What are the responsibilities and job description for the SY 23-24 SCHOOL COUNSELOR position at Conservatory Lab Charter School UPPER GR3-8?
Conservatory Lab Charter School empowers a diverse range of children as scholars, artists, and leaders through a unique and rigorous academic and music education. We enrich the larger community through performance, service, and collaboration. As a laboratory school, we develop and disseminate innovative educational approaches that will positively impact children in other schools and programs.
Primary responsibilities:
- Deliver individual counseling services to support students’ social, emotional, and behavioral health and wellbeing.
- Implement developmentally appropriate and prevention orientated group activities to meet student needs and school goals (e.g., developing healthy peer relationships, bullying prevention, executive functioning skills, conflict resolution, etc.).
- Provide pushin therapeutic and behavior management / self-regulation supports to students directly in the classroom.
- Provide crisis support as needed in collaboration with other administrators and school staff.
- Provide ongoing consultation to students, teachers, parents, and administration with respect to learning differences, social-emotional development, emotional literacy, behavioral functioning, and conflict resolution.
- Conduct Functional Behavioral Assessments (FBA) and create Behavior Intervention Plans (BIP) along with other socialemotional and behavioral assessments and observations.
- Assist with Student Support Team (SST) and IEP processes in order to help teachers and staff develop and implement differentiated instruction and classroom management practices that meet individual student needs.
- Write SMART goals for service that effectively address the needs of students and monitor progress towards those goals.
- Implement and maintain an inclusive model of service delivery through cooperation, collaboration, and partnerships with school based administrators, teachers, parents, and students.
- Coordinate a wrap-around system of care (i.e., manage student referrals to outside agencies, support parents to obtain these services and evaluations, collaborate with outside specialists, advocate for children and families, etc.) that integrates school, family, and community agencies and provides a strengths based approach to ensure the learning and growth of all students.
- Participate in, coordinate, and conduct activities that contribute to the effective operation of a universal system of social-emotional and behavioral supports for the school community (e.g., professional development, workshops, parent education, etc.)
- Collaborate with school leaders on issues related to school climate and program and staff development in order to contribute to an environment where the needs of all members of the school community are met.
- Manage sharing of school records for students transitioning to other schools
- Communicate with transferring school to provide records, letters of recommendations, etc
- Coordinate records transfer with school based enrollment staff
Additional responsibilities?:
- Create, monitor, and update student counseling and special education records as needed
- Assist with supervision of recess, lunch, or classrooms as needed
- Attend faculty meetings, curriculum meetings, Open Houses, or other school events that take place in the evening or on weekends such as concerts, meetings, etc.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Minimum of 2 years experience as elementary/middle school counselor
- Experience counseling urban youth
- Experience working with student support and / or special education teams
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills and an ability and interest in establishing an open rapport with all school faculty, students, and families
Salary & Benefits: Commensurate with experience.
Please apply here.
Primary responsibilities:
- Deliver individual counseling services to support students’ social, emotional, and behavioral health and wellbeing.
- Implement developmentally appropriate and prevention orientated group activities to meet student needs and school goals (e.g., developing healthy peer relationships, bullying prevention, executive functioning skills, conflict resolution, etc.).
- Provide pushin therapeutic and behavior management / self-regulation supports to students directly in the classroom.
- Provide crisis support as needed in collaboration with other administrators and school staff.
- Provide ongoing consultation to students, teachers, parents, and administration with respect to learning differences, social-emotional development, emotional literacy, behavioral functioning, and conflict resolution.
- Conduct Functional Behavioral Assessments (FBA) and create Behavior Intervention Plans (BIP) along with other socialemotional and behavioral assessments and observations.
- Assist with Student Support Team (SST) and IEP processes in order to help teachers and staff develop and implement differentiated instruction and classroom management practices that meet individual student needs.
- Write SMART goals for service that effectively address the needs of students and monitor progress towards those goals.
- Implement and maintain an inclusive model of service delivery through cooperation, collaboration, and partnerships with school based administrators, teachers, parents, and students.
- Coordinate a wrap-around system of care (i.e., manage student referrals to outside agencies, support parents to obtain these services and evaluations, collaborate with outside specialists, advocate for children and families, etc.) that integrates school, family, and community agencies and provides a strengths based approach to ensure the learning and growth of all students.
- Participate in, coordinate, and conduct activities that contribute to the effective operation of a universal system of social-emotional and behavioral supports for the school community (e.g., professional development, workshops, parent education, etc.)
- Collaborate with school leaders on issues related to school climate and program and staff development in order to contribute to an environment where the needs of all members of the school community are met.
- Manage sharing of school records for students transitioning to other schools
- Communicate with transferring school to provide records, letters of recommendations, etc
- Coordinate records transfer with school based enrollment staff
Additional responsibilities?:
- Create, monitor, and update student counseling and special education records as needed
- Assist with supervision of recess, lunch, or classrooms as needed
- Attend faculty meetings, curriculum meetings, Open Houses, or other school events that take place in the evening or on weekends such as concerts, meetings, etc.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Minimum of 2 years experience as elementary/middle school counselor
- Experience counseling urban youth
- Experience working with student support and / or special education teams
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills and an ability and interest in establishing an open rapport with all school faculty, students, and families
Salary & Benefits: Commensurate with experience.
Please apply here.
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