HIghline Public Schools

OUR PROMISE: Every student in Highline Public Schools is known by name, strength and need and graduates prepared for the future they choose.

Highline Public Schools serves more than 17,500 students grades K-12 in the communities of Burien, Des Moines, Normandy Park, SeaTac and White Center in Washington State.

DESCRIPTION-Innovation Heights Academy and Highline Virtual Academy

Innovation Heights Academy (formerly New Start High School)  is an alternative high school (9-12) and Highline Virtual Academy is a hybrid online middle and high school (6-12) in the HIghline School District. Both schools are based at the Southern Heights campus.

We are a diverse, vibrant community located in north Burien. Innovation Heights Academy is a redesigned alternative program that kicked off its inaugural year in the 2023-24 school year and features project based learning, accelerated credit earning, a focus on mental health and wellness, and half day schedules. Highline Virtual Academy is the district’s online middle and high school that features both synchronous and asynchronous instruction in a hybrid setting (both remote and in-person learning opportunities). Both are Alternative Learning Experience (ALE) programs and are designed to meet individualized student needs as per WAC 392-550 while fulfilling Highline Schools’ Promise of knowing students by name, strength and need while preparing them for the future they choose.

Activities Interns Can Expect at Highline Public Schools:
· One-on-one student check-ins, counseling*, and social-emotional support
· Case management
· Resource allocation for mental health and community supports
· MTSS and Tier 3 collaboration· Crisis intervention
· Classroom lessons
· Small groups
· Focuses on social skills, friendship support, bullying prevention and intervention, personal safety, and problem solving, mental health, and prevention
· Staff collaboration meeting, and professional development with school staff
· Applying a racial equity lens throughout our work
· Navigating Highline Public Schools’ system and resources

Opportunities to deliver school-wide social emotional interventions
· Join student intervention meetings, monitor interventions
· Join school-wide committee opportunities (MTSS, Racial Equity Teams)
· Opportunities to deliver and facilitate staff PD
· Discuss similarities and differences between SSW and other ESA positions

Learn how school systems are impacted by policies (Becca Law, McKinney Vento, Mandatory reporting, Covid)
· Through supervision, discuss racial equity and how white supremacy impacts students and families
· Discuss the role of school social worker as defined by SSWAA.org, OSPI as well as HPS
· Discuss variable ways to take action through WASSW
· Learn how unions and school districts operate alongside one another
· Partner with other educators on site
· Parent contact and engagement

Preferred experience, but not required:
Child development and learning styles
Group facilitation for children and adults
Community resources and resource mapping
Racial equity work
Experience working with diverse populations

Please reach out to Valerie Allan@ Valerie.Allan@highlineschools.org with a resume and cover letter. Once the information is received you will be sent a link to apply for the position on the Highline Public School website.