"Alerted.org

Job Details

Job ID: 5222617

Job Description

Job Description:

The Post-Graduate Transition Program is designed for students with disabilities aged 18-22 to ensure students have an extension to innovative community resources and services beyond K-12 education that will enhance their adult life. This new post-secondary transition program for students with disabilities will have a selection process given entrance criteria. Student admissions into this program will be through the IEP Team process which includes recommendations from teachers, families, outside agencies, and administrators. Targeted transition goals and the student’s post-secondary vision will identify innovative individualized goals, and self-determination skills that promote independence and success. The prerequisite of the selection process will include only students ages (18-22) who have completed four years of high school and have completed the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System/Alternate Assessment (MCAS- Alt ) portfolios.

This program will promote inclusive vocational opportunities that embrace a range of community based experiences at its core. The focus of the program is to develop skills that will enable each student to live as independently as possible, pursue further education, vocational training, and essential career skill building learning in order to maintain employment.

Boston Public Schools is seeking an educational leader with a passion for serving postgraduate, special education students and their families. The Post-Graduate Transition Program Director is a critical part of the team, working to achieve our Mission and Vision.

Responsibilities:

+ To coach and evaluate teachers and other staff members to meet their potential to deliver exemplary service to our students and families.

+ To lead and co-lead teams in the school

+ To develop, maintain, and improve school systems and structures.

+ Work with the school community to implement the mission and vision.

+ Collaboratively develop a robust professional development plan.

+ To manage, identify funding for, and improve extended transition activities.

+ Coordinate person-centered-planning with staff

+ Develop community-based training and community work-based learning opportunities based on identified student interests

+ Identify, establish, and maintain linkages with community agencies and businesses

+ Knowledge of school and post–school services for students with a variety of disabilities in regards to person-centered planning, career, employment, and post-secondary related activities

+ Assist program members in the handling of day-to-day problems of instructions and guidance, and act as a resource for them

+ Create and maintain a smooth and viable relationship between school, transition team, student, and employer by:

+ Monitoring students

+ Contacting employers

+ Recognizing the needs and concerns of the employer

+ Active member of the district Transition Team assisting in program development and staff and student training

+ Assist families and students in identifying and accessing transition services

+ Provide training on transition topics

+ Supervise, train, manage, and coordinate transition assistants and teachers, providing direction, support, assistance and consultation

+ Responsible for providing equal educational employment opportunities to all individuals regardless of race, color, sex, age, marital status, religion, national origin, or handicap

Instructional Leadership

+ Embrace, communicate, and enlist others in the belief that all students can and will learn

+ Communicate belief in culturally responsive teaching practices and support teachers in employing them.

+ Conduct regular observations of instruction and planning. Give feedback that drives improvement in teaching and learning to close achievement and opportunity gaps.

+ Facilitate the use of various formal and informal assessments. Use and support data-based decision-making in planning and delivering instruction and interventions

+ Utilize data to set and meet goals for school improvement

+ Collaborate to or independently lead an impactful school leadership team

Management & Operations

+ Establish and maintain systems and routines that ensure a safe, clean, and welcoming learning environment

+ Establish and maintain systems and routines to support all students to reach high behavioral expectations

+ Lead recruitment and hiring processes that result in the hiring of effective educators that reflect the diversity of our student population

+ Follow rules and regulations related to laws, collective bargaining agreements, and expenditures

+ Identify grant opportunities and write grants to support extended-day programming.

Family and Community Engagement

+ Use and maintain partnerships that support culturally responsive practices that ensure all families are welcome and can contribute to the school community. Support educators in doing the same.

+ Engage in and support educators to regularly collaborate with families to identify strengths and needs of students and make appropriate plans to support all students

+ Reach out to families with concerns and work to reach solutions that are in the best interest of students

Professional Culture

+ Support high expectations of achievement for all students through a personal commitment to, articulation of, and enlistment in culturally responsive school vision, core values, and mission

+ Engage in and lead all educators in reflecting on the effectiveness of their practice to achieve improved results

+ Engage staff, students, and families in developing a vision for student preparedness for college and career

+ Constructively resolve conflicts and build consensus around critical decisions

Qualifications

Required:

+ Education : Master’s Degree

+ Administrative licensure

+ Three (3) years of education experience, in an educational setting similar to the BPS

+ Three (3) years supervisory experience

+ Knowledge of best current practices in secondary transition programming for special education students

+ Demonstrated leadership qualities, supervisory skills, and personal characteristics necessary for working effectively with staff, students, teachers, administrators, and parents to effectively support students.

+ Excellent verbal and written communication skills

+ Strong interpersonal skills

+ Ability to develop and coordinate professional development activities,community-based transition programs,

+ Knowledge of and sensitivity to diverse cultures

+ Current authorization to work in the United States - Candidates must have such authorization by their first day of employment

Preferred:

+ Massachusetts Transition Specialist Endorsement

+ More than (3) years of experience developing and supporting community-based transition programs in an urban educational environment

+ Demonstrated experience in working with external resources and professional networks to develop

+ Experience in collaboration with higher education, the business community and/or government institutions

+ Grant writing experience

+ Bilingual proficiency in Spanish, Cabo Verdean, or Haitian Creole is required to communicate with a diverse student and staff base effectively.

Terms: BASAS, Grade 11, 208 days

Please refer to www.bostonpublicschools.org/ohc (under "Employee Benefits and Policies") for more information on salary and compensation. Salaries are listed by Unions and Grade/Step.

The Boston Public Schools, in accordance with its nondiscrimination policies, does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, age, criminal record, physical or mental disability, pregnancy or pregnancy-related conditions, homelessness, sex/gender, gender identity, religion, national origin, ancestry, sexual orientation, genetics, natural or protective hairstyle, military status, immigration status, English language proficiency, or any other factor prohibited by law in its programs and activities. BPS does not tolerate any form of retaliation, or bias-based intimidation, threat or harassment that demeans individuals’ dignity or interferes with their ability to work or learn. If you require an accommodation pursuant to the ADA for the application process, please contact the Accommodations Unit at [email protected] .

Position Type: Not provided

Positions Available: 1