Join a team that's dedicated to making a real difference in students' lives as a Student Support Associate. You'll be a trusted champion for our scholars, offering encouragement, guidance, and personalized support to help them navigate academic challenges and reach their full potential.
Requirements
- Contribute to Planning and Delivering Rigorous and Engaging High-Dose Tutoring
- Support the academic progress of students
- Assistant in the implementation of coherent, research-based intervention and supports, aligned to content and grade level specific scope and sequence guiding documents.
- Use consistent school-wide practices and a variety of individualized methods to engage students in the classroom.
- Guided by classroom teachers, modify, differentiate and extend learning experiences to engage all students, with disabilities, and integrate Instructional Education Plan (IEP) recommendations as appropriate.
- Support the Assessment of Student Learning
- Contribute to the tracking of student proficiency and progress towards achieving learning objectives with formative and summative assessment tools.
- Provide ongoing and timely feedback to students on their progress towards meeting expectations and achieving goals.
- Guided by classroom teachers, use student data to improve instruction and personal practice.
- Create a Safe and Responsive Learning Environment
- Support school culture by monitoring student behavior during lunch and recess coverage.
- Encourage the development of the AMBER core values.
- Contribute to the development and maintenance of a warm and firm learning environment that allows students to feel safe, take risks and be creative.
- Model, practice and reinforce developmentally-appropriate rules and behaviors using clear and consistent procedures.
- Support the implementation of behavioral management plans with individual students as needed
- Build positive and supportive partnerships with families.
- Guided by classroom teachers, communicate with families frequently and effectively, to provide them with information about instructional programs and student progress (report cards, parent/teacher conferences, etc.), maximize participation and respond to their concerns.
- Contribute to a Collaborative and Cohesive Staff Learning Community
- Model life-long learning through professional development and individual growth activities.
- Show evidence of utilizing constructive feedback to enhance the quality of learning experiences for students.
- Demonstrate teamwork, actively modeling cooperation and helpfulness for students.
- Engage in respectful and critical dialogue to contribute to the school’s evolution.
- Maintain optimism and flexibility throughout the year.
- Encourage and support the growth of colleagues.
- Serve on school-based committees.
Benefits
- Medical plans averaging a $55 employee contribution monthly for single coverage (with dependent options available and averaging $92-$124 per month)
- Dental & vision coverage
- 403(b) retirement savings plan with an organization-paid contribution after 1-year
- Various supplemental benefit options such as life insurance, short-term and long-term disability coverage, pre-tax commuter & transit benefits and flexible spending/health reimbursement accounts
- Longevity and referral bonuses
- Generous paid time off
- Access to a federal student loan debt reduction program
- Professional development
