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Position Summary:
Based the Bay Area (San Jose/East Bay/Peninsula) and reporting to the Associate Director of Integrated Special Education, the BCBA role will be a key contributor to the implementation and coaching of highly individualized Behavior Intervention Plans for the small percentage of students in special education who have not responded to earlier attempts at behavior supports. This role operates under educational impact and not solely clinical practices.
The BCBA will serve multiple school sites which may include schools in San Jose, Redwood City, Concord, or Antioch. The BCBA will partner closely with school psychologists, wellness counselors, special education case managers, school leaders, and program specialists to ensure collaboration and ongoing implementation and coaching of student supports and plans to ensure success. The BCBA will lead training to develop staff and ensure aligned understandings and implementation. The BCBA may also be involved in crisis level support and creation of safety plans for students with more significant safety concerns, as well as in moment de escalation, and at times IEP level support and collaboration (direct services).
This position requires previous training and experience working with students with emotional and behavioral needs. It requires a commitment to serving students and a desire to think critically and creatively about how to support challenging behaviors in the general education classroom setting.
The salary range for this position starts at $80,000.
Essential Functions:
- Duties will include, but not be limited to:
- As needed, conduct thorough and comprehensive Functional Behavior Assessments, including documenting findings and recommendations in a compliant report which will be filed in the student’s special education file. FBA practices are to include: review of records, parent and teacher interviews, direct student observations for data collection, and coordination with school staff for additional behavior data collection.
- Collaborate on creation of Behavior Intervention Plans, in collaboration and coordination with the Individualized Education Plan (IEP) team.
- Design and propose informal behavior plans, in collaboration and coordination with the school personnel.
- Collaborate and partner on Functional Behavior Assessments.
- Provide ongoing coaching to teachers, ISE specialists, paraprofessionals, school staff, school leaders, and wellness counselors, etc. regarding implementation of behavior interventions and supports in all school settings.
- Provide ongoing coaching to ISE specialists, paraprofessionals, and 1:1 aides regarding implementation of behavior intervention services.
- Plan and conduct student progress meetings for students in general education with available data and information. Coordinate with school personnel to develop behavioral goals and objectives.
- Consult with school leaders to determine behavior needs on campus and prioritize work.
- Design and execute staff professional development opportunities related to behavior intervention strategies for a range of audiences (school leaders, special education teachers, program specialists, mental health providers, etc.)
- Support consistent implementation of evidence-based behavior interventions in Rocketship schools, create user-friendly resources that support special education teams in the implementation of these interventions.
- Maintain a close working relationship with other members of the Network Support MTSS and ISE Teams (NeST—Rocketship’s centralized office that operates in support of its schools and regions) to ensure exchange of best practices, coordination of efforts, and general support for the Integrated Special Education department.
- Ensure the MTSS Team is viewed as a positive support to the organization’s mission that are fully aligned with