Staci Kolko, Coordinator

Staci Kolko

Coordinator

Canadian International School

Location
United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
Education
Master's degree, Special Education
Experience
9 years, 10 Months

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Total years of experience :9 years, 10 Months

Coordinator at Canadian International School
  • United Arab Emirates
  • My current job since August 2017

Assessment and Screening Specialist
Key roles:
•Oversee administration referrals in accordance to ADEK
•Update and implement level B assessments to address social, emotional, and behavioral support
•Train and monitor support staff in and outside of the classrooms
•Provide workshops and trainings to teachers and support staff
•Observe and make recommendations for strategies in the classroom
•Develop, track, and monitor IPP’s, supplemental goals, outside support specialities, and behavioral support plans
•Oversee and recommend continual strategies to support differentiation, modification, and accommodation techniques
•Track school-wide baseline assessments
•Coach teachers within the classroom to provide tools and strategies
•Provide interventions based on school wide assessments
•Coordinate with occupational, speech, and educational psychologists for services and treatment

SENCO at Canadian International School
  • United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
  • My current job since August 2017

Elementary Special Needs and Enrichment Coordinator

Teacher at New England Center for Children
  • United Arab Emirates
  • My current job since January 2015
  • August 2013 to August 2013

Implemented conditioning reinforcement assessments, preference assessments, competing item assessments, VB-MAPP, functional analysis, to ensure students were engaged and motivated across the day with the absence of challenging behavior
•Ensured the special education student’s needs were met and kept track of their progress.
•Assessed challenging behavior in the classroom, provided empirically based research to implement changes to increase and/or decrease desirable and undesirable behaviors.
•Trained staff on implementing procedures with high procedural integrity and fluency.
•Worked as a therapist for a residential facility focusing on improving living, social, and academic skills across the day for individuals with severe autism.

Practicum at Farmington Valley, Transitional College West Hartford
  • United Arab Emirates
  • January 2013 to May 2013

Planned and instructed programs to meet IEP Objectives
•Tracked behavior data and interventions

Education

Master's degree, Special Education
  • at Simmons College
  • August 2017
Master's degree, Applied Behavioral Analysis
  • at Penn State
  • December 2016

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Higher diploma, Organizational Behavioral Management in Applied Behavioral Analysis
  • at Florida Institute of TechnologyCollege of Education
  • August 2014

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Bachelor's degree, Elementary and Special Education
  • at University of Hartford
  • May 2009

- BS-Special Education & Elementary

Specialties & Skills

ACADEMIC
COACHING
MATHEMATICS
PROGRESS
SPEECHWRITING
TEACHING
WORKSHOPS