Bus Monitor - IDEA Weslaco Pike (2026-2027)
Description
Role Mission: The Bus Monitor will ride buses and help the driver ensure safe and orderly transportation of students with disabilities.
What We Offer
- Compensation: $10.00/hour
- Benefits: Dental and vision plans, disability, life insurance, parenting benefits, generous vacation time, referral bonuses, and professional development.
- Relocation Allowance: Available if applicable.
What You Bring
- Competencies: Ability to follow verbal instructions and communicate effectively; ability to operate safety and adaptive equipment; ability to work well with children with disabilities.
- Qualifications: High School Diploma or GED; no specific license or certification required.
- Lift and carry students with disabilities on and off the bus according to their individual needs.
- Supervise students as they board and leave the bus and cross streets.
- Take children into buildings and help them find their way.
- Learn and adapt to each student’s special medical, physical, communicative, and emotional needs.
- Manage student behavior and report student discipline problems to appropriate administrators.
- Communicate with teachers and parents on a daily basis regarding student behavior while on the bus.
- Become familiar with all routes to and from school campuses to assist the driver.
- Maintain an updated route schedule.
- Supervise the use of seat belts, harnesses, or car seats by students.
- Follow emergency procedures and help the driver administer first aid, if necessary.
- Operate equipment according to established safety procedures.
- Follow established procedures and techniques to perform job duties including lifting, assisting students, etc.
- Become familiar with and follow procedures established by transportation and special education offices.
- Help the driver keep the bus clean.
- Work irregular hours as needed.
- 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.
- Sets and reaches ambitious goals every day.
- Wants to continue to grow with IDEA.
- Works relentlessly to make college for all a reality.
- Works through silos and forges strong cross-departmental relationships in order to achieve outcomes.
- Believes in education as a profession and holds ourselves to a high level of conduct, professionalism, and behaviors as models for our colleagues and students.
- Maintain emotional control under stress.
- Frequent walking, stooping, bending, kneeling, pushing, and pulling.
- Moderate lifting and carrying.
- Work outside and inside.
- Work around vehicles and machinery with moving parts.
- Moderate exposure to extreme temperatures and vehicle fumes.
What You’ll Do – Accountabilities
Values and Characteristics
About IDEA Public Schools
At IDEA Public Schools, we believe each and every child can go to college. Since 2000, IDEA Public Schools has grown from a small school with 150 students to a multi-state network of tuition-free, Pre-K-12 public charter schools. IDEA Public Schools boasts national rankings on The Washington Post and U.S. News & World Report’s top high schools lists. IDEA serves over 80,000 college-bound students in 143 schools across Texas, Florida, Ohio, and is on-track to maintain its legacy of sending 100% of its graduates to college. When you choose to work at IDEA, you are part of our IDEA Team and Family. You will work alongside team members who set and reach ambitious goals every day, are excited to continue to grow with IDEA, and work relentlessly to make college for all a reality.
Working Conditions
To Apply
Please submit your application online through Jobvite. It’s in your best interest to apply as soon as possible.