When: FEBRUARY 18-21, 2025
Time: 9:00 am-1:30 pm
Compensation: Nurse=$50.00 per hour
Overall vision for February Break Academy:
- Credit recovery classes will be offered for English, History, Math, Science, Spanish & ESL.
- FYI, there are two groups of students attending: Grade Recovery (students who failed a class with a grade between 51-59 in first semester) and Attendance Recovery (students who exceeded allowed absences in our attendance-for-credit policy)
- Grade Recovery students can boost their grades in up to 4 subjects. They must attend all 4 days and take a test on the last day, and earn an overall grade of “Pass” from their instructor to obtain a 5 point bonus to their grade in a course for Semester
- Attendance Recovery students can excuse one full day of Absence per day they attend. Credit Recovery students do not necessarily need to attend all 4 days - e.g. a student who only needs to excuse one period or one day of absence could attend a single day to move those absences to excused.
Other information:
- There will be a February Break Academy Coordinator who will review plans and expectations with all the teachers before February break, and who will be on-site every day to supervise the academy.
- There will also be a high school administrator on site daily for support.
- This will be the basic daily schedule:
9:00 - Staff report, prepare classrooms & materials to be ready to receive students.
9:15 - Student arrival. Students can pick up breakfast from the cafeteria and eat it in the classroom.
9:30 - 10:15 - 1st Period*
10:20 - 11:05 - 2nd Period*
11:10 - 11:55 - 3rd Period*
12:00 - 12:45 - 4th Period*
12:45 - 1:15 - Lunch & dismissal - students transition to the cafeteria at the end of 4th period. Students will have lunch & then dismiss from the cafeteria.
Nurse Responsibilites:
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Maintains comprehensive school health records.
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Collaborates with school administrators and personnel in promoting a healthful school
environment.
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Develops an individualized health care plan for students with specific health needs and makes
appropriate changes as needed. Coordinates this plan with other providers in the school system.
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Provides medically prescribed interventions, including medication administration.
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Provides routine nursing care and first-aid to students and staff.
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Establishes a process to identify students at risk for physical and psychosocial problems,
communicates health needs to other school personnel, as appropriate; and establishes a referral
system using both internal and community resources; collaborates with Guidance on health
issues related to school attendance.
- Nurse will report to the School Principal and/or Director of SEL.
QUALIFICATIONS:
- Must have a valid license to practice as a registered nurse in the state of Massachusetts
- (M.G.L. c. 71, s. 53).
- Hold a minimum of a baccalaureate degree in nursing from a college or university program innursing from a college or university program in nursing accredited by the National League for Nursing. (unless grand fathered by D.O.E.).
- Meet the requirements for licensure as developed by the Massachusetts Department of Education.
- Maintain certification in Cardiopulmonary resuscitation and AED training from a recognized provider (i.e. American Red Cross, American Heart) and obtain a certification in First Aid.
- RN/LPN and must hold a minimum of LPN certificate.
Equal Opportunity Employer
Southbridge Public Schools is committed to maintaining a work and learning environment free from discrimination on the basis of race, color, creed, national origin, sex, gender identity, disability, religion, age, or sexual orientation.
Background on Southbridge Public Schools:
Southbridge Public Schools (SPS) serves approximately 2,200 students in five schools and employs nearly 330 educators and staff. In January 2016, the Massachusetts Board of Elementary and Secondary Education designated SPS chronically underperforming (Level 5), placing the district in state receivership. The third district to be placed in the Commonwealth’s Level 5 accountability status, this is an exciting time of change and transformation in SPS. On June 24, 2016, a rigorous turnaround plan, which will guide the district’s turnaround efforts for the next three years, was released to the public.
More information about the district’s turnaround efforts can be found here.
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