School Psychologist
*Includes $5,000 signing bonus*
Position Location: Chisago Lakes Primary School (Early Childhood – 1st Grade)
Position Purpose
School psychologists provide direct and/or indirect support and interventions to students, consult with teachers, families, and other school-employed mental health professionals (i.e., school counselors, school social workers) to improve support strategies, work with school administrators to improve school-wide practices and policies, and collaborate with community providers to coordinate needed services. Through their work, school psychologists help SCRED member districts and buildings successfully implement a multi-tiered system of supports (MTSS) framework in order to: improve academic achievement, promote positive behavior and mental health, support diverse learners, create safe, positive school climates, strengthen family-school partnerships, improve school-wide assessment and accountability, and monitor individual student progress in academics and behavior.
Essential Duties
- MTSS Implementation
- Promote and assist in effective and efficient school-wide implementation of an MTSS framework for both academics and social emotional learning, in partnership with building administrators and teams
- Facilitate the problem solving team (PST) in each building, ensuring that each PST is:
- using standard data for decision making
- defining problems in observable and measurable terms
- collecting sufficient information for intervention planning
- developing detailed intervention plans
- evaluating integrity of implementation
- supporting classroom teachers or interventionists in data collection activities
- graphing intervention effectiveness
- Participate in various data team meetings within each building
- Provide consultation to parents and/or teachers regarding social emotional learning and/or academic difficulties, utilizing the SCRED 5-step problem-solving model: Problem Identification, Problem Analysis, Plan Development, Plan Implementation, and Plan Evaluation
- Assist in conducting needs assessments to support various resource allocation and/or programming decisions
- Special Education Leadership
- Facilitate Student Support Team (SST) meetings
- Attend special education department meetings
- Serve as a liaison between SCRED and its member districts, in promotion of a positive, collaborative culture
- Provide consultation on special education due process to staff and parents
- Assist in the improvement of special education services (e.g., program evaluation, evaluation/service process, resource allocation, transitions), under the direction of SCRED Administration and the principal
- Facilitate the child find process by assisting in responding to referrals for initial special education evaluations for students suspected of having disabilities
- Assist in coordinating the reevaluation process for students receiving special education and related services
- Administer and interpret intellectual ability tests, social behavior assessments, and adaptive assessments as part of comprehensive evaluations for current and potential special education students when necessary
- Assist in the planning process for the provision of Extended School Year (ESY) services in building(s)/district of assignment
- Assist with facilitating transition planning, including attending IEP meetings (as needed) for children moving from ECSE programs to kindergarten, elementary to secondary, or between buildings and programs
- Support special education staff in reviewing progress monitoring data on IEP goals and designing appropriate interventions
- Assist with state compliance review activities, including the implementation of any resulting corrective action plans
- Serve as an active member of the SCRED Implementation Team (I-Team)
- Plan and implement professional learning opportunities at SCRED and building(s)/district of assignment?
- Academic Assessment and Services
- Support building-wide academic screening processes
- Complete diagnostic assessments in reading, math and written expression, as deemed appropriate by the Problem Solving Team or Student Support Team
- Develop, implement and monitor the fidelity of academic interventions, as requested
- Assist in ensuring compliance with child find requirements related to the implementation of Scientific Research-Based Interventions
- Social Emotional Learning (SEL) Assessment and Services
- Provide direct SEL services to individuals, small groups, classrooms or school-wide, as requested
- Provide direct counseling services to individuals or groups, as requested
- Complete mental health screenings and assist students, families, and school staff in determining appropriate mental health supports, both internally and through outside agencies
- Complete function-based behavior assessments (FBAs), when deemed appropriate by the Problem Solving Team or Student Support Team
- Assist in the development of Behavior Support Plans (BSPs), in collaboration with special education staff to write Behavior Support Plans, and track BSPs data with integrity checks
- Gather and organize data to assist teams in making manifestation determination, when needed
- Provide behavior consultation services to general education and special education staff
- Crisis Response Services
- Facilitate crisis response procedures and participate in the school’s crisis team at the discretion of the building principal
- Provide consultation in crisis prevention and response
- Complete student risk assessments when necessary
- Assist in completing student threat assessment activities when necessary
- Provide an immediate response to students, families, and school staff in crisis situations and determine when a referral to an outside agency is needed
- Other Duties
- Perform other duties as assigned