JOB DESCRIPTION:

The Student Success System Resource Teacher will support the development, implementation, evaluation, and continuous improvement of the school’s Student Success Systems (SSS). High-quality student success systems are built upon: Strong Supportive Relationships, Real-time Actionable Holistic Data, Analysis, Response, and Improvement Systems, Student-centered Mindsets, and effective Student Success Teams. The system aligns with the school’s overall improvement plans (e.g. 90 Day, MLSS, Attendance, etc.). Additional alignment includes family and community engagement and positive school climate, ensuring early identification, outreach to families, and intervention for students meeting one or more at-risk thresholds related to attendance, behavior, course performance and skills, habits and mindsets.

PREFERRED KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS & ABILITIES.

• Experience with supporting the development and implementation of school attendance or other improvement plan
• Knowledge of NMPED attendance law.
• Knowledge of district procedural directives aligned to this position
• Adept at accessing, analyzing, and utilizing data to identify student and school trends, barriers, and needs.
• Strong background knowledge of attendance, behavior, course performance, and skills mindsets and habits interventions/MLSS
• Knowledgeable of Special Education and the IEP process
• Experience training and/or coaching adults around learning and change processes
• Strong systems thinking and ability to align strategies and practices to an overall set of priorities and goals

REQUIRED EDUCATION, LICENSES, CERTIFICATIONS, & EXPERIENCE.

• Bachelor’s Degree in Education or related field
• Valid NM Teacher’s Level II or Level III license appropriate to teaching assignment
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• 200 K-8 license elementary,

• 350 5-9 mid-level license or 300 7-12 secondary for middle school
• 300 secondary for high school
• 5 or more years experience teaching students in K-12
• 1 or more years experience leading a team through a continuous improvement process and goal attainment

Essential Functions. An individual in this role must be able to perform the following functions with or without reasonable accommodation:

• Oversees the development, continuous improvement, monitoring, and evaluation of the school’s Student Success System in conjunction with the school leadership team/principal.
• Establishes, facilitates, and coaches the school’s Student Success System team and a regular monitoring schedule.
• Works with school leadership to establish expectations for staff, conduct staff training and support, and ensure a cadence of accountability that ensures that interventions are conducted, documented, and monitored.
• Facilitates and ensures data access, utilization, training, and tracking so staff consistently identify and respond to students in need of additional support in order to succeed, including a tiered intervention framework and clear protocols for matching interventions with student need.
• In accordance with the defined necessary components of High Quality Professional Development, identifies staff development, support, and mindset needs and provides training, coaching, and tools so staff: use actionable data to identify and respond to student needs (through an analysis, response, and improvement system), display a shared student-centered mindset, embed best practices that foster skills, habits, mindsets, agency, belonging, and connectedness in classrooms and throughout the school, and activate supportive family and community relationships on behalf of student outcomes.
• Aligns SSS processes and activities with school goals, plans, and processes.
• Supports the development and implementation of aligned school improvement plans (e.g. 90 Day, Attendance, MLSS, etc.) that include targeted and aligned SSS strategies. Provides support to ensure that requirements, critical elements/activities, and deadlines are embedded into the SSS and its processes.
• Monitors student, classroom, grade level, target population, school, and other data to ensure early identification of students, documented interventions, activation of supports, services, and family engagement, and outcomes.
• Identifies and supports coordination, implementation, and continuous improvement of family engagement, community resources and services, student voice and choice, school climate, and community partnership strategies as critical components of an effective school Student Success System.
• Collaborates and works in partnership with the school community school coordinator and student success systems resource teacher to ensure school wide strategic coherence and support of Genius Hour activities.
• High School: Works with high school counselors to coordinate credit recovery for students at risk of not meeting graduation criteria.
• arly identification of students, documented interventions, activation of supports, services, and family engagement, and outcomes.

Duties. All duties are standard and apply to all Albuquerque Public Schools employees. Duties cannot be changed or altered. Employees are not screened based on duties.

• Complies with state-approved Code of Ethics of the Education Profession, APS employee handbook, employment contract and upholds and enforces rules, administrative directives and regulations, school board policies, and local, state and federal regulations.
• Articulates and facilitates the implementation of the mission and values of the Albuquerque Public Schools.
• Safeguards confidentiality of privileged information.
• Prepares and maintains accurate and complete records and reports as required by law, state directives, District policy and administrative regulations.
• Shares the responsibility for the supervision and care of District inventory, proper and safe use of facilities, equipment and supplies, and reports safety hazards promptly.
• Maintains professional relationships and works cooperatively with employees, the community and other professionals.
• Maintains professional competence through District mandated, individual and staff training, in-service educational activities and self-selected professional growth activities.
• Attends and/or conducts staff meetings and participates on committees within areas of responsibility.
• Performs other tasks related to area of responsibilities as requested or assigned by an immediate supervisor.