Graduation Coach

To provide assistance to all potential on-time graduates, individually and in groups, regarding on-time high school graduation and completion, including but not limited to: analyzing data to identify students or subgroups with potential high school graduation problems; planning, implementing, and tracking individual high school graduation plans; identifying and resolving barriers to graduation; and working to improve on-time graduation rate. 

Primary Responsibilities: 

• Under the direction of the Principal, the Graduation Coach: 
• Tracks and predicts the school’s on-time graduation rate. 
• Tracks all progress of potential on-cohort graduates  
• Creates an individual graduation plan for each potential on-cohort graduate 
• Creates a database of all students in the current year’s graduation cohort.  
•  Monitors and reviews all graduation components weekly 
• Meets with each potential on-cohort graduate weekly at minimum to review graduation plan and progress 
• Monitors credit recovery, credit earning and participation/attendance rates 
• Maximizes the use of SAT, ACT and PERT test waivers and participation 
• Distributes and tracks all state testing to include FSA/EOC/SAT/ACT/PERT Assessments for all potential on-cohort students. 
• Coordinates with career coach/ counselor, service providers among others to ensure necessary supports and services are provided when needed  to improve graduation rates for potential on-cohort graduates   
• Maintain progress monitoring reports, attendance and behavioral records, academic grades, and other student records for all potential on-cohort graduates.   
• Utilize district and organizational reports to identify potential on-cohort graduates and withdrawn potential on-cohort graduates. 
• Tracks all of the school’s potential on-cohort students who have been withdrawn to ensure accurate withdraw codes. 
• Regular outreach to withdrawn potential on-cohort students to assist them in re-engaging in school. 
• Conduct quarterly vertical team meetings with traditional high school’s faculty and staff to develop action steps to improve individual student and subgroup transition success rate;  
• Provide and/or submit reports to the Strategy Management Team on the graduation status of on cohort students 
• Performs other duties as assigned by the appropriate administrator 

 Job Requirements and Prerequisites: 

• Bachelor’s degree in Education or related field from an accredited college or university is required 
• Previous experience as a high school teacher 
• Previous experience in high school guidance strongly preferred 
• Previous experience and/or the ability to work with overage and at-risk youth preferred. 
• Previous experience coordinating efforts and working effectively in a team environment Knowledge of the principles of secondary education  
• Knowledge of curriculum and instructional theory  
• Knowledge of principles of adolescent growth and development 
• Knowledge of post-high school planning and employment trends 
• Knowledge, skills and ability to analyze and use data to drive program improvement 
• Ability to communicate effectively both orally and in writing