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Position Location: Serving Chisago Lakes School District and North Branch Area Public Schools

Position Purpose:
The Social Behavior Services Coordinator position assists SCRED member districts in implementing a continuum of social emotional learning (SEL) supports, specifically for students requiring intensive, highly individualized intervention. This position provides collaboration and consultation on specific student cases and overall programming, creates and facilitates high-quality professional learning opportunities for member district staff, and assists in the coordination of service delivery to ensure students are receiving effective SEL instruction designed to meet their needs in their least restrictive environment.

Essential Duties:

• Collaboration & Consultation
  • Provide on-site coaching and support for the implementation of evidence-based instructional practices across the secondary and tertiary prevention levels within a Multi-Tiered System of Supports (MTSS) framework
  • Guide staff in the creation of special education evaluation plans that equip teams to identify students with intensive emotional or behavioral needs
  • Support staff in the development of IEPs that are designed to meet the unique social emotional learning needs of students
  • Consult with special education staff regarding students who are not responding to academic, behavioral, or functional skill interventions
  • Promote collaboration between general education and special education staff regarding accommodations and modifications that may help students to reach their IEP goals and access the general curriculum
  • Provide expertise as part of IEP teams for students with significant and unique SEL-related needs
  • Ensure processes are being followed that support district placement decisions for students transitioning to and from Federal Setting III and IV programs in order to ensure that students remain in their least restrictive environment
  • Assist in developing/coordinating student reintegration plans, including Behavior Support Plans (BSPs), in order to increase the likelihood that transitioning students will function effectively in the mainstream school setting
  • Collaborate and provide consultation services regarding assistive technology, accessibility, and secondary transition
• Professional Learning
  • Engage in professional learning aligned with SCRED goals and district-specific needs to inform SCRED professional learning opportunities related to SEL programming
  • Complete professional learning plans in collaboration with the SCRED Services Coordination Team to ensure alignment with SCRED goals and messaging across service areas
  • Facilitate professional learning using effective adult learning strategies on a variety of SEL-related topics, including assessment, instruction, inclusion, accessibility, assistive technology, secondary transition, and program evaluation
  • Oversee training and certification of staff in the use of restrictive procedures
  • Provide on-site coaching and support to enhance implementation of best practices in SEL
• Coordination of Service Delivery
  • Facilitate the implementation of best practices in SEL-related assessment, instruction, inclusion, accessibility, and program evaluation
  • Assist in conducting needs assessments to support various resource allocation and/or programming decisions
  • Secure and disseminate resource materials and equipment for SEL-related needs that can be shared across districts
  • Facilitate the distribution of Collaborative Planning funds for SEL-related needs
  • Support the implementation of legal and ethical school discipline practices for students with disabilities, including the facilitation of manifestation determination meetings
  • Coordinate restrictive procedure quarterly review meetings and report data to the Minnesota Department of Education
  • Maintain and enforce a Placement Guideline for students transitioning to federal setting III and IV programs as well as those reintegrating into mainstream settings
  • Support teams in planning for transitions of students with SEL-related needs between buildings (i.e., from elementary to secondary)
  • Participate and/or facilitate SCRED internal meetings and workgroups as assigned
  • Participate in county collaborative committees to engage in interagency collaboration to support the SEL-related needs of students and families
  • Participate in the regional Community of Practice for Federal Setting IV programs
  • Provide work direction to the administrative assistant supporting the social emotional learning services area

Other Duties as Assigned

Physical Demands

• Travel within and occasionally outside of the SCRED member districts
• Frequent computer use including long periods without movement
• Ability to lift 30 pounds to carry materials between districts on occasion
• The use of physical restraint with students demonstrating behaviors that constitute an emergency