Middle School Dean of Special Education
(2024 - 2025 School Year)
Coney Island Preparatory Public Charter School
Brooklyn, New York
What is the Role?
As the Dean of Special Education, you are an instructional leader who partners with teachers, instructional peers, families, the NYC DOE’s Committee on Special Education, and related service providers to ensure that our students with IEPs have access to their mandated programming. You will be responsible for leading the Special Education team at the Middle School to provide high quality, differentiated instruction to students with variable needs. Additionally, you will work with instructional leaders to ensure that classrooms are structured so that all students have access to rigorous, standards-aligned content.
What You’ll Be Asked To Do
Operate with effectiveness by ensuring that Special Education systems are in compliance with all relevant NYS and NYC regulations and guidelines.
- Manage identification process for students with classified or suspected disabilities in accordance with NYS and LEA regulations
- Work with school leadership and operations teams to ensure students are scheduled for all special education programming and accommodations in their IEPs
- Work with CSE, related service agencies, and para staffing agencies to secure and schedule mandated related services
- Work with CSE to schedule and facilitate annual, triannual, and initial IEP meetings
- Write IEPs and manage quarterly goal tracking in SESIS
- Coordinate with the CSE and the Operations team to support with door to door bussing
- Train and hold staff accountable for completing all required reporting for students with disabilities
- Serve as the main point of communication for families of students with IEPs on all issues related to identification, testing, meetings, and educational needs
Deliver exceptional results by ensuring that all classrooms are implementing best practices to support variable learners.
- Contribute as a member of the school’s academic leadership team
- Collaborate with instructional leaders to ensure that our instructional systems are planned to support variable learners during Tier 1 instruction
- Analyze data trends regularly in order to plan for responsive student interventions
- Coordinate Response to Intervention (RTI) team and facilitate meetings
- Create and and execute professional development for teachers on best practices for supporting variable learners
- Support the Multilingual Learner Coordinator in the identification and assessment of MLL students with disabilities
- Collaborate with the ENL (English as a New Language) teacher to support learning in all content areas
- Assist with proctoring the NYSITELL and NYSESLAT (assessment) and collecting HLQ forms (identification)
Develop talent by creating high quality professional learning for all teachers.
- Create targeted development for 4-5 Special Education teachers
- Coach and provide insightful feedback on strengths as well as opportunities for growth
- Lead content team meetings for Special Education teachers; participate in STEM, humanities, and world languages content team meetings as needed
What You’ll Need
- Passion for education and a dedication to Coney Island Prep’s mission, beliefs, and values and its commitment to anti-racism
- Steadfast belief that all scholars can achieve at the highest academic levels and deserve an opportunity to succeed in the college and career of their choice
- Proven organizational, oral, and written communication skills; timeliness; accuracy; and consistent and regular communication; and ability to meet deadlines
- Self-reflective and open to feedback, with the ambition and desire to grow and develop
- A positive, solutions-oriented attitude and drive for excellence
- Eagerness to work collaboratively as part of a team
- At least 3 years of experience teaching, coaching and developing IEPs
Who are we?
Coney Island Prep is a college preparatory public charter school in Brooklyn, New York. Merging growth, performance, and commitment, the Coney Island Prep community takes its responsibility to prepare scholars for the college and career of their choice very seriously, but not ourselves. We balance our sense of ownership and responsibility with humility and levity and support each other every step of the way. Coney Island Prep currently serves over 1,300 scholars across its four schools, including:
- 312 scholars in kindergarten – second grade at the lower elementary school
- 336 scholars in third – fifth grade at the upper elementary school
- 348 scholars in sixth – eighth grades at the middle school
- 349 scholars in ninth-twelfth grade at the high school
Commitment to Anti-racism, Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Justice
Coney Island Prep is committed to building a team that collectively reflects the various backgrounds, experiences, and identities of our scholars. We recognize and respond to different points of access, so that everyone maximizes their highest potential. We also recognize that because of institutionalized racism and systemic oppression, historically marginalized groups are at a disadvantage when it comes to most application and hiring processes. We want to ensure that all candidates, regardless of their identity, are able to demonstrate their qualifications and are not limited by a lack of opportunity or access. We are committed to creating a space where everyone’s identity is acknowledged, respected, and welcomed. We are intentional about creating an environment where people feel comfortable being their authentic selves at work by constantly examining our organization culture and challenging our traditions.
Benefits and Compensation
- Employees at Coney Island Prep are provided with salaries that are highly competitive, set through a lens of equity, and based on an individual’s skills and experiences relevant to the role. The starting salary for this role is $90,000 to $95,000.
- As a regular full time employee of Coney Island Prep, you will be eligible for benefits that include medical, dental, vision, and life insurance as well as a 403(b) retirement benefit package with match and Paid Family Leave.
- Staff are provided with a MacBook Air and access to all the necessary technology and resources needed to succeed in their role.
Are you “All In?” This position starts July 22, 2024. To apply, head to our Careers Page!
Coney Island Preparatory Public Charter School is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, age, sex, sexual orientation, marital or familial status, national origin, citizenship or disability. We want Coney Island Prep to be a place where scholars and staff of all backgrounds, experiences, and identities feel as though they are valued and can excel.
