Special Education Teacher
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[Date] Dear [Hiring Manager], Last year I carried a caseload of 14 students across learning disabilities and emotional support, and 11 of them met or exceeded their annual IEP goals on the spring review. I would like to bring that same goal-driven, compliant practice to the special education role at [Company]. For the past five years I have written and managed IEPs end to end, run the meetings, and kept our documentation audit-ready under IDEA timelines. I co-teach in inclusion classrooms, pull small groups for specially designed instruction, and collect the progress-monitoring data that tells me whether a strategy is working before the annual review does. When a fourth grader with dyslexia was stuck two grade levels below in decoding, I layered a structured-literacy intervention and his oral reading fluency climbed from 38 to 71 words per minute over the year. Behavior is where I add quiet value. I write and run behavior intervention plans built on data, not reaction, and I am trained in CPI de-escalation. For a student whose outbursts were costing him class time daily, I built an antecedent-based plan with the team that cut removals from roughly four a week to under one. I hold a current special education certification, am versed in IEP software and progress monitoring, and I communicate with families in plain language so they trust the plan. I show up prepared, I protect instructional minutes, and I treat every meeting as a chance to keep a parent on the team. The progress monitoring data behind that spring review is organized by goal area, and I can walk a team through exactly how each one moved. That same goal-by-goal tracking is what I would carry into a caseload here, alongside a special education certification that is already current. Sincerely, [Your Name] [Phone] [Email]