Part Time Attendance Liaison - Choice Schools

Part Time Attendance Liaison

2024 - 2025 School Year

At Creative Montessori Academy, we celebrate and nurture every child's innate desire to learn. Utilizing the Montessori Method, our diverse learning environment fosters innovation and yet allows each student the chance to learn through self-directed pace and individual style.

As Montessori educators, it is our mission to prepare our environments for students to develop a love of learning and become intrinsically motivated. It is our objective to guide students in their critical thinking and bring awareness to their five senses throughout the environment.

Teachers and administration are thoroughly trained in the Montessori Method and are committed to the Montessori education of every child. The curriculum is demanding, yet allows each student the chance to learn through self-directed pace and individual style.

Qualities of a Success Candidate:

• A genuine love for working with children and a strong commitment to their holistic development. They should prioritize the child's individuality, independence, and self-directed learning, fostering an environment that supports these values.
• The ability to guide children through their learning journey with patience, allowing them to explore and make discoveries at their own pace. They should also be flexible in adjusting their teaching methods to meet the unique needs of each child.
• Strong interpersonal skills, fostering positive relationships with children, parents and other staff members. They should be able to work collaboratively, promoting a harmonious learning environment.

As the Part Time Attendance Liaison, your core responsibilities will include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Leads school building attendance team to guide attendance policies and procedures to prevent truancy.
• Develop messaging with the team- texts, emails, phone calls, letters.
• Identify, discuss, and address educational inequities that impact attendance based on race, culture, gender, income, and special needs.
• Develop with the team a comprehensive attendance policy and practice guidance that outlines regulations, roles, and responsibilities for building a positive culture of attendance and promoting early intervention.
• Work with the team to take a multi-tiered approach to address chronic absence by providing guidance, resources, professional development, and coaching.
• Ensures the school can implement a restorative, positive school climate, with differentiated engagement strategies, that mitigate disconnectedness, stress, and trauma.
• Assist with setting schoolwide goals to reduce truancy.
• Reaches out to parent/guardian daily for all absences- text, email
• Tracks all attendance outreach.
• Keeps teachers informed of any attendance issues
• Provides community resources for medical, mental health, and transportation resources.
• Maintains continuous communication with a variety of public agencies providing services to youth and parents.
• Establish and conduct parent and student informational meetings/trainings geared to improve school attendance
• Sends out standardized letters.
• Provides all families with information on connections between attendance and school achievement
• Provides a monthly report of absences to school leaders for board meetings.
• Fosters communication for the purpose of establishing positive relationships between parents, students, and staff.
• Provides ways for teachers to engage students and foster relationships between students so they want to come to school.
• Provide interventions and resources.
• Tracks interventions for chronically absent students.
• Makes home visits with parents and students to check on chronically truant or absent students and gain parental support in students' educational and social development.
• Develop success plans for students who could become truant.
• Market importance of attendance throughout the school and on announcements.
• Acknowledge students who are seeing a reduction in absences.
• Reward students for attendance.

Essential Skills and Competencies: While we will consider a broad range of backgrounds, the ideal candidate would have the following qualifications/experience:

Minimum Requirements:

• Valid Michigan teaching certificate with endorsements in appropriate grade and subject levels, meeting the requirements of the Michigan Department of Education and federal guidelines. Except as otherwise provided by law, the academy shall use certificated teachers according to the state board rule.
• Or, minimum of a Bachelor's degree and an alternative pathway, which includes passing the MTTC test(s) for endorsements in appropriate grade and subject levels.
• Proven knowledge and expertise in the curriculum and or specific subject area that will be taught.
• Ability to use technology as an instructional tool in the classroom, as a means of analyzing academic achievement data, and as a tool to aid effective communications.

Desired Qualifications:

• Excellent verbal and written expression using standard grammar and vocabulary.
• Strong interpersonal skills.
• Recent teaching experience, coursework, or other activity in the area of primary instruction
• Demonstrated knowledge of current instructional strategies appropriate for students at the specified grade level
• Desire and ability to work with students at the specified age level with diverse backgrounds and levels of ability toward accomplishing their educational goals.

Work Location:12701 McCann Ave, Southgate, MI 48195

Please contact autumnhernadez@choiceschools.comwith any questions.

Working for Choice Schools Associates

Creative Montessori Academy is part of the Choice Schools Community. As a comprehensive education service provider, Choice Schools offers a student-centered approach to tailored school operations support. Much like a superintendent's office, Choice Schools provides invaluable assistance in various crucial areas, including instruction, professional development, curriculum, human resources, finance, compliance, communications, and enrollment. By being a part of the Choice Schools Montessori Model, Creative Montessori is a vibrant community of learning, comprised of multiple other outstanding Montessori schools within the state. The Montessori Model will provide you with the support and collaboration of a large district while serving at a tight-knit community school in your area.

Choice Schools Associates is an equal opportunity employer. Choice Schools Associates does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, gender, sexual orientation, national or ethnic background. All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

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