Position Type:
Support Staff/Behavioral Education Assistant
Date Posted:
6/11/2026
Location:
Lakewood Elementary School
Date Available:
08/27/2026
Closing Date:
Until filled
Notice of Support Staff Posting
Position: PBIS Educational Assistant Posting # 4030
Posting Dates: June 5, 2026 Until Filled
Reports To: Principal
Beginning: August 27, 2026
Hours: 29.5 hours per week
Monday Friday
School Year/Full Time
Position Overview: The PBIS Educational Assistant works closely with elementary students to explicitly teach and reinforce essential behavioral, social, and emotional skills. Through the Skills-Based approach, this role focuses on helping students build strategies for self-regulation, problem-solving, and positive interactions in a way that supports their safety and dignity. Support is individualized based on student needs, and the specific school location may vary depending on student caseloads and district priorities.
Job Responsibilities:
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Teaching Replacement Skills:
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Actively teach students functional communication, such as how to request a break or ask for help, as a safe alternative to challenging behavior.
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Maintaining HRE (Happy, Relaxed, Engaged):
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Continuously monitor and support the student's emotional state to ensure they remain in a positive learning "zone." You will proactively adjust the environment to prevent escalation.
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Tolerance Training:
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Guide students through "skill branches" that teach them how to tolerate "no," follow instructions, and transition between tasks while staying regulated.
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Individualized Support:
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Work 1-on-1 to carry out specific protocols derived from
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Practical Functional Assessment and Skill-Based Treatment in Schools Data Collection & Reporting:
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Accurately track student progress, focusing on the frequency of new skill use and the maintenance of an HRE state.
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Crisis Prevention:
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Utilize gentle, assent-based de-escalation techniques to ensure a safe and supportive environment for all.
Other Information:
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High School diploma or equivalent (Associate's degree or ParaPro certification preferred)
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Able to be flexible and adjust quickly to the needs of the day
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Experience working with children is preferred.
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Willing to work in cold weather
Physical Requirements and Working Conditions:
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Reaching: Extending hand(s) and arm(s) in any direction.
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Lifting: Raising objects from a lower to a higher position or moving objects horizontally from position to position. This factor is important if it occurs to a considerable degree and requires the substantial use of the upper extremities and back muscles.
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Grasping: Applying pressure to an object with the fingers and palm.
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Talking: Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken work; those activities where detailed or import spoken instructions must be conveyed to other workers accurately, loudly, or quickly.
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Hearing: Perceiving the nature of sounds at normal speaking levels with or without correction, and having the ability to receive detailed information through oral communication, and making fine discriminations in sound.
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Repetitive motions: Making substantial movements (motions) of the wrists, hands, and/or fingers.
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The worker is subject to environmental conditions.
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The worker should provide consistent and reliable in-person attendance.
