2026 Summer High School Home School Communicator

Summer school teachers must be properly certified in the appropriate content area.

Teachers in the summer school program will earn:

Teacher, Nurse, Librarian, and Counselor: $6,120 stipend which includes all pay for teaching, planning, training, setting up rooms, and Open Houses.

Summer School sessions for grades 9-12 will begin as follows:

• Monday through Thursday for 14 days.
• Wednesday, June 3rd – Thursday June 25th 
• 7:15am – 4:25pm
• Class Period 1: 7:15am - 11:35am
• Lunch: 11:35am - 12:05pm
• Class Period 2: 12:05pm - 4:25pm

Summer employment is contingent upon enrollment.

JOB SUMMARY:
The Title I home school communicator provides support, education, and resource referrals to
students and families. The Title I home school communicator will provide interventions to students
and perform therapeutic services to individual students and their families to assist with social
and emotional concerns related to their educational and social progress. The Title I home school
communicator will provide consultation and support to staff.

DUTIES/RESPONSIBILITES:
1. Provide at risk students with education, support and resource referrals that support educational
and social progress.

Examples of Work Performed:

• Provide individual, family or group therapy for children who are experiencing problems in
school, home, or community with an emphasis on early intervention and prevention.
• Develop support plans for students with identified goals, and report progress of the
student.
• Provide crisis intervention which is geared towards protecting the safety and emotional
well-being of students.
• Complete home visits with students and families as necessary to improve the home-school
connection with the goal of improving academic and behavioral success.
• Consult with parents, teachers, nurses, counselors, administrators, other school staff, as well
as outside agencies, to assist in the planning and programming for students.
• Set individual student goals, document services provided, and monitor progress of each
individual student.
• Analyze student specific data of students who require additional supports to determine needed
interventions and progress of students.
• Encourage and assist families in the pursuit of community services that may assist with the
current presenting problem.
• Perform other duties as assigned based on student, teacher, school or District needs.

• Provide support to teachers and other school staff for students with social and emotional

concerns as related to their educational and social progress.
Examples of Work Performed:
• Receive information from staff, administrators, and parents regarding appropriate
services
at school, and in the home, for students who require additional support.

• Attend and participate in staffings, IEP meetings, 504 plans, and care team referrals to provide
input in developing treatment goals, behavioral interventions, and additional supports for the
child.
• Provide staff support and education in the area of childhood mental health and human
behavior.
• Report progress of students to staff and administrators on an on-going basis.
• Participate as a member of school wide PBIS leadership team to provide input in developing
behavioral interventions and intervention system support.
• Serve as a task-manager for graduate social work students from local universities as deemed
necessary.
• Develop a network of support systems with other district social workers, outside agencies, and
district staff to support students and families.

3. Attend and participates in all required meetings and professional development.

Examples of Work Performed:
• Actively lead and/or participate in district professional development activities.
• Actively lead and/or participate in building professional development activities.
• Actively lead and/or participate in specific professional development meetings as deemed
necessary to assist students.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

EDUCATION/CERTIFICATION: Master’s degree and social worker’s license (LCSW), master’s degree and
counseling license (LPC), or counseling certificate issued by Missouri Department of Elementary and
Secondary Education (DESE)

Preferred Master’s degree and social worker’s license (LCSW) with school social work experience

REQUIRED KNOWLEDGE: Broad knowledge of social work services, student interventions, and support
systems for students and families.

EXPERIENCE REQUIRED: Requires experience in providing social services or counseling assistance to
children and their families.

SKILLS/ABILITIES:
• Strong ability to maintain confidentiality
• Superior interpersonal skills
• Accurate and attentive to detail
• Outstanding organizational skills
• Excellent communications and public relations abilities
• Positive, effective people skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to read, write, and speak at high levels
• Ability to establish and maintain positive effective working relationships with students,
parents, staff, and the community
• Ability to design and present high quality professional development
• Superior customer and public relations skills in working with others, in person, over the phone,
and via email
• Proficiency using Microsoft Excel (spreadsheets, graphs, tables), Word (reports), PowerPoint
(presentations), and Google Apps (Drive, Docs, Sheets, Slides)

 • Must be self-directed, highly motivated, and able to work independently

PHYSICAL DEMANDS:
While performing the duties of this position, the employee is regularly required to stand, walk,
sit, talk and hear. The employee is occasionally required to reach with hands and arms, stoop,
kneel, crouch, and to lift up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required included close
vision, distance vision, the ability to adjust and focus, and depth perception. Specific hearing
abilities required include normal conversation, phone conversation, and isolating voices in
multiple conversations.

WORK ENVIRONMENT / CONDITIONS:
Primarily inside working conditions. May include home visits or

EQUIPMENT / TOOLS/ MATERIALS USED:
Computer, copier, scanner, projector, telephone, calculator.

REQUIRED PERSONAL PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT: None
TERMS OF EMPLOYMENT: Assigned to the social worker salary schedule; compensation and benefits
(Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, Partial Tuition Reimbursement) as provided by the Board of
Education Note: This position may be subject to social security withholding, and credit for the
Missouri Public School Retirement System. The Title I home school communicator is funded 100% by
Title I funds. Should funds no longer be available, or the schoolwide Title I plan change, the
position may be eliminated to meet the needs of the Title I school.