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A special educator back full time after a two-year break, shown through caseload compliance and reading growth.

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Dana Whitlock — Special Education Teacher and IEP Case Manager

Portland, OR

Special educator with twelve years in K-8 resource and co-taught settings, back full time since 2021 after a two-year family care break. Carries 26 IEPs with five years of clean compliance, and moved caseload students meeting annual reading goals from 54% to 81%.

Experience

Special Education Teacher and Case Manager, Grades 6-8, Mill Hollow School District · August 2021 – present

Middle school of 640 students. Resource and co-taught settings; caseload of 26 IEPs across three grades.

  • Manages 26 IEPs and holds every annual and triennial meeting on time; the school has recorded no compliance findings and no due-process filings in five years.
  • Raised the share of caseload students meeting annual reading goals from 54% to 81% by moving every goal to weekly curriculum-based measurement.
  • Co-teaches three sections of Grade 7 math, where students with IEPs passed the state assessment at 63% against 38% in sections without co-teaching.
  • Trained 34 general education teachers on accommodation delivery; documented accommodation use in walkthrough checks rose from 40% to 88%.
  • Rewrote the transition plan template now used across all four middle schools in the district.

Reading Interventionist (part-time contract), Hawthorne Learning Partners · September 2020 – June 2021

  • Delivered structured literacy intervention to 14 students in Grades 3 to 8 across three afternoons a week; 11 gained more than a year of reading growth in nine months.
  • Wrote progress reports that districts accepted as outside evaluation evidence for six of the 14 students.

Special Education Teacher, Grades K-5, Northbrook School District · August 2012 – May 2018

  • Ran a K-5 resource room serving 22 students a year; 17 students exited at least one goal area over six years.
  • Built the first structured social-skills group in the district for students with autism, nine students a cycle, cutting recorded behavior incidents by 62%.
  • Trained every new special education hire in the district on IEP writing and the case management system for four years running.

Education

  • M.Ed. Special Education · Portland State University · September 2010 – June 2012
  • B.A. Psychology · University of Oregon · September 2006 – June 2010

Skills

  • Specially designed instruction: IEP writing, Structured literacy, Orton-Gillingham, Task analysis, Math intervention
  • Assessment and compliance: Curriculum-based measurement, WJ-IV and KTEA-3, FBA and behavior plans, IDEA safeguards, Progress monitoring
  • Collaboration: Co-teaching, Paraeducator coaching, Family conferences, Transition planning, Related-service coordination

Certifications

  • Oregon Special Educator License, Generalist K-12 — Oregon Teacher Standards and Practices Commission
  • Associate Level Certification — Academy of Orton-Gillingham Practitioners and Educators
  • Nonviolent Crisis Intervention — Crisis Prevention Institute

Why this Special Education Teacher résumé works

  • Compliance is stated plainly for a case manager: 26 IEPs with every annual and triennial meeting on time and no due-process filings in five years, the record a special education director checks first.
  • Student growth is measured, caseload students meeting annual reading goals “from 54% to 81%” after a move to weekly curriculum-based measurement, so the method and the result arrive together.
  • The two-year break appears through the Rose City Family Support Network, sitting with 40 families in IEP meetings, so the gap reads as related advocacy work rather than time away.
  • Co-teaching results are compared fairly: students with IEPs passed the Grade 7 math state assessment at 63% against 38% in sections without co-teaching.

Special Education Teacher résumé: common questions

How do you explain a career break on a teaching resume?

Name the break and its reason in one line, and show anything relevant done during it, such as advocacy, tutoring or part-time contracts. Keep the license current and list the renewal date so a district sees no lapse.

What certifications go on a special education teacher resume?

Your state special education license with its endorsement and renewal year, plus training such as Orton-Gillingham, structured literacy or crisis intervention. Assessment tools you administer, like the WJ-IV or KTEA-3, belong in skills.

What should a special education teacher resume include?

Caseload size, IEP compliance record, student progress against goals, co-teaching or inclusion results, and training given to colleagues. Use measures the district already reports, such as goal attainment rates.

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