Behavior Interventionist: Candidate Pool

Highline Academy•Denver, CO

10d•Onsite

About The Position

Highline Academy is seeking a Behavior Interventionist to join their team. This role is responsible for working closely with students, teachers, and parents to build and maintain a positive, safe school climate and culture that promotes personal, civic, and academic excellence. The ideal candidate will be caring about the whole child, a great planner, strong in time management, and an excellent collaborator with teammates and families. Strong communication skills, dedication to making a difference for each child, and a growth mindset are essential. Highline Academy is committed to inclusive excellence and serves a diverse community of youth and adults from various backgrounds and languages. The school offers a liberal arts education, high expectations for all learners, and a robust intervention program for students with special needs, integrating them into general education classrooms. The character education program, Reach, teaches values of responsibility, empowerment, aspiration, citizenship, and honesty. Highline Academy is a students' first, growth mindset organization, expecting all employees to model these values and adhere to all policies in the employee handbook.

Requirements

Experience supporting students in escalated situations in educational settings.
NCI or CPI training required.
Demonstrated commitment to and understanding of the Highline mission.
Strong communication and collaboration skills.
Applied knowledge of Conscious Discipline, Restorative Justice, and other behavioral and/or academic support for struggling students.
Proven ability to track, analyze, and effectively use and communicate intervention data.
Be able to walk quickly, bend, kneel, crouch, sit, stand, grab or hold with one or both hands.
To be able to lift up to 40lbs without difficulty.
To maintain appropriate demeanor and professional classroom behavior when working with children and adults.
The ability to sit for extended periods during group training.

Nice To Haves

Bachelors degree or teaching license preferred.
Registered Behavior Technician Training preferred.

Responsibilities

Develop, document, and maintain ongoing behavior plans, and implement and provide behavioral interventions.
Using student data, provide interventions that will be progress monitored over set periods of time.
Research, apply, and support faculty and staff in the application of multiple behavior intervention options.
Collaborate with all faculty, staff, and administration in the application of Conscious Discipline.
Develop and maintain a student database that identifies need and tracks behavior interventions provided as well as results.
Collaborate with administration in professional development efforts for faculty and staff schoolwide.
Communicate plans and progress of students to families.
Create, maintain, and enforce clearly defined school-wide behavior expectations and procedures for discipline.
Collaborate with the wellness team (social worker, school psychologist, counselor).
Collaborate with the special education team to provide support and interventions for students with IEPs.
Track student behaviors and consequences.
Intervene when a student is significantly disruptive.
Develop and administer disciplinary procedures in accordance with school and district policies and state laws; confer with students, parents, and teachers regarding student-related policies.
Respond to and resolve parent, student, and staff concerns and complaints regarding student behavior.
Assist staff with the creation and alignment of classroom student behavioral expectations and classroom management plans.
Openly communicate with staff and parents/guardians regarding student behavior.
Create and maintain research-based behavioral interventions and train staff in those interventions.
Manage the documentation of student behavior through Infinite Campus.
Attend appropriate meetings regarding student growth and success (IEP and 504 case conferences, parent meetings, suspension meetings etc.).
Assist in the maintenance of the crisis management plan and school safety requirements.
Perform other duties as assigned.
Take responsibility for student learning by valuing diversity, needs, learning styles and through shared ownership.
Commit to being clear and purposeful in objectives and instruction while continuing to reflect and revise learning strategies by frequently monitoring student assessment data and ensuring that it is used as a tool for learning.
Accept and embrace diversity within the community of faculty, students, and parent/guardians by valuing each other for who and where all are in life as learners and as people, and commit to providing a safe place for all to succeed.
Be direct, intentional, timely, and graceful in giving and receiving communication without judgment and for positive and proactive purposes.
Create an environment that empowers faculty, students, and parent/guardians to be active participants in student success.
Create a focused and sustainable adult community by focusing on what is most essential to student success and staying focused on Highline’s goal.
Consistently model and enforce Highline’s academic and behavioral expectations.