Student Services Specialist: Elementary
About the role
The Student Services Specialist exhibits leadership, managerial and supervisory competencies aimed at fostering individual student learning. With their specialized educational background, the Student Services Specialist will support increased student growth and outcomes for students with disabilities. Furthermore, the Student Services Specialist role oversees special services programs and offerings, disseminates information and acts as a resource for others. The role aims to attain specific objectives by strategizing, assessing, enhancing, executing, and sustaining services in accordance with Federal and State Special Education laws. The individual in this position oversees the delivery of instruction and identified programming based on individual student needs and will have a targeted focus on special education subgroups as identified in the Illinois State Summative designation.
Responsibilities
- Provides direct support and tools for students with disabilities.
- Works with special education teachers to support instruction in classrooms to increase student achievement.
- Ensures academic and behavioral support for students with disabilities occur within a timely manner and a continuum of services is available to all students.
- Verifies appropriate delivery of both special education instruction and related services as stipulated on IEPs/504 plans.
- Supports IEP meetings as one of the school's LEA (local education agency) including initial evaluation. This includes coordinating with the student's special education team to ensure all documents are completed in a timely manner according to state, local, and school policies and procedures.
- Aligns IEP procedures and services to the District vision, mission and goals for student learning. IEPs should be developmentally appropriate, curriculum/standards-based, strength-based and relevant to individual students.
- Manages and oversees MTSS (Multi-Tiered System of Supports) Academic and Behavioral within the