Part-Time At-Risk Teacher​/Part-Time Family Engagement Specialist, Virtual Landmark Academy

Part-Time At-Risk Teacher and Part-Time Family Engagement Specialist

Landmark Academy must provide an excellent education to all our students consistent with the mission, vision, and goals of the Academy and with the core values of Summit Management Consulting. Your primary goal is to ensure that each of your students is learning subject matter identified in the State standards and the Landmark Academy curriculum. The primary function of the Part-Time At-Risk Teacher and Part-Time Family Engagement Specialist is to support students in the Virtual Landmark Academy.

• Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• Analyze State, District and classroom data.
• Work with students to accelerate academic performance.
• Become familiar with NWEA testing and the Data Drop process.
• Provide activities and instructional strategies to increase student's knowledge in the core academic areas.
• Consistently review and analyze student performance data to develop plans to meet the needs of all students (refer to the 4 essential PLC questions)
• Maintain timely, complete and accurate student records.
• Ensure that parents are frequently advised as to their child's performance and progress.
• Conduct research, attend conferences, meetings, and pursue continuing education to ensure you are serving to model being a life-long learner and to ensure you are providing effective instruction. Keeping your teaching certification up to date is your professional responsibility.
• Perform other duties and tasks as directed by School Administration

• Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• Acts as the main motivational coach for the assigned caseload of parents/students.
• Works through a tier structure of parental support to improve engagement, attendance, and buy-in from families.
• Is the "go-to" for parents during onboarding, orientation, and ongoing parent training.
• Creates and provides parents with resources, including but not limited to, videos, step by step guides, and FAQs
• Tutor students virtually.
• Tracks daily student attendance and provides outreach communication regarding absences.
• Continually converse with students to maintain their success.
• Assist in implementing behavior plans.
• Provide engagement support, including but not limited to, calls home, texts, emails to students/families, in-person event attendance.
• Attend and administer state assessments, in-person, as needed.
• Support benchmark assessment administration and reporting.
• Assist Administrators and Teachers, as necessary.
• Supervise students in the live classes, small groups, 1:1 sessions, and meetings, as needed.

Supervisory Responsibilities:

There are no supervisory responsibilities in this position.

Evaluation:
All employees are evaluated based on the performance of their primary responsibilities and their adherence to the general expectations outlined in the job descriptions. It is also expected that each employee will do their part to maintain a spirit of team unity and cooperation. Each employee can expect to be observed and provided with immediate feedback frequently throughout the school year with a year-end evaluation.

Competencies:

• Time Management
• Positive communication skills; able to relate to students, parents, and staff
• Behavior modification skills
• Classroom management
• Word, Excel, Power point, Email skills
• Positive reinforcement skills
• Punctuality, exemplary attendance
• Knowledge of and ability to follow federal and state safety regulations
• Ability to work as a team
• Understanding and ability to incorporate student learning styles
• Mastery of assigned subject of instruction

Work Environment:
This job operates in a classroom environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets and projectors.

Required

Education and Experience:

Bachelor's degree required and Michigan Teaching Certification in the assigned area as well as pre-service experience, as required for certification.

Physical Demands:
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk and hear. This position is very active and requires standing, walking, bending, kneeling, stooping, crouching, crawling, and climbing all day. The employee must frequently lift and/or move items over 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.

Other Duties:
Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

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