Behavior Coach

Education: Minimum education of an associate’s degree or equivalent to 60 post-secondary credit hours. A bachelor’s degree in Social Work, Counseling, or Special Education is preferred.Experience: A history of successful classroom teaching, counseling, social work, or Registered Behavior Technician (RBT) certification and experience preferred.Collaborate with individual teachers, groups of teachers and/or the entire staff on issues such as: crisis intervention, learning and collaboration issues, and factors that can affect development and implementation of interventions and/or student progress. Promote highly specialized positive behavior interventions in which “at risk” students thrive by prioritizing behavior instruction that is explicit, intensive, accelerated, and provides ample practice. Use ongoing assessments to maintain a record of student progress and the success or failure of planned interventions and systems. Develop a repertoire of assessment strategies that are fair and equitable; assess higher-order thinking and problem solving. Provide recognition of a variety of student accomplishments and positive behaviors. Work cooperatively with building administrators to promote positive student behavior. Continually supervise students to ensure a safe, non-threatening, nurturing environment where students can thrive. Engage in ongoing professional development to increase knowledge and skills of positive student behavior support for all students and targeted students. Engage parents in the student behavior intervention plan process and empower parents by providing them with skills and techniques to support the positive behavior development of their child. Conduct conflict resolution and peer mediation sessions. Review behavior referrals and school wide data report. Participate in building level interdisciplinary team meetings, and/or grade level meetings, as appropriate.● Highly developed communication and interpersonal skills in order to relate to students, parents, staff, administrators, and community. Ability to negotiate effective working relationships, and develop position resolutions to conflict.● Strong organization skills in order to manage multiple issues simultaneously combined with ability to effectively prioritize.● Ability to work independently and within a team while maintaining cooperative working relationships.● Unwavering moral compass guided by personal ethics, integrity, tolerance, and trustworthiness.● Ability to successfully navigate within varying degrees of ambiguity in a fast-paced environment.● Willingness to support the classroom teacher and other building staff in a professional and collegial manner.

Salary : $1,550 - $1,780