Social Emotional Learning (SEL) Coach

Reports to: School Principal

Location: Koontz Elementary

General Responsibilities: 

• Works closely with the principal to establish a positive, structured, achievement-oriented, and supportive school culture
• Supports teachers to hold all scholars to high and consistent behavioral expectations
• Analyze behavior data across and identifies needed team or individual teacher adjustments to culture, instruction and behavior management
• Serves as the point person for dealing with behavioral crisis-intervention and acute behavioral issues
• Acts as a resource for teachers in their instructional practice, especially as it relates to issues of discipline, relationships with scholars, classroom management, and school culture
• Assists teachers, scholars, and parents in the effective creation and implementation of individual behavior plans
• Helps to reinforce the effective use of a school-wide behavior plan, including managing the school’s behavior management systems
• Ensures that the physical environment of the school reinforces school culture and facilitates scholar achievement
• Stays highly present and visible during school hours, relentlessly ensuring the school has an exceptional school culture
• Circulates proactively throughout classrooms and hallways during the day, to gain valuable context on scholar behavior and help support positive school culture monitoring behavioral pull-out and in-school suspensions (wellness room support)
• Work with students and small groups to support intervention and academic support activities
• Models the school’s values and the standard for professional behavior
• Support scholar apologies and school culture messages at Community Meeting
• Supervises breakfast, lunch, in-between class transitions, enrichment, and dismissal, making sure scholars are always where they are supposed to be and ensuring a professional school culture at these times
• Maintain professional practice and development, staying current with recent approaches to improving SEL for students, staff, and families.

Additional Responsibilities to support SEL Interventions:

• Manage wellness rooms including assigned students, supports and scheduling. 
• Keeps accurate scholar discipline records, documenting all conferences, suspensions, and phone calls for behavior
• Ensures that behavioral expectations and school culture standards are met outside of the classroom as well as inside, including establishing and monitoring home transition behavior/culture as well as cafeteria/mealtime behavior and culture
• Under general supervision, coordinate social-emotional learning (SEL) support for students, as well as assist with SEL professional development for staff.
• Assist site staff with the identification of students who need additional (moderate/Tier II or intensive/Tier III) SEL support.
• Ability to provide Tier II and/or Tier III SEL interventions directly or through consultation to other educators and support staff.
• Assist behavior technicians with Tier II and/or Tier III SEL interventions
• Schedule and support behavior technicians on wellness room practices and SEL interventions for individuals or groups of students.
• Participate in joint planning and case management with community agencies that support students’ SEL abilities.
• Conduct staff and community education on SEL.
• Make home visits as necessary.
• Gather and track data on student progress.

Requirements:

• Must hold or be eligible to obtain either a valid school counselor license/school social worker license or admin license. Persons who also maintain a teaching license or who have classroom teaching experience are preferred.
• Must be able to speak before groups of people with poise, voice control, and confidence
• Strong interpersonal relationships with students, staff, and parents
• Ability to communicate effectively in written and oral forms
• Ability to develop and compile a variety of records and reports
• Experience with spreadsheets and assessing data

Term of Employment: 10 months