Student Success Specialist - Northwestern Academy of Visual and Performing Arts

Title I Student Success Specialist

The Title I Student Success Specialist works directly with identified students to provide supplemental engagement, behavior/SEL, attendance, and learning-readiness interventions connected to the school wide Title I plan. The position supports students whose engagement, attendance, behavior, or social-emotional skill needs interfere with access to instruction and academic success. The Specialist helps students develop skills necessary to participate successfully in the classroom, including self-regulation, problem-solving, conflict resolution, help-seeking, task completion, positive peer and adult interactions, and readiness to learn.

Responsibilities:

• Provide direct, supplemental support to students identified through school data as failing or at risk of failing to meet state academic standards.
• Build positive, supportive relationships with students to increase engagement, classroom participation, attendance, and academic success.
• Provide supplemental check-in/check-out support for students identified as needing additional academic, attendance, behavioral, SEL, or engagement support.
• Coordinate and staff a supplemental Student Success Center designed to provide short-term, skill-building intervention and re-entry support so students can return to classroom instruction as quickly and successfully as possible.
• Ensure that the Student Success Center is used for supportive intervention, skill-building, problem-solving, regulation, reflection, and re-entry planning, and not as an in-school suspension room or disciplinary consequence space.
• Work collaboratively with the Principal, Behavior Interventionist, Bearcat Coach, teachers, and other school staff to support students whose behavioral, attendance, SEL, or engagement needs interfere with access to instruction.
• Implement non-clinical, trauma-informed, restorative, culturally responsive, and student-centered strategies that support student regulation, conflict resolution, problem-solving, and readiness to learn.
• Support students in developing skills related to emotional regulation, recognizing triggers, expressing feelings appropriately, active listening, asking for help, task completion, empathy, personal space, and positive peer/adult interactions.
• Collaborate with school staff to implement proactive intervention strategies that reduce classroom removals, increase instructional time, and support successful classroom reintegration.
• Support successful student re-entry to the classroom following a short-term intervention by helping students identify next steps, repair relationships when appropriate, and return to learning.
• Collect and maintain data on student interventions, referrals, time in the Student Success Center, frequency and duration of support, return-to-class rates, repeat referrals, attendance, engagement, and other indicators connected to the school wide plan.
• Use student data to monitor intervention effectiveness and adjust supports in collaboration with building staff.
• Participate in student support, MTSS, SST, or problem-solving meetings to help identify supplemental supports for students who are at risk of not meeting academic expectations.
• Collaborate with families, when appropriate, to support student engagement, attendance, and successful participation in the school environment.
• Attend professional development related to restorative practices, culturally responsive practices, trauma-informed schools, positive behavior interventions and supports, MTSS, student engagement, and strategies that improve access to instruction and academic success.
• Support the implementation of school wide Title I strategies identified in the comprehensive needs assessment and school wide plan.

Qualifications:

• High School Diploma required
• Demonstrated success in working with students and families of diverse backgrounds.
• Ability to quickly establish and maintain cooperative and effective professional relationships, build trust in a limited time, and engage with a broad range of school-based staff.
• Ability to demonstrate effective communication skills in group facilitation, managing individual students and groups of students.
• Cultural awareness and ability to navigate and promote sensitivity with issues of race and equity and knowledge of racial equity and racial justice in the context of public education.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate clearly and concisely, both orally and in writing, to a broad range of audiences.
• Ability to balance multiple priorities with proven ability to anticipate challenges, solve problems and maintain a calm demeanor in high-pressure situations.
• Strong time management, organizational and interpersonal skills.

Pay: $20/hour

SCHOOL SAFETY CLEARANCE:
The successful candidate will be subject to a fingerprint and background check as a condition of employment. All fees required for this check (estimated $73) will be the responsibility of the successful applicant. The Battle Creek Public School…