Victoria Snyder, Ph.D.

Dr. Victoria Snyder is a national special education/intervention services advisor for PCG Education. Dr. Snyder has 30 years of experience in teaching and special education district administration with programs for students with disabilities from birth to age 21. Dr. Snyder's experience includes emphases in state and federal compliance with IDEA and Medicaid, data reporting, and analysis, as well as instructional program design and delivery through results-based staff development. She has worked with PCG Education to develop Web systems for special education procedural requirements that comply with the Code of Federal Regulations, as well as state and district regulations and procedures for districts across the United States. She has designed and collaboratively developed special education systems for Broward County, Florida; the School District of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Charlotte – Mecklenburg Schools, North Carolina; Minneapolis Public Schools and eight other Twin Cities Metro Districts, Minnesota; nine districts in Georgia; ten in Connecticut; twenty-four districts in California, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Nevada; and Rhode Island. She was instrumental in conducting the best practices review for the School District of Philadelphia and was recognized for her efforts when compliance rose to record levels, based upon the procedures and practices put in place. Her expertise is in analysis of federal, state, and district regulations as they apply to developing logical, userfriendly, and compliant special education Web systems, which incorporate the individual needs of each district or state.

• Special Education and Compliance

In her over 30 years in the education field, Dr. Snyder has held positions of increasing expertise and leadership. Beginning as a special education collaborative teacher at Madison Junior High in North Platte, Nebraska, she began initiatives in collaborative special education teaching in the areas of mental retardation, physical disabilities, emotional/behavior disturbances, learning disabilities, and reading at Fridley Junior High and Stevenson Elementary in Fridley, Minnesota as well as at Spring Lake park High School in Spring Lake Park, Minnesota. While in Fridley, Dr. Snyder was selected as Teacher of the Year, and nominated to the top 100 teachers of the year for Minnesota.

Dr. Snyder also served as a district administrator in Osseo Area Schools, starting numerous programs for children with autism, Asperger’s, physical, emotional and learning disabilities as well as administrating the Osseo Secondary Transition Center. Her responsibilities in Osseo, a district of forty-five schools, included staff development, federal and state reporting, staff hiring and performance appraisal, curriculum alignment with regular education and due process procedural compliance with IDEA and Minnesota regulations pertaining to special education. Her efforts in curriculum alignment focused on ensuring that students with disabilities received instruction which was comparable to their peers in regular education when they could not be educated with peers, and when in regular classrooms were experiencing the highest level of educational opportunities possible.

Dr. Snyder’s undergraduate degrees include an Associate in Arts from North Hennepin Community College, Minneapolis, Minnesota; a Bachelor of Elective Studies in Music, and a Bachelor of Science degree in Special Education. During her professional teaching and administrative tenures, Dr. Snyder earned her Master’s of Science in Education with special emphasis on reading and elementary education from the University of Wisconsin and her Doctor of Philosophy degree from the University of Minnesota in educational administration of special education with special emphasis on special education law, data reporting, and issues of chemical dependency in adolescents.

Dr. Snyder completed Cognitive Coaching training with Art Costa and Bob Garmston in 1993, which certified her as a Cognitive Coaching mentor and trainer of teachers and administrators in becoming efficacious, collaborative and results-oriented educators. She also completed training and certification in the process of intervening and addressing chemical dependency issues in adolescents and adults.

As a result of her professional training, Dr. Snyder has earned credentials and licensures in Minnesota in Elementary Remedial Reading; Elementary Education; Secondary Remedial Reading; Secondary Developmental Reading ; Emotionally/Behaviorally Disorders; Specific Learning Disabilities; Mild to Moderate Mentally Handicapped; Moderate to Severe Mentally Handicapped; Reading Consultant; Director of Special Education (Minnesota)

In her free time, Dr. Snyder teaches children and adults with and without disabilities from age five to eighty how to ride horses, offers individualized instruction in horse care, and horseback riding to veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars who are suffering from post traumatic stress disorder or combat related injuries and their families; and provides opportunities for Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts to earn their equestrian badges at her stable, Plenty Star II in Dayton, Minnesota.

 

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