Student Behavior Support Assistant - Lakeside Middle School - 2026-27 School Year

About the role

Lakeside Middle School is seeking a proactive, empathetic, and organized Student Behavior Support Assistant to join their team. This role serves as a key resource in fostering a positive school climate by providing immediate, structured alternatives to out-of-school exclusion and keeping students safely and productively in the learning environment.

Responsibilities

• De-Escalation & Restorative Reflection: Facilitate structured reflection processes for students experiencing classroom behavioral disruptions. Help students identify behavioral triggers, evaluate who was impacted, and establish concrete action plans for moving forward.
• Family Collaboration & Behavioral Tracking: Copy and send completed reflection forms to families, maintain internal file tracking, and proactively flag behavioral patterns for early counseling or administrative referrals.
• In-School Support & Transition Planning: Manage a dedicated, supportive in-school alternative space for full-day interventions. Ensure continuous academic support on classroom work, facilitate behavioral planning, coordinate counselor check-ins, and create concrete re-entry plans for class return.
• Check-In/Check-Out (CICO) Mentorship: Serve as a trusted adult on campus using evidence-based CICO strategies to provide daily positive reinforcement, behavioral goal setting, and progress monitoring.
• Early Attendance & Tardy Management: Run morning attendance reports via PowerSchool and issue timely family notifications via ParentSquare within the first 15 minutes of the school day to intercept chronic attendance issues early.
• Structured Detention Support: Oversee lunch and recess detentions, ensuring these times are utilized constructively to reset student behavior.

Qualifications

• General knowledge of student instruction and management practices, procedures and techniques;
• General knowledge of school system rules and procedures for classroom, halls, cafeteria, library and transportation;
• General knowledge of subject areas in class levels to which assigned;
• Ability to guide, direct, teach, and control students;
• Ability to understand and follow written and verbal instructions;
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with students, parents, teachers, principals and other school personnel;
• Ability to type basic records;
• Ability to operate audio-visual equipment.

Education and Experience

Any combination of education and experience equivalent to graduation from high school including clerical training.