Location: Brayton, Colegrove Park Elementary Schools and Drury High School

Description:     

Members of the Rethinking Discipline Special Project Team will work independently or collaboratively with a colleague under the coordination of the Assistant Superintendent and Director of Student Support Services to develop and implement social-emotional learning and behavioral health strategies to improve student positive engagement with learning. The overall scope of the team is to reduce student behavioral infractions in the school through the use of evidence-based approaches. Special Projects include, but are not limited to: review of SEL curriculum, development of SEL curriculum implementation plan, development of behavioral health and social-emotional interventions, participation in outside of school time professional development related to behavioral health strategies, and development of project-based learning units that build student skills aligned to Portrait of Graduate or CASEL competencies. Members of the team may propose their own projects in alignment with team goals. The majority of the work would be asynchronous project development time, with checkpoint meetings only to identify initial project parameters and to update district leadership on progress. The work expectation is approximately 30 hours of outside of school time work between January 2025 and June 2025, including approximately three 30-minute progress check-in meetings. This position is for the school year only.

QUALIFICATIONS:    Current district employee working under a teacher or administrator contract.

Salary: $1,000 stipend

Anticipated start date: January 6, 2025.

To apply please email Charlene Volff at cvolff@napsk12.org and cc: Timothy Callahan at tcallahan@napsk12.org

The Committee's policy of nondiscrimination will extend to students, staff, the general public, and individuals with whom it does business; No person shall be excluded from or discriminated against in admission to a public school of any town or in obtaining the advantages, privileges, and courses of study of such public school on account of age, race, color, sex, gender identity, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, disability or homelessness

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