Adam Picciano

- Coordinated with component school district guidance departments, student support services, and CSE directors to gather current IEPs, 504 Plans, and MTSS documents, ensuring timely access to necessary special education supports and accommodations for students.

- Collaborate with Career and Technical Education teachers to read and review IEPs, 504 Plans, and update staff on changes to student documents to ensure compliance with and classroom support for student receiving accommodations.

- Push into classrooms in Career and Technical Education to provide support and provide guidance on how to implement strategies to best support learning outcomes of students as a Direct on Indirect Consult Teacher (DCT/ICT).

- Attend CSE meetings for students as a Special Education Liaison to report classroom and program grades and information related to performance.

- Conducted transition surveys with students as required.

- Develop and implement employability and professional profiles for students such as writing resumes, cover letters, business plans, and other documents to reflect graduation requirements.

- Developed and implemented lesson plans in Social Studies content from grades 7-12 that incorporated Regents-level content with classroom and testing accommodations as reflected on student IEPs.

- Collaborated with school staff, component school personnel, and parents through CSE meetings and other informal meetings to update and reflect on progress and supports.

- As case manager for homeroom class of students in the 8:1:1 setting, wrote IEPs and presented information at CSE meetings with input and documentation from other content-area teachers.

-Conducted transition interviews and supporting documentation for classified students from age 14 until graduation.

- Life Skills Teacher (from 2020-2021, then brought back into the High School/Middle School classroom due to lack of staff):

- implemented Life Skills curriculum to students under the NYS Alternate Assessment category.

- Wrote IEPs with input for related service providers to reflect on and report progress with current IEP during CSE meetings.

- Administered Alternate Assessments to students and also performed other assessments such as BASC assessments.

Collaborated with classroom teachers to modify coursework and classroom materials for 6th-grade students in an inclusion setting according to IEP specifications.

- Conducted assessments such as the WIAT, Woodcock-Johnson, BASC, and other achievement or behavioral assessments and reported out findings at CSE meetings.

- Report IEP progress at CSE meetings with input from parents, student, and other school personnel.

- Wrote IEPs for 6th-grade student caseload.

-Developed math lessons and content for 8th-grade special class (15:1:1) class according to IEP-specified modifications.

- Assisted lead teachers in implementing individualized education plans for diverse learners classified with IEPs from grades 1-6.

- Provide instruction in educational goals, functional skills, and behavior modification strategies to children with Autism-Spectrum Disorders, Emotional/Behavioral Disorders, and/or developmental delay.

- Planned activities and individualized service plans for adults with a Traumatic Brain Injury diagnosis to integrate into the community in social and vocational settings.

- Completed goal plans to teach and integrate skills sets into social, functional, and vocational domains.

- Teach social, living, and employment skills to developmentally-disabled adults.

Replaced regular classroom teachers or assistants daily in grades K-12 across all subject areas as needed.

- Deliver teacher-specified lesson plans to classrooms.

Substituted for the academic teacher at the middle and high school levels and delivered the lesson for the day.