Graduation Coach
ALS Education LLC
Location
West Palm Beach, Florida
Salary
$48,000 - $53,700 / YEAR
Quick overview
The Graduation Coach tracks and monitors student progress to ensure on-time high school graduation through individual planning and data-driven interventions. They coordinate with staff and service providers to resolve barriers to graduation and maintain accurate student records.
Requirements summary
A Bachelor's degree in Education or a related field is required, along with previous experience as a high school teacher. Experience in high school guidance and working with at-risk youth is strongly preferred.
Job description
To provide assistance to all potential on-time graduates, individually and in groups, regarding on-time high school graduation and completion, including but not limited to: analyzing data to identify students or subgroups with potential high school graduation problems; planning, implementing, and tracking individual high school graduation plans; identifying and resolving barriers to graduation; and working to improve on-time graduation rate.
Primary Responsibilities
- Under the direction of the
- Principal, the
- Graduation
- Coach:
- Tracks and predicts the school’s on-time graduation rate.
- Tracks all progress of potential on-cohort graduates
- Creates an individual graduation plan for each potential on-cohort graduate
- Creates a database of all students in the current year’s graduation cohort.
- Monitors and reviews all graduation components weekly
- Meets with each potential on-cohort graduate weekly at minimum to review graduation plan and progress
- Monitors credit recovery, credit earning and participation/attendance rates
- Maximizes the use of SAT, ACT and PERT test waivers and participation
- Distributes and tracks all state testing to include FSA/EOC/SAT/ACT/PERT Assessments for all potential on-cohort students.
- Coordinates with career coach/ counselor, service providers among others to ensure necessary supports and services are provided when needed to improve graduation rates for potential on-cohort graduates
- Maintain progress monitoring reports, attendance and behavioral records, academic grades, and other student records for all potential on-cohort graduates.
- Utilize district and organizational reports to identify potential on-cohort graduates and withdrawn potential on-cohort graduates.
- Tracks all of the school’s potential on-cohort students who have been withdrawn to ensure accurate withdraw codes.
- Regular outreach to withdrawn potential on-cohort students to assist them in re-engaging in school.
- Conduct quarterly vertical team meetings with traditional high school’s faculty and staff to develop action steps to improve individual student and subgroup transition success rate;
- Provide and/or submit reports to the Strategy Management Team on the graduation status of on cohort students
- Performs other duties as assigned by the appropriate administrator
Job Requirements and Prerequisites
- Bachelor’s degree in Education or related field from an accredited college or university is required
- Previous experience as a high school teacher
- Previous experience in high school guidance strongly preferred
- Previous experience and/or the ability to work with overage and at-risk youth preferred.
- Previous experience coordinating efforts and working effectively in a team environment Knowledge of the principles of secondary education
- Knowledge of curriculum and instructional theory
- Knowledge of principles of adolescent growth and development
- Knowledge of post-high school planning and employment trends
- Knowledge, skills and ability to analyze and use data to drive program improvement
- Ability to communicate effectively both orally and in writing
