FARRELL B HOWELL ECE-8 SCHOOL
Far Northeast
Traditional 184 work days per year
FTE: 1.0
Salary Range: $21.477 - $25.773
**Please note: Applications will be received until [April 5, 2024]. If the position is not filled by then, we may consider applications submitted after the deadline. Interested applicants must apply online by visiting the Denver Public Schools job board at careers.dpsk12.org.**
Essential Functions and Objectives:
- Supervises groups of students with behavior problems who have been suspended from the regular classroom.
- Assists students with assignments, obtains and organizes resource materials for students, and assists with clerical tasks and other interventions that support student learning, attendance and positive behavior.
- Conducts home visits, phone calls, and prepares, edits and distributes written materials.
- Develops and plans recreational activities.
- Locates resources to provide crisis intervention.
- Creating reports for Administration, Teachers, and Parents.
- Compile culture expectation infraction trackers and support Refocus / College Prep initiatives.
- Manage all Behavior Referrals and Coordinate SIT Process.
- Attend Restorative Justice trainings. Provide direct Restorative Justice support to teachers and students.
- Train employees on Behavior Management Techniques.
- Facilitates Restorative Justice Interventions according to the DPS discipline Matrix and Ladder and Uses best RJ practices in responding to student behavioral concerns.
Knowledge, Experience & Other Qualifications:
- One (1) or more years of related experience.
- Knowledge with Microsoft Office products including Word, Excel and Outlook.
- Effective time management and organizational skills
- Effective communication skills
- Strong attention to detail
- Effectively handle multiple demands and competing deadlines
- The ability to take responsibility for one’s own performance
- Work collaboratively with others on a team
- High degree of integrity in handling confidential information
- Demonstrated working knowledge of school-based programs that support students, families, parents, community, and homeless interests in an urban, K-12 school environment.
- Demonstrated working knowledge of project management methodology and implementation techniques.
- Demonstrated hands-on experience leading and coordinating the work of project teams and user groups.
- Demonstrated effective and diplomatic oral and written communication skills, with an emphasis on communications with students, parents, collaborative decision making teams, and the community.
- Demonstrated experience performing as a team player, and recognizing and resolving conflicts or potentially controversial situations through diplomacy.
- Demonstrated current knowledge of a Macintosh and Windows computer operating systems and related hardware and peripherals, plus software and emerging technologies.
- Direct knowledge of and experience with a high poverty population attached job description
- Spanish bilingual preferred.
Education Requirements:
- High school diploma or equivalent required.
- Bachelor's degree preferred.
Additional Information:
- Work Year Calendars (including accrued time off): http://thecommons.dpsk12.org/Page/1129
- Benefits (including DPS contributions): http://thecommons.dpsk12.org/Page/1397
- Compensation Structures: http://thecommons.dpsk12.org/Page/244
- Employee must live and work with a permanent home address in Colorado while working for Denver Public Schools.
About Denver Public Schools:
Denver Public Schools is committed to meeting the educational needs of every student with great schools in every neighborhood. Our goal is to provide every child in Denver with rigorous, enriching educational opportunities from preschool through high school graduation. DPS is comprised of nearly 200 schools including traditional, magnet, charter and alternative pathways schools, with an enrollment of more than 90,000 students.
DPS has become the fastest-growing school district in the country in terms of enrollment and the fastest-growing large school district in the state in terms of student academic growth. Learn more at dpsk12.org.
Denver Public Schools is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, disability, or any other status protected by law or regulation. It is our intention that all qualified applicants be given equal opportunity and that selection decisions be based on job-related factors.