Special Education Impact Coach

(2026/27 School Year)

 

Purpose: To provide staff with individualized special education guidance and support. This role will work collaboratively with staff to enhance specially designed instruction and differentiation for students with disabilities across all educational settings within the district. This role will support special education staff in providing professional development activities, identifying and evaluating research-based instructional methods, materials, and resources, reviewing and providing individualized feedback on Individual Education Plans, and assisting with state reporting efforts.

 

Reports to: Assistant Superintendent of Student Services 

 

FLSA Status: Exempt, Salaried

 

Required Qualificaitons:

• Minimum of a Master's Degree in Education
• Valid Kansas Teaching License/Certification
• Health and innoculation certificate on file in the district office (after an employment offer is made).

Preferred qualifications:

• Four or more years of successful special education experience

Essential Functions: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential function satisfactorily:

• Provide instructional leadership through modeling research-based practices and strategies
• Support teachers and students with disabilities as a resource by providing classroom feedback, strategies, suggestions, modeling, interventions, and ideas for differentiation
• Support teacher growth and implementation of specially designed instruction and behavior management techniques
• Assist in the development, monitoring, and goal setting for individualized education plans
• Lead staff/team in instructional design and implementation that is anchored to rigorous academic standards
• Help staff analyze data to make data-based instructional and behavioral decisions
• Observe and provide peer assistance for colleagues
• Engage in collaborative work wtih general education personnel to improve achievement for all students while carrying out their primary responsibility of improving learning for students with disabilities
• Serve as a liason for principals and faculty
• Collaborate with colleagues to identify essential curricular outcomes for students with disabilities 
• Assist with identifying the curriculum needs of the special education faculty
• Co-plan and assist in the development of standards-based instruction, data monitoring plans, and strategies
• Assist in investigating instructional and strategy resources that support the district’s curriculum
• Ensure that all instructional materials are used with fidelity to meet curriculum goals
• Support and assist in implementing the district vision
• Serve on district-level committees
• Assist in the coordination of the Kansas State testing program for students with disabilities
• Assist in the development, scheduling, and delivery of professional development to special education staff (e.g., teachers and para-educators)
• Assist in completing state-required IEP record reviews and reports
• Understand and support the child find process, IEP development, and special education rules, regulations and procedures that are essential to accelerating the rights of students with disabilities
• Develop a culture that supports discussion that focuses on student learning/growth
• Serve as Mentor supervisor assisting the Mentor and new special education staff in years 1, 2, and 3 of employment to ensure successful professional/instructional growth
• Participate in professional growth activities and stay current with state and federal special education regulations
• Coordinate communication and planning among all learning communities to meet the needs of students with disabilities
• Regular and consistent attendance at work

Physical Demands: The physical demands described here represent those that an employee must meet to perform the essential functions of this job successfully. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.

• Ability to sit and stand for extended periods
• Ability to enter data into a computer, to see and read a computer screen, and printed material with or without vision aids
• Ability to hear and understand speech at normal classroom levels, outdoors, and on the telephone
• Ability to speak in audible tones so that others may understand clearly in standard classrooms, outdoors, and on the telephone
• Physical ability to lift up to 25 pounds to shoulder height and 50 pounds to waist height
• Ability to bend, stoop, sit on the floor, climb stairs, walk, and reach overhead

Terms of Employment: Contract that either party can terminate within 14 days' notice

 

Evaluation: Performance evaluations under the Board's policy and the Classified Employee Handbook

 

Ft Leavenworth USD 207 is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate in recruitment, hiring, training or promoting on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin or ancestry, sex, age, disability, veterans status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other legally protected status under local, state or federal law.