SCHOOL PSYCHOLOGIST

23-24 School Psychologist

ORGANIZATIONAL OVERVIEW :

By 2025, KIPP DC will build upon two decades of proven results to develop into a more impactful, innovative, and inclusive school system, that provides joyful, identity-affirming learning experiences so that all students and alumni achieve extraordinary outcomes.

We are a network of eighteen schools educating nearly 7,000 students and employing 1,200 teachers, leaders, and staff members dedicated to our mission.

As part of the KIPP network's 255 schools, we share best practices and innovations with our peers across the city and country.

Our work is grounded in a commitment to excellence, equity, and justice. We believe all students have the right to rigorous, relevant, and joyful learning experiences led by exceptionally talented and diverse educators and support staff who promote student achievement and a sense of belonging.

We are seeking a school psychologist who is passionate about educational equity, driven by student and family relationships, and provides intentional support for their students.

POSITION OVERVIEW :

KIPP DC is looking for a dynamic, committed and flexible school psychologist to become part of a vibrant educational community.

Our school psychologists administers, scores, and interprets psychological measures to support our students in the school setting.

The school psychologist reports to the campus director of student support.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES :

Evaluation Delivery : 40%

• Provides core services including : prevention, consultation, intervention, and assessment.
• Services include, but are not limited to, conducting observations, collecting data, reviewing student records, conferring with teachers and parents, interviewing students, planning behavior interventions, and conducting in-services and professional development.

These core services are adapted to the particular needs of each student, situation, and setting.

• Routinely gathers evidence of positive outcomes resulting from psychological services delivered to students, school personnel, and parents.
• Fulfills mandates of federal and state law and the expectations of the DCPS Board of Education and school system leadership.
• Receives and reviews available developmental information from school and outside resources about student behavior(s) and selects evidence-supported or evidence-based psychological interventions.
• Accurately administers, scores, and interprets psychological measures of intelligence, personality, behavior, achievement, adaptive functioning, and developmental maturity.
• Delivers crisis response and intervention services to students, families and staff, when needed.

Stakeholder Management : 30%

• Demonstrates positive, collaborative problem-solving orientation with students, parents and guardians, educators, administrators, community members, and colleagues.
• Helps all stakeholders understand child development and how it affects student performance academically and social / emotionally.
• Serves in a consultative role with designated personnel to offer prevention and intervention strategies related to learning and behavioral problems of students;

and provides consultation on an on-going basis to teachers, parents, and other school personnel to resolve students' learning and behavioral problems.

• Provides oversight to social workers and supports them in writing functional behavior assessments, developing behavior intervention plans, and tracking student responses to the behavior interventions.
• Assists in identifying needed community resources for students and makes appropriate referrals to resources to facilitate educational and behavioral interventions recommended for student success.
• Participates in hearings and due process proceedings, as needed.
• Participates in disciplinary proceedings : expulsions, manifestations, and causation meetings.
• Participates in IEP meetings to communicate the results of psychological assessments to members of the team in parent friendly language.

School and Community Support : 30%

• Demonstrates strong pedagogical content knowledge
• Implements the school-wide student management policies within classrooms and everywhere on campus
• Exhibits positive rapport with students
• Creates and fosters a positive learning environment
• Establishes and maintains strong communication lines with all parents
• Available for Open Houses, Parent-Teacher Conferences and other events involving parents outside of normal operating hours

REQUIREMENTS :

Master's Degree in School Psychology, Educational or Clinical Psychology from an accredited institution, to include forty-two (42) semester hours of graduate level coursework and five hundred (500) clock hours of satisfactory field experience in a PreK through 12 school setting under the supervision of a certified school psychologist.

See DCMR 1659.1 for additional details regarding required graduate level coursework.

• Certification as a School Psychologist by the District of Columbia Office of the State Superintendent of Education (OSSE).
• Commitment to working with students with limited access to quality educational opportunities (Required)
• At least two years of experience as a school psychologist (Preferred)
• Experience working in an urban public school (Preferred)
• Pass a criminal background check, as required by law

EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER

KIPP DC Public Schools does not discriminate against, or tolerate discrimination against, employees or applicants for employment on any legally-recognized basis or protected class including, but not limited to, actual or perceived race, color, national origin, immigration status (except as necessary to comply with federal, DC, state, or local law), religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, lactation and related medical conditions), age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, sexual orientation, gender (including gender identity or expression), marital status (including domestic partnership status), genetic information, political affiliation, pregnancy, family responsibilities, personal appearance, veteran status, uniform service member status, status of being unemployed, status of victim a survivor of domestic violence, sexual offense or stalking, matriculation or any other protected class under federal, state, DC, or local law.

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