Job Description

Title: Special Populations Coordinator (SPC)

Reports To: High School Principal

Job Goal:To coordinate services for special populations students to ensure their access to, progress through, and success in the Career and Technical Education programs.

Performance Responsibilities:

  1. Collect relevant data and information to coordinate the process of identifying eligible Special Populations students enrolled in the total Career and Technical Education programs offered at the school.
  2. Ensure that all members of special populations are provided equal access to recruitment, enrollment, and placement activities.
  3. Assess special populations needs with respect to the successful completion of Career and Technical Education programs in the most integrated setting possible.
  4. Develop and maintain a record-keeping system for each student served; records must contain: Career Development Plan Plus (CDP+), learning styles inventory, records of student's progress, and student interview report.
  5. Assist in providing members of special populations and their parents, in accordance with LEA procedures, with Career and Technical Education course enrollment information in an understandable language.
  6. Provide supportive services (remediation, modification and adaptation) for special populations where needed to progress and master identified competencies in the Career and Technical Education courses.
  7. Notify Career and Technical Education teachers and other appropriate staff of special population students eligible for services.
  8. Assist Career and Technical Education teachers in developing instructional strategies and appropriate curriculum modifications.
  9. Facilitate transition from school-to-work or to post-high school training for special population students.
  10. Maintain relevant record-keeping and inventory systems and prepare special reports related to job responsibilities as requested.
  11. Assist the Career and Technical Education teachers and/or CDC in completing the identification section of the VEIS and VoCATS reports. Perform other duties needed to ensure compliance with provisions of the Carl D. Perkins III Act.

Note: If a high school chooses not to use the SPC position, a yearly audit report must be filed with the Wake County Public School System CTE Office to indicate how the requirements of the position are being met. The SPC job description includes the categories that must be documented to validate how services are provided. The Special Populations Coordinator - Service Delivery Model Grades 9-12 and the Special Populations Monitoring Alternatives documents can be used to document services.

This page was last updated on August 26, 2005