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Job Description
Through a deep rooted belief and commitment to our school vision and values, Dean of Students’ are responsible for developing and implementing programs to remediate behavioral and social challenges for students, serve as a support to school personnel and parents, assist in the development and implementation of behavior intervention plans/services for eligible students. The Dean of Students is responsible for setting a powerful cultural vision for students and for motivating others to follow that vision. S/he must strategically implement the school’s vision through effective leadership and management of the school’s students and staff. The Dean of Students’ leadership will result in a cultural program and school environment that prepares every student for success in college and in life.
Duties and Responsibilities
The Dean of Students works closely with the School Leader to establish a positive, structured, achievement-oriented, and creative school culture
The Dean of Students supports teachers to hold all students to high and consistent behavioral expectations
The Dean of Students serves as the point person for dealing with behavioral crisis-intervention and acute behavioral issues
The Dean of Students acts as a resource for teachers in their instructional practice, especially as it relates to issues of discipline relationships with students, classroom management, and school culture
The Dean of Students assists teachers, students, and parents in the effective creation and implementation of individual behavior plans
The Dean of Students leads staff efforts to ensure all students have excellent attendance and arrive at school on time, and works aggressively with students and parents to ensure excellent attendance
The Dean of Students helps to reinforce the effective use of a school-wide behavior plan, including managing the school's demerit and rubric systems
The Dean of Students serves as the point person for discipline/culture issues
The Dean of Students ensures that the physical environment of the school reinforces school culture and facilitates student achievement
The Dean of Students is highly present and visible during school hours, relentlessly ensuring the school has an exceptional school culture
The Dean of Students proactively circulates throughout classrooms and hallways during the day, to gain valuable context on student behavior and help support positive school culture monitoring behavioral pull-out and in-school suspensions
The Dean of Students models the school's values and the standard for professional behavior
The Dean of Students coordinates student apologies and school culture messages at Community Meeting
The Dean of Students supervises breakfast, lunch, in-between class transitions, enrichment, and dismissal, making sure students are always where they are supposed to be and ensuring a professional school culture at these times
The Dean of Students manages afterschool detention
The Dean of Students keeps accurate student discipline records, documenting all conferences, suspensions, and phone calls for behavior
The Dean of Students tracks behavior on the school bus, ensuring students are exemplary bus riders to and from school
The Dean of Students ensures that behavioral expectations and school culture standards are met outside of the classroom as well as inside, including establishing and monitoring bus behavior/culture as well as cafeteria/meal time behavior and culture
Work Schedule
Weekday hours are from 7:00am to 5:00pm
Professional Development: 3 ½ weeks from mid-July through mid-August
This position will operate on the KIPP Texas-SAT academic calendar.