Middle and High School Counselor 2025 - 2026 School Year
Middle and High School Counselor 2025 - 2026 School Year
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Crossroads Charter Schools is looking for highly effective highly qualified and highly motivated individuals to join our organization. Ideal candidates will have experience in urban education and be committed to our four core values: High Expectations Real World Learning Creative Culture and Belonging.
Crossroads Charter Schools organization is an equal opportunity employer. Applicants are considered for all positions without regard to sex race religion color national origin ancestry age disability sexual orientation gender identity or any other factor prohibited by law.
All candidates must complete anapplication in order to be considered for open positions. Attach your cover letter resume and 4 professional references (include name phone and email) for review.
All applicants must apply on line by submitting a resume and cover letter at Description: Second ary School Counselor
Direct Supervisor:Principal or designee
School Summary:
At Crossroads Charter Schools we
- Understand the significant difference between equity and equality. Every student deserves to receive what he/she needs to succeed (belonging) not that every student receives the same amount of resources instruction attention etc. (belonging).
- Develop school environments where all students are actively and meaningfully engaged in rigorous instruction and authentic learning tasks.
- Interrupt the school to prison pipeline policies and practices that are directly and indirectly pushing the most atrisk students out of school and on a pathway to the juvenile and criminal justice systems.
- Engage families as partners in meaningful ways.
- Build the capacity of diverse teams that are more reflective of our students.
- Nurture an open collaborative and trusting environment because the work is enormous deeply personal emotional and often difficult.
- Engage in ongoing jobembedded professional development through coteaching and coplanning
Position Summary:
The primary responsibilities are to provide a comprehensive counseling program for all students and consult with teachers parents and staff to enhance their effectiveness in helping students grow socially emotionally personally and educationally. Utilizing leadership advocacy and collaboration school counselors promote student success provide preventive services and respond to identified student needs by implementing a comprehensive school counseling program that addresses academic career and person/social development for all students. The counselor collaborates with staff to coplan codeliver and individualize instruction for all students in a class; work together creatively to accommodate special needs diversity and educational backgrounds of the students; and overcome instructional challenges constructively. The teacher is a hardworking goaloriented and enthusiastic professional with excellent subject knowledge and a sound understanding of the Missouri Learning Standards and Common Core State Standards.
Position Responsibilities:
- Implement a school guidance curriculum
- Counsel individuals and groups of students through the development of educational personal social and career plans
- Consult with and train teachers parents and staff regarding childrens needs in the areas of trauma behavior social and emotional development
- Refer children with problems and their parents to special programs specialists and other outside agencies
- Participate in and coordinate activities that contribute to the effective operation of the counseling program
- Conduct whole class counseling sessions on topics including but not limited to friendship bullying selfesteem good touch/bad touch etc.
- Help create and sustain a positive learning environment for all students
- Assist in creating and implementing behavior plans for identified students
- Provide outlets and avenues for students to communicate with staff serving as a liaison to empower students develop leadership skills and build healthy relationships built on trust.
- Demonstrate gains in student performance
- Participate in meetings training and professional development
- Meet professional obligations through efficient work habits such as meeting deadlines honoring schedules coordinating etc.
- Act in a professional and ethical manner at all times and comply with school policies procedures and expectations.
- Perform other duties and responsibilities as assigned by their supervisor.
- All applicants must apply on line by submitting a resume and cover letter at Salary One of your application questions will ask you to indicate your expected salary. To respond to the question please review the 10month Compensation plan to indicate your expected salary.
Skills and Qualifications:
- Missouri Certification: Counselor K12
- Bachelors Degree required; Masters Degree preferred
- Minimumfive years of elementary school counseling experience preferred
- Strong familiarity with education and child welfare policies and best practices and a motivation to continue expanding that knowledge base through selfstudy and interaction with peers.
- The desire to continue professional development
- Excellent organization skills and an ability to coordinate multiple tasks and activities
- Outstanding verbal and written communication skills and an ability to keep multiple stakeholder groups including parents teachers staff volunteers and partners informed of critical issues activities and schedules.
- Ability and enthusiasm for promoting the school and its mission to a broad and diverse group of people.
- Excellent work ethic positive attitude flexibility and willingness to perform tasks assigned
- Demonstrates ethical behavior and confidentiality of information about students and teachers in the school environment and community.
- Must pass an extensive background check.
- All applicants must apply on the Crossroads website at: Working Relationships in Addition to Supervisor:
Teachers Students Parents Volunteers Office Staff Support Staff Assistant Principals Principals District Leadership Team Central Office Team
All applicants must apply on Crossroads website: federal and state law requires all public school personnel to submit to and pass a criminal background check prior to employment by the school. Crossroads Charter Schools is required by law to exclude from employment any person who has pleaded to or been found guilty of a felony or crime involving moral turpitude under the laws of the State of Missouri any other State of the United States or any other country whether or not a sentence is or was imposed.
Please be advised that Crossroads Charter Schools does not seek information related to the conviction of crimes unrelated to those described in this question. Your conviction of a crime not otherwise listed above is not an automatic disqualification from employment consideration. The school will consider the nature of the offense and the relationship between the offense and the position for which you are applying.
Required Experience:
Manager
Employment Type
Full-Time
