Graduation Coach

Location

Flat Rock Community High School / Flat Rock Community Schools

Wednesday, May 27, 2026

Graduation Coach

• Current, valid Michigan teaching certificate; secondary education certification and experience preferred
• Experience working with at-risk students

• Receive training on the Early Warning Intervention and Monitoring Program and fully implement the program when working with students in need.
• Use and analyze cohort data (achievement, attendance, behavior, credit accrual) to identify high school students with a high probability of not graduating with cohort.
• Collaborate with a caseload of students, parent(s)/guardian(s), teachers, counselors, and community partners to develop a graduation and achievement plan that includes the best program to meet academic and post‑secondary goals.
• Maintain a file for each cohort student to include, but not limited to: transcripts, student assessments, individual graduation plan, documentation of meetings with parent(s)/guardian(s), documentation of individual student conferences, referrals for needed educational, and/or social services.
• Provide students with appropriate post-secondary preparation, programs, and services as identified by the educational development plan.
• Monitor grades, attendance, behavior, and credit accrual of cohort students toward meeting graduation requirements.
• Develop and implement individual, small group, and whole school preventative/intervention strategies to increase the likelihood that students will persist in school and graduate.
• Communicate regularly with parent(s)/guardian(s), to discuss academic progress, obstacles, and needed efforts by students and parents; should include face‑to‑face contact, phone, e‑mail, text messages, and other communication opportunities, as needed.
• Connect caseload students and their parents with tutoring support and credit or course recovery options, as appropriate.
• Analyze data to determine effectiveness of preventative/intervention strategies to increase graduation rates for all student population subgroups within the school.
• Develop transition activities and action steps for incoming 9th grade at‑risk students to successfully adapt to the rigor of high school.
• Provide support, outreach, and training to parent(s)/guardian(s) of students identified as being at risk of not graduating.
• Provide training and support to high school teachers on support measures that work with youth identified as at‑risk of not graduating including trauma‑informed practices.
• Participate in parent‑teacher conferences, child‑find meetings, individual education plans (IEP)/504 meetings, and alternative placement transition meetings for caseload students.
• Develop partnerships with business and community organizations to support the goals of district high school graduation initiatives.
• Coordinate interventions for caseload students.
• Provide individual and group support to students for personal, social, and emotional development.
• Identify and connect students who are at risk of dropping out of high school with community services (e.g., food banks, counseling centers, job training and placement centers, drug and alcohol treatment programs, and organizations that assist pregnant and parenting teens) that offer assistance for high school completion.
• Identify students who have dropped out and encourage them to re‑engage in school (dropout recovery) or choose the best option for high school completion.
• Be prompt, regularly attend in‑person and be available to work on or off‑site, in‑person during regular business hours, and as needed.
• Perform other duties as assigned by an appropriate administrator or their representative.