About this role
Job Title: Graduation Coach
Terms of Employment: 9.5-month (200 Day)
FLSA Status: Exempt
Work Location: Thomas Jefferson High School
Immediate Supervisor: School Principal
General Description: Duties performed typically in a school setting. Performs professional work providing teaching and/or training services to students in a specialized subject. Work requires frequent standing, sitting, light lifting up to 10 pounds, walking, vocal communication for expressing or exchanging ideas, hearing to perceive information at a normal spoken word level and visual acuity for preparing and analyzing written or computer data. Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
• Knows and effectively communicates the Richmond Public Schools (“RPS”) philosophy and mission.
• Plans and implements a program of study that meets the individual needs, interests and abilities of student.
• Analyzes, develops, implements, and tracks intervention plans and strategies.
• Analyzes data, including that available from the Virginia Department of Education, the Department of Student services, and from other sources.
• The High School Graduation Coach shall work to improve graduation rates for all population subgroups within the school by performing the following duties and responsibilities.
• Utilizes the components of a profile of characteristics of potential dropouts with the high probability of not graduating.
• Collaborates with feeder middle school(s) to utilize the components of a profile of characteristics of potential dropouts to identify middle school students with the high probability of not graduating.
• Monitors progress of students scoring significantly below proficiency levels.
• Conduct an analysis that focuses on data for individual students and subgroups such as: State Standardized Tests: SOL's, National Standardized Tests: SAT and ACT, Local Records: attendance records, behavior records, records of teacher conferences, grade retention records, and records of credits earned.
• Develops and implements individual intervention strategies to increase the likelihood that these students will stay in school and graduate.
• Works with students to develop a graduation and achievement plan to include the best program to meet academic and post-secondary goals.
• Tracks the progress of individual and subpopulations of students as they progress toward graduation.
• Identifies and links are social agencies with youth at risk of not graduating and their parents/guardians.
• Conducts quarterly vertical team meetings among elementary, middle, and high school faculty and staff to develop action steps to improve individual student and subgroup transition success rate.
• Provides and/or submits reports to the Principal on the graduation status of seniors.
Qualifications:
• Must have a Bachelor's Degree. Collegiate or postgraduate professional license or holds a provisional license in any subject required.
• Minimum of three years successful work experience in working with students at any level required.
• Experience providing ongoing academic guidance for students preferred and a working knowledge of appropriate strategies for reducing behaviors that put students at risk of not graduating from high school.
HOW TO APPLY: All applicants (including RPS employees) must submit an online application. Please access website at: www.rvaschools.net
Please upload the following information with your application: a current resume, transcript and license if applicable. Three references names and contact information will be required if you progress to the interview step of the selection process. Richmond Public Schools will conduct a background investigation, fingerprinting, and tuberculosis screening as a condition of employment. EOE. PAY SCALE: Teacher's salary scale START DATE: Based on School Board approval