GRADUATION COACHQualifications:
- Mississippi certification in the following areas: Teaching, Service (School Counseling, School Psychology, and/or School Social Work) or Leadership
- At least three years experience in one or a combination of the certificated areas above in secondary schools
- Successful experiences working with secondary at-risk students
- Working knowledge of appropriate strategies for reducing behaviors that put students at risk of not graduating from high school
- Ability to communicate effectively with youth and adults
- Ability to analyze, develop, implement, and track intervention plans and strategies
- Knowledge of and the ability to analyze data, including that available from the Mississippi Department of Education and from other sources
- An understanding of the multiplicity of social services available in the community to support students at risk of not graduating
- Knowledge of alternative education opportunities (e.g. Credit Recovery, Plato, Mississippi Virtual High School
Reports To:Building PrincipalEssential Functions: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 to identify high school students 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
- Conducts an analysis that focuses on data for individual students and subgroups such as:
- State Standardized Tests: Subject Area Testing Program (SATP)
- National Standardized Tests: SAT and ACT
- Local Records: attendance records, behavior records, records of teacher conferences, records of parent conferences, records of student conferences, TST meeting minutes, grade retention records, and records of credits earned
- Works with students to develop a graduation and achievement plan to include the best program to meet academic and post-secondary goals
- Develops and submit monthly progress reports to principal
- Coordinates a transition program for 9th graders to successfully adapt to the rigor of high school
- Develops a Graduation Team for each identified student that minimally includes an administrator, two teachers, a counselor and/or school social worker or a representative from a local support or mentoring agency
- Develops a local mentoring program with business partners and connect individual students with mentors
- Tracks the progress of individual and subpopulations of students as they progress toward graduation
- Provides training to parents of students identified as being at risk of not graduating
- Provides training to middle school and high school teachers on support measures that work with youth identified as at risk of not graduating and the youth's parents/guardians
- Identifies and links area 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
- Attends, participate in, and redeliver as appropriate all required high school graduation coach training provided by the Department of Education and/or its collaborative partners
- Develops partnerships with community organizations to support the goals of the high school graduation initiative
- Conducts and analyze on-going formative and summative evaluation data of program effectiveness such as:
- What interventions were most utilized in achievement plans created for each at risk student
- Number and percent of at risk students who met part or all of their goals in their academic plan
- Number and percent of identified at risk students in the school compared to total school population and rationale for why the number/percent is higher or lower than the state average
- Provides and/or submit reports to the Department of Education as scheduled and requested
- Performs other duties as requested or assigned
Salary InformationClassification:Graduation Coach, High SchoolScale:TS-XGrade:A-AAAADays Employed:187 per school yearRange:$46,500.00 - $77,231.00Overtime:ExemptCodesMS Personnel/Accreditation Data:601013 (Lead Teacher)JPSD Job Position Title: