2026-2027 Behavior Interventionist

Crescent City Schools • New Orleans, LA

3d • Onsite

About The Position

Our Behavior Interventionists impact students’ lives by implementing with fidelity the school discipline and behavioral support systems, collaborating with student support team members and teachers to help students maintain high behavior expectations, and working closely with the classroom teacher to support instruction for more than 50% of the workday. They build effective relationships with students and families and professionally communicate with families to encourage behavior changes at the school. They maintain a school culture conducive to raising student achievement including, but not limited to, monitoring behavior pull-out rooms, hallways, cafeteria, after-school detention, and recess. They collect and analyze behavioral data to inform discipline decisions and improve practice, provide supportive interventions to families and students, and after CPI training, implement de-escalation techniques when working with students in crisis. They respond with urgency to student support needs, transition disruptive students quickly and without escalation from the classroom, and monitor behavior pull-out rooms so students have a calm and orderly place to redirect themselves. They implement weekly feedback and goal-setting into daily practice, participate in daily, weekly, and quarterly meetings about student achievement, and participate in the life of the school, including student activities and events. They embody, advocate, and operationalize the mission, vision, and direction of the school, and take on other tasks as needed.

Requirements

• Believe in the mission and values of Crescent City Schools
• Have demonstrated past success working with students in urban settings

Nice To Haves

• BA or BS degree
• Knowledge of social-emotional and behavioral interventions
• Bilingual

Responsibilities

• Implementing with fidelity the school discipline and behavioral support systems
• Collaborating with student support team members and teachers to help students maintain high behavior expectations
• Working closely with the classroom teacher to support instruction for more than 50% of the workday
• Building effective relationships with students and families and professionally communicating with families to encourage behavior changes at the school
• Maintaining a school culture conducive to raising student achievement including, but not limited to, monitoring behavior pull-out rooms, hallways, cafeteria, after-school detention, and recess
• Collecting and analyzing behavioral data to inform discipline decisions and improve practice
• Providing supportive interventions to families and students
• After CPI training, implementing de-escalation techniques when working with students in crisis
• Responding with urgency to student support needs
• Transitioning disruptive students quickly and without escalation from the classroom
• Monitoring behavior pull-out rooms so students have a calm and orderly place to redirect themselves
• Implementing weekly feedback and goal-setting into daily practice
• Participating in daily, weekly, and quarterly meetings about student achievement
• Participating in the life of the school, including student activities and events
• Embodying, advocating, and operationalizing the mission, vision, and direction of the school
• Taking on other tasks as needed

Benefits

• Innovative compensation system
• Support Scale or Associate Scale (depending on experience and qualifications)
• Bumps for taking on leadership responsibilities, summer work, doing work outside of regular duties, or longevity with CCS
• Fully-paid health insurance
• Immediate 4% 401k match
• Employer-paid mental health services
• Generous leave policies

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level