The Elementary School Student Success Specialist is responsible for the coordination and implementation of the academic support programming for Greater Than within Lincoln Street Elementary School. This position will implement a culturally specific service-delivery model to support bilingual student academic growth in and outside the classroom. This may include targeted small-group support, in-class support, and supporting the broader school community.
Academic Intervention and Student Academic Progress
- Monitor student academic progress to strengthen service delivery:
- Collaborate with teachers and Student Success Team to collect, record, analyze and monitor individual student progress.
- Provide targeted students with daily interventions through various delivery models aligned to the science of reading and Common Core Math standards.
Student Engagement and Achievement:
In Collaboration with Program Development & Partnerships Administrator:
- Create and implement culturally specific and targeted support for K-3 classrooms.
- Build and cultivate strong partnerships with teachers, principals, school officials, and other key decision makers and stakeholders.
Case Management
- Provide culturally specific direct service mentoring, leadership programming, and academic intervention to 70-90 bilingual Spanish speaking GT students.
- Maintain direct contact with GT students regarding middle school transition and continue ‘whole student' culturally specific case management approach. Including academic success in and outside the classroom.
- Track GT students' academic progress.
- Work with LSES Admin Team and K-3 teachers to identify and co-develop 1:1 intervention plans for high priority students.
- Communicate with families of high priority students participating in Emerging Scholars program.
- Create student portfolios and case management system that will track individual milestones for each student participating in Emerging Scholars.
Family Engagement and Leadership
- Support the Program & Partnership Administrator and Evergreen Student Success Specialist to develop and communicate a transition plan for our families and students as they move through the GT continuum of programming.
- Support with occasional family engagement nights hosted by Greater Than or by the Elementary School.
- Visit student family homes on an as-needed basis
- Attend and support the coordination with school personnel and our PCG/PAC to plan and execute school events and other activities.
- Support as needed, our attendance team by participating in planning meetings, connecting with individual teachers, students, and families to identify barriers and plan for supports.
- Support Program & Partnership Administrator with logistics regarding consistent systems for parent feedback (e.g. community listening sessions, parent surveys, individual interviews, etc.)
- Support Program & Partnership Administrator with logistics regarding consistent systems for parent feedback (e.g. community listening sessions, parent surveys, individual interviews, etc.)
Data and Reporting- Tracking, Managing, Organizing
- Navigate Apricot database software for data entry including tracking and managing parent data and organization and tracking of data for specific grants
- Understand the importance of data integrity, managing files for merging, organizing, and helping others track specific data needed for reporting.
- Work with Director of Impact & Evaluation to report and track measurable data for grants.