INTERNAL ONLY - 2025 Summer Extended School Year Programs - Behavior Mentor

Position: ESY Behavior Mentor (Open to Internal DASD Applicants Only)

Locations: Shamona Creek Elementary, Marsh Creek Sixth Grade Center, Downingtown High School West

Pay Rate: $38 per hour AND $500 retention bonus (retention pay requires mandatory participation in orientation and attendance 15/19 days in program)

Schedule: Up to 5 hours per day, Monday - Thursday (please see below for more information)

Benefit Eligible: No

Effective Date: Monday, June 23, 2025 - Thursday, July 24, 2025

Are you passionate about helping ALL students learn in a collaborative environment? If so, we may have the career for you!

At DASD, we are committed to sharing values of diversity and inclusion in order to achieve and sustain excellence in education. As a diverse district, we continually seek ways to strengthen our educational environment. We believe that we can best promote excellence by recruiting and retaining a diverse group of staff who bring various backgrounds and perspectives. Our ability to create and maintain a climate of respect is critical to attaining the best teaching and learning environment. If you want to be part of our "Downingtown Proud" team - please apply! Help us with our mission to educate all students to meet the rigorous challenges of a global society.

At the Downingtown Area School District we value our employees. We seek to hire new staff who:

• Communicate openly to build relationships and trust
• Partner with team members to see the TEAM succeed
• Demonstrate a growth mindset and seek ongoing opportunities for growth
• Embrace and support a safe and inclusive environment
• Eagerly and enthusiastically support student learning
• Strive to be kind and reflective
• Focus on the solution and put people first
• Lead by example!
  
  

Downingtown’s summer ESY program starts on Monday, 6/23/2025 and concludes on Thursday, 7/24/2025, with no school on July 3rd.

The program runs Monday - Thursday for a total of 19 days.

Student Hours by Location*

Shamona Creek Elementary: 9 AM. - 12:30 PM

Marsh Creek Sixth Grade Center: 9 AM. - 12:30 PM

Downingtown High School West: 7:30 AM - 11:30 AM

• Staff hours begin 30 minutes prior to student hours and extend 30 minutes past student hours (e.g. 8:30 AM - 1 PM; 7 AM - 12 PM)
  
  

Locations*

Elementary: Shamona Creek Elementary and Marsh Creek Sixth Grade Center

Secondary: Marsh Creek Sixth Grade Center and Downingtown High School West

• We ask staff to be flexible regarding work hours and building location
  
  

Pay Rate

Teachers: $38 per hour plus $500 retention bonus

• Retention bonus requires mandatory participation in orientation and attendance 15/19 days for all staff.
  
  

Job Summary: Highly qualified Behavior Mentor with knowledge and skills necessary to assist individuals, groups and systems through the application of positive behavior supports and behavioral interventions. The Behavior Mentor will work collaboratively with staff to enhance skills in managing challenging behaviors within the ESY program. In addition, will work directly with identified students to implement and model for staff diversified behavioral strategies and activities.

Qualifications

• Candidate must be a graduate of an accredited college or university and hold a proper Pennsylvania certification for the position.
• BCBA certification strongly preferred, but not required
• Demonstrate knowledge in the area of assignment.
• Possess a positive attitude toward the teaching profession, service to the district, and importance and purpose of education programs.
• The employee in this position could be required as part of his or her duties to engage in activities that can be charged to a Medical Assistance or other state or federal healthcare program. Clearance as provider under such programs by both the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the federal government is therefore an essential qualification for this position.
• Proficiency in use of technology for individual or group demonstration or communication.
• Must be able to flex and vary hours to accommodate needs of students, parents, and other teachers.
• Possesses effective interpersonal skills with the ability to interface diplomatically with teachers, administrators, parents, students, and outside organizations.
• Exhibits excellent classroom management skills.
• Demonstrates effective communication skills to provide accurate information to others and to obtain, give, and follow directions.
• Demonstrates ability to provide good judgment, planning, and human relations skills, as well as be required to work under periods of stress due to the level of the position responsibility.
• Must successfully complete and maintain compliance with all federal and state background and criminal record check requirements
• Click here for more information about required clearances
• Candidate must adhere to all local, state, federal, and school code requirements for employment.
  
  

Duties & Responsibilities

• Assist staff in: defining and measuring behavior; understanding principles of reinforcement; teaching new behavior; implementing, and identifying antecedents.
• Mentor and guide IEP teams in implementation process of Behavior Intervention 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.
• Work with individual teachers, groups of teachers and/or the entire staff on issues such as: crisis intervention, learning and collaboration issues, and factors that can affect development and implementation of interventions.
• Promote highly specialized positive behavior interventions in which “at risk” students thrive: behavior instruction that is explicit, intensive, accelerated and provides ample practice.
• Use ongoing assessments to maintain a record of student progress.
• Model good assessment processes that assist students in assessing their own work and behavior.
• Provide recognition 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 on-going professional development to increase knowledge and skills of positive student behavior support for all students, targeted students and students who represent sub-group populations.
• Serve as a consultant to administrators, teachers, and parents.
• Provide resources and support to special education teachers in goal writing and data collection as it pertains to behavior.
  
  

EOE