Head Start Family Resource and Instructional Assistant - Arlington

Head Start Family Resource and Instructional Assistant - Arlington

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Expected

Start Date:

January, 2026

FTE: .9375

Hours per day: 7.5

• PA6A $31.03 - No degree
• PA6E $31.78 - AA degree
• PA6F $32.03 - BA/BS or higher degree

Union/Days per year: Education Support Professional, 183 work days, 10 month

Benefits: This job has the full range of benefits offered by Tacoma Public Schools.

This position serves as the assistant to the Early Learning classroom associate instructor; assists with promoting each child’s physical, social, emotional, and intellectual growth; establishes and maintains a positive child-oriented environment; assists with the implementation of the child development, parent involvement, and parent education services in accordance with Early Learning program(s) performance standards, and is responsible for the health, family and community engagement partnership, and social services components in accordance with Head Start performance standards.

• Establishes and maintains a mutually respectful partnership with families; communicates with parents using a variety of formats, including print, voice or e-mail and home and/or school visits; supports families in learning to advocate for their children’s needs at school and in the community.
• Assists families in promoting the optimal health of students by screening, assessing and tracking health and growth status of each child; assists families to develop health care plans and get physical and dental screening and follow up, treatment, and maintaining current immunizations. Works in collaboration with Health Specialists with health protocols, treatment plans and classroom health and sanitation practices.
• Supports families in accessing other community resources by maintaining current program and community resource information, matching community resources to family needs, and identifying unmet family needs; refers families to community resources and follows up on the effectiveness of referrals.
• Conducts strength-based assessments; assists families to identify goals and strengths; develops individual family plans based on these goals and strengths; follows up with families on progress toward meeting their goals, supports families’ efforts to reach their goals and facilitates the building of problem-solving skills; assists families to revise their goals and plans as needed.
• Establishes relationships with community groups and social service agencies serving young children and their families.
• Complies with required documentation required by federal performance standards in a timely and confidential manner; and follow-up with families to encourage and/or facilitate student attendance in the program.
• Attends classroom team meetings and staff meetings; participates and takes an active part in annual program assessment.
• Plans and offers monthly family meetings and activities based on identified interests of families in collaboration with families and the classroom team; encourages family participation in program parent activities, including Policy Council; serves as the link between Policy Council and the classroom.
• May prepare student meals by receiving food from kitchen and preparing classroom tables; encourages students to assist; encourages and promotes conversation during meals; may track and submit menu changes in accordance with Early Learning program(s) procedures for the purpose of each child’s physical, social, and emotional growth.
• Assists with and delivers individual and group instruction in a variety of learning activities; monitors and records each child’s progress for the purpose of promoting each child’s intellectual growth. Provides input into the daily activity plans and assists in the process of observation, assessment, and developing students’ individual goals; attends student support team meetings.
• Models and monitors behavior in all program activities; redirects and teaches appropriate behavior to students as needed; may supervise students entering or leaving…