# Special Education Teacher résumé example

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

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