Paraprofessional
Democracy Prep Public Schools is committed to ensuring all scholars succeed in the college of their choice and lead a life of active citizenship. As a paraprofessional, you will play a vital role in supporting classroom instruction, reinforcing high expectations, and providing individualized support to help every scholar grow academically, socially, and personally.
Anticipated Start Date: Immediate Hire **This position is a temporary, part-time position available for immediate hiring with a tentative end date of January 29, 2027. There is potential for an extension of this end date but this is not a guarantee.**
Work Schedule:
This position is 29 hours a week with the following schedule: Monday–Thursday: 8:30 AM–2:30 PM, Friday: 8:00 AM–1:00 PM. This is a fully on-site, school-based position requiring in-person attendance at one of Democracy Prep’s school locations. Remote or work-from-home options are not available for this role.
Who You Are
- An educator with an unwavering commitment to the Democracy Prep mission of college success and authentic civic engagement for our scholars.
- An educator with a desire to assist students with special needs in a rigorous, college preparation learning environment.
- Somebody with the emotional maturity necessary for the specialized work involved.
What You’ll Do
- Work with individual students or small groups of students to reinforce learning of materials or skills initially introduced and outlined by certified staff.
- Assist the certified staff in devising special strategies for reinforcing learning materials and skills based on a sympathetic understanding of individual students, their needs, interests, and abilities.
- Monitor work, correct papers, and supervise curriculum-based tasting and makeup work as assigned by the certified staff.
- Alert the certified staff to any problem or special information about an individual student.
- Perform assigned supervision of students (deemed to be) at risk and requiring additional generalized behavioral support during lunch periods, play periods, and on field trips.
- Perform assigned non-instructional classroom duties, such as snack time, bathroom, and clothing routines with students identified for at risk behavioral support.
- When requested, serve as a resource person to the Academic Collaboration Team in response to students requiring intervention level supports.
- Demonstrate ethical behavior and confidentiality of information about students in school environment and community.
- Participate in in-service training programs as approved.
- Perform other such duties/assignments as directed by the certified staff.
Compensation:
The pay for this position ranges from $19.90 to $24.30 an hour and is commensurate with prior years of equivalent experience.
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Democracy Prep is an Equal Opportunity Employer and will not discriminate against an applicant or employee on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, national origin, or ancestry, sex, age, physical or mental disability, pregnancy, veteran or military status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, familial status, domestic violence victim status, or any other legally recognized protected basis under federal, state or local laws, regulations or ordinances. Our mission is to educate responsible citizen-scholars who will change the world. We strongly believe that by building a DREAM team that represents numerous perspectives, backgrounds, and expertises, we can achieve this goal together. This is a value we highly support and strongly encourage candidates of all backgrounds to apply.
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Short answers (3)
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- How did you hear about this job? Please select:
- Are you a current member or alumnus of any of the following programs? optional
- Are you authorized to work in the United States?
- Will you now or in the future require sponsorship for employment visa status (e.g., H-1B or J-1 visa status) in order to work for Democracy Prep Public Schools?
- Consistent with applicable law, Democracy Prep employees are subject to criminal background checks. To the best of your knowledge, do you have a pending criminal charge or a criminal conviction in any jurisdiction?
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Written answers (3)
- If you answered "no" to the question above, please provide an explanation below: optional
- If you answered "Yes" to the question above, please provide an explanation below. optional
- If you answered "Yes" to the question above regarding criminal history, please provide each of the following: (1) a brief summary of the conduct that led to the criminal conviction(s) and/or pending criminal charge(s), (2) the current status of the criminal conviction(s) and/or pending criminal charge(s), and (3) any other relevant information, including an explanation of how Democracy Prep can feel confident that such conduct will not be repeated and will not affect your work with Democracy Prep. Please note that one or more pending criminal charges and/or criminal convictions will not necessarily bar you from working for Democracy Prep. However, we prefer to know about such issues in advance of your background check. optional