Job Description

Position: Check and Connect Program Specialist
Location: North High School
Work Schedule: Monday-Friday, 8 hours per day, 190 days
Start Date: Fall 2026
Pay: $59,580
Benefits: Single contribution Health, Dental, vision, 403b matching

This position supports the Check & Connect Program by providing positive behavior interventions and maintains a caseload of students. The incumbent will work with individual students and their families, school staff, and community service providers to implement strategies and interventions that address school success and school completion for students in need of support to graduate. Including tracking students' level of engagement, document results, and complete monthly forms and a contact log as a tool to assess student improvements in regards to the following: absences, truancies, suspensions, and grades/credits earned.

Required Qualifications:

Bachelor's degree in Social Work or a related field.
Experience working in the school setting.
Knowledge and understanding of behavior interventions and support.
Ability to collaborate with community agencies to provide services to students.
Ability to communicate effectively both in oral and written format.

Desired Qualifications:

Master's Degree in Social Work or related field.
Licensed in a MN related license service area (i.e. school social work, school psychologist, guidance counselor)
Ability to understand, use and share data related to practices and progress monitoring
Knowledge of targeted and individual behavior support
Ability to design and deliver training on School-Wide Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports (PBIS)
Computer proficiency
Multi-age and multi-culture experience

Responsibilities:

Work with caseloads of students and families, functioning as liaisons between home and school, and striving to build constructive family-school relationships
Data collection in building: including regular checks on students' attendance, grades and behavior
Reteach and provide behavior interventions to students, communicate regularly with families, and initiate efforts to keep students engaged in school
Provide timely, personalized, data-based interventions determined by the solutions team designed to provide support tailored to individual student needs, based on the student's level of engagement with school ("check" data), associated influences of home and school, and leveraging of local resources
Reteach expectations that are taught, reinforced, and monitored at the school-wide level.
Consult with teachers, parents, and administrators to develop intervention strategies to reduce barriers to school success
Consult with teachers, parents, and administrators to develop intervention strategies to reduce barriers to school success
Collaborate with other Check & Connect Program Specialists and district social workers

Additional Comments:

If you have any questions or would like to follow up on your application, please contact Stephanie Woodbury at 651.748.6001 or swoodbury@isd622.org

Independent School District No, 622, North St. Paul-Maplewood-Oakdale, does not discriminated on the basis of sex and prohibits sex discrimination in any education program or activity.

ISD 622 is an equal opportunity employer and supports an inclusive workplace environment.

About School District 622: North St. Paul-Maplewood-Oakdale Schools

We commit each day to develop and empower lifelong learners who thrive in diverse communities.

We operate 11 traditional schools, one 9-12 online school, two community education centers, a district service center, a transportation center, and central warehouse.

More than 1,500 employees of the North St. Paul - Maplewood - Oakdale Public Schools work together to provide quality educational programs. Of these, about 800 are teachers, principals, administrators, and other licensed employees. The other 700 employees are in jobs ranging from custodians, nutrition services, bus drivers, clerical, building engineers, education assistants, paraprofessionals, and more! It takes all of us to educate young people and provide quality lifelong learning opportunities.

Our students regularly receive state and national recognition for outstanding achievement. We feel that this is the best school system in Minnesota, and we hope that you find it is also a good place to work.

Our Core Values:

1. Accountability — Accept personal and shared accountability for the results of our work with learners

2. Integrity — Demonstrate the core values of openness, honesty and integrity in every interaction

3. Excellence — Seek excellence and attain high levels of

achievement in every endeavor

4. Achievement — Focus on the results of action (learning) and

not the action itself (teaching)

5. Courage — Do what needs to be done because it is the

right thing to do

6. Teamwork — Willing to collaborate

7. Respect — Respect every individual and provide high levels of service for internal and external customers

Industry

Education & Training

Company Size

51-200 employees

Headquarters

Minnesota, North Saint Paul

Year Founded

Unknown

Website

isd622.org

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