Cape Girardeau Public Schools
Description
The Cape Girardeau Public School District is seeking an Assistant Girls Basketball Coach for Central Junior High School for the 2025-26 school year.
Requirements:
- Completion of 60 or more college credit hours prior to coaching OR serving as a Provisional Assistant for THREE school years.
- A Professional Teacher’s Certificate OR NFHS Fundamentals of Coaching Course (online) passed prior to second year of coaching. This course is not sport-specific. This is a one-time requirement.
- Successful completion of a Sports First Aid/CPR/AED training course prior to second year of coaching and renewed every two years.
- Check including Sex-Offender’s Registry Clearance prior to coaching.
- Board of Education or Board of Governance Approval prior to coaching.
- Successful completion of a Concussion in Sports Course, and review of current concussion information yearly.
- Successful completion of the MSHSAA Sport-Specific Online Rules Review and Test each season.
- Successful completion of a Student Mental Health and Suicide Prevention training prior to second year of coaching and renewed every two years.
- Successful completion of a course in Heat Illness Prevention/Recognition prior to the second year of coaching, which must be renewed every two years.
- Provisional status is available to assistants that do not meet these minimum requirements through MSHSAA regulations. Student teachers can also serve as assistants by meeting other MSHSAA requirements.