Social Worker K2nd Grades 202627

Start Date: 2026-27 School Year

Location: Columbia Heights Primary Academy ****

Reports to: Principal

FLSA Status: Exempt

Updated: December 2025

The School Social Worker at Prodeo Academy supports students' academic, social, emotional, and behavioral success through trauma-informed, data-driven practices aligned to Prodeo's core values. This role provides direct services to students, partners closely with families, and collaborates with teachers and staff to address barriers to learning and promote overall school wellbeing. The position includes case management, assessments, crisis intervention, staff consultation, and coordination with community resources, while maintaining strong communication, documentation, and professional standards.

The School Social Worker serves as a key member of school-based teams, working to close the opportunity gap and foster positive, inclusive learning environments for all scholars.

Prodeo Academy is a network of public charter schools serving the Twin Cities. Prodeo Academy is a meaningful education solution that is closing the opportunity gap through data-driven instruction in a culture grounded in five core values:
Perseverance, Respect, Integrity, Development, and Engagement
. Shared expectations around these values enhance the opportunity for scholars to reach their full potential. We seek team members who are committed to helping students access greater opportunities, achieve future success, and contribute positively to their communities.

The following duties represent the essential functions of this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform these functions.

Services to Youth

• Utilize, model, and teach trauma-informed responses to behavior.
• Conduct classroom meetings and psycho-educational social skills groups and classroom presentations on identified areas of concerns, as needed.
• Provide social work case management, risk assessments and functional behavior assessments, as needed.
• Identify and assess academic problems through analysis of factors impinging on student adjustment, including factors in the home, school, and community.
• In conjunction with school staff, assist with crisis intervention services, as needed.

Services to Families

• Visit with families whose youth are more significantly challenged in school.
• Use parent coaching interventions to assist families in managing challenging behaviors and decreasing trauma responses.
• Serve as a liaison between families and the school to positively promote collaborative processes in educational planning for students by encouraging parent/guardian participation in the school setting.
• Provide parent/guardian educational workshops on identified issues related to child development, stress reduction, discipline and safety, and teacher/parent/student communication.
• Establish communication and positive connections between the parent/guardian and school around identified issues.
• Locate and collaborate with community services and resources to support families in order to foster students' educational and emotional functioning.

Services to School Staff

• Ensure systemic wellbeing of Prodeo Academy and its teachers and staff by promoting a culture of wellbeing.
• Provide staff consultation regarding issues impacting student participation in the learning process.
• Provide staff development to teach and model trauma-informed behavioral supports to teachers and staff.
• Provide classroom observation, when requested, for the purpose of observing students in various environments.
• Support teachers and staff in addressing non-academic challenges to learning youth may have, due to external factors influencing their readiness for learning.
• Collaborate with school staff and other school system personnel in implementing strategies to promote student learning.
• Develop programs and interventions to assist parent/guardian participation in the school, and engagement in the educational process.

Supervision & Administrative Requirements

• Attend and participate in trainings, regular supervision with both Prodeo and Anu.
• Communicate in an effective and timely manner with Anu and Prodeo staff.
• Participate as a member of school-based teams to develop interventions for promoting students' academic success.
• Serve on both school-based and system-wide committees to address educational issues, adjustment problems, safety issues, and program development for students, as requested.
• Maintain required clinical records and submit appropriate documents for outcome reports, with adherence to program standards in school social work, in a timely manner.

Professional Consultation and Coordination

• Actively participate through giving and seeking input from supervisor(s) and colleagues in supervision, case reviews and other clinical meetings to ensure broad consultation and best practice approaches to the most difficult cases.
• Participate as team member with Prodeo Academy staff, youth and their families, as well as…