EXAMPLES OF DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

Models effective leadership practices, including articulating a vision for effective instruction, utilizing time management strategies, prioritizing work, attending to one¿s own professional growth through reflection and critical analysis of practice.

Facilitates, coaches and monitors a nexus between implementing restorative justice practices and change in school culture, the ability to reengage students, and increased student performance.

Monitors school performance and analyzes student performance; works with cross-functional teams to assure effective and efficient implementation of the continuum of restorative practices including mindfulness and addresses specific student and school needs.

Coordinates, facilitates and supports school personnel in data collection, assessment, and analysis of formal and informal data points for use in targeting and monitoring the effectiveness of restorative justice and mindfulness intervention programs.

Promotes restorative justice and restorative practice opportunities for a diverse student populations to include but not limited to students of various cultural backgrounds, students experiencing poverty, students who identify as LGBTQIA+, and students who have experienced trauma to ensure social-emotional well-being and academic success.

Serves as lead support for a group of schools in their implementation process for a restorative justice framework.

Conducts planning events with administrators and teachers to assist them in establishing and meeting local and district strategic priorities through meetings and providing information, feedback and support.

Helps to design and lead professional learning opportunities for principals and school leadership teams to foster change in adult practice and accelerate student learning and performance as an outcome of restorative justice and mindfulness practice implementation.

Collaborates with community-based organizations, agencies of county government and other partners in implementation of the continuum of restorative practices.

Reviews the restorative justice program regularly, and plans for and carries out improvements.
Conducts school site visits, and shares information with administrators, and other school-based staff as appropriate.

Disseminates information and provides training for students, parents, and others related to restorative justice and mindfulness practices.

Develops reports and other communications to provide information, data, and data analysis related to both the effectiveness of the restorative justice program, and its impact on student outcomes.

Assists and supports the continued implementation of partnerships to promote student voice, restorative justice and mindfulness practices for all student with a focus on students disproportionately affected by disciplinary consequences.

Assists with increasing the efficacy and fidelity of restorative justice and mindfulness interventions in schools where there is evidence of disproportionality in suspensions with a particular focus on disproportionality of students with disabilities.

Serves on MCPS, county, and state committees and workgroups, as assigned. Coordinates conferences, meetings and other professional development opportunities for administrators, teachers, students, parents and other audiences.

Serves as an informational liaison relative to schools and the community on the implementation of restorative practices.

Assists in updating and reviewing the MCPS Restorative Justice program website and social media presence.

Understands and applies the six performance standards established for the Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) Teacher
Professional Growth System (TPGS).

Performs related duties consistent with the scope and intent of the position.