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Academic Counselor - IDEA NOLA Academy (19-20)

Employer
IDEA Public Schools
Location
New Orleans, LA, United States
Salary
Competitive

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Description
Position at IDEA Public Schools

About New Orleans

IDEA New Orleans is set to open its doors in the fall of 2019 and will begin by offering kindergarten through 5 th grade to 360 students. Home to world-class restaurants, and beautiful architecture - IDEA is ecstatic to enlist a cohort of strong individuals that will help support student's dreams to get to and through college.

In 2017, only 1 in 6 students graduated in the state of Louisiana graduated college-ready. Changing this statistic is part of the promise IDEA makes to current and incoming students. IDEA Southern Louisiana is part of the solution for sharing the endless possibilities in grade school, college, and beyond.

Role Mission: IDEA Academic Counselors (ACs) support three main work streams: Testing, Family Engagement and Social Emotional Support. IDEA Academic Counselors are shared by the Academy (PK-2) and College Prep (6th grade) in Year 1 of a school opening. After the first year of a school's operation, the Academic Counselor moves to one of the schools (Academy or College Prep), and a second Academic Counselor is hired for the other school (Academy or College Prep).

Responsibilities:
  • * Collaborate with school leaders and teachers to reach school goals
  • * Coordinate all standardized testing and district-wide assessments
  • * Empowering students to build emotional intelligence
  • * Identify and proactively work with truant and other at-risk students
  • * Identify students at risk of leaving IDEA and lead prevention strategies
  • * Facilitate family involvement

Accountabilities

1. 90% student persistence
  • * Lead the work on campus to engage families and students to ensure students stay at IDEA.
  • * Create and monitor systems to support teachers and staff, ensuring that we are doing Whatever it Takes to keep our kids.
  • * Implement IDEA's Family Engagement Plan
  • * Utilize IDEA's operating Recapture log
  • * Follow the campus communication flow chart to resolve issues in a timely manner
  • * Participate in and lead family engagement event planning
  • * Track and respond to student persistent data

2. 24-hour turn around for scanning of assessments
  • * Campus Testing Coordinators on most campuses
  • * Create a campus testing plan
  • * Train school staff on test security and use of test systems
  • * Ensure all deadlines are met and all students are given the appropriate assessments

3. Student Social Emotional Support
  • * AC's provide solutions-focused counseling, support student culture and connect students and families to outside resources when needed.

We look for Team and Family who embody the following values and characteristics:
  • * Believes and is committed to our mission and being an agent of change: that all students are capable of getting to and through college
  • * Has demonstrated effective outcomes and results, and wants to be held accountable for them
  • * Has a propensity for action, willing to make mistakes by doing in order to learn and improve quickly
  • * Works with urgency and purpose to drive student outcomes
  • * Thrives in an entrepreneurial, high-growth environment; is comfortable with ambiguity and change
  • * Seeks and responds well to feedback, which is shared often and freely across all levels of the organization
  • * Works through silos and forges strong cross-departmental relationships in order to achieve outcomes
  • * We believe in education as a profession and hold ourselves to high level of conduct, professionalism and behaviors as models for our colleagues and students.

Qualifications:
  • * Education: Bachelor's degree required; Master's degree in guidance counseling preferred
  • * Experience: Teaching experience preferred
  • * Licenses or Certifications: Louisiana Certification preferred, but not required.

Knowledge and Skills:
  • * Proven track record of success
  • * Excellent organizational, communication, and interpersonal skills
  • * Ability to manage student behavior
  • * Belief in and alignment with IDEA's mission and values is non- negotiable
  • * Ability to adjust and adapt to a multitude of situations in the school environment

Compensation:
  • * Salaries for this role typically fall between $51,650 and $63,812 commensurate with relevant experience and qualifications. This role is also eligible for a performance bonus based on individual and organizational performance and goal attainment.


IDEA Public Schools does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, sex or disability, in admission or access to, or treatment of employment in its programs and activities. Any person having inquiries concerning the organization's compliance with the regulations implementing Title VI of Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Title VI), Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (Section 504), or Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA), may contact IDEA Human Resources at (956) 377-8000.

Company

IDEA Public Schools believes that each and every child can go to college. Since 2000, IDEA Public Schools has grown from a small school with 150 students to the fastest-growing network of tuition-free, Pre-K-12 public charter schools in the United States. IDEA currently serves nearly 66,000 college-bound students in 120 schools across Texas and Louisiana and is gearing up to open schools in Florida for the 2021-2022 school year.

Interested in learning more about working at IDEA Public Schools? 

Visit us at www.ideapublicschools.org/careers.

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Telephone
956-377-8000
Location
2115 W. Pike Blvd
Weslaco
TX
78596
US

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