Teaching Assistants Crisis Intervention - Extended

Teaching Assistant for Crisis Intervention – Extended School Year

Location: Resilience Academy

• Working with individual pupils or groups on special instructional projects, including life space interviews and anger replacement strategies, and performing related teaching assistant work as required.
• Providing the teacher with information about pupils to aid in developing appropriate learning experiences, including completion of a physical intervention log, monitoring time-out spaces, and tracking student behavior patterns to facilitate improvement plans.
• Assisting pupils in using available instructional resources, developing instructional materials, and helping them employ constructive, effective ways to manage frustration, failure, anger, pain, and stress.
• Utilizing the assistant’s own special skills and abilities to assist in instructional programs and behavior management, including managing disruptive, assaultive, and out-of-control student behavior using therapeutic physical intervention strategies as needed.
• Assisting with related instructional work such as participating in treatment team meetings, demonstrating CPI preferred intervention approaches in managing students in crisis, using behavior management techniques, non-verbal and verbal communication skills, problem solving, conflict resolution, training and updating other staff, and aiding in the development of agency policies and procedures for handling crisis.
• Performing related teaching assistant work as required.

A minimum of a Bachelor's Degree in an educationally related field.

• Completion of Crisis Intervention training as a Crisis Intervention Worker. Completion of Non-Violent Crisis Intervention training through the Crisis Prevention Institute (CPI) as a Crisis Intervention Trainer is desirable.
• A minimum of one year of experience working directly with emotionally disturbed students in an educational setting or equivalent.
• Possession of skills, knowledge, attitude, and confidence to effectively deal with students in crisis, to remain in control during a crisis, to help students learn and grow from the experience, and to respond to both feelings and outward behavior of a student in crisis.
• A strong desire to work with emotionally disturbed students.

Grade Level: All.

Start Date: July 6, 2026;
August 14, 2026 (Extended School Year).