Resource Specialist

A typical week tends to mix small-group and individual instruction, IEP meetings, progress monitoring, collaboration with classroom teachers on accommodations and modifications, and parent communication. You'll often adapt curriculum and instruction for students with very different profiles — some with reading challenges, others with attention concerns, others with math-specific issues. IEP documentation and compliance is heavy.

Coordination involves general education teachers, school psychologists, speech pathologists, parents, school administrators, and special education leadership. The role lives at the intersection of teaching and case management, which can feel pulled in two directions during busy IEP seasons.

People who tend to thrive here are patient, organized, and able to hold many students' individualized goals in mind simultaneously. If you need fast-paced work or stable curriculum, the differentiation demands and IEP cycles can wear. If you find satisfaction in being part of helping students with learning differences access education they can succeed in, the work tends to feel deeply meaningful in ways that don't always show up in test scores.