Registered Behavior Technician; SY

Registered Behavior Technician

The Providence Public School District (PPSD) serves approximately 22,000 students attending our 37 schools. PPSD employs more than 3,200 professionals who work in and provide support to our schools, which include 20 elementary schools, 7 middle schools, 11 high schools, and 2 public district charter schools. Of our employees, about 2,000 are educators, and over 600 others directly support our schools' students and families.

Our schools are diverse learning communities. Approximately 68% of our students are Latinx, 15% Black, 7% White, 4% Asian, 5.5% Multi-racial and 1% Native American. Approximately 40% of students are multilingual, and about 16% receive special education services. Approximately 55% of students come from homes where English is not the primary language spoken. Our students and families speak more than 55 languages and hail from 91 countries of origin.

The Registered Behavior Technician will exhibit the knowledge and skills necessary to assist individuals, groups, and systems through the application of Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA). Behavior Technicians must be RBT (Registered Behavior Technician) certified and meet BACB requirements to maintain their certification. The Registered Behavior Technician will report directly to the School Administrators and Board Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA). The Registered Behavior Technician will obtain individual and group supervision in alignment with the BACB requirements and will attend multiple trainings throughout the year to expand their skill set.

Training topics include but are not limited to function-based interventions, data collection, data analysis, and instruction from our community partners such as the non-violence institute, Mentor RI, and the office of Equity and Belonging. RBTs support student success daily and may also be tasked with supporting students during the transition to middle or high school. RBTs will work with a caseload of students who are identified through the MTSS referral process.

The work completed with identified students includes but is not limited to providing 1:1 support, creating operational definitions for target behaviors, and data collection systems, training team members on accurate data collection and checking for fidelity, as well as introducing function-based interventions.

The Registered Behavior Technician will establish and reinforce high expectations for student behavior through the implementation of positive behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS), individual and group contingencies, and skill-based training. Registered Behavior Technicians provide 1:1 ABA support to students in both push-in and pull-out formats and are responsible for maintaining accurate Medicaid Billing where applicable. This is not an academic support position, although the RBT may provide some instructional support to students as needed.

The RBT also provides school and classroom behavior management strategies, modeling and training on the implementation of applied behavior analysis strategies to teachers and other classroom staff, and direct support to school faculty. The Registered Behavior Technician will maintain consistent and constructive communication with students, administrators, school faculty/staff, and families and facilitate a school-wide team approach to ensure a positive, safe school culture and climate.

The Registered Behavior Technician will utilize reinforcement contingencies to increase opportunities for student engagement while decreasing school violence, out-of-school suspension rates, and chronic absenteeism. The Registered Behavior Technician will work in collaboration with the Administration, Student Support Academy, District attendance team,…