Dean of Students​/Behavior and Culture Coach (.80 FTE, benefit eligible

Elementary Dean Of Students / Behavior And Culture Coach

This Dean assignment supports the principal by managing essential non-administrative tasks that promote exceptional education and student achievement, foster the development of individuals and teams, and strengthen community relationships. Responsibilities include administering student discipline fairly and consistently, monitoring attendance, coordinating meetings, conferences, and professional development, supervising classified staff, supporting instructional programs and initiatives, and cultivating positive community relations among all stakeholders.

The Elementary Dean of Students / Behavior and Culture Coach serves as a high-energy catalyst for a thriving school environment, leading the cultivation of a positive school culture and climate where every student feels seen, safe, and supported. This proactive leader takes the initiative to design and implement consistent behavioral expectations, ensuring that discipline is handled through a restorative lens that keeps students engaged in learning, coaches teachers to build strong classroom management systems, and partnering deeply with families.

Essential duties and responsibilities include supporting the principal in the school's day-to-day operations and leadership, sustaining a positive, safe environment throughout and beyond the school day through effective supervision, providing quality, accurate, constructive, specific, and timely feedback to students and staff to encourage peak performance, serving as the primary point of contact for families regarding student behavioral successes and challenges, facilitating re-entry meetings with students, families, and teachers following major behavioral incidents or suspensions to ensure a successful return to the classroom, connecting families with school-based or external community resources to support student emotional and behavioral well-being, establishing strong rapport with students, staff, and parents to proactively address potential concerns, executing student discipline fairly, equitably, and consistently in accordance with district policies, defining, teaching, and enforcing clear behavioral expectations for students, tracking and analyzing behavioral data to identify trends and proactively implement targeted interventions and coaching, coaching certified and classified staff on classroom management, routines, environmental structures, and proactive student behavior support, conducting regular, non-evaluative observations and providing actionable, real-time coaching to teachers on classroom culture, routines, and engagement strategies, designing and facilitating school-wide professional learning sessions focused on trauma-informed practices, de-escalation, restorative justice, and proactive classroom management to enhance student success both in and out of the classroom, implementing restorative practices with students to maximize instructional time and minimize time out of the classroom, supporting, modeling, and coaching the implementation of Tier 1 social-emotional learning (SEL) strategies in the classroom, supervising extracurricular activities, assemblies, and school events, actively participating in all staff meetings, Professional Learning Communities (PLCs), and other required school events, utilizing technology and various communication avenues to engage stakeholders, following the professional Code of Ethics and standards of practice to guide ethical decision-making, performing other related duties as assigned or requested.