Student Support Specialist

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Position: Student Support Specialist

Reports to: Director of Culture

Application Deadline: Until position is filled

Start Date:  August 2022

 

Answering the Call

Feeling trapped in the box of the traditional educational model? Ready to rethink high school?  Wouldn’t it be cool if you could work in a super school that cultivates students’ creativity and makes learning relevant through real-world experiences? A school in which the content standards are the floor and not the ceiling? A school in which relationships are valued more than compliance? Well, here’s your chance! 

The Position: Student Support Specialist

The primary function of this position is to support positive school culture through supervision of students during lunch, during passing periods, in the hallways during class, and after school in the school and in Crosstown Concourse.  

The ideal candidate will understand and support the Crosstown vision of creating a nurturing environment where all students are respected as members of the learning community while, at the same time, holding students accountable for their actions. This position will report directly to the Director of Culture, and will work with a caring team sharing the same vision.  

The successful candidate will have positive interactions with students and parents daily.

Crosstown High 

Crosstown High (XTH) is an innovative public charter high school which opened in August 2018 in Memphis’ city center with an inaugural class of 150 9th graders. In the 2021-22 school year, we are serving 475 9th-12th graders. XTH is strategically and intentionally located in Crosstown Concourse, a 1.1M square foot vibrant, “vertical urban village” that houses retail, restaurants and residential  apartments. XTH students leverage the assets of this redevelopment and our greater community through hands-on partnerships and academic projects with participating Crosstown Concourse nonprofit and for-profit organizations that span health care, education, and the arts, to name a few.

The idea for XTH was born from an application to the XQ Super School Challenge submitted by a cross section of Memphis volunteers (young people, parents, educators and community members). The Challenge invited teams to reimagine how high schools can better prepare students for college, the workplace and life.

XTH’s approach to education is unique in a number of ways:

  • Location: The school’s location in Crosstown Concourse provides students with the opportunity to build rich and ongoing relationships with each other and the Crosstown Concourse community.
  • Curriculum: XTH’s curriculum is project-based and competency-based which provides students with real-world connections to what they are learning in school and allows them to broaden their understanding of content standards through real-world applications. 
  • Support:  XTH utilizes a personalized and highly relational approach to accommodate the learning needs and social-emotional development of students. 
  • Diverse by design: XTH recruits its students from a diverse cross-section of the city to ensure that a broad range of students can take advantage of all the opportunities this school offers. Our students learn with and from one another.

Compensation

Salary range: $33,000-$36,000

Benefits: For all employees, we offer Tennessee state retirement through the Tennessee Consolidated Retirement System*, a 403(b) retirement savings plan, a YMCA membership (gym is in building), and an exceptionally positive work environment. Full-time employees are also offered an extra 2% contribution to their 403(b) retirement savings, employer-subsidized health insurance, and employer-paid life insurance and short-term disability insurance.

Paid Time Off: Paid time off in alignment with our school calendar, which includes one week in the fall, one week at Thanksgiving, two weeks of winter break, one week in the spring, and two months in the summer.  

*Please note that all Tennessee educators, whether they work for a district or charter school, participate in TCRS. There is no penalty for switching between a district and charter school.

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