Case Manager Special Education

JEANNENE O’CONNELL

**** ********* **** **, *******, Ga. 30310

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Professional Profile

Experienced special education professional pursuing a position to serve as an integral component of a professional, culturally responsive learning community; to ensure a safe, encouraging learning environment through collaboration and innovation. Education

● Lynn University, Boca Raton, Florida, 2008

M.Ed., Educational Leadership (3.8 GPA)

● Florida Gulf Coast University, Ft. Myers, Florida, 2002 B.A., Exceptional Student Education K-12 (3.4 GPA) Certification

L5 Professional Georgia Educator Certificate (796137)

● SP ED Adapted Curriculum (P-12) Consultative

● SP ED General Curriculum (P-12) Consultative

● SP ED Math Cognitive Level (P-5, 4-8)

● ESOL endorsement

Professional Florida Educator Certificate

● Special Education K-12

Educational Settings

● Experienced special education professional

● Monitor K-8 instructional program, evaluating lesson plans, observing classes, demonstrating model lessons and explaining instructional strategies, conducting informal classroom observations and providing feedback to first year teachers

● Support teachers with culturally responsive teaching pedagogy, coaching, peer collaboration, classroom visits, model lessons

● Facilitate positive behavior strategies in general education and special education settings

● Design adapted learning labs for specialized instruction across the curriculum providing a safe, inviting and learning environment.

● Proficient in writing, maintaining and implementing IEP

● Familiar teaching a foreign language (Spanish)

● Enthusiastic, innovative, flexible approach to teaching

● Ability to differentiate instruction to accommodate learning differences

● Effective classroom management skills

● Positive Behavior strategies (PBIS) and research based interventions

● Knowledge of federal and state laws regulating student discipline

● Knowledge of best practices in supporting students with behavior

● Ability to problem-solve with school-based and district leaders

● Outstanding communication and interpersonal skills with students, parents, colleagues, and community

● Ability to effectively consult and collaborate with school leaders in processes related to student support

● Ability to provide clear and consistent high-quality instruction for all students across the curriculum

● Team player: ability to collaborate well colleagues and members of a school community

● Excellent written, oral communication, and listening skills

● Successful co-teaching experience

● Familiarity with Universal Design for Learning, Constructivism in teaching and learning, Response to Intervention (RTI), and the Coalition of Essential Schools Common Principles

● Experience in elementary and middle school environments with various learning disabilities, cognitive profiles, sensory dysfunctions, behavior disorders, speech and language impairments, gross and fine motor difficulty, and medical conditions

● Ability to develop and adapt across the curriculum

● Effectively work with diverse groups of students, teachers, service providers and families

● Informed of Common Core Georgia and Florida Performance Standards

● Collaborate and plan with general education teachers across the curriculum

● Accommodate lessons/activities in both general and special education settings across the curriculum

● Modify, adapt, accommodate and differentiate general education curriculum based on a variety of instructional techniques and assistive technologies to provide the least restrictive learning environment Qualifications

● Maintain exceptional lines of communication with families and stakeholders

● Confer with parents, students, and colleagues to develop individual educational plans designed to promote student’s educational, physical, and social/emotional development, ensuring that IEPs are compliant with state, federal, and other applicable guidelines, regulations, and/or laws

● Organize and maintain accurate and complete student records.

● Maintain student work samples, collect data, monitor progress of student goals and schedule conferences with parents, guardians, and teachers in a timely manner to review student growth and development

● Provide students with individual testing accommodations

● Engage in continuous professional development and shared learning with professional staff

● Organize and maintain accurate and complete student records, preparing and delivering progress reports and grade reports; creating and maintaining a weekly schedule that meets the hours of student support on a given caseload.

● Regularly attend Atlanta Public Schools Special Education Lead Teacher meetings, faculty meetings, work flexible hours, and perform other duties as necessary (willingness to “wear many hats”) Professional Experience

Atlanta Public Schools Atlanta, Georgia (August 2016 - present) Martin Luther King, Jr. Middle School

● Interrelated 8th ELA/Math/Science/Individual and Societies/Case Manager

● Interrelated 6th ELA/Individuals and Societies/Case Manager

● Interrelated 8th ELA/Individuals and Societies/Case Manager

● Interrelated 7th ELA/Individuals and Societies/Life Science/Math/Case Manager Collier County Public Schools Naples, Florida (December 2015 - June 2016) Cypress Palm Middle School

● Inclusion and EBD/Case Manager

Clayton County Riverdale, Georgia (July 2015 - November 2015) Utopian Academy for the Arts

● Interrelated 6th ELA/Math/Case Manager

Atlanta Public Schools Atlanta, Georgia (March 2015 - June 2015) Atlanta Neighborhood Charter School

● Interrelated 7th MST/Case Manager

Atlanta Public Schools Atlanta, Georgia (July 2014 - March 2015) Atlanta Classical Academy

● K-8th Director of Student Services

● Special Education Lead Teacher

Apartment Locating Service Atlanta, Georgia (May 2013 - May 2014) Promove, Inc

● Property Specialist

● Five Star Google Reviews

Non Profit Atlanta, Georgia (August 2012 - February 2013) LaAmistad

● 1st-8th Education Specialist/Advocate

Start Up Charter School Atlanta, Georgia (July 2011 - January 2012) Heritage Prep Charter Academy

● 6th-8th Special Education Coordinator and Lead Teacher Fulton County Schools Alpharetta, Georgia (August 2008 - September 2010) Northwestern Middle School

● Interrelated 6th, 8th Reading/Case Manager

● Interrelated 6th, 7th Self-Contained Autism/Case Manager Professional Experience

Collier County Public Schools Naples, Florida (August 2004 - June 2008) Oakridge Middle School

● 8th Lead Special Education Teacher/Case Manager: across the curriculum Collier County Public Schools Naples, Florida (November 2003 - June 2004) Golden Gate Intermediate Center

● 5th Self-Contained ESOL and Varying Exceptionalities Professional Affiliations

• Hank Stewart Foundation

• Do the Write Thing, Non-Profit

• Kappa Delta Pi

• Relay for Life

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