Require At-Risk Attendance and Truancy Monitor in Battle Creek, MI

Job title: At-Risk Attendance and Truancy Monitor
Company: Battle Creek Public Schools
Job description: The Attendance Monitor shall provide assistance and resources to families and students who are struggling to maintain appropriate and consistent attendance patterns, so that the District can ensure that all students achieve. The attendance monitor reports directly to the building principal.

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS:

Provide referral-driven and strengths-based intervention services to children and families where irregular attendance and chronic absenteeism is an issue.

Work with students and their families whose attendance and/or truancy is in excess of the district's policies and procedures.

Based on Departmental Procedures and Michigan Attendance Laws, use necessary interventions in relation to referred students where truancy is an issue after district wide attendance and truancy policies and procedures are implemented.

Provide early intervention services with referred students who are beginning to demonstrate irregular attendance.

Research materials, best practices, and community resources for school staff on effective policies, procedures and programs in relation to encouraging regular attendance of all students.

Create a caseload of students showing challenging attendance patterns and implement with them research-based interventions and incentives

Provide students and families with needed materials to improve the students? attendance

Connect student and families to community resources to improve students? attendance

Participate on the building attendance team.

Provide updates to the building?s principal and teachers on the progress of students on their caseload

Meet with the principal, assistant principal, counselor, and/or social workers who are concerned about individual students and families.

Make home visits when necessary to provide appropriate intervention in truancy matters.

Must possess the ability to establish and maintain effective and professional relationships with staff, students, parents and outside agencies.

Maintain confidentiality of student information and records.

Attend weekly attendance team and student support team meetings.

Gather attendance data to be used at meetings.

Enter attendance data into district and county databases.

REQUIRED PROFESSIONAL PREPARATION AND/OR EXPERTISE:

Completed at least 60 credit hours at a post-secondary college, or have associate degree or higher degree, or

Pass one of the The State Board of Education approved formal assessments for demonstrating basic skills:

Basic Skills Examination

A passing score on the score Basic Skills Test MTTC

A passing score of at least 480 on the evidence-based reading and writing section of the SAT and 530 on the mathematics section in lieu of the Basic Skills Test or Professional Readiness Exam

Other basic skills examination options

ETS Parapro Assessment

A passing score of 460 is required

Ability to work with students and staff in a professional manner

Proficient and literate in English

Demonstrates the professional and personal characteristics for working effectively with students, parents, school personnel, community and court systems; and

Excellent verbal and written communications skills

Ability to multitask and manage multiple projects under various timelines

Highly effective organizational and interpersonal skills

DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

A minimum of 2 years experience working in K-12 education

Familiarity with community organizations and businesses

Familiarity or knowledge of the court process for the purposes of truancy related issues.

SCHOOL SAFETY CLEARANCE: The successful candidate will be subject to a fingerprint and background check as a condition of employment. All fees required for this check will be the responsibility of the applicant.

The Battle Creek Public School District is an equal opportunity employer and will not discriminate on the basis of race, color, handicap, sex, age, religion, national origin, weight, height, or marital status in its employment practices.

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Location: Battle Creek, MI

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