Educational Equity Specialist/ American Indian Education Performs intermediate administrative work supporting student career and college readiness, healthy racial identity, interrupting institutional racism, and providing professional development for staff to enhance cultural proficiency and racial consciousness within the school in order to create racially equitable schools, and related work as apparent or assigned. Work is performed under the limited supervision of the Director of Equity and Engagement and building principal. Facilitates communication between students, families, and school staff to ensure student achievement. Acts as a consultant to provide guiding resources for teachers, administrators and other staff regarding culture, heritage and background (history) for students and families. Serves as a bridge between the schools and families and advocates of educational equity for all students and families. Partners with principals to develop a positive building climate that leads to educational equity and student achievement for all students; partners with the building principal to create equity presentations for staff. Partners with building teams designated to analyze school data to develop action plans to ensure educational equity for all students. Establishes and develops strong community relationships (colleges and universities, religious, social services) to cultivate the possibilities of college from elementary to high school, engagements in service learning, and to provide our students and families with community resources. Facilitates student's empowerment, social, racial, academic, and identity development groups. Partners with schools to monitor students' academic progress and work with other building staff to develop academic success plans for students. Develops monthly reports with data that support educational equity activities. Offers guidance and collaboration to staff to provide supplemental culturally relevant experiential learning opportunities in and out of the classroom that will help maximize understanding of core standards curriculum content and introduce equity, race, pluralism, racial justice, and social justice education. Works with the development of after-school programs as funded by the department. Participate in facilitating district-wide staff development training, and building-wide staff development training. Works collaboratively with equity department colleagues on various activities. Provides guidance to school personnel and admin to help ensure that all policies and procedures that are implemented with students and families are implemented with a racial equity and restorative practice lens. Works as part of the building support and administration. Helps to develop successful integration (curriculum, pedagogy delivery, family involvement, student voice, and critical examination of institutional racism) that leads to educational equity and student achievement. Implements the goals and objectives of the Achievement and Integration Plan, District Strategic Plan, and the district Equity Action Plan. This position will execute the American Indian Education Plan under the direction of the Director of Equity and Engagement in partnership with the American Indian Parent Advisory Committee. This position will be responsible for helping the district identify American Indian students within the system and increase the American Indian student enrollment. This position will help create system-wide educational experiences for American Indian students, by providing professional development on student achievement for American Indian students, and coordinating programs that enhance the holistic development of American Indian students (racial, cultural, academically, socially and emotionally).Some knowledge of district policies, manuals, programs, processes and procedures; some knowledge of standard office practices, procedures and equipment; some knowledge of business English, spelling and arithmetic; some knowledge of different cultures and traditions; some knowledge of federal program rules, policies, and procedures; thorough skill demonstrating evidence of successfully working with students of color and students receiving free and reduced meals in a Tier I school; thorough skill demonstrating the ability to build strong community partnerships; some skill operating standard office equipment, personal computer and applicable hardware and software; some skill performing data entry on web-based forms; ability to compute rates, ratios and percentages; ability to make arithmetic computations using whole numbers, fractions and decimals; ability to create and maintain files, records, reports and databases in a timely and effective manner both electronically and on paper; ability to change and influence school climate and culture; ability to facilitate groups and peer meetings; ability to develop and facilitate educator professional development; ability to communicate effectively both orally and in written formats; ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with officials, teachers, employees students, similar professionals, and the general public. Bachelor's degree, or equivalent combination of education and experience. This work requires the occasional exertion of up to 10 pounds of force; work frequently sitting and occasionally requires standing, walking, using hands to finger, handle or feel, reaching with hands and arms, lifting and repetitive motions; work has standard vision requirements; vocal communication is required for expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word; hearing is required to perceive information at normal spoken word levels; work requires preparing and analyzing written or computer data, operating machines and observing general surroundings and activities; work has no exposure to environmental conditions; work is generally in a moderately noisy location (e.g. business office, light traffic).
