Student Culture Assistant

Environmental Charter Schools • Inglewood, CA

17h • Onsite

About The Position

The Student Culture Assistant is a member of the ECS Paraeducator Job Family who provides direct behavioral, social emotional, restorative, and student engagement support. The employee works under the direction of the Dean of Student Climate and Culture and designated certificated administrators. The employee collaborates with certificated staff and implements plans, interventions, and procedures that are co-developed with and approved by certificated staff. The employee does not independently make disciplinary, programmatic, placement, safety, IEP, or 504 decisions.

Requirements

• High school diploma or equivalent and completion of all ECS paraeducator requirements.
• Current CPR and First Aid certification.
• Demonstrated experience supporting behavioral, social-emotional, restorative, or student interventions.
• Strong judgment, communication, collaboration, organization, documentation, and problem-solving skills.
• Commitment to inclusive education, student belonging, equity, restorative practice, and ECS values.

Nice To Haves

• Postsecondary education or bachelor's degree.
• Experience with Tier 2 and Tier 3 supports, restorative practices, deescalation, MTSS, reentry, check in and check out, and behavioral data collection.
• Bilingual and biliterate in English and Spanish.

Responsibilities

• Provide direct behavioral, social emotional, restorative, and student engagement support to individual students and groups.
• Implement established schoolwide and individualized supports under the direction of the Dean of Student Climate and Culture and designated certificated administrators.
• Use trained prevention, regulation, deescalation, restorative, and reengagement strategies to support student safety, belonging, and access to instruction.
• Collect and communicate objective intervention data and maintain assigned student support records.
• Refer significant disciplinary, programmatic, safety, mandated reporting, threat assessment, IEP, 504, and placement concerns to the appropriate administrator or certificated employee.
• Provide behavioral, executive functioning, social emotional, restorative, and engagement support across classrooms and school settings.
• Support students with and without IEPs, 504 Plans, or individualized plans to increase participation, independence, belonging, and access to learning.
• Implement Tier 1 supports and assigned Tier 2 and Tier 3 interventions; recognize early escalation and use trained prevention, regulation, deescalation, and reengagement strategies in collaboration with the Dean of Student Climate and Culture and designated certificated staff.
• Implement accommodations, Behavior Intervention Plans, safety plans, student success plans, and other supports as directed by certificated staff.
• Reinforce replacement behaviors, functional communication, coping skills, conflict resolution, and successful return to instruction.
• Facilitate or co-facilitate assigned restorative conversations, community building circles, support circles, and problem solving processes within demonstrated training and competency.
• Support students in understanding impact, identifying appropriate repairs, and reintegrating successfully into the school community.
• Provide early support for peer conflict, interpersonal challenges, and bullying concerns; elevate significant concerns to the Dean or certificated administrator.
• Follow up on assigned interventions to support repair, reengagement, student voice, dignity, and belonging.
• Implement assigned behavior, attendance, engagement, social emotional, and restorative interventions co-developed with and approved by certificated staff.
• Provide approved individual and small group supports, including check in and check out, reentry support, and other defined interventions.
• Collect objective data and maintain intervention logs, restorative documentation, and other assigned records.
• Communicate student response, implementation concerns, and observed patterns to the Dean and appropriate certificated staff.
• Participate in MTSS, SST, IEP, 504, behavior, attendance, and climate and culture meetings as assigned.
• Collaborate with the Dean, administrators, teachers, counselors, special education staff, school psychologists, social workers, paraeducators, and other student support personnel.
• Contribute observations and implementation data to plans developed by certificated staff; implement approved plans and request clarification when needed.
• Support consistent use of established interventions and student support procedures across settings.
• Communicate professionally with families when directed by the Dean or certificated administrator and within the scope of assigned responsibilities.
• Carry out assigned climate and culture routines, interventions, and student support processes under the direction of the Dean and designated certificated administrators.
• Maintain assigned check in and check out, restorative follow up, reentry, and intervention records; communicate completion and implementation gaps to the Dean.
• Assist with belonging, attendance, positive behavior, restorative, anti-bullying, student recognition, community building, and student voice activities as assigned.
• Contribute data and observations to team review and continuous improvement of established practices.
• Maintain confidentiality, professional boundaries, ethical conduct, accurate documentation, and professional communication.
• Follow ECS policies, student plans, safety procedures, mandated reporting requirements, and directions from administrators and certificated staff.
• Participate in required training, professional learning, and team meetings.

Benefits

• 100% of HMO-level healthcare premium costs covered by employer, and contributions towards dependent healthcare.
• Employer-paid ECS life insurance.
• Generous time off program includes 22 holidays, sick leave and vacation.
• Support with application to loan forgiveness programs, and access to 403b Retirement Plans.
• Small Learning Communities with smaller class sizes and lower student to counselor ratios.
• Social and Environmental Justice Focus.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: High school or GED