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Student Support Teacher

Tribal Operations
Prior Lake, MN Full Time
POSTED ON 3/8/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 5/7/2025

Are you looking for an opportunity to work with students outside of the classroom? Do you have a current Minnesota teaching license? The Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community (SMSC) is looking to add a Student Support Teacher to our growing team in the Education Department. The perfect fit for this opportunity is someone patient, flexible, collaborative, and empathetic. If you are looking to make a difference in the lives of students, SMSC is the place for you. Whatever your career goals may be, let SMSC help get you there!

Starting pay range $60,000 a year. 

Job Overview: Under the direction of the Supervisor of Education, manages a student caseload; provides academic instruction to students on an individualized or small group basis; communicates with families, teachers, and school personnel to support a successful educational journey; travels to school sites as assigned to meet with instruction and administrative teams and to engage students in their learning environment. Provides academic guidance to students attending the afterschool program at the SMSC Education center as scheduled. Works with the Education Department on curricular and programmatic innovations. Maintains a safe and healthy environment. Responsible for the supervision of students in classroom settings, and on activities as scheduled.

Maximize Your Impact: The Responsibilities You’ll Own:

  • Provide individualized academic support to students attending the SMSC Education Center.
  • Helps develop supplemental materials and activities for students with various abilities.
  • Support student’s individual academic goal planning to ensure graduation.
  • Serves as a study skills coach to prepare students for mandatory school district tests, practice tests, skills reviews, while encouraging and motivating students to succeed.
  • Leads organized learning activities for students to develop and strengthen their academic, emotional, behavioral, and social skills.
  • Beginning at the middle school level, proactively provides post-secondary support that includes preparation and planning to maximize each students’ potential and to identify educational opportunities.
  • Proactively monitors student attendance. Intervenes when issues arise to bring students within the guidelines established by the SMSC Education Committee.
  • Serves as a direct liaison between schools and families. Consult with students’ teachers on academic, attendance, social/emotional/behavioral or cultural issues.
  • Serves as an advocate for students, families and the SMSC staff to achieve positive results for students within the school setting.
  • Supports the coordination and execution of special events.
  • Assists with all activities in the SMSC Education Department. Attends all Education Department meetings and events as required.
  • Maintains all appropriate data for assigned students in the selected database or SIS system (i.e. Infinite Campus)
  • Monitors academic progress via selected database; communicates with students’ schoolteachers/counselors.
  • Participates and promotes Dakota language and culture through programming, activities, and special events.
  • Mandated reporter of suspected child abuse or neglect.

Required Experience:

  • Current MN Teaching License required.
  • Bachelor’s degree, ideally in Education, Psychology or related field. 
  • Demonstrated experience as a classroom teacher, instructor, tutor, or teaching assistant.
  • Demonstrates a sensitivity to and understanding of the Dakota people, their culture, history and contemporary status.
  • Demonstrated understanding of, and ideally experience working with Native American school age children and their families.
  • Demonstrates the ability to work closely with our families and the school’s staff to ensure effective communication, collaboration, and cooperation.
  • Demonstrates a commitment to promoting academic and cognitive success for each student.
  • Demonstrates effective organizational and communication skills.
  • Demonstrates computer skills, Microsoft, Word, and Excel.
  • Valid Class D driver’s license may be required with a good driving record.
  • C.P.R. and First Aid Certification or ability to obtain within 90 days of employment.
  • Ability to work 2nd shift when needed. 
  • Current MN Teaching license in Special Education with ABS, ASD, EBD, DD, or LD a PLUS!
  • Capacity to handle and lift up to 25 lbs. as needed.

Outstanding Benefits & Awesome Perks: At the SMSC, we are invested in our employees, as demonstrated by the competitive benefits we offer. Employees may be eligible for benefits including medical, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k) retirement plan, and a generous PTO package, which includes outreach hours for volunteer work through our #SMSCgives outreach program. Plus, take advantage of perks like discounts on childcare, fuel bus passes and fitness membership, free uniforms and free uniform cleaning, and tuition reimbursement.

Who We Are: The Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community contributes both time and financial resources across the region, state, and country. The SMSC has donated more than $400 million to organizations and causes, provided $500 million in economic development loans to other tribes, and contributed millions more to support regional governments and infrastructure. The SMSC's Native Green initiative annually diverts hundreds of tons of waste from landfills, has implemented compostable containers throughout our properties, and restored hundreds of acres of prairie land. Team members are eligible to participate in SMSC Gives, a community outreach initiative that organizes various opportunities in the local community. To empower its team members to take part in the Dakota tradition of giving, the SMSC provides paid hours to team members to volunteer at events. Learn more at shakopeedakota.org

Salary : $60,000

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