SEL - Student Support Intervention Teacher

SEL - Student Support Intervention Teacher

Position Title: SEL - Student Success Intervention Teacher (K-4)
Department/Building: Baxter Elementary School
Reports to: Building Principal/Director of Schools
Assignment:  School Year - Ongoing
Hours: 8 per day, Monday through Friday (184 Duty Days + An Extra 9 Days = 193 Total Days)
Salary Range: $ 46,936 - $ 90,238 (Based on education and experience; wages outlined in the Certified Master Contract located on district website)
Union: Ed MN
FLSA: Overtime Exempt
Benefits: Health, Dental, Vision, Life, LTD, TRA, 403b and PTO/ESST

This position provides intervention and prevention services to students enrolled in Brainerd Public Schools. The Social Emotional Learning (SEL) Specialist will act as Tier 2 interventionist for student support services and as a liaison between students, their Guardian(s) and teachers, school counselors, mental health providers and/or other external agencies in order to ensure student success.

• Minimum of a Bachelor's degree, Human Service related field preferred
• Five years of demonstrated experience working with children, preferred
• Current MN license required or eligibility to apply for tiered licensure
• Effective written and oral communication skills
• Ability to work effectively and efficiently as an individual and as a team member
• Ability to establish and maintain working relationships with building leaders, teacher colleagues, students, families, and community service providers.

• Provide social-emotional and behavioral intervention and frequent data collection to measure the effectiveness of intervention as part of the Multi-Tiered Systems of Support (MTSS) framework (80%)
• In collaboration with other school professionals, identify students having social and/or emotional difficulties in need of intervention prior to referral for special education services.
• Develop an intervention plan for the student including obtaining guardian consent and input, identifying the skills to be taught, planning and preparing the intervention materials, collecting and tracking student progress data, and monitoring growth or intervention modification needs
• Provide preplanned direct evidence-based intervention services using data from district screening assessments (SAEBRS and MySAEBRS) and progress monitoring tools such as D .
• Partner with other educators and district staff in support of the student.
• Fulfill all Alternative Delivery of Specialized Instructional Services (ADSIS) grant requirements.
• Collaborate with Interagency and Interdisciplinary community, district, or building teams.
• Assist in identifying gaps in services. (10%)
• Meet regularly with service providers and families to coordinate activities and interventions.
• Participate in a monthly district wide Social Emotional Learning Teacher meeting.
• Participate in building child study, attendance meetings, and Multi-Tiered Systems of Support (MTSS) meetings, as assigned.
• Assure that all services for individual students and groups of children are streamlined and not duplicative.
• Engage in and apply all ADSIS grant-required training, with a particular focus on Minnesota PBIS training, to effectively implement the ADSIS framework.
• Maintain contact with families, teachers, service providers and other stakeholders as needed.
• Keep data to assess program effectiveness in line with district screeners, progress monitoring tools and other fidelity measures.
• Attend scheduled meetings with the service team, building administrators and other members of the interdisciplinary team.
• Maintain records of all contacts with students and families.
• Write reports as assigned to track family and program progress.
• Maintain appropriate documentation of forms, files, and other necessary paperwork.
• Participate in daily supervision responsibilities as assigned by the building administrator.
• Act as a member of the building crisis team.
• This position is non-exempt and staff are expected to be present on a daily basis during school hours (7:45 - 3:45 or 7:30 - 3:30, dependent on site need and determined by building principal). SEL Teachers are expected to work the 184-day ISD 181 school year calendar and will have an additional 9 days of work. SEL Teachers are required to use part of these 9 days to work during summer school and to prepare for the school year in August.
  
  Building principals will approve an annual calendar for each worker based on the building's needs. Some evening or weekend work may be required, which can result in some flexible schedule changes as approved by the Building Principal.
• Acts as a liaison between the home, school and community providers to access, mobilize and coordinate services.
• Other duties as assigned.

Physical Demands: reaching, standing, walking, grasping, talking, hearing, seeing and repetitive motions. Light Work: exerting up to 40 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 10 pounds of force frequently,…