Assistant Elementary Principal

Job Description:
Student Success Coach.  Two Full-time (1.0 FTE) positions, Roosevelt Elementary and Lincoln Elementary. This position commences with the 2024/25 school year.

General Definition of Work:
Performs intermediate human support work helping coordinate a positive behavior intervention plan that addresses students behaviors and provide a means to help the students become more academically successful. The Behavior Intervention Specialist also provides classroom and school-wide behavior management strategies drawing on multiple disciplines, including community health, social work, psychology, counseling and education. Interventionist will observe and interact with individuals and groups to assist with the healthy functioning of the students. Interventionists will focus on specific behaviors impacting the students or classrooms, and related work as apparent or assigned. Work is performed under the limited supervision of the Building Principal.

Essential Functions:
Lead staff in defining and measuring behavior; understanding principles of reinforcement; teaching new behavior; implementing strategies for weakening behavior; and identifying  antecedents; assist with the creation and alignment of classroom behavioral expectations and classroom management plans; act as a resource regarding student management issues; assist in the planning, developing, and implementation of student behavioral plans. Coordinate and enforce school behavioral expectations, including attendance and classroom alignment with school-wide goals. Work cooperatively to promote positive student behavior by providing professional development that targets research, strategies and modeling of instructional practices to support teachers in their implementation of positive behavior support in their classrooms; work 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. Engage students, parents/guardians and teachers in the student behavior intervention plan process and related policies and empower parents and teachers by providing them with skills and techniques to support the positive behavior development of students. Attend appropriate meetings regarding student growth and successes: 504 case conferences, parent meetings, expulsion hearings, etc. Develop and coordinate a repertoire of educational assessment strategies and/or alternatives consistent with instructional goals, teaching methods, and individual student needs to more accurately assess student behavior skills and understandings. Collaborate with school counselors and personnel to create and maintain research based behavioral interventions and train staff in those interventions. Manage the documentation of student behavior; compile, analyze and share student discipline data regularly and use the data to make decisions; use ongoing assessments to maintain a record of student progress. Coordinate and monitor data for ADSIS purposes; track ADSIS student progress according to MDE guidelines and procedures, contribute to the annual yearly report of the ADSIS program, analyze academic and behavior data collected from various records to help determine effective academic and behavioral interventions and present to the School Board updates and progress for the ADSIS program as requested. Collaborate with the High School 9th Grade Academy Coordinator as students transition from middle school to high school; communicating effective strategies and progress to support continued success for students. Openly communicate with staff and parents/guardians regarding student behavior. Conduct conflict resolution and peer mediation sessions; confer with students and administer appropriate consequences. Engage in on-going professional development to increase knowledge and skills of positive student behavior support for all students, targeted students, and students who represent sub-group populations. Assist in the maintenance of the crisis management plan and school safety requirements.