2026-27 Tiered Support Specialist .5 - Boulder Creek ES

Purpose Statement

The Tiered Support Specialist provides leadership and direction at the school level, working to design, implement, coordinate and evaluate a comprehensive PBIS framework. In addition, the Tiered Support Specialist works directly with identified students to teach behaviors that substantially increase their academic performance.

Essential Job Functions

• Set goals for behavioral changes, monitor students, assess progress, and modify behavioral plans if necessary.
• In crisis situations, design a plan with a team to address any immediate dangers or threats and determine the necessity of long-term treatment.
• Support Tier 1 effective proactive and preventative instruction of behavior expectations and social competencies within the PBIS or MTSS framework.
• Aid in the development of interventions, functional behavior assessments, and behavior plans for a safe and effective educational environment.
• Conduct conflict resolution and peer mediation sessions.
• Support Tier 1 behavior data collection and data-based team decision-making.
• Aid staff in defining and measuring behavior; understanding principles of reinforcement; teaching new behavior; implementing strategies for weakening behavior; and identifying antecedents.
• Help students set goals for behavioral changes, monitor and assess progress, and modify plans if necessary.
• Participate in Tier 1 building level and/or grade level PBIS or MTSS meetings, as appropriate.
• Consult with school social worker, counselor, and teachers.
• Observe students in their educational environment, analyze existing data, and conduct preference assessments to increase student success.
• Facilitate team meetings that design Behavior Interventions Plans; address classroom organization, effective instruction, social skills instruction, and ethical issues; School-wide Positive Behavioral Support; and factors that affect effectiveness including social validity and treatment integrity.
• Promote highly specialized positive behavior interventions in which “at risk” students thrive with behavior instruction that is explicit, intensive, accelerated and provides ample practice.
• Facilitate school-wide acknowledgement of a variety of student accomplishments and positive behaviors.
• Work cooperatively with building administrators to promote positive student behavior by providing professional development that targets research, strategies and modeling of instructional practices to support teachers in their implementation of positive behavior support in their classrooms.
• Engage in ongoing professional development to increase knowledge and skills of positive student behavior support for all students, targeted students and students who represent sub-group populations.
• Engage parents in the student behavior intervention plan process and empower parents by providing them with skills and techniques to support the positive behavior development of their child.
• Provide leadership to others through example and sharing of knowledge/skill.

Other Functions

Performs other related duties, as assigned, for the purpose of ensuring the efficient and effective functioning of the work unit.

Job Requirements

• Minimum Qualifications: Skills, Knowledge And Abilities, Education, Experience, Certificates and Licenses, Clearances