Paraprofessional - Substitute

Paraprofessional - SubstituteThe Chisago Lakes School District is located approximately 35 miles NE of downtown Minneapolis/Saint Paul. The District unites five historical communities with a tradition of excellence. Each community offers both a unique history and a contemporary charm of its own. The 165 square-mile district encompasses 24 lakes and the scenic St. Croix River Valley which creates many outdoor recreational opportunities for any outdoor enthusiast. The District serves approximately 3400 students (PreK-12) and their families. A new Lakeside Elementary School and new Wildcat Community Center highlighted new construction and renovations throughout the district. We have a proud tradition of excellence in academics, fine arts, community education, and extracurricular activities.Chisago Lakes Area School District 2144 is currently seeking applicants for a Paraprofessional - Substitute position. This role provides assistance and intervention for students exhibiting academic and behavioral risk factors, ensuring they can take full advantage of the instructional program and specialized resources. This role involves providing targeted academic, social-emotional, and behavioral support, managing and analyzing student data, implementing formal support plans (IEPs, BSPs, 504s), and building mentoring relationships to promote student success and engagement.The duties include implementing instructional plans and interventions designed to improve students' academic engagement and social-emotional skills, providing targeted academic support, assisting in behavior interventions, collecting, communicating, and monitoring detailed data regarding student attendance, grades, work completion, behavior, and social-emotional goals, and monitoring hallways, supervising assigned areas during activity times, and monitoring classrooms for teachers as needed.Education/Certification Requirement: High School diploma or equivalent; at least two years of college credits or a passing score on the ParaPro/Paraeducator Assessment preferred; CPR/First Aid and manual restraint training may be required based on assignment.Essential skills required to perform the work include the ability to work cooperatively and collaboratively with diverse staff, students, and families, ability to effectively and clearly relay information (both written and verbal), ability to anticipate classroom needs, work independently, and take direction without constant supervision, ability to follow specific directions and reinforce instruction provided by certified staff, ability to adjust quickly to changing student needs, environments (classroom vs. recess), and schedules throughout the day, demonstrated interest in and ability to provide a warm, caring, and stimulating environment for children of all ages and backgrounds, proficiency with Microsoft products, Google suite, and the ability to effectively utilize and track data within online student management platforms, ability to implement complex support plans (BSP/504/IEP) with fidelity and employ structured problem-solving methods, strong interpersonal skills necessary to maintain effective, positive, and mentoring relationships with students, staff, and parents, effective written and oral communication skills for detailed log entries, data presentation, and ongoing consultation with a multidisciplinary team, and ability to lift up to 50 pounds.