Exceptional Education Coach (GF) - Cane Ridge High (11-month) (2026-2027)

Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools•Nashville, TN

1d•Onsite

About The Position

The exceptional education coach works to build school capacity to serve students with disabilities by providing ongoing, onsite technical and instructional support to administrators, teachers, and other school personnel. This role is responsible for building the capacity of schools to provide quality instruction and intervention to students with disabilities, guiding and modeling instruction within inclusive models and intensive intervention settings. The coach will conduct classroom observations, model effective instruction and intervention, and provide timely feedback to teachers to enhance their practice. They will partner with schools, including all teachers and other personnel, to improve effective practices, specifically inclusive service delivery and intensive interventions that enhance learning for students with disabilities. Additionally, the coach will provide ongoing professional development and lead Professional Learning Communities (PLCs) to improve instruction and intervention at assigned schools, and collaborate with administrators to identify further professional development needs.

Requirements

Master's Degree Preferred
Certified in education in Tennessee

Responsibilities

Build capacity of school to provide quality Instruction and Intervention to students with disabilities.
Provide guidance and model instruction as part of the inclusive model as well as most intensive intervention.
Complete classroom observations, and model effective instruction/intervention with the purpose of providing timely feedback to teachers so they grow in their practice.
Partner and support schools including all teachers as well as other school personnel to improve effective practices, specifically inclusive service delivery as well as most intensive interventions that will enhance learning for students with disabilities.
Provide ongoing professional development/PLCs for each building served.
Lead required school based PLCs to improve instruction and intervention at assigned schools.
Work with administrators to identify and seek out other needed professional development opportunities.
Build Capacity of school to analyze and use data to make data based decision.
Provide guidance on how to use data to determine needs of students and align data with PLEPS/MAGS and progress monitoring.
Provide support to school on how to use data to make school level programming decisions and how to use data to develop appropriate scheduling options.
Reviews data with administrators and teachers to plan lessons, instruction, and service delivery options (including scheduling focused on student needs).
Link data and instruction to TEAM evaluation to support teachers on how to improve in a non-evaluative supportive way.
Build school capacity to ensure teachers and building are in compliance and are continuously improving supports and services to students with disabilities.
Assists schools in compliance in accordance with State and Federal laws governing services for students with disabilities.
As needed, participate in IEP meetings and manifestation determination meetings.
Promote EasyIEP help desk as a way to build capacity in the building regarding compliance concerns.
Build teams capacity to facilitate their IEP own IEP meetings as if you were only a participant.
Scaffold compliance and IEP meeting facilitation so the school is working toward owning the process.
Build school level capacity to provide timely referrals, screening, and delivery of services to students as well as alignment of Instructionally Appropriate IEPs.
Coordinates the referral, screening, and delivery of services for students with disabilities.
Weekly check-ins with coordinator to discuss instructional plans, significant cases of concern and is collaborative in problem solving building level concerns.
Provides timely support on IAIEPs and required to monitor 10 IEPs from each school quarterly using the IAIEP rubric as way to provide ongoing support to teachers and administrators.
Build school capacity to implement behavior intervention plans with fidelity, collect data and improve on effective practices.
Provides assistance with development of behavioral intervention plans.
Work closely with the school psychologist, speech and language therapist and other school level coaches to determine needs of students in the building.
Work with team on antecedents, behavior and consequences.
Collaborate with your team before referrals are made to the district behavior team.
Collaborate with the school level MTSS (RTII) team on academics and behavior.