CLOVIS MUNICIPAL SCHOOLS
Position: Teacher On Special Assignment (TOSA) - Pre-K Behavior Specialist
Supervisor: School Principal
General Job Description: The TOSA will support MLSS (Multi-Layer System of Support), SAT, and Attendance processes to ensure student success. Additionally, he/she will provide the necessary leadership to ensure an overall positive school climate designed and supported with evidence-based strategies, activities, and interventions. The TOSA will assist with the daily functions essential to maintaining a safe, healthy, and supportive environment for students and staff in coordination with the building principal. The TOSA will facilitate student behavior management by working directly with students and their families and also by serving as a resource for classroom teachers to promote effective classroom management. The TOSA will collaborate with building administrators and other support staff to address attendance concerns and to create opportunities for positive student recognition.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Conduct classroom walkthroughs and feedback conversation in cooperation with the principal and independently.
- Know and support and collect evidence of 90 day plan critical actions and progress indicators.
- Collect student performance data including subgroups, to identify trends, patterns, and relationships to inform teacher action plans.
- Facilitate weekly data meetings with grade levels following established protocol.
- Assist principal and/or counselor with threat assessments and suicide protocol.
- Assist with coordination of before and after school instructional programming.
- Administer, review, and interpret a variety of data sources (e.g., climate survey, attendance data, discipline data, satisfaction surveys, etc.) in order to make recommendations regarding overall school climate.
- Coordinate the implementation and evaluation of school discipline and attendance procedures in accordance with the CMS student handbook.
- Assist in developing programs to promote positive student recognition and behavior intervention strategies.
- Create or contribute to the creation of intervention plans, including behavior intervention plans, to support student attendance and behavior, when necessary. Provide essential monitoring to ensure intervention plans are fully implemented.
- Apply appropriate consequences for behavior and attendance issues including detention and in-school suspension.
- Attend SAT and IEP meetings as needed.
- Coordinate wrap-around services to support social-emotional well-being of students by making referrals to appropriate individuals, departments, or agencies.
- Serve as a resource to staff in the area of classroom management.
- Provide bullying prevention education for students, parents, and staff.
- Assist building administrators with bullying behavior intervention and resolution.
- Attend and participate in grade level meetings.
PRE-K Behavior Specialist:
- Maintain certification in CPI training
- Implement de-escalation strategies with students in crisis
- Teach social emotional curriculum with students in small groups or with individual students.
- Collaborate with building mental health staff to provide individual student support through behavior contracts and behavior intervention plans
- Model social emotional lessons for general education teachers in their classrooms
- Help monitor student safety and transition in less structured environments (recess, cafeteria)
Additional Duties and Responsibilities:
- Collect, review, and disseminate data related to school discipline, attendance, and academic performance.
- Assist in monitoring and supervising school facilities, as necessary, to support a safe and healthy environment.
- Collaborate with outside agencies to support school wide attendance and discipline initiatives.
- Counsel students and parents regarding school and district policies related to academic achievement, discipline and attendance.
- Assist with student supervision during unstructured times of the school day (e.g., before/after school, passing time, lunches, bus duty).
- Assist with supervision at after school events.
- Plan and deliver relevant staff development
- Attend relevant professional development.
- Perform other tasks as may be deemed appropriate and necessary by the immediate supervisor and/or the Superintendent.
Qualifications:
- Possess or be able to obtain a valid New Mexico Teaching License.
- Possess or be working towards valid New Mexico Administrative License (Preferred).
- Such alternatives to the above qualifications as the Superintendent may find appropriate and acceptable.
Physical Requirements: Sitting, standing, lifting and carrying (up to 50 pounds), reaching, squatting, climbing stairs, kneeling, fingering or otherwise working with fingers, and moving light furniture may be required.
Safety and Health: Knowledge of universal hygiene precautions.
Equipment/Material Handled: Must know how to properly operate or be willing to learn to operate all multimedia equipment including current technology.
Work Environment: Must be able to work within various degrees of noise, temperature, and air quality. Interruptions of work are routine. Flexibility and patience are required. Must be self-motivated and able to complete job assignments without direct supervision. After hours work may be required. Must be able to work under stressful conditions.
Terms of Employment: Salary and work year to be established by the Board.
Created 5/25
Job start date: 11/16/2026Location: Clovis Municipal Schools, 1009 N Main St, Clovis, New Mexico 88101Recruiter: Brandon Boerio