Beacon Day School

The work is rewarding if you focus on the student and assist your fellow Behavior Interventionists. A typical work day consists of 6 hours of running academic and behavioral goals while managing student behaviors and taking data. The work teaches you to be on your toes and place reliance on fellow staff members. Those who work directly next to you tend to be your co-workers in arms, as you deal with behavioral outbursts regularly throughout your day. Truly, the hardest thing about this job, aside from the student populace, would be management. They honestly do not care about you, as you are replaceable, no matter the years you have put in or the work you show. 

I have worked with some difficult assignments pertaining to jobs but this one takes the cake. 
There’s almost a certainty you will be physically attacked daily. This place has a behavior team that does their best but looks burnt out by the end of the day. 
There is a big disconnect between admin and the employees who work with the kids.
Turn over rate is the highest I’ve ever seen. They do not sign off hours for the BCBA unless certain conditions are met. My first day there I was asked by the person who interviewed me if I was ok with not taking breaks. It’s honestly a hassle to even go to the bathroom. 

The good: while I was there there were teacher appreciation days for the holidays. Theses were really great.
Fellow teachers and BTS are all in it together and help each other out. 
Best part about working here is that it’s ABA on location so you don’t drive around like it’s done traditionally.  

Beacon Day constantly showed me how much they do not represent the “values” they preach to parents, or new staff they are trying to hire. The staff is what made me stay so long. But once again they are taking advantage of the amazing staff they hire or that have been working for them for so long. They only really care about money and it is very obvious but they do a great job keeping that from the parents of these students. Beacon Day staff as well is very underpaid or to try and hire new staff they will offer higher pay to those new staff rather than those who have worked there as loyal BI and is constantly being taking advantage every day. Admin doesn’t care other than dollar signs. If you could avoid this school do it all cost unless a change is made where staff is being taken care of and isn’t put in environments where there is no support for behaviors or any safety for those students. 

But it closed 
A typical day at work: I lead Community Sing, teach classes as they come to my room, rehearse for the next concert, help students at lunch with various challenges musical and not. 
What I learned: 27 years taught me to Be With Children in a real way, how to listen deeply, how to create musical parts that suited each child's talents, how to create an interesting concert with music from all over the world, how to simplify a part for a child to play, how to teach recorder groups....
Hardest part was the management in the last few years.
Most enjoyable: the kids! the culture, my longs-time teacher friends
I learned just about everything I know at Beacon. I would still be there if I could......

The only good thing about Beacon is how much time they invest in training you before you actually start - not many jobs do that. However, once you're in the classroom you're on your own, teachers barely know how to deal with behaviors. The school is a mess because people constatnly quit due to low pay, high expectations, and zero support. Not to mention you're getting hit on a daily basis. There's no room for growth and the HR lady makes it seem like its a favor for you to get paid above minimum wage for the amount of work you put in. 

If you're looking to gain hands-on experience working with kids who exhibit intense behaviors, this is a great place to start. You'll learn a lot about Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA), but more importantly, you'll develop strong skills in de-escalating challenging behaviors. Be prepared—this job can be physically and emotionally demanding. You may go home with bruises and sometimes feel underappreciated. However, the experience you gain here will prepare you for anything. After this, every other job will feel easier.

The kids are great and some staff will support  you but there is no support from administration they will accept more students with out having the staff for them. You are expected to go above and beyond but you are extremely Underpaid 

The new head of school is not the best for managing a team. 
But the community and the rest of the staff is wonderful. Most teachers have been there for a long time and are able to offer the best education a child can get. The confidence students get after attending Beacon is amazing.

They never tell you how well you’re doing, they focused on the negative. It brings the morale down. Turnover rate is high and admin doesn’t offer you support, even if they say they do.

Was a developmentally based school which was a great place for many years but during the last few years struggled to retain students which ultimately lead to the school closing.

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