Student Support Specialist, #1329: Ingenium Barack Obama Charter School, Compton, CA

Ingenium•West Rancho Dominguez, CA

9d•Onsite

About The Position

The student support specialist is responsible for helping develop and maintaining systems, processes, and policies that maintain a positive, safe, and learning-centered culture at the school site. The student support specialist supports staff, parents, and students to implement these systems based on intrinsic motivation and student ownership. The student support specialist reports to the school site principal.

Requirements

Knowledge of effective practices for creating intrinsically motivating environments.
Knowledge of quality systems and experience in applying them in an educational setting, especially tracking and PDSA tools.
Knowledge of various processes and policies: SST, suspension and expulsion.
Knowledge of urban children and their families, especially those represented in the school’s student population.
Knowledge of child cognitive development and learning styles.
Knowledge of learning and motivational strategies for students.
Ability to communicate clearly, both orally and in writing.
Ability to inspire adults to use restorative practices.
Ability to manage multiple tasks simultaneously while prioritizing projects and assignments.
Ability to learn quickly and advocate for own learning needs.
Ability to build positive culture with parents, students, staff, and other stakeholders.
Ability to work under time pressure while maintaining a positive work environment.
Ability to maintain positive attitude.
Ability to maintain regular attendance (adequate supervision required by law and ability to find staff substitute limited).
Ability to establish a culture of high expectations based on the belief that all students can be successful.
Ability to interact appropriately with children of all ages and adequately supervise large groups of children.
Ability to effectively collaborate with colleagues, parents, and community.
Ability to manage student behavior to ensure every student is fully engaged, productive, and safe.
Ability to read and understand the rules and policies, labels, and instructions.
Application of Quality Learning in own classroom as a classroom or campus assistant.
Experience building positive culture through intrinsic motivation.
High School Diploma or GED equivalent.

Nice To Haves

Bilingual (Spanish/English) preferred.
CPR and First Aid preferred.

Responsibilities

Support the mission, vision, and core values of Ingenium Schools.
Strive to implement, by instruction and action, Ingenium Schools’ philosophy of education and instructional goals and objectives.
Maintain and improve professional competence, and participate in all required professional development opportunities.
Attend mandatory training as required.
Support the development and implementation of a comprehensive behavior system that clearly articulates the school-wide systems and supports students will use to build positive relationships and manage their own behavior.
Support teachers and staff to effectively implement school-wide and classroom culture systems, including how to track behavior.
Train and coach students on the behavior system to maintain a positive school climate and culture of high expectations.
Effectively respond to student referrals with a restorative and responsive lens as well as appropriate behavior modification strategies.
Effectively communicate with parents, staff, and administration to create partnerships to support students.
Input data into a system to collect and monitor effectiveness of individual student behavior referrals as well as trends in class, grade, and school.
Work with administration to utilize the PDSA process to evaluate behavior trends and adjust supports to improve school culture.
Observe target students or student sub-groups in order to develop effective supports and behavior plans with staff.
Serve as the member of the "Student Success Team" team to provide input for students not responding to the school-wide behavior system.
Support teachers, staff, and parents to implement SST behavior plans, including tracking student growth during the implementation of the SST behavior plan.
Collaborate with teachers and administrators to design and implement key whole-school activities to build and celebrate school culture, such as community meetings, assemblies, and other activities.
Collaborate with administration to lead proactive, site-based learning experiences for families that connects to building positive student culture.
Clearly and consistently communicate with all stakeholders, especially families, about student behavior and interventions.
Support teachers and staff to fully implement student incident policies.
Collaborate with site administration to update and refine the parent-student handbook.
Monitor the suspension process, communicating and collaborating with the principal as incidents escalate and reach expulsion level.
Support outdoor supervision systems to ensure student safety.