This position is 0.8 FTE
Locations: Early Learning Center, 4K sites, and private schools
Job Description Overview:
School psychologists are advocates for students' well-being. Psychologists use their advanced training in human development, behavior, and mental health to help students excel in the school environment. These professionals work to improve their students' lives across a number of areas, including helping with academic performance, boosting social functioning, working to resolve behavioral problems, and supporting emotional health.
Student Services staff regularly examine how their personal experiences and biases impact their ability to effectively serve all students. They possess a deep understanding of the systemic biases within the education system which serve to perpetuate inequities for some students and families. They understand their role as a change agent and work with other staff, students, and community to redesign the system in a manner which actively repays the educational debt owed to historically marginalized students and families.
Training and Licensure:
- School Psychologist license requires a specialist degree or equivalent.
- Valid Wisconsin teaching certificate in the subject area of employment (School Psychologist).
- Minimum grade point average of 2.75 on a 4.0 grading system in degree course work.
- Candidates should have a commitment to social justice and culturally and linguistically responsive practices.
- Bilingual candidates (Spanish/English) are strongly preferred.
Knowledge/Skills:
- Commit to high standards, ethical principles, social justice, honesty, fairness, and treating others with dignity and respect.
- Evaluate mental health, cognitive and academic functioning, adaptive skills, and the impact of environmental variables when assessing the whole child.
- Promote equitable education and positively influence outcomes that directly affect the lives of children, youth, families, and school communities.
- Identify challenging objectives and evaluate the effectiveness of individual student progress and the effectiveness of organizational processes and professional practices.
- Collaborate with allied organizations, agencies, and others to develop and achieve shared goals.
PRIMARY FUNCTIONS:
Legal, Ethical and Professional Practice
- Takes a leadership role in educating colleagues on legal, ethical, and professional standards (confidentiality, eligibility, records).
- Supports other professionals to adhere to timelines established by the school, district, and/or state, including submission of assessment reports.
Databased Decision Making and Accountability
- Collaborates to analyze program evaluation data at the system level.
- Designs, implements, and evaluates the implementation integrity, fidelity, and effectiveness of interventions in academics and social emotional learning at the individual, group, and system level.
- Provides leadership in collecting data to identify service gaps in meeting the academic, behavioral, social-emotional, or developmental needs of children.
- Makes recommendations for school and/or district level improvements based on evaluation findings.
- Uses results of monitoring activities to guide additional refinements of professional practice at the individual, group, and systems level.
- Advocates for use of culturally and linguistically responsive, valid and reliable assessments ensuring current measures and norms are used.
- Conducts comprehensive psycho-educational evaluations.
- Leads teams in functional behavioral analysis and behavior intervention plan process.
Interventions and Instructional Support to Develop Academic Skills
- Serves as a leader in a multi-tiered system of support, which includes assessment action teams, student support teams, assisting in identifying students in need of instructional support, identifying metrics, analyzing data, developing rates of improvement, and progress monitoring.
- Collaborates with administrators, teachers, and a range of specialists to apply current and empirically based research to the selection and development of instructional strategies for academic and social-emotional learning.
- Advocates for and provides culturally competent services for all students.
Interventions and Mental Health Services to Develop Social and Life Skills
Preventive and Responsive Services
Family-School Collaboration Services
Job Description is available by request.