Coach’s Match

Your strongest match now

Education and student-support leadership

Your clearest evidence comes from serving as a Special Education Team Lead and Special Education Teacher. You coordinated and supported more than 100 ARD/IEP meetings in a year and supported more than 20 special-education staff members with documentation, compliance, progress monitoring, and instructional practice.

That record points to work where you coordinate services, guide staff, solve problems, communicate across groups, and make sure plans become action.

What you naturally bring

• Calm coordination: You bring teachers, administrators, service providers, families, schedules, and student needs into one workable process.
• Clear written thinking: You identify writing as a strength and have used it for IEPs, ARD documentation, progress reports, support plans, resources, and professional communication.
• Practical problem-solving: People come to you for help with complex situations, organization, accommodations, progress monitoring, and next steps.
• Follow-through: Your own account emphasizes dependable, accurate work and ownership of deadlines.
• Useful data habits: You have organized progress, assessment, service, and performance information so educators and ARD committees could make decisions.

The work setting that fits

You want a mix of structure and room to figure things out. You describe yourself as a self-starter, and you do your best work when there is a real problem to solve, a system to improve, or a person or team to help.

You have used Microsoft Teams, Outlook, Gmail, Google Drive, Google Docs, Google Sheets, Schoology, Blackboard, Edgenuity, ESPED, and Adobe tools. You also report a quiet workspace and reliable internet. That supports remote or hybrid consideration, while your limited async experience means the best transition will include clear expectations and communication rhythms.

Your three directions

Lead with the evidence: Education leadership and student-support work are your strongest immediate positioning because your responsibilities and results are already clear.

Build the athletics bridge: Athletic Director and Assistant Athletic Director / Athletic Performance Director are directions you named. The next step is to test openings against your documented experience and identify which ones value education leadership, coaching and development, staff support, and student outcomes.

Check the teaching gate: Higher Education Kinesiology Instructor / Adjunct Professor is also a direction you named. Each opening must be checked against its exact degree, transcript, and teaching requirements before it is treated as a match.

Your growth lane

You are comfortable entering and maintaining records, building tracking sheets, reviewing progress, and spotting patterns. You also said a day organizing numbers sounds energizing and that you would invest regular weekly time in stronger data skills.

The honest positioning today is education and program leadership with working data fluency—not advanced analytics. That leaves room to build a stronger analysis path without overstating where you are now.

Coach’s call

Your best next move is a role that values leadership, organization, writing, staff guidance, service coordination, and measurable human progress. Lead with the scale you have already handled. Treat athletics as a deliberate bridge and higher-education teaching as a qualification-by-qualification screen.

That is the story the first job wave should test.