Special Education Coordinator - Primary/ECSE

 Job Summary: 

Essential Duties and Responsibilities: Other duties may be assigned. 

Organization and Administration

1. Coordination:

• Convene and facilitate quarterly meetings of the Springfield School District Early Education Partnership.
• Convene and facilitate other meetings as needed between members of the Partnership.
• Consult with EEE coordinator and lead teacher to support appropriate placement of EEE eligible children in pre-k programs.
• Consult with Public Pre-K Partners to ensure appropriate referral of children with developmental concerns and address placement needs.
• Serve on the professional development committee of the Springfield Building Bright Futures Council to ensure that professional development activities address the needs of pre-k partner staff.

1. Collaboration

• Work with each of the entities in the partnership to address the needs of the various programs.
• Participate in Head Start self-assessment process to support continuous program improvement efforts.
• Work with the Building Bright Futures Council to ensure meeting the needs of all area preschool children and ensure best practice for members of the SSD Partnership.
• Work with Springfield School District to provide and share appropriate professional development opportunities to pre-k partners.

1. Financial

• Help develop the Partnership budget.
• Oversee the Partnership budget.
• Develop contracts with SEVCA and Private Providers

1. Organization

• Schedule quarterly partnership meetings and other meetings with members as needed.
• Assure that all preschools with the partnership meet publicly funded pre-k requirements.
• Partners maintain licenses.
• Partners are served by a licensed teacher
• Partners maintain StARS and/or NAEYC accreditation.
• Partners are trained to assess using Teaching Strategies GOLD assessment tool.
• Partners use a play-based curriculum using the Vermont Early Learning Standards.
• Support programs as feasible to meet Act 166 quality criteria through:
• Supporting appropriate pre-k partnership staff to obtain a Vermont teaching license with an early childhood education endorsement.
• Providing services to programs to meet Act 166 criteria for high quality publicly funded pre-k programs.
• Maintain files of information such as licenses, DCF Childcare, License Field Form, etc.
• Compile student data and enter into a data base for management.
• Student census data
• Attendance
• Maintaining pre-k child registration files

Communication

1. Public Relations with local community

• Develop and maintain website.
• Present information about the Partnership to the community in a variety of ways:

1. School Board meetings
2. Public information sessions
3. Newspaper articles
4. Brochures and other advertising media
5. Relationship with the State

• Attend state-wide trainings related to Publicly Funded Pre-K and Early Education as appropriate.
• Be informed of Legislative changes that affect preschool funding and share them with Partnership members and School Administrators.
• Request support from the Agency of Education to compile and analyze data related to child outcomes.

Perform all other duties as directed by the Supervisor