SEZP Summary and Overview
In 2015, the MA Department of Elementary and Secondary Education and Springfield Public Schools partnered to form the Springfield Empowerment Zone Partnership (SEZP). SEZP is committed to ensuring that the ten schools in “The Zone” are engaging environments where teachers receive the supports they need to grow professionally, and students have the opportunity to acquire the academic and personal skills to succeed in the college or career of their choice.
Each SEZP school has the autonomy to craft and implement its own, unique vision for success and receives support from an ecosystem of national-caliber partners. Furthermore, Teacher Leadership Teams at each school ensure that teacher voice is heard and that there is strong communication between school administration and staff.
About the High School of Commerce
The High School of Commerce is an urban school serving approximately 1200 students. At the HSC we are committed to making a difference and ensuring all students can reach their full potential. The HSC has experienced academic improvements in the last few years that show it is heading in the direction for great success. We are intent on strengthening the recent student gains that we have made and have partnered with the Springfield Empowerment Zone to help increase the momentum of these improvements.
Our team is made up of dedicated professionals who are committed to working with underprivileged students and families to close the existing achievement gap. We work hard and constantly seek to improve our practice so we can prepare our scholars for high student achievement and college or career readiness
Speech Pathologist Responsibilities
- Maintains and manages a caseload comprised of speech-language disabled students at the High School of Commerce.
- Works collaboratively with the Evaluation Team Leader and school team to develop educationally based IEPs for speech-language disabled students.
- Supervises speech-language assistants as per state regulations.
- Serves as a resource to school staff members in the development of a balanced program to promote students’ receptive and expressive language skills for school success.
- Provides an individualized education program to meet individual needs of speech-language disabled students.
- Assists and guides teachers in the understanding of normal and disordered developmental milestones and referring suspected and identified speech-language disabilities.
- Provides a thorough assessment and diagnosis of speech-language disorders and disabilities using culturally and linguistically appropriate methods.
- Provides screening to identify students with suspected speech-language disabilities.
- Assists in proper referrals of individuals to agencies and specialists in the community as appropriate.
- Collaborates with classroom teachers and other school staff members to implement age and linguistically appropriate accommodations and intervention strategies in the classroom.
- Provides information, support, and counseling to parents and families when appropriate in a multicultural and multilingual setting.
- Provides in-service education and serves as a consultant to teachers and school staff members on topics concerning first and second language acquisition and speech-language disorders/disabilities.
- Keeps thorough ongoing records for individual students receiving speech-language services.
- Maintains lists of referred, screened, and eligible students, as well as a directory of outside agencies, consultants, specialists and related services.
- Compiles case history date on those cases where additional family history, health history, early developmental history, and environmental history are deemed appropriate.
- Keeps track of and inventories speech-language evaluation tools and intervention materials in the schools.
Speech Pathologist Requirements
- Masters Degree in Speech-Language Pathology
- Certificate of Clinical Competence or Clinical Fellowship Candidacy, ASHA
- MA DESE License and MA State License in Speech-Language Pathology (All Grade Levels)
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