Special Education Teacher Cover Letter Example

I manage a caseload of 19 students with IEPs in grades 6-8, holding a 100% on-time record across more than 120 annual reviews, reevaluations and amendment meetings over four years. Compliance is only the floor, though; the real work happens in what a classroom does with that paperwork every day. I want to bring that same compliance discipline and classroom practice to the special education opening at [School name].

I co-teach two math and two ELA sections with four general education partners, and students with IEPs in those sections narrowed the district benchmark proficiency gap by 11 points over two years. I also deliver Wilson Reading System instruction to 8 students, producing an average decoding gain of 1.6 grade levels a year.

I built a quarterly accommodation-fidelity audit with general education teachers that raised documented accommodation delivery from 68% to 96% of logged opportunities, and I wrote and implemented 5 behavior intervention plans from teacher-referred functional behavior assessments, cutting crisis-team calls for those students by 70%. I hold Wilson Reading Level I certification and current CPI training.

I'd welcome the chance to bring that same compliance record and co-teaching model to [School name], and I'm glad to share our accommodation-fidelity audit at an interview. Thank you for considering my application.