updating trackers.
- Facilitate and maintain systems for timely and accurate IEP meetings.
- Coordinate with IC to ensure all IEP-related events are accurately reflected on the C&I calendar.
- Communicate with local Committee on Special Education as needed.
- Provide oversight to Related Services Providers from outside agencies.
- Coordinate with related service providers within the school, including creating safety plans with social workers based on IEPs.
- Collaborate with SMSE to interview and supervise related service providers.
- Collaborate with the DCI to act as a liaison between teachers and SMSE and Manager of literacy and MLL supports.
- Collaborate with SMSE to ensure legal compliance.
- Ensure proper testing accommodations on exams.
- Ensure all documentation is up to date for new enrollments, 504s, and MLLs.
- Handle Related Service Authorizations (RSAs) for students with IEPs.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree required; Master’s Degree preferred
- New York State Certification
- Both novice and experienced teachers may apply
- Experience in a Transfer School preferred
- Google Applications proficiency preferred
- Preferably knowledgeable in the use of SESIS
- Ability to create multi-tiered classroom structures and behavior plans to address multiple disabilities (ED, LD, OHI, etc)
- Demonstrated ability to multitask and deliver high-quality work
- Commitment to the UD Team mission and core values of Teamwork, Leadership, and Communication
- Commitment to the use of restorative practices and a strength-based, youth development approach to student issues
- Ability to function well as part of a team and work independently
- Must be team-oriented, with a strong work ethic, excellent communication skills, a passion for serving at-risk youth, and a sense of humor
Skills
- Special populations support
- Individualized Education Programs (IEPs)
- Data analysis
- Curriculum integration
- Parent communication
- Special education team collaboration
- Sports-based education model
- Instructional support
- Content instruction
- Special education instruction
- SDI implementation
- MLL support
- Classroom observation
- Behavior Intervention Plans (BIP)
- Reading and Math Inventories
- NYSESLAT Levels
- Regents exams
- Report card grades
- Attendance monitoring
- Student classwork analysis
- Supplementary tools
- Specially Designed Instruction (SDI)
- Multilingual Learner (MLL) instruction
- Resource identification
- Instructional best practices
- Deadline management
- Professional development planning
- SESIS
- IEP development
- CLP
- Charter Center Collaborative
- Progress monitoring
- Reporting
- IEP documentation
- 504 plan documentation
- ELL documentation
- Referral process documentation
- NYSESLAT administration
- IEP report synthesis
- Class learning plan synthesis
- IEP meeting facilitation
- IEP meeting tracking
- IEP meeting systems maintenance
- C&I calendar management
- Committee on Special Education communication
- Related Services Provider oversight
- Safety plan creation
- Related service provider collaboration
- Legal compliance
- Testing accommodations
- Documentation updates
- New enrollment documentation
- Related Service Authorizations (RSAs)
Location
- New York
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Novice
- Experienced
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree
- Master's Degree
Salary/Compensations
- $73,453 to $118,456 annually
Benefits
- Medical coverage
- Dental coverage
- Vision coverage
- Retirement benefits with employer match
- Generous paid time off
- Paid parental leave
- Employee wellness supports
About the Company
- Urban Dove Team Charter School (UD Team) is a distinctive network of sports-based high schools catering to over-aged, under-credited youth.
- We fuse a robust academic curriculum with sports-based youth development, ensuring our graduates receive a diploma, a stepping stone for higher education, and essential job skills.
- Urban Dove energizes, educates, and empowers young people through our network of UD Team Charter Schools serving over-age/under-credited high school students.
- UD Team's innovative model uses sports, teams, restorative practices and mentoring to create a culture of high expectations and shared responsibility.
- By instilling our core values of Teamwork, Leadership and Communication, we develop our students into confident young adults ready to reach their full potential.
- Urban Dove envisions a world where all children receive the high-quality education and support they need and deserve.
- Through education, they will acquire the critical skills needed to develop into economically, socially, and emotionally independent adults who are empowered to create a more just and equitable society for future generations.
Equal Opportunity
- Urban Dove provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
- This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.
