Lisa C. Ryan

• Non Public liaison with Mayfield City Schools
• Responsible for new referrals and intelligence and academic achievement testing and interpretation
• Collaborative member of the RTI committee
• Responsible for developing and writing new accommodation plans and updating the existing ones with staff and families
• Provided 1:1 counseling with students of all ages struggling with anxiety, divorce and grief

HIGHLIGHTS:

• Consulted with staff regarding the key components of literacy and progress monitoring
• Brought a new awareness and appreciation for phonemic knowledge
• Developed and implemented spelling and math problem solving interventions
• Developed literacy rubric and math problem solving graphic organizer
• Developed many visual supports for students struggling with behavior
• Developed and implemented a 14-week Zones of Regulation group with 2nd and 3rd grade students
• Brought about successful resolutions to several challenging and complicated student cases

HIGHLIGHTS:

• As part of child find, utilized informal, formal and established testing protocols to evaluate educational, emotional and behavioral needs of students, PreK-1st
• Completed required documentation and reports for compliance and intervention planning
• Consulted with teachers and parents to gain in-depth understanding of students
• Built positive and productive relationships with students, parents, educators and community resources
• Provided crisis intervention in response to student emergencies, through developing trust and rapport to de-escalate students
• Developed team communications and information for Intervention Assistance Team meetings
• Completed functional behavioral assessments and behavioral intervention plans

Expanded Responsibilities and Accomplishments:

• Collaboration with staff regarding the determination of students' baselines within literacy and social-emotional-behavioral functioning
• Intervention development and implementation, progress monitoring, and interpretation of data in relation to literacy benchmarks and the learning standards
• Within the RTI process, provided embedded professional development with the phonological awareness processes; developed baseline measure and intervention addressing segmentation and blending of sounds in orally presented /cvc/ words
• Developed a baseline and progress monitoring measure for easy use by teachers to record the frequency, duration, intensity, and latency of interfering behaviors
• Designed the interventions, assisted with implementation and created the visual tools needed for students with problematic behaviors

HIGHLIGHTS:

• Provided leadership and supervision of all aspects of IDEA and Section 504
• Evaluated and enhanced special education programming: IEP development-closing the gap; continuum of services; evidence based practices; data-collection
• Ongoing consultation with IEP writing to define student learning objectives and educational strategies, in addition to applying instructional knowledge and methods to support goals
• Positive and collaborative relationships with community agencies
• Provided Leadership with Development of Multi-Tiered System of Supports (MTSS-PBiS):
• Design of system and technical aspects
• Evidence-based curricula & intervention Tiers I-III
• Professional Development:
• What is MTSS and tiered levels of support
• Zones of Regulation
• Post-secondary Transition Planning
• How to complete and implement FBAs and BIP
• Expanded Responsibilities:
• Supervised and evaluated special education staff
• Recruited highly qualified staff
• Third party contracts; department budget & expenditures; catastrophic & excess costs; payroll

HIGHLIGHTS:

• Focused teams on developing innovative and cutting-edge approaches at all levels with effective resource allocation and strategic planning
• Direct oversight of all aspects of IDEA and Section 504
• Direct oversight of District's school-based health care services; registration; residency; school attendance; home schooling; and home instruction
• Supervision and coordination of school psychologists, related service personnel, guidance counselors, health care staff, residency and truancy officer, and departmental administrative assistants
• Recruitment of highly qualified staff
• Direct oversight of department's $3,000,000 dollar budget; alternative education challenge grant; private and public provider contracts; catastrophic costs; medicaid program
• Designated Homelessness and Foster Care Placement Liaison and Anti-Harassment Compliance Officer:
• Developed new policy
• Developed procedural guidelines
• Developed plans of support
• Completed internal investigations
• Professional Development:
• Closing the gap-standards based IEP development
• IEP and 504 procedural and substantive compliance
• FBAs and BIPs-emphasis self regulatory practices
• CPI: crisis intervention
• Distinctive Accomplishments:
• Reformation of District's preschool programming resulting in 5-star ratings
• Developed district's PRIDE (Autism and other developmental disabilities) programming creating vertical alignment through professional development, curriculum and evidenced based practices-Pk-12th
• Developed district's first "at-risk" high school program embedding wrap around services
• Developed Key Summer Programming:
• PRIDE camp with focus on community involvement and post secondary transition
• High school math credit recovery program
• "At risk" programming for children entering kindergarten
• In partnership with Beechbrook, implemented the district's first school based mental health program

HIGHLIGHTS:

• Direct oversight of all aspects of IDEA and Section 504 at all 7 elementary buildings
• Direct oversight of district's preschool program
• Non-pubic liaison for St. Edwards and Lakewood Catholic Academy
• Expanded Responsibilities:
• Served on district's leadership steering committee-Ohio improvement process
• Co-chaired the district's kdg.-12 English language art internal audit of program effectiveness
• Designed and Implemented Professional Development:
• IEP development
• Alternate assessment
• FBA & BIP in early childhood
• Early childhood outcome summary form (ECOSF)
• Developed clear learning targets using the early learning content standards
• CPI-crisis intervention, pk-12
• Distinctive Accomplishment:
• Reformation of district's preschool program into an integrated, co-teaching early childhood program which was recognized by the State Support Team of Cuyahoga

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