Position Summary:
 
The school interventionist's primary purpose is to improve academic achievement and behavior of all students. Interventionists will provide leadership to classroom teachers in implementing intervention initiatives. They will also plan, implement, and assess intervention services to ensure fidelity. Interventionists will increase the staff’s capacity to effectively implement identified core or universal practices to all students, by providing staff with ongoing and embedded professional development.
 
Qualifications:
 
Education/Certification:

• Bachelor’s Degree; Master’s Degree in Education (preferred)

Experience:

• Three+ years teaching high school 

Required Knowledge Skills and Abilities:

• Exemplary history of increasing student achievement
• Excellent leadership and collaboration skills
• Outstanding understanding of, experience in, and commitment to a Response to Intervention (RtI)
• Able to promote and maintain positive pupil-teacher-family relationships.
• Ability to coach teachers
• Good communication skills
• Understanding of learning platforms

Responsibilities and Duties:

• Analyze grade, class and individual student academic and behavioral data for the purpose of increasing student achievement and making informed decisions relative to instructional practices.
• Review and evaluate student achievement information in order to place students in appropriate academic or behavioral intervention and support services.
• As an intervention team lead, analyze district assessment data to understand students’ needs in order to select and recommend evidence-based instructional interventions to implement.
• Collaborate with other teachers for the purpose of increasing student achievement by ensuring core instructional best practices are implemented with fidelity and staff are differentiating instruction to meet the needs of students.
• Utilize protocols to ensure that interventions have been implemented with fidelity
• Serve as part of the Instructional Leadership Team that assists classroom teachers in understanding and completing more in depth assessments in order to identify specific deficits/needs of a specific student or a group of students.
• Use systematic and valid data collection procedures to measure effectiveness of their own services in order to evaluate the impact on student achievement.
• Assist in developing a systematic and comprehensive process of data collection and effective decision-making and problem solving that permeates all aspects of the school and an RtI model
• Maintain up to date files related to student support
• Participate in district professional development related to job and attend meetings, trainings and professional development as required outside of designated schedule.
• Provide professional development opportunities in universal best practices and interventions for learning and behavior to school staff.
• Assist in providing professional development opportunities and communicating pertinent information to staff as needed.
• Keep informed of best practices and new developments related to literacy, math and behavior and share the information with appropriate staff.
• Lead and participate in on-going and job-embedded professional development such as meetings, workshops, trainings, and seminars for the purpose of determining success of literacy/math content knowledge, pedagogy, and coaching.
• Facilitate the creation of effective instruction that meets the individual needs of diverse learners by consulting with staff on individualized instruction, managing classroom behavior, monitoring student progress, evaluating classroom data and adjusting intervention and instructional strategies to make content accessible to every student.
• Mentor and coach staff for the purpose of building capacity to teach academic and behavioral skills in order to improve academic and behavior instruction at the schools.
• Effectively communicate, collaborate and consult with staff, administrators and families on promoting positive peer relationships and social problem solving, school wide positive behavior systems, interventions, supports and programs to promote student wellness and reduce barriers to learning.
• Use collaboration and communication skills to function as change agents to promote necessary change at the individual student, classroom, and school and district level.
• Communicate knowledge and experience by taking on a leadership role, district and/or school wide, when initiatives involve area of expertise.
• Work with other school personnel to develop, implement and evaluate effective interventions for increasing the amount of time students are engaged in learning
• Model exemplary classroom practices and communicate a deep understanding of literacy and math theory for the purpose of improving student achievement levels.
• Provide explicit, scientifically based instruction and intensive interventions to individuals and/or small groups for the purpose of improving literacy and math achievement levels.
• Assist in the scheduling and assignment of student interventions.
• Implement and/or facilitate classroom teacher implementing the assigned intervention(s) with fidelity.
• Assess implementation of classroom interventions to ensure fidelity.
• Monitor and communicate student progress with students, families, administrators, staff and community agencies.
• Work with staff to assess learning and behavioral needs and distinguish between issues related to family, culture, or language and a learning style or disability.
• Collaborate with administrators to adjust school and/or classroom facilities and routines to promote greater; engagement, positive relationships, achievement, positive student behavior and cultural competency.

Equipment Used:

 

All equipment required to perform jobs duties and task previously described.

 

Physical / Environmental Factors:

 

The physical demands are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Responsive Education Solutions considers applicants for all positions without regards to race, color, national origin, age, religion, sex, marital status, veteran or military status, disability, or any other legally protected status. Being authorized to work in the U.S. is a precondition of employment. ResponsiveEd is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

 

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