2025 -2026 School Year

 

Position: Indian Education Tutor (Supplemental payroll- per hour/Part-Time 29 hours or less per week)

 

Supervisor: Lauren Rowley, Indian Education Director

 

Reports to: Assigned Teacher, Building Principal, and Director of Indian Education Supervises: N/A

 

Supervises: N/A 

 

Qualifications: College degree preferred

 

Pay: $25.00/hr. Certified; $15.00/hr. Non-Certified 

  

 

INDIAN EDUCATION TUTOR

Position Summary: To maintain a smooth relationship between the Indian Community and the School District. To provide technical assistance to parents and students to help obtain the appropriate documentation to qualify for the Indian Education Program. To provide tutoring for students in math and reading. Provide Culture enrichment experiences for students.

 

Qualifications/Job Requirements:

• Indian preference must be exercised. Public Law 93-638, The Indian Self Determination and Education Act of 1975, now directs “Indian Preference to be used in hiring for all Title VII and Johnson O’Malley vacancies.
• To perform under general supervision with only occasional instruction or assistance.
• Must be committed and dedicated to the District’s mission, vision, and goals.
• Must be able to maintain a positive work environment with district staff, students, parents, and the community.
• Must be able to work collaboratively to ensure all expected outcomes and goals are achieved.
• Must possess excellent time management skills; balancing an extraordinary number of competing priorities; managing multiple projects simultaneously, and keeping within designated deadlines.
• Must be organized.
• Excellent interpersonal skills; providing leadership and vision to staff; ability to motivate, persuade, and build consensus among colleagues. Use of judgment that is in the best interest of students, parents, staff, and the district.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment while maintaining a high level of professionalism.

Duties and Responsibilities:

 

• Provide technical assistance to parents and students to help them obtain proper documentation to qualify for the program.
• Maintain inventory of supplies.
• Provide assistance to Native American students needing tutoring and other student-related needs.
• Obtain referrals from teachers.
• Assimilate data for weekly logs, reports, record keeping, and maintaining a schedule of activities.
• Attend staff meetings, in-service workshops, and Title VII and JOM conferences and meetings when requested.
• Attend parent committee meetings when requested.
• Provide Native American Culture presentation for individual classroom Teachers.
• Actively participate in all functions relating to the annual Native American Day and Heritage Month Celebrations.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

LANGUAGE SKILLS:

Ability to speak clearly in a well-modulated voice with good diction. Ability to read, write, and interpret the English language in a variety of forms. Ability to communicate clearly and concisely, both orally and in writing.

 

MATHEMATICAL SKILLS:

Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide into all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals. Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent, and to draw and interpret bar graphs.

 

REASONING ABILITY:

Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out written and oral instructions. Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions. Ability to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables.

 

PHYSICAL DEMANDS:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is required to talk and hear. The employee will be lifting, bending, and crawling under desks and counters; must be able to lift a minimum of thirty (30) pounds. The employee will be standing and climbing stairs.

 

WORK ENVIRONMENT:

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. The noise level in the work environment will vary from extremely loud to quiet. 

 

Sand Springs Public Schools provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.