Student Culture Assistant

Reporting To: Principal.

Position Type: Full-Time.

Pay: $21 - $28.03 (DOE).

About ECS:

The mission of the Environmental Charter Schools (ECS) is to reimagine public education in low-income communities of color to prepare conscious, critical thinkers who are equipped to graduate from college and create a more equitable and sustainable world. Environmental Charter Schools (ECS) is a non-profit charter management organization with four free public schools in South Los Angeles.
Since its inception in 2001, ECS has provided a unique learning experience that utilizes project-based, interdisciplinary curricula to inspire our students to find authentic meaning in their studies. ECS proudly serves over 1,500 students at two middle schools (Gardena and Inglewood) and at two high schools (Lawndale and Gardena) and has been recognized for its ability to close achievement gaps for low-income Black/African American and Latino students.

ECHS Lawndale ranks in the top 2% of public high schools in U.S. News & World Report, 100% of students graduate high school with the coursework necessary for admission to a four-year college or university, and 97% of students are admitted into a four-year college. Most of our students will be the first in their family to graduate from college.

The Opportunity:

The Student Culture Assistant is a member of the ECS Para educator Job Family who provides direct behavioral, social emotional, restorative, and student engagement support. The employee works under the direction of the Dean of Student Climate and Culture and designated certificated administrators. The employee collaborates with certificated staff and implements plans, interventions, and procedures that are co-developed with and approved by certificated staff.

The employee does not independently make disciplinary, programmatic, placement, safety, IEP, or 504 decisions.

• Provide direct behavioral, social emotional, restorative, and student engagement support to individual students and groups.
• Implement established school wide and individualized supports under the direction of the Dean of Student Climate and Culture and designated certificated administrators.
• Use trained prevention, regulation, deescalation, restorative, and reengagement strategies to support student safety, belonging, and access to instruction.
• Collect and communicate objective intervention data and maintain assigned student support records.
• Refer significant disciplinary, programmatic, safety, mandated reporting, threat assessment, IEP, 504, and placement concerns to the appropriate administrator or certificated employee.

• Provide behavioral, executive functioning, social emotional, restorative, and engagement support across classrooms and school settings.
• Support students with and without IEPs, 504 Plans, or individualized plans to increase participation, independence, belonging, and access to learning.
• Implement Tier 1 supports and assigned Tier 2 and Tier 3 interventions; recognize early escalation and use trained prevention, regulation, deescalation, and reengagement strategies in collaboration with the Dean of Student Climate and Culture and designated certificated staff.
• Implement accommodations, Behavior Intervention Plans, safety plans, student success plans, and other supports as directed by certificated staff.
• Reinforce replacement behaviors, functional communication, coping skills, conflict resolution, and successful return to instruction.

• Facilitate or co-facilitate assigned restorative conversations, community building circles, support circles, and problem solving processes within demonstrated training and competency.
• Support students in understanding impact, identifying appropriate repairs, and reintegrating successfully into the school community.
• Provide early support for peer conflict, interpersonal challenges, and bullying concerns; elevate significant concerns to the Dean or certificated administrator.
• Follow up on assigned interventions to support repair, reengagement, student voice, dignity, and belonging.

• Implement assigned behavior, attendance, engagement, social emotional, and restorative interventions co-developed with and approved by certificated staff.
• Provide approved individual and small group supports, including check in and check out, reentry support, and other defined…