Middle School Counselor (Apply directly with STEM Charter School Highlands Ranch - DO NOT apply online with DCSD)

About the Role

About Stem School Highlands Ranch At STEM School Highlands Ranch, we place innovation at the heart of learning to unleash the potential of all students and prepare them for an exponentially changing world.

Responsibilities

• Provide individual and group counseling on academic (executive functioning skills, study habits, etc.), personal, social, and behavioral challenges.
• Counsel students regarding educational issues such as course and program selection, class scheduling, school adjustment, ICAP, study habits, and college/career planning.
• Secondary student course scheduling.
• Counsel students on personal, social, or behavioral problems affecting their educational situations.
• Deliver counseling services through classroom lessons, small groups, and individual counseling.
• Provide crisis support to individual students when needed; collaborate and provide resources to families when needed.
• Implement and coordinate 504 meetings and plans for students.
• Analyze data and use results to inform stakeholders and continuously improve programs.
• Use available technology resources to enhance the school counseling practice and program.
• Work closely with admin and members of the mental health team to plan, deliver, and promote social-emotional programming that can be embedded within the school framework.
• Maintain community partnerships to support students and their families.
• Participate in professional development activities to improve knowledge and skills.
• Perform other duties as requested

Requirements

• Teaching License - Colorado Department of Education
• Bachelor's Degree (Required)

Compensation

• Base pay: $1.00 - $75,000.50/yr
• Career range upper: $150,000.00/yr

Benefits

• This position is eligible for health, vision, dental, health savings account (HSA), flexible spending accounts (FSA), District paid and voluntary additional (supplemental) life and accidental death and dismemberment insurance, short and long-term disability, critical illness and accident voluntary insurance, employee assistance program (EAP), voluntary 401(k), 403(b) and 457 retirement plan options.