Academic Coach (PP44)

Title: Academic Coach

Employee Group & Grade: Professional/Non-Exempt

Reports To: Assistant Principal, Dean, or Designee

Starting Salary Scale: $31,000-$35,000 Salary/year

Calendar Year: 195 days

Date Written/Revised: May 2022

Why Work at GOAL High School?

• Great Mission and Great Culture
• Hybrid Work Schedule; one day remote, 4 days onsite
• 100% On-line Teaching model, minimal to no classroom discipline and management for staff
• Drop-In Sites to connect with students and other staff
• 200 calendar workdays
• Our Academic Coaches can plan vacations with one 14-day break and two 1-week breaks and 6 weeks off in the summer
• Very competitive starting salary based on years of experience and qualifications
• Potential to earn Pay-for-Performance incentives as a member of the GOAL Team
• Competitive Benefits to include an emphasis on Wellness in the Workplace
• The ability to continue contributing to the Colorado Public Schools Retirement System PERA
• PERA 401K, with a 5% Match after one year
• Medical, dental, vision, basic life insurance and AD&D plans
• Health Savings Accounts (HSA)
• Voluntary life insurance for employees and dependents
• Short- and Long-Term Disability Insurance
• Optional additional insurance that includes accident, critical illness, and hospital plans
• Employee Assistance Program
• Company provided laptop and cell phone and additional equipment as needed
• Robust Professional Development and opportunity to work with passionate, mission-driven colleagues who are invested in your personal and professional growth
• GOAL High School is a qualifying employer for the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program (PSLF).

Purpose of Job:

To engage students in-person and online, collaborate with teachers and other site staff to promote student success, provide outreach, and support services, as well as respond to identified students ensuring that each student successfully achieves personal and program goals.

Essential Duties/ Major Accountabilities:

Show Up: Be ACCOUNTABLE to our students, ourselves, and our team.
Connect: Develop and maintain TRANSPARENT and HONEST relationships with our students and team.
Succeed: Become a STRONG unified team providing students an INNOVATIVE environment to become productive members of society.

Interventions

• Provide Interventions as Needed

Transportation

MTSS

• Monitor student attendance data to identify and provide interventions to students who are not actively engaged in school, including, but not limited to home visits, parent communications and student success plans.
• Ensure quality and timely documentation of all interventions provided.

Truancy

• Collaborate with regional leadership and our Social Emotional Team to ensure accurate truancy documentation is provided to the court.
• May attend, as needed, truancy court hearing of an identified student.
• Assist With Community and Legal Resources

Compliance

• Complete assigned training and adhere to school policy and state law, including, but not limited
  to, confidentiality, mandatory reporting, and compliance (including FERPA).

Community Engagement

• Collaborate with a GOAL Social Emotional Team to connect students to identified external resources to support individual student needs.

Recruitment

• Actively recruit new students through community partnerships and events utilizing GOAL marketing materials

Support: Academic/Social Emotional

• Basic Tech Support for Students
• Utilize GOAL Helpdesk ticketing system to communicate needs with the IT department. Verify resolution of ticket and communicate to student.

Academic Support

• Facilitate student's working with their teachers for academic learning and growth.
• Facilitate student access to accommodations as needed.
• Social Emotional Support
• Facilitate student access to identified social emotional support staff as needed.
Provide a caring and inclusive environment.

Assessments

• Champion GOAL's culture of assessment by ensuring student participation and proctoring throughout the year. Including, but not limited to attending training and actively maintaining compliance with all state mandated tests (Screener, Access, SAT, PSAT10/9, etc

Platform Knowledge

• Understand the student experience in GOAL learning platforms, including, but not limited to Schoology, Edgenuity, and GOAL Portal.

Gladiator Connections/Advocacy

Communication

• Build connections with staff, students, and parents to keep the student progressing toward academic success, including, but not limited to, providing progress reports and student, parent,
  staff conferences.

Extra-Curricular

• Possess and share a general knowledge of GOAL Academy's extra-curricular activities and student opportunities.

Daily Attendance

• Maintain daily student communication and document attendance utilizing identified GOAL systems.

Teamwork

• Participate in daily POD huddles to establish clear lines of communication and define daily responsibilities with fellow POD teammates for the success of assigned students

Accountability Standards for all GOAL Academy High School Staff:

• Love for children and ability to work enthusiastically on their behalf.
• Actively and enthusiastically recruit new students through community partnerships and community events.
• Excellent interpersonal, organizational, time-management, verbal, and written communication skills
• Knowledgeable and comfortable working with technology
• Able to competently and persistently apply problem solving skills towards technology issues.
• Proven ability to serve on teams and participate in a collaborative decision-making process.
• Strong work ethic to achieve both school and personal goals.
• Ability to maintain a high level of confidentiality.
• Willingness to travel regionally and transport students as required.
• Ethical, honest, and good-humored.

Minimum Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

Education:

• Possess a high school diploma or its equivalent (e.g., the GED); and
• Demonstrate subject matter competency by:

a. Earning an Associate (or higher) degree; or

b. Completing at least two years (48 credit hours) of study at an institution of higher

education OR

c. Passing a formal assessment measuring one’s knowledge of and ability to assist classroom teachers in reading, writing and mathematics.

• Valid driver's license is required.

Experience:

• Two years of experience working with youth preferred.
• Two years of experience working with students in a secondary school or school system preferred.
• Experience working with at risk youth preferred.
• Bilingual preferred but not required

Physical Requirements of this position include:

Seldom

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Occasional

Noise/Working Alone/ Local Travel/ Visual Acuity-Far/ Color Discrimination

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Frequent

Driving/ Work with Others/ Visual Acuity-Near/ Hearing/ Speech/ Manual Dexterity/ Eye-Hand Coordination/ Computer/ Mouse/ Copier/ Scanner/ Printer/ Telephone

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GOAL High School is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, gender, age, genetic information, or other status protected by law in its admission, access to, treatment, or employment in its education programs or activities.