Duties
Hiawatha CUSD #426 has an opening for a full-time school psychologist for the 2024-2025 school year. This position would provide support to unit school district in the areas of academic/behavior interventions, assessment, and programming. While we prefer full-time, we encourage interested part-time applicants to also apply.
- Engage in ongoing communication and consultation with administration, teachers, and parents.
- Identify systemic patterns of student need and work with district personnel to identify appropriate, evidence-based intervention strategies.
- Provide oversight of progress monitoring and integration of all data in team decision making.
- Demonstrate (and train) progress monitoring strategies as part of the individual student intervention plan, and assist staff in interpreting data as part of the ongoing decision making process.
- Observe students in the instructional environment in order to help identify appropriate intervention strategies, to identify barriers to intervention, and to collect response to intervention data.
- Cooperate in selection of books, equipment and other instructional materials.
- Be able to effectively interpret, summarize and communicate evaluation findings about students.
- Be knowledgeable about a wide variety of formal and informal assessment techniques to evaluate the educational functioning of students, including individual psychological instruments of intelligence, achievement, learning processes, behavioral, and social-emotional functioning necessary to identify the special needs of children.
- Possess the ability to mediate conflictual situations.
- Have a genuine concern for people and a record that clearly demonstrates patterns of strength, trust, open communication and a high degree of empathy in all personal situations.
- Maintain professional conduct, standards and ethics.
- Be knowledgeable about instructional content and methodology.
- Possess knowledge and experience utilizing a Response to Intervention framework to support students across all tiers, including benchmarking, problem solving, intervention selection, and progress monitoring.
- Be knowledgeable about behavior management strategies, functional behavior assessments, and behavior intervention planning.
- Be knowledgeable about normal growth and development of students and have an understanding of how this is impacted by current socio-economic trends.
- Demonstrates regular and punctual attendance.
- Maintains a positive attitude and professional demeanor when dealing with school personnel and the public as a school leader.
Qualifications
Valid Professional Educator License with School Psychologist Endorsement.
Possess a Master's degree, having completed a school internship.
Demonstrated desire to help all children.
Such alternatives to the above qualifications as the Board may find appropriate and acceptable.
Salary/Benefits
Nine-month school year. Salary and work year to be established by the Board according to individual or HCTA Contract.
Competitive Salary.
How to Apply
How to Apply: Please complete the online application, including a letter of interest, resume, copy of transcripts, copy of certificates along with 3 letters of reference. Questions may be directed to Holly Way, District Administrative Assistant, Hiawatha CUSD #426 at: holly.way@d426.org
Link to District/Third Party Online Application Web Page
http://www.generalasp.com/dekalb/onlineapp/default.aspx