About City Garden Montessori School

City Garden Montessori School (City Garden) is the only Montessori charter school in Missouri, and we are one of the highest-performing charter schools in the state. Our team possesses passion and determination to implement the Montessori approach to educating children in a diverse, public school environment. City Garden is committed to being an anti-biased, anti-racist community and seeks others who are passionate about these values. We are committed to fostering excellence for all City Garden children.

At City Garden we are redefining education, reimagining community, and reinvigorating our world.

City Garden is a community-centered and people-centered organization in an exciting point in our growth and expansion. Ours is an environment that celebrates vulnerability and centers humanity in the workplace.

Family Support Coordinator

Providing holistic support to our students and families is core to our school model; the Family Support Coordinator will have the responsibility of coordinating counseling, social-emotional and wrap-around support for City Garden students and families.

The Family Support Coordinator will:

• Provide counseling and individualized intervention support for students
• Coordinate family and student resource support
• Promote and coordinate relationship and community building at City Garden
• Support social-emotional assessment and education

The Family Support Coordinator will contribute to a positive, trustworthy, and respectful climate that has consistent expectations for all. The Family Support Coordinator will build relationships, communicate proactively, and promote continual growth while maintaining a student-centered focus.

Responsibilities

The following represents a summary of the responsibilities of this position. For a full job description, and to submit an application, please visit: https://citygardenmontessori.applytojob.com/apply.

Counseling and individualized intervention support

• Provide direct counseling and, if needed, coordinate outside counseling services
• Support student/family processing and interventions as needed (emotional dysregulation in class, death/divorce in family, etc.)
• Coordinates all 504 plan meetings and the creation of the 504 plans; communicates with parents, school staff, and administration about 504 plan needs and issues
• Maintain documentation of all counseling sessions, interventions, consults, interactions with families, etc. as well as complete students (in SPED) IEP quarterly progress reports

Family/Student Resource Support

• Research and recommend community resources, and provide families assistance navigating those resources such as utility assistance, housing, med. insurance, glasses, food assistance, diapers, legal aide, holiday assistance program coordination, furniture, tutoring programs, etc.
• School-wide resource/opportunity coordination
• Attendance tracking, absence/late arrival support, and follow-up with chronic absence issues
• Serve as McKinney-Vento liaison and Foster Care Point of Contact

Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) Assessment and Education

• Provide support and coordination regarding SEL curriculum, resources and assessment, including, but not limited to:

o Individual lessons

o Small -group lessons

o Classroom lessons

In order to fulfill these responsibilities, the ideal Family Support Coordinator candidate will also:

• Have strong rapport with young children and their parents and guardians
• Be familiar with Montessori education, and aligned to Montessori’s holistic approach to child development
• Have a strong grounding in anti-bias education and antiracist values and principles, and is excited to be part of a school that is reimagining education through these lenses
• Have an ability to meet people where they are, build and nurture strong relationships, collaborate across stakeholders, build community, and lead with empathy

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in Social Work or Counseling
• School social work experience working with K through 8th grade students, public school experience preferred
• Experience providing counseling services to children and their families
• Experience connecting families to wrap around support services and resources
• Be child-centered, flexible, and willing to do whatever it takes for our students

Schedule

School hours: 8:00 am to 4:00 pm Monday through Friday

Length of Work Year: August 1 to June 30 (prorated 11 month contract which includes Summer School), including but not limited to professional development, parent/teacher conferences, and preparatory work

Benefits

City Garden offers a range of benefits for Full-time employees such as:

• Generous Paid Time-off (Fall, Winter and Spring breaks, holidays, and additional days)
• Paid Health Benefits (Medical, Dental, Vision and Life Insurance)
• Pre-Tax savings for family health premium costs
• Retirement Plan
• Enrollment preference to City Garden Montessori for child(ren) grades K through 8 who reside in Missouri
• Discount tuition for our Preschool program

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $41,000.00 - $49,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Dental insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Retirement plan
• Vision insurance

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

Work setting:

• Charter school
• In-person
• Public school

Work Location: In person