Student Success Facilitator

Job Title

Student Success Facilitator

Benzie Central Middle School / Benzie Central High School – 8 Hours

Immediately

Support a safe, respectful, and orderly school environment through student accountability, behavior investigation, restorative practices, reentry support, and consistent enforcement of the student handbook.

Benzie Central Schools serves over 1,100 students PreK-12 and encompasses over 350 square miles in the beautiful terrain of Northwest Lower Michigan. There are six villages in the district convenient to the cities of Traverse City, Manistee, and Frankfort. Benzie Central has 3 elementary schools serving grades PreK-5, a middle / high school serving grades 6-12, and an alternate secondary setting serving grades 6-12.

• Respond to student behavior referrals and assist with the daily management of student conduct.
• Conduct timely, fair, and thorough investigations of student behavior, safety, and handbook concerns, including incidents involving vaping, drugs, alcohol, bullying, harassment, threats, fighting, disruption, defiance, and other student conduct concerns.
• Interview students, staff, witnesses, and parents or guardians when appropriate as part of student behavior investigations.
• Gather, review, and document relevant information, including student statements, staff reports, camera footage when available, behavior records, prior interventions, and applicable handbook expectations.
• Assign, coordinate, document, and monitor student consequences, including detention, Reflections Room, in-school suspension, out-of-school suspension, restorative actions, loss of privileges, behavior contracts, and other appropriate responses in accordance with district policy, building procedures, and administrative direction.
• Communicate with parents and guardians regarding student behavior incidents, investigation outcomes, assigned consequences, restorative steps, and reentry expectations.
• Remain calm, professional, and regulated when communicating with students, staff, and parents or guardians, including during emotionally charged or difficult conversations.
• Enforce student handbook expectations consistently and fairly, including expectations related to tardies, attendance, dress code, hallway behavior, bathroom behavior, technology use, and other school rules.
• Provide daily direction and support to the Reflections Room Para educator in collaboration with building principals.
• Ensure the Reflections Room is used as a structured space for reflection, accountability, regulation, academic continuation, and reentry planning.
• Support students in completing reflection forms, restorative questions, reentry plans, apology letters, problem‑solving plans, or other accountability tasks as appropriate.
• Run restorative conferences, circles, reentry meetings, mediations, or other restorative processes to resolve conflict, repair harm, restore relationships, and support successful return to the learning environment.
• Facilitate restorative and reentry processes involving students, staff, and/or parents when appropriate.
• Collaborate with teachers to support successful student reentry after removal from class, in‑school suspension, out‑of‑school suspension, or other disciplinary action.
• Monitor hallways, bathrooms, lunch areas, arrival, dismissal, passing time, and other common areas to promote appropriate student behavior.
• Address unsafe, disruptive, disrespectful, or inappropriate student behavior in a calm and professional manner.
• Attend student support meetings, grade‑level meetings, staff meetings, behavior meetings, reentry meetings, and other meetings as assigned.
• Collaborate with administrators, counselors, social workers, special education staff, teachers, paraprofessionals, students, and families.
• Monitor individual student behavior patterns and assist in identifying students who may need additional support through MTSS, behavior plans, counseling, mentoring, check‑in/check‑out, or other interventions.
• Maintain accurate documentation of behavior incidents, investigation findings, consequences, parent communication, restorative actions, and…