Coordinator of Restorative School Day

Claremont Middle School

Coordinator of Restorative School Day


Position Overview: This position will spend a lot of time working with counselors and school administrators to identify, proactively and reactively, the students who need the most support in and outside of school.  This position will require individual meetings with students as well as group meetings. This will be necessary to create a Restorative plan for future success and accountability for their actions. 

Reports to:  Assistant Principal

Key Job Functions:

The responsibilities of the CMS Restorative School Day (RSD) Coordinator include: 

1. Support, retain and educate students experiencing difficulty in the school environment, either socially, behaviorally, and/or academically. This will give students the skills to make better decisions and choices in an effort to keep them from: 

   1. Ongoing discipline.

   2. Failing classes.

   3. Attendance/truancy issues.

   4. Dropping out.

2. Develop strategies and plans for implementing Restorative Practices throughout CMS and the community.  These efforts support not only students, but could also include counselors, teachers, and administration. The RSD coordinator might:

   1. Provide direct support to students, counselors, teachers, administrators, and faculty/staff that directly relate to the current circumstance of the student in RSD.

   2. Coordinate with counselors, social workers, and faculty/staff to arrange the use of outside resources.

   3. Utilize monitoring criteria to measure the effectiveness of restorative practices being used as a basis to develop and implement enhancements at CMS.

   4. Maintain an awareness of other restorative practices efforts in other schools throughout the United States and facilitate the sharing of experiences.

   5. Report status monthly, or more frequently as required.

   6. Meet with administrative and/or BLT representative on a regular basis.

   7. Assist in training that involves Restorative Practices.

3. The RSD program is replacing in school support (ISS); the RSD coordinator might:

   1. Monitor students who have been assigned to the RSD room for the duration of their assignment, as needed.

   2. Assign and monitor appropriate restorative practice work for students during their RSD assignment, as needed.

   3. Coordinate with classroom teachers and the ARC coordinator to assist gathering classwork for students during their RSD assignment, as needed.

4. All faculty members are assigned one (1) period per week in the student support centers (ARC and RSD). The ARC and RSD Coordinators will collaborate with the staff member assigned to that block, as determined by administration, to assist in the room where support is most needed; this need may change from period to period or even within a period.

5. And any additional responsibilities as assigned by the administration to ensure the successful implementation and operation of the RSD program.