Posting # 1157

Posting date: February 21, 2023

Start Date: July 11, 2023

Closing Date: March 10, 2023

Location: Sioux Center, Orange City, Sheldon area

Region: North

Overview

Northwest AEA provides visionary leadership and quality, student-centered services through relationships with families, schools, and communities. In short, our focus can be summed up in these four words: Inspiring Learning. Changing Lives.

Our vision is to be the first contact for timely and ongoing support to improve the performance outcomes and well-being of all learners.

About the Agency

Northwest AEA provides special education and school improvement services to 34 public school districts and 32 accredited, non-public schools. The agency serves 45,000 students and more than 5000 educators in a 10-county area of Northwest Iowa (Lyon, Osceola, Sioux, O'Brien, Plymouth, Cherokee, Woodbury, Ida, Monona, and Crawford).

Our headquarters is located across from the Morningside College campus in Sioux City with regional offices in Cherokee, Denison, Le Mars, Onawa, and Sioux Center.

Why Northwest AEA?

Our vision, mission, and anchors guide our actions. Staff at Northwest AEA believe that what they do inspires learning and leads to changed lives for the students, staff, and families we serve. Our work is anchored in building positive, professional relationships with stakeholders and with one another. We embrace responsiveness in how we serve so that students, staff, and families can see improved results.

Position Purpose/Summary

Work collaboratively with families and service providers to identify families’ strengths, concerns, and priorities through the development and implementation of IFSPs and IEPs and serve as a consultant to early childhood settings.

Qualifications

• Master’s in special education in an endorsement area listed under Early Childhood Special Education

Duties/Functions/Tasks

• Support families in meeting the unique health and developmental priorities.
• Assist, support, and provide resources and training to teachers, principals, directors, and childcare staff that deliver services in early childhood programs.
• Assist the AEA and LEAs regarding compliance with special education rules and regulations.
• Provide for the enhancement of academic performance and support for implementation of the school district student achievement goals.
• Use content knowledge appropriate to the teaching positions.
• Plan and prepare for student instruction, using coaching strategies through the implementation of IEPs.
• Use Family Guided Routines Based Intervention strategies to deliver instruction that meet the multiple learning needs of children and families.
• Use a variety of methods to monitor student learning.
• Apply appropriate instructional management strategies and techniques.
• Fulfill professional responsibilities established by the AEA and the local school district.
• Assist AEA/LEA problem solving teams in designing, implementing, and evaluating intervention plans, and making subsequent instructional decisions for students experiencing learning or behavior problems.
• Participate in full and individual student evaluations, including analysis of interventions, planning, assessment, and reporting.
• Adhere to the Iowa Department of Education rules, Northwest AEA policies and procedures, and IDEA Part B and C federal statute and regulations.
• Use available technology to complete and disseminate appropriate documentation of activities and results.
• Serve as a resource to parents as a transition linkage to outside referral agencies.
• Apply knowledge of cultural and linguistic diversity and social context or the development of, and learning in, young children in the design of appropriate intervention strategies.
• Perform ongoing support and resources to LEA staff.
• Other duties as assigned.

A transfer shall be considered a change in an employee’s assigned region (East, North, West). Assigned regions are based on the school buildings/districts, including non-public PK-12 buildings, to which an employee is assigned. Certified employees not assigned to specific districts/schools will have “Agencywide” as their assigned region. If you are interested in transferring to this position, please contact Sherri Wing (swing@nwaea.org) for the appropriate transfer application.

It is the policy of Northwest Area Education Agency not to discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, disability, religion, creed, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity and socioeconomic status in its educational programs and its employment practices. There is a grievance procedure for processing complaints of discrimination. If you have questions or a grievance related to this policy, please contact Jerome Schaefer, Equity Coordinator, 1520 Morningside Avenue, Sioux City, Iowa, 51106, 712-222-6114.