Special Education Instructional Manager (Virtual; Remote)

Impact & Why This Matters

In a world where too many students with unique learning needs are misunderstood, underserved, or defined by limitations rather than possibility, exceptional leadership can change everything. When Special Education teams are deeply supported, highly developed, and relentlessly focused on each learner, students gain more than services—they gain confidence, belonging, meaningful progress, and a clearer path toward the future they deserve.

As a Special Education Instructional Manager, you will multiply impact through people. You will coach, develop, and elevate a team of Special Education teachers whose daily work helps students build confidence, make meaningful progress, and realize what is possible for their futures.

Your leadership will ensure students are not only supported compliantly—but served compassionately, challenged thoughtfully, and championed relentlessly. This is legacy-building leadership in the digital age: creating systems, coaching people, and building cultures that help extraordinary educators unlock extraordinary student outcomes.

Purpose

You will be the force that builds strong Special Education teachers into exceptional ones. Through coaching, accountability, encouragement, and unwavering standards, you will cultivate a team that delivers white-glove, heart-centered support to students and families—while maintaining the rigor, compliance, responsiveness, and instructional excellence students deserve.

You will build clarity where there is complexity, momentum where there is hesitance, and confidence where there is uncertainty—ensuring all teachers feel supported, students feel seen, and opportunity for growth is amplified.

Role Overview

This is a deeply people-centered leadership role where your impact is measured through the growth, consistency, and excellence of the educators you lead—and ultimately through improved student engagement, retention, progress, and confidence.

You will lead Special Education teachers and paraprofessionals serving students in an online K–12 environment, ensuring they consistently deliver exceptional instruction, proactive outreach, compliant services, and meaningful family partnership.

Your success requires extreme ownership, strong judgment, joyful persistence, and relentless follow-through. You must be equally comfortable coaching performance, navigating escalations, improving systems, and holding high standards—always with empathy, clarity, and conviction.

When you lead well, teachers grow stronger, families feel supported, and students thrive.

Core Responsibilities

• Coach and develop Special Education educators into confident, highly effective professionals who embody our standards of service, responsiveness, and instructional excellence.
• Monitor team-level student engagement, progress, retention, and intervention data—identifying trends early and mobilizing effective support before students fall behind.
• Observe instruction, assess teacher effectiveness, and provide clear, actionable coaching that sharpens delivery, strengthens relationships, and improves student outcomes.
• Lead with precision in IEP development, implementation, progress monitoring, and meeting execution—ensuring legal compliance while never losing sight of the human being behind every plan.
• Set high expectations, coach candidly, celebrate wins enthusiastically, and foster a team culture rooted in ownership, humility, collaboration, and service.

Essential Duties

Work Schedule and Availability

This Role Is Your Calling If:

• You find deep fulfillment in helping other educators become their very best.
• You lead with both heart and standards—balancing compassion with accountability.
• You embrace coaching difficult conversations—not avoiding them.
• You thrive on forging real relationships that spark "aha" moments, rebuild confidence, and drive lasting growth.
• You embrace clear structure, metrics, and accountability because they fuel your ability to deliver extraordinary results.

This Role May Not Align If:

• You seek high flexibility in your schedule or a self-paced workday.
• You prefer hands-off leadership or infrequent coaching conversations.
• You struggle holding others accountable to clear standards.
• You dislike proactive outreach such as phone calls or frequent messaging.
• You struggle with tight responsiveness, follow-through, or time management under metrics.
• You want to balance this position with another job.
• You resist oversight, performance tracking, or structured expectations.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Special Education or related field (required).
• Teacher certification and an approved teacher preparation program (required).
• Ability to obtain certifications in Arizona, Colorado, Washington, and other states as may be assigned (required).
• 5+ years of successful work experience in educational technology or related industry (required).
• 5+ years of successful experience serving students, families, customers, or other stakeholders in a service-oriented environment (required).
• 3+ years of experience managing people (required).
• Ability to pass required background checks (required).

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision employee coverage for as little as $1 each per month;
• Personal paid time off in addition to major holidays;
• Short-term disability insurance, long-term disability insurance, life insurance, and AD&D insurance are all 100% paid by the employer; and
• 401(k) with employer contributing a dollar-for-dollar match of employee contributions up to 6% of employee earnings.