Special Ed Behavior Interventionist/Team Lead

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Behavioral analysis & plan implementation providing classroom and behavioral support for students through data analysis to identify behaviors, planning, implementing, and tracking individual behavioral plans.
Facilitates transitions for learners receiving special education services.
Assists IEP teams in problem-solving and creating plans to manage behaviors that affect a student’s learning.
Acts as the primary point of contact for learners transferring into the district/school with an existing IEP.
Provides a comprehensive and proactive approach to behavior management that includes evaluation, data collection, interventions, and regular monitoring to produce socially significant improvement in children’s behavior.
Collaborates with student support staff, the general intervention team, special education staff, and paraprofessionals to support students with complex social-emotional or behavioral matters.
Collaborates with special education staff regarding due process compliance.
Assists and guides initial evaluations for special education eligibility, ensuring compliance and robust behavioral data integration.

Tasks involved in fulfilling the above duty/responsibilities:

Ensure that appropriate interventions and services are highly relevant to the unique needs, interests, and culture of students.
Create targeted behavior interventions, track the effectiveness of implementation, and meticulously analyze data to determine their success.
Provide tiered behavior intervention professional development for staff, focusing on factors that affect learning, behavior management, and the execution of interventions. Measure the effectiveness of this training through data.
Provide expert input and intervention strategies on student behaviors such as shutting down, off-task behavior, difficulty disengaging with peers during class time, poor boundaries with peers/adults, inattentiveness, escape, avoidance, work refusal, and emotional regulation.
Observe students within the classroom and across various school settings to evaluate behavior, help determine the root purpose (function) of the behavior, and develop strategies for management and replacement behaviors.
Help staff frame student behavior through a trauma-informed lens to understand the behavior as a tool that currently makes sense for the student.