Behavior Coach

Job Summary - Provide coaching for teachers to support school-wide and classroom positive behavior interventions and supports.

Performance Responsibilities:

• Increase student academic engaged time within the regular education classroom.
• Increase teacher efficacy and flexibility within the classroom through structure and classroom management.
• Decrease student out of school suspensions through implementation of alternatives to punitive discipline.
• Actively engage in two-way communication with parents and families related to behavior improvement.
• Provide training and support to teachers to ensure expectations are taught, reinforced, and monitored at the school wide level.
• Provide training and support to teachers on the critical features and essential practices of behavior management in classroom settings.
• Communication of positive behavioral interventions and support activities at faculty meetings.
• Collect, maintain and analyze behavior data.
• Network with other behavior coaches, district PBIS coaches, and PBIS Coordinator.
• Support teachers to implement with fidelity evidence-based intervention strategies and intervention programs designed to improve the behavior of targeted students at all three tiers of intervention.
• Provide strong leadership to the school in positive behavioral interventions and supports.
• Coordinate intensive intervention plans and resources for students requiring tier 3 behavioral interventions.

Physical Demands

• Work is performed while standing, sitting and/or walking.
• Requires the ability to communicate effectively using speech, vision and hearing.
• Requires the use of hands for simple grasping and fine manipulations.
• Requires bending, squatting, crawling, climbing, reaching.
• Requires the ability to lift, carry, push or pull light weights.

Education & Experience

• Bachelor's degree required.
• Preferred Master's degree or National Board Certification.
• Three (3) years of successful classroom teaching.

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge of the research and practices related to school wide behavioral support, including applied behavioral analysis, and the ability to use a variety of observational and interviewing skills.
• Previous experience with PBIS - Positive Behavioral Interventions & Supports, including universal training.

Licenses and Other Requirements

Must hold a valid Kentucky Teaching Certificate.

Days of Employment: 186-day contract.

Salary: Based on approved salary schedule by the Newport Board of Education.