Multi-Tiered System of Supports and/or Section 504 Support Specialist

Job description

Summary Works in an instructional support capacity to provide professional learning, technical guidance and best practice resources and materials in the area of Section 504, Multi-Tiered System of Supports (MTSS)and Student Support Team (SST); Serves as the primary contact for Section 504, MTSS, and SST (Student Support Team), as well as functions as the school liaison between General Education, Psychological Services and Special Education for compliance and due process issues related to students suspected of having impairments or disabilities under IDEA or Section 504 Essential Duties: Chairs Section 504 meetings and ensures compliance with referral eligibility, annual reviews of 504 plans and triennial redetermination of 504 eligibility Schedules and facilitates 504 meetings upon parental or school requests to address areas of concern and/or to review any new diagnostic information received Disseminates existing 504 plans to teachers at the beginning of the school year and during transition points of teachers ex. semester change, and from school to school for 5th to 6th and 8th to 9th grade transitions Maintains pyramid of intervention for school that details menu of intervention...