Executive Director of Exceptional Education - Hamilton County Schools : Job Details

OverviewHamilton County Schools, located in Chattanooga, TN, is working to ensure that all students thrive and experience a future without limits. We are committed to excellence for every student and are seeking outstanding leaders, teachers, support staff, and district employees who desire to make a difference in the lives of students. With nearly 75 schools, we are confident that you can find your place in Hamilton County.The essential function of this role is to build a robust, asset based, learning and professional development pathway that results in systemic change for Hamilton County and academic results for students. The leader will serve as a change agent for the department and must hold high expectations for students. The leader must have the ability to lead the vision and manage the process. Responsibilities

• Establish a vision and theory of action for the Exceptional Education department around 4 major areas - Learning, Behavior, Compliance, and Data Systems for Access and Opportunity for our children in exceptional education.
• Create work streams that will best support schools through the Exceptional Education department; insure reasonable response time for support.
• Develop an organizational structure to align the work of learning, behavior, diagnostics, and compliance for students within special populations.
• Create a Professional Learning pipeline for teachers to access the materials and training for serving our students; a retention strategy.
• Maintain a staffing formula that supports student access to services and opportunities.
• Consistently evaluate the effectiveness of programming and respond when children are not accessing opportunities.
• Use data as a driver to eliminate barriers to access for all students; quickly respond when students are not learning.
• Maintain a dashboard for interpreting data that will help identify results for students within a special population.
• Work with General Education leaders to establish a learning, compliance and behavior response strategy.
• Create efficient and effective work streams for teachers to access supports and remove barriers to accessing services.
• Align programs for behavioral support for students to decrease expulsions and suspensions, especially for subgroups.
• Establish a community forward plan to support, train, and inform parents to create a customer-focused climate.
• Create a leadership team for input, order, climate and culture to include leaders, teachers, and community partners.
• Manage and grow the talent within the organization.
• Implement High Quality Curriculum resources and supports for all teachers of students within special populations.
• Coordinate with learning and leadership team on standards and curricular supports as well as training opportunities.
• Establish a teacher professional development plan to support areas of the theory of action and areas defined by the action plan.
• Maintain confidentiality and adhere to the Teacher Code of Ethics as defined by Tennessee Law.
• Must be a problem solver and provide reasonable and timely response and solutions for kids.
• Must be willing to work across areas with multiple departments.
• Must be able to operate a motor vehicle and maintain a valid, state-issued driver's license. Qualifications Knowledge/Education/Experience:
  • Bachelor's degree in Exceptional Education required. Preferred Master's degree or higher in Exceptional Education.
  • Minimum of five (5) years successful work experience working with Exceptional Education or ENL population.
  • Experience in the design and implementation of various methods or procedures required to supervise classroom instruction; knowledge of federal, state, and local laws, rules, regulations, policies and procedures relating to students with disabilities.
  • Knowledge of complaint resolution procedures used to settle OCR complaints, State Department of Education complaints, and due process hearings; or, any equivalent combination of education, training, and experience which provides the requisite knowledge, skills, and abilities for this position.
  • Understanding of Exceptional Education Law.Skills/Qualifications:
    • Demonstrate excellent verbal and written communication skills to deal effectively with students, educators, parents, and community members.
    • Demonstrate excellent planning, organizational, problem-solving, decision-making, and time management skills.Compensation:Salary is based on a combination of relevant education and experience. #J-18808-Ljbffr