Primary Function:

Supervise the planning, development, coordination, and management of intervention programs, incorporating legal requirements as well as state and federal mandates for the following departments and services:

• Special Education
• Special Education Preschool
• Counseling and Mental Health Services
• Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS)
• Response to Intervention Programs (RTI)
• School Attendance Review Board
• 504 Plan Services
• School Nursing and Health Services
• Grade Level Retentions
• Student Discipline and Expulsion Process and Procedures

Directly Responsible to:

             District Superintendent

Assigned Responsibilities:

Counseling and Mental Health Services

• General supervision of program
• Initial recruitment, training, and supervision of staff
• Coordination of monthly staff meetings and in-service training
• Coordinate referrals to other appropriate agencies
• Coordination of child find average
• Coordination of student caseloads
• Develop and coordinate a system for tracking mental health services for  

 Special Education students

• Development implementation of budget

Special Education

• Supervision of identification, referral, placement of special-education students
• Placement initiation and supervision of county services programs for district Special Education students
• Coordination with the local agencies such as Head Start, early intervention programs, etc.
• Supervision of Special Education nonpublic school placements
• Supervision of all transition IEP meetings (Infant to Preschool, Preschool to K, school transition meetings, Jr High to High School)
• Supervision of Special Education student records
• Recruitment, screening and interviewing a new staff
• Ordination of all Special Education meetings (Student Study Team, Initial IEPs, Triennial IEPS, Transition IEPs, as well as informal meetings)
• Coordination of all local ordination compliance reviews for special-education services
• Program evaluation
• Assistance with home education special needs students
• Assistance with school-site principles regarding possible disciplinary action (including suspensions, expulsions, etc.) of special-education students
• Coordination of behavioral intervention plans when necessary
• Assistance with complaint procedures mediation and due process hearings
• Active involvement with Fresno County SELPA Special Education Local Plan Area)
• Development and implementation budget
• Assist with staff or parent concerns regarding Special Education services
• Serve as a resource in the identification, selection, and use of instructional materials, curriculum, strategies, and methodologies.
• Coordinate Special Education services with all other school services (504 Plans, Health Plans, mental health services, PBIS, student discipline, SARB, grade level retention, RTI).

• Special Education Preschool
• Coordination of child find efforts
• Coordination of assessment process
• Individual assessments, as needed
• Coordinate referrals to other appropriate agencies
• General supervision of program and staff
• Development and implementation of budget

Student Services

Supervise the planning, development, coordination, and management of the following intervention programs:

• Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS)
  • Coordination and assistance with the identification of students with PBIS service needs
  • Coordination of staff providing PBIS services
  • Overseeing data collection and necessary reports to local and state agencies
• Response to Intervention Programs (RTI)
  • Coordination and assistance with the identification students with the need of RTI services
  • Coordination between RTI services with other district services (e.g., Special Education)
• School Attendance Review Board
  • Assist with data collection of student attendance
  • Coordinate and hold SARB meetings with staff and parents as necessary
• Student Discipline
  • Assist with data collection and coding of student discipline
  • Coordinate and hold disciplinary meetings (suspensions, expulsions, endangerment hearings) with staff, students, and parents as necessary
• 504 Plan Services
  • Coordination and assistance with the identification and annual reviews of 504-identified students
  • Oversee implementation of 504 accommodations and services
• School Nursing and Health Services
• Grade Level Retentions
  • Overseeing site retention at-risk meetings and decisions regarding grade level placement

Professional Qualifications:

Appropriate Administrative experience required

Master’s degree required

Experience desired includes four (4) or more years in Special Education or other related responsibilities

Pupil Personnel Credential preferred

Special Education Credential preferred