This position will work with students district wide and their families, servicing students in General and Special Education settings within Westwood Middle and Intermediate Schools, grades 5-8.
The ideal candidate will provide excellent instruction and case management skills to students with speech/language and other types of disabilities. This includes:
providing direct instruction to students;
working collaboratively with school staff and family homes, while managing all aspects of due process procedures and mandates;
communicating with parents to provide regular updates on student successes and challenges;
collaborating with principals, special education coordinator and staff, and professional learning communities, to ensure student needs are being met; and
maintaining student records of services provided, following Due Process best practices and compliance;
… firmly believes…
all students can and will learn, and that their learning can be directly influenced by focusing on factors over which we have control;
in the need to work in partnership with staff to continuously improve practices to enhance student and family engagement, creating the conditions for equity, excellence and student success; and
in personalizing learning for students, meeting academic, social, and emotional needs and aspirations so that each student feels valued and has a sense of belonging, leading to academic success.