PBIS Educational Assistant

Openings as of 6/21/2026

• Position Type:
  Support Staff/ Behavioral Education Assistant
• Date Posted: 6/11/2026
• Location:
  
  Lakewood Elementary School
• Date Available:
  
  08/27/2026

Position: PBIS Educational Assistant Posting # 4030

Posting Dates:
June 5, 2026 – Until Filled

Reports To:

Principal

Beginning:
August 27, 2026

Hours:

29.5 hours per week

Monday – Friday

School Year/Full Time

The PBIS Educational Assistant works closely with elementary students to explicitly teach and reinforce essential behavioral, social, and emotional skills. Through the Skills-Based approach, this role focuses on helping students build strategies for self‑regulation, problem‑solving, and positive interactions in a way that supports their safety and dignity. Support is individualized based on student needs, and the specific school location may vary depending on student caseloads and district priorities.

• Teaching Replacement Skills
  • Actively teach students functional communication, such as how to request a break or ask for help, as a safe alternative to challenging behavior.
• Maintaining HRE (Happy, Relaxed, Engaged)
  • Continuously monitor and support the student's emotional state to ensure they remain in a positive learning "zone". You will proactively adjust the environment to prevent escalation.
• Tolerance Training
  • Guide students through "skill branches" that teach them how to tolerate "no," follow instructions, and transition between tasks while staying regulated.
• Individualized Support
  • Work 1-on‑1 to carry out specific protocols derived from the student's individualized plan.
• Practical Functional Assessment and Skill-Based Treatment in Schools Data Collection & Reporting
  • Accurately track student progress, focusing on the frequency of new skill use and the maintenance of an HRE state.
• Crisis Prevention
  • Utilize gentle, assent-based de‑escalation techniques to ensure a safe and supportive environment for all.

• High School diploma or equivalent (Associate's degree or Para Pro certification preferred)
• Able to be flexible and adjust quickly to the needs of the day
• Experience working with children is preferred.
• Willing to work in cold weather

• Reaching
  :
  Extending hand(s) and arm(s) in any direction.
• Lifting
  :
  Raising objects from a lower to a higher position or moving objects horizontally from position to position. This factor is important if it occurs to a considerable degree and requires the substantial use of the upper extremities and back muscles.
• Grasping
  :
  Applying pressure to an object with the fingers and palm.
• Talking
  :
  Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word; those activities where detailed or important spoken instructions must be conveyed to other workers accurately, loudly, or quickly.
• Hearing
  :
  Perceiving the nature of sounds at normal speaking levels with or without correction, and having the ability to receive detailed information through oral communication, and making fine discriminations in sound.
• Repetitive motions
  :
  Making substantial movements (motions) of the wrists, hands, and/or fingers.
• The worker is subject to environmental conditions.
• The worker should provide consistent and reliable in‑person attendance.