Versatile Executive Director focused on promoting the strategic plan and increasing effectiveness of Special Education programs. Passionate about managing and overseeing implementation of developing effective systems for students. Recognized for successfully collaborating with schools and teams to develop positive relationships with families and staff that result in academic and social/emotional success for students identified with disabilities.
Responsible to lead all aspects of Special Education, including establish a vision and strategic plan. Oversight of all service providers, Coordinator of Special Education and four Program Specialists. Lead all compliance and due process complaints.
Provided oversight and supervision for School Counseling, Nursing Services, Section 504, Alternative Programming, and Early Childhood for a district with 63,000 students. Created a legally defensible Section 504 process, developed an inclusive preschool model, streamlined nursing service delivery, and developed a virtual program with an enrollment of four hundred students,
Direct oversight of all Special Education programs and departments that served ten thousand students with disabilities. Led the effort in restructuring the department to better serve students and become more cost efficient. Responsible for managing all state and due process complaints and working with families to find collaborative solutions when conflicts exist. Developed a professional learning model for certificated and classified employees that supported students in Special Education,
Responsible for a five million dollar grant to re-engage high school students that had dropped out of school by developing five school-within-a-school programs on five of the comprehensive high school campuses, Served as the Principal of both the alternative high school and virtual program. Led the effort in providing a school-within-a-school for pregnant teenagers that were also enrolled in the alternative high school,