Social Emotional Response Team Member (SERT Specialist)

Function / Position Summary

As part of a Social Emotional Response Team (SERT), the Social Emotional Specialist (SES) leads the network strategy in developing, implementing, and maintaining a safe, secure, and nurturing school learning environment that is flexible in meeting the academic, social, and emotional needs of each student. The SES works closely with the Coordinator of Culture and Climate and the Executive Director of their assigned network to build administrator, teachers, and related services staff capacity in strategies that will improve and sustain a positive culture and climate in all assigned schools. The SES regularly monitors and analyzes their network school data to lead continuous improvement efforts around creating and improving conditions for self-regulation and student agency (culture and climate) in all network schools. The SES will provide rapid restorative response support to schools, assisting the school team in sustaining capacity for: assessing student safety, supporting staff needs, identifying and developing specific interventions to stabilize the school environment for the student. SES will support school staff with the development of a multi-layered individualized plan for students. The SES Support Intervention Specialist will continue to monitor implementation fidelity and intervention outcomes with each site. The SES Support Intervention Specialist will work to promote capacity building for tiered supports across the district.

Job Duties / Responsibilities

• As a member of the Social Emotional Response Team, the SES Intervention Specialist will support and empower schools to be welcoming centers of family and community engagement while striving toward prevention, operational excellence and efficiency
• Provide individualized and classroom-based support to assigned teachers in implementing instructional strategies in alignment with the Danielson framework, U-46 Rising and the Instructional Clarity Framework.
• Plan and facilitate session(s) during New Teacher Orientation (NTO) and NTO extension.
• Lead network schools in professional learning designed to improve building-wide capacity to proactively and reactively respond to student behavioral and social emotional needs.
• Support school staff/administrators in developing and implementing Multi-Tiered Systems of Support as it relates to individual high need students as related to discipline, safety, and emotional well-being.
• Ability to recognize trauma and to help educate staff in working with students affected by trauma.
• Collaborate with district, network, and school staff to build capacity for a cohesive, district-wide multitiered system of support for students and families.
• Work with community agency partners to connect students and families with services.
• Work with district and school staff to strengthen the U-46 MTSS model of implementation for: social emotional learning, student discipline and school safety.
• Ability to gather and use data from various sources: interview, observation, student discipline and intervention data to create and/or inform intervention plans.
• Assist school teams in using data for: collection, analysis, problem solving and data based decision making as they relate to identified high risk factors which may be impeding student success. (ie. attendance, class failure, behavior, poverty, etc.)
• Collaborate with alternative placement programs and the U-46 Threat Assessment Team to assist school staff and students with successful transitions.
• Conduct escalated bullying investigations in alignment with Illinois School Code
• Work with school staff, students and families in a culturally and linguistically responsive manner.
• Participate in regular Social Emotional Response Team meetings with central office Coordinators
• Serve as a peer consulting teacher if/when matched with a potential Participating Teacher to discuss the Peer Assistance Review (PAR) Program, to establish mutually agreed upon performance goals, to develop a Professional Development Plan (PDP), and to develop a process