SY - Assistant Dean; Bilingual Spanish

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Salary Range: $50,000.00 To $70,000.00 Annually

Welcome to Conservatory Lab Charter School- a community that stands out in Massachusetts:

The ONLY charter school designated a “School of Recognition” by DESE based on SY22/23 growth metrics across all subgroups.

A finalist for the Pozen Prize in 2019, awarded for strong student growth.

An “El Sistema-inspired” program, where students have music class every day and learn a wide variety of instruments.

An EL Education school where project-based learning, social-emotional development, and rigorous academics are woven together for powerful outcomes.

A place where students implicitly learn to uplift each other, persevere, and cooperate through their experiences in music as well as academic classes.

Come join our community and be part of a unique, dynamic team committed to holistic excellence in urban education!

The Conservatory Lab Charter School seeks an Assistant Dean of the Upper School who is passionate about collaborating with staff, students, and families to create a strong school and community culture rooted in the 5 school values of Cooperation, Empathy, Perseverance, Reflection, and Responsibility. The Assistant Dean is a community-oriented leader with strong interpersonal skills, who believes in building a positive school culture that facilitates the progress of academic, musical, and social-emotional learning school-wide for students;

inclusion of and open communication with families; a strong and collegial professional culture for faculty and staff.

• Support the arrival and dismissal processes each day.
• Facilitate Recess Protocols and logistics.
• Support the Daily Coverage including the student lunch coverage.
• Communicate norms and expectations for student lunch coverage.
• Support the de‑escalation of children as needed.
• Contribute to evaluation of school staff to support positive school environment focused on high achievement for all students.
• Contribute to building and nurturing a positive school culture including coordination of school‑wide or grade level events, implementation of staff and student recognition systems and supporting a school-wide positive culture.
• Facilitate and translate family meetings.
• Articulate school culture, vision, and mission to families, teachers and students.
• Assist with family communication.
• Support development and logistics of school‑wide events, Family Nights, and New Student Orientations.
• Support communications and external relations through parent letters, weekly staff notes, surveys, and visitors.
• Monitor student attendance and tardiness, communicate with families to create plans to improve attendance.
• Assist in development, communication and enforcement of guidelines to maintain and follow up on proper attendance, discipline and conduct, as well as assuring that students and parents have supports in place to meet expectations.
• Work with the leadership team and others to maintain a safe, secure and clean environment at the site including supervising emergency drills, developing emergency response procedures, arranging substitute coverage, supervising students’ lunch/recess and school arrival and dismissal procedures.
• Prepare paperwork and reports as required (newsletters, handbooks, board reports, etc.) and assist with scheduling.
• Report directly to the Director of School Culture and Counseling.
• Other responsibilities as assigned by Principal and Executive Director or designee.

• 3 years school-based experience, early childhood experience preferred.
• 2 years management experience.

• Fluent in Spanish.

This is an 11 month position, August - June.