Reflective Thinking Room Facilitator via Edustaff

Summary

The successful candidate for this position will be employed by a 3rd party vendor (Edustaff) and contracted to work at Lakeview School District. The Reflective Thinking Room (RTR) Facilitator is responsible for supporting the district’s mission to provide a safe, healthy learning environment for every student. To that end, the RTR Facilitator works with students who need additional support with positive decision making, conflict resolution, relationship repair, and relationship building.

Job Duties and Responsibilities

• Work with the school administration and MTSS team to determine which students need additional time to reflect on their behavior and choices, as well as support with replacement strategies.
• Maintain an orderly, positive, and appropriate learning environment within the RTR room.
• Engage in reflective conversations with students about their behavior and choices.
• Teach and model conflict resolution strategies to help students solve conflicts.
• Collect classwork from teachers so that students are productive during downtime and provide academic assistance as needed.
• Maintain detailed records in the RTR spreadsheet and the SWIS system.
• Communicate with teachers in a timely fashion regarding all students in RTR.
• Conduct re-entry meetings so that students have a successful return to class.
• Meet with the MTSS team to review student data and identify strategies to support students needing additional intervention and support.
• Meet at least annually with the administration and MTSS team to review program data and evaluate the effectiveness of the program; make adjustments as needed to increase program effectiveness.

Qualification Requirements:

To perform this job successfully an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. Regular, dependable attendance is a critical performance factor to ensure consistent, high quality services to children and families. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Required Qualifications

• Minimum of a High School Diploma
• Demonstrated ability to de-escalate conflict situations
• Ability to develop strong positive and supportive relationships with adolescents.
• Successful experience working with struggling and/or challenged adolescents is preferred.
• Strong written and oral communication skills are required.
• Basic computer skills are required.

Hourly Rate: $21.00/hour plus paid time off benefits.

LANGUAGE SKILLS:

Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations. Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals. Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers, and the general public.

Language Skills:

Ability to read, write and comprehend instructions, correspondence and interpret documents. Ability to effectively present information in one-on-one and small group situations to staff, parents, students and administrators.

Mathematical Skills:

Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals. Ability to compute rate, ratio, percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs.

Reasoning Ability:

Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form. Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.

Other Skills and Abilities:

Ability to maintain composure under stressful conditions. Ability to develop effective working relationships with students, staff and the school community. Ability to communicate clearly and concisely, both orally and in writing. Ability to perform duties with awareness of all district requirements and Board of Education policies.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to reach with hands and arms. The employee frequently is required to stand, walk, sit, and talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls; climb or balance; and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee is frequently required to bend at the neck more than the average person. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, and peripheral vision. The employee needs to be able tell where a sound is coming from and hear in a noisy environment. Occasionally will assist in physical management of students.

WORK ENVIRONMENT: The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate to loud.

The information contained in this job description is for compliance with the American with Disabilities Act (A.D.A.) and is not an exhaustive list of the duties performed for this position. Additional duties are performed by the individuals currently holding this position and additional duties may be assigned.

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