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Associate Director of Special Services at Democracy Prep Public Schools | LAYIQ

Lead and Support a Portfolio of Schools
Serve as the primary Special Services network leader for an assigned portfolio of Democracy Prep schools, with responsibility for either elementary and middle school programming or high school programming.
Develop a deep understanding of the strengths, needs, and priorities of each school within your portfolio and use school- and network-level data to identify trends, establish priorities, and determine where additional support or intervention is needed.
Partner closely with principals and other school leaders to build strong, sustainable Special Services systems that ensure scholars receive high-quality instruction, services, interventions, accommodations, and supports.
Serve as a thought partner to school leaders on complex Special Services decisions, helping leaders balance individual scholar needs, instructional quality, staffing, programming, compliance requirements, and school-wide systems.
Coach and Develop Special Services Leaders
Provide ongoing coaching and development to Special Services Managers and other school-based leaders responsible for special education and MLL programming.
Build the capacity of SSMs to serve as effective instructional leaders, case-management leaders, and compliance owners at their campuses, including strengthening their ability to coach teachers and staff on specially designed instruction, differentiation, accommodations, service delivery, and effective supports for scholars with disabilities and MLLs.
Regularly review school-level practices and data with SSMs, identify areas of strength and growth, establish clear action steps, and monitor progress toward improved implementation and scholar outcomes.
Develop and facilitate professional development for SSMs, school leaders, teachers, and other stakeholders based on network priorities and trends identified through data, observations, compliance monitoring, and coaching.
Drive High-Quality Special Education Programming
Serve as a champion for scholars with IEPs, ensuring that IEPs and IEP goals are central to scholars’ educational experiences and that school teams understand their responsibility for implementing each scholar’s program.
Support schools in strengthening specially designed instruction, differentiation, intervention, progress monitoring, inclusive practices, and programming across the continuum of special education services.
Partner with academic and school-based leaders to ensure that scholars with disabilities have meaningful access to rigorous grade-level curriculum while receiving the individualized supports necessary to make progress.
Review academic, IEP goal, intervention, service-delivery, and other student-level data to identify trends and ensure that programming decisions are responsive to scholar needs.
Strengthen MLL Programming and Support
Partner with school leaders and relevant network teams to support strong programming for Multilingual Learners across assigned schools.
Support schools in establishing systems that ensure MLLs are appropriately identified, receive mandated language services and instructional supports, and have their progress regularly monitored.
Monitor school-level MLL data and implementation trends, identify gaps or risks, and partner with school teams to develop clear action plans when programming or service delivery requires improvement.
Support professional learning and collaboration that strengthen teachers’ and leaders’ ability to provide rigorous, accessible instruction for MLLs and dually identified scholars.
Ensure Strong Compliance Systems
Establish and maintain strong network-level systems for monitoring special education and MLL compliance across assigned schools.
Regularly analyze compliance data to identify individual school concerns as well as patterns and systemic trends across the portfolio.
Support SSMs in maintaining strong systems for IEP implementation, annual reviews and reevaluations, progress reporting, related and supplementary services, testing accommodations, documentation, parent communication, and other mandated responsibilities.
Conduct regular reviews and audits of school-level Special Services systems and documentation, communicate findings clearly, and partner with SSMs and school leaders to Build and Improve Network Systems
Identify patterns across schools and use those trends to recommend and implement network-level improvements to Special Services systems, tools, resources, professional development, and practices.
Develop clear protocols, trackers, tools, and resources that allow school-based teams to effectively manage Special Services responsibilities while maintaining a focus on scholar outcomes.
Partner cross-functionally with Academic, Operations, Talent, Data, Legal, and school leadership teams to ensure Special Services priorities are integrated into broader network systems and decision-making.
Support the Managing Director of Special Services in establishing annual priorities, monitoring network-wide progress, and continuously strengthening Democracy Prep’s approach to serving scholars with disabilities and Multilingual Learners.
Maintain a strong understanding of changes in federal, state, and local special education and MLL requirements and support the network in translating those requirements into clear, effective school-based practices.
Above all, ensure that compliance, instruction, and scholar outcomes are never treated as separate bodies of work: strong Special Services systems should result in scholars receiving the services they are entitled to, teachers delivering stronger instruction, school leaders making better decisions, and scholars making meaningful academic and developmental progress.

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