The Behavior Support Specialist will work with the school’s leadership team to ensure that all students demonstrate dramatic student achievement gains and develop their character and social-emotional skills. This individual will also help lead the school’s efforts to create a positive, structured, consistent, caring, and disciplined school culture.
In addition to the duties set forth below, the Employee agrees that s/he will perform all the other duties that are assigned by his/her supervisors, the school’s Principal and the Principal’s designees, and/or the Board of Trustees, including, but not limited to:
Goals for the Behavior Support Specialist include but are not limited to:
- Model high expectations for student behavior and interactions.
- Support efforts of every student to succeed academically and behaviorally and graduate from college.
- Enforce expectations from the Code of Conduct
- Maintain a focused, serious, and efficient environment for the In-School Suspension program.
- Create and support systems that prevent misbehavior, as well as intervene and correct misbehaviors as they arise to prevent escalation.
- Collaborate with the DOS to develop plans for students with repeated struggles to meet expectations.
- Refer students to the Social Worker (via email and CC DOS) if/when reports are made that require SW intervention.
- Motivate and coach students to meet expectations by leveraging personal relationships while also maintaining strong professional boundaries and a clear line between adult and student.
Specific Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
- Manage the In-School Suspension classroom daily, including communicating with teachers, accepting and processing send-outs, addressing misconduct and communicating with families.
- Distribute and monitor work that students are completing during In-School Suspension.
- Collecting work for students with Out of School Suspensions and manage the pick-up/delivery with students.
- Manage Lunch Detention.
- Manage Early-Release Program for Detention based on Kickboard.
- Manage Extended Detention Notifications.
- Assist DOS when no students are in ISS.
- Meet weekly with DOS for feedback, goal-setting, coaching/practice, collaboration and problem-solving of discipline issues and concerns.
- Utilize Kickboard and Microsoft Excel to manage behavioral data of students.