Strengths Based Interventionist

Grand Rapids Public Schools • Grand Rapids, MI

22h • Onsite

About The Position

The Strengths-Based Interventionist will work under the direction of the principal to provide academic and behavioral support for scholars using a strengths-based approach. The Interventionist will work with a specific caseload of identified scholars to implement the Strengths Opportunities Aspirations Results (SOAR) process while promoting learning readiness. This is a Grant-Funded, non-tenured position, and continued employment is contingent upon continued funding.

Requirements

• Experience working with urban High school
• Consistently demonstrate dependable attendance

Nice To Haves

• Experience in education
• College credits

Responsibilities

• Work with identified scholars and parents utilizing a strengths-based approach that recognizes scholar strengths as a key component to reinforcing all positive scholar outcomes, including behavior, academic, and social-emotional.
• Assist scholars and parents in learning and implementing the scholar SOAR process, which identifies scholar strengths (including recognizable and defined academic, behavioral, or social emotional behaviors that “shine” for a particular scholar) and opportunities, creates aspirations, and makes public intended.
• Utilize a holistic approach to scholar success that considers and addresses the emotional, physical, behavioral, and social-emotional needs of scholars to help them identify their strengths, preferences, and passions to increase academic and behavioral.
• Document, develop, and enrich scholars’ portfolios of academic and social emotional strengths, helping them to identify, develop, and/or further develop as a scholar by using known strengths as a lever of.
• Collaborate with teachers, School Renewal Specialists, administrators, Promise Neighborhood Facilitators, and other district staff to determine how best to serve scholars and implement evidence-based practices to reach the desired.
• Progress monitor caseload and create individual leverage plans for.
• Ensure compliance with the Grand Rapids Southeast Promise Neighborhood Grant in that weekly report logs of caseload progress are documented and submitted.
• Biweekly meeting with the School Renewal Specialist for coaching sessions to learn and leverage evidence-based practices within the pipeline initiatives of the Promise Neighborhood Grant: Early Learning, School Success, College and Career Readiness, and Parent and Community Support.
• Other duties as assigned.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed