Connect Program Specialist

Overview

This posting is for a Check and Connect Program Specialist. The position supports the Check & Connect Program by providing positive behavior interventions and maintaining a caseload of students. The incumbent will work with individual students and their families, school staff, and community service providers to implement strategies and interventions that address school success and school completion for students in need of support.

Responsibilities include tracking students  engagement, documenting results, and completing monthly forms and a contact log to assess progress on absences, truancies, suspensions, and grades/credits earned.

• Position Type: Non Unit Professional
• Date Posted: 7/13/2026

Position: Check and Connect Program Specialist
Location: John Glenn Middle School
Work Schedule: Monday-Friday, 8 hours per day, 190 days
Start Date: Fall 2026
Pay: 59,580.00
Benefits: Single contribution Health, Dental, Vision, 403b matching

This position supports the Check & Connect Program by providing positive behavior interventions and maintaining a caseload of students. The incumbent will work with individual students and their families, school staff, and community service providers to implement strategies and interventions that address school success and school completion for students in need of support to graduate. Includes tracking students  level of engagement, documenting results, and completing monthly forms and a contact log as a tool to assess student improvements in regards to the following: absences, truancies, suspensions, and grades/credits earned.

• Bachelor s degree in Social Work or a related field.
• Experience working in the school setting.
• Knowledge and understanding of behavior interventions and support.
• Ability to collaborate with community agencies to provide services to students.
• Ability to communicate effectively both in oral and written format.

• Master s Degree in Social Work or related field.
• Licensed in a MN related license service area (i.e. school social work, school psychologist, guidance counselor)
• Ability to understand, use and share data related to practices and progress monitoring
• Knowledge of targeted and individual behavior support
• Ability to design and deliver training on School-Wide Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports (PBIS)
• Computer proficiency
• Multi-age and multi-culture experience

• Work with caseloads of students and families, acting as a liaison between home and school, and strive to build constructive family-school relationships
• Data collection in building: including regular checks on students  attendance, grades and behavior
• Reteach and provide behavior interventions to students, communicate regularly with families, and initiate efforts to keep students engaged in school
• Provide timely, personalized, data-based interventions determined by the solutions team designed to provide support tailored to individual student needs, based on the student s level of engagement with school ("check" data), influences of home and school, and leveraging local resources
• Reteach expectations that are taught, reinforced, and monitored at the school-wide level
• Consult with teachers, parents, and administrators to develop intervention strategies to reduce barriers to school success
• Collaborate with other Check & Connect Program Specialists and district social workers

If you have any questions or would like to follow up on your application, please contact Jill Miklausich at  or jmiklausich
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Independent School District No. 622, North St. Paul-Maplewood-Oakdale, does not discriminate on the basis of sex and prohibits sex discrimination in any education program or activity.
ISD 622 is an equal opportunity employer and supports an inclusive workplace environment.

Postings current as of 7/19/2026 3:10:32 AM CST.

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