KIPP Durham Behavior Technician

Description

The Behavior Technician provides direct, intensive behavioral support to students whose behavioral, social-emotional, functional, or adaptive needs affect their ability to access instruction and participate successfully in the school environment.

The Behavior Technician provides direct, intensive behavioral support to students whose behavioral, social-emotional, functional, or adaptive needs affect their ability to access instruction and participate successfully in the school environment.
The Behavior Technician takes ownership of the day-to-day implementation, monitoring, and follow-through of behavioral supports for assigned students. Working collaboratively with teachers, Exceptional Children (EC) staff, school leaders, families, and other members of the Student Support team, the Behavior Technician implements established behavioral interventions, collects and reviews behavioral data, monitors student progress, supports consistent implementation across settings, and escalates concerns when additional assessment or changes to a student’s plan may be needed.
The Behavior Technician uses positive behavioral strategies, direct observation, data collection, reinforcement systems, and explicit instruction to help students develop appropriate replacement behaviors, increase independence, and participate successfully across school settings.
The Behavior Technician may support individual students or multiple students based on identified student and school needs and will complete required Crisis Prevention Institute (CPI) training to support prevention, de-escalation, and safe response to behavioral crises.

• Provides direct behavioral support to assigned students in individual, small-group, classroom, and other school settings.
• Implements established Behavior Intervention Plans (BIPs), IEP behavioral supports, safety plans, reinforcement systems, and other assigned behavioral interventions with fidelity.
• Provides explicit instruction and practice in replacement behaviors, self-regulation, communication, coping strategies, social-emotional skills, adaptive skills, and other identified student needs.
• Uses positive behavioral strategies, including reinforcement, prompting, modeling, antecedent strategies, environmental supports, visual supports, structured routines, and systematic fading of adult support.
• Provides proactive behavioral support designed to reduce escalation and increase student engagement, access, and independence.
• Supports students during classroom instruction, transitions, arrival and dismissal, meals, recess, assemblies, and other school activities as needed.
• Assists students in generalizing appropriate behaviors and skills across adults, settings, activities, and routines.
• Works intentionally to increase student independence and reduce unnecessary reliance on intensive adult support.

• Takes ownership of the day-to-day implementation, monitoring, and follow-through of behavioral supports for assigned students.
• Ensures established student-specific behavioral interventions and supports are implemented consistently throughout the school day.
• Conducts regular check-ins with teachers and other staff supporting assigned students to monitor implementation and identify emerging concerns.
• Collaborates with appropriate staff to identify and implement practical behavioral strategies consistent with established student plans and team recommendations.
• Monitors student response to behavioral interventions through direct observation and data collection.
• Identifies patterns, changes, or concerns in student behavior and communicates them to the appropriate school or Student Support team member.
• Brings concerns regarding lack of progress, increased behavioral needs, or implementation challenges to the appropriate team for problem-solving and adjustment.
• Ensures behavioral concerns receive appropriate follow-through and are escalated when needs exceed the current intervention or the scope of the Behavior Technician role.
• Helps maintain consistency among staff implementing established behavioral supports.

• Collects accurate and objective behavioral data, including frequency, duration, intensity, antecedents, consequences, replacement behaviors, and other identified measures.
• Maintains organized and timely documentation of behavioral interventions, student responses, significant incidents, and…