Dean Of Students Sy

Dean of Students Role Overview / Key Responsibilities

• Build and cultivate a high-performing, positive and collaborative school culture in support of students:
  • Maintain high expectations for the achievement of all students, particularly the traditionally underserved student populations (i.e., students with disabilities, limited language proficiency, and low socio-economic status), in collaboration with the school leadership team
  • Support teachers to hold all students to high and consistent behavioral expectations
  • Serve as a resource to teachers in terms of issues of discipline, relationships with students, classroom management, and school culture
  • Serving as the point person for discipline/culture issues
  • Supervise breakfast, lunch, in-between class transitions, activity period/office hour, and dismissal, making sure that students are always where they are supposed to be and ensuring a professional school culture at these times.
  • Manage before and after school detention
• Foster positive student culture and climate and build positive relationships with individual students
  • Develop relationships and behavior plans with those students who need help by coaching, supporting, and compelling these students towards increasingly positive behavior.
  • Organize student activities including clubs, pep rallies, prom, community service projects, etc. and Coordinate student leadership opportunities (e.g. student council) and organize student activities and incentives
  • Support school implementation on Restorative Justice, in collaboration with the Director of Student Support and Student Support Team.
  • Serve as the primary formation and discipline authority for students, support teachers with students who are being disruptive in class, remove students (as necessary) and assign appropriate consequences.
• Manage and operate a safe, efficient, and effective learning environment:
  • Lead the development and implementation of a multi-tiered system of social-emotional and instructional supports for all students.
  • Develop and execute systems and procedures (e.g., student behavior management systems, schedules, interventions, PD, food services, transportation) that promote teaching and learning.
  • Monitor students' attendance rates and employ strategies and incentives to increase attendance, in collaboration with clerks and members of the Family and Community Engagement team
  • Track behavior statistics, discipline interventions, and outcomes on an individual student level and on a school-wide level and maintain up-to-date digital data and be able to communicate information both orally and in written format.
  • Analyze school-wide trends behavior and class transitions and develop and lead initiatives to address challenges.
  • Work collaboratively with the guidance department, related service provider, family and community engagement staff, partners and other individuals to ensure that students and families receive appropriate level of support services.
• Partner with families and community members:
  • Build relationships and engage frequently with parents and community members as critical partners in school improvement.
  • Demonstrate an appreciation of cultural and language differences and the resulting needs of students.
  • Participate in formal and informal meetings and conferences with principal, parents, students, and members of the community.
  • Facilitate outreach to community leaders and organizations for the purpose of developing resources, community service projects, and building partnerships with community members.
• Specifics
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  • Report to the Peck Middle School Principal.
  • Have a high degree of trust and autonomy, with accountability to outcomes.
  • Maintain up-to-date digital data and be able to communicate information both orally and in written format.

• Excellent managerial skills, with proven success managing and coaching a team of professionals to ambitious goals
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to guide and inspire teachers, school staff, school leaders and central office staff toward a common goal
• Exceptional interpersonal skills, with a track record of motivating and support students and working collaboratively with staff, families and partners to build consensus and deliver exceptional results
• Outstanding problem solving skills
• A commitment to high expectations for all students, particularly the traditionally underserved student populations (i.e., students with disabilities, limited language proficiency, and low socio-economic status) and unwavering belief that all students can excel
• Ability to be a bold, innovative, and engaging change agent and culture-creator; a leader with a track record of inspiring and motivating those around them
• Bachelor's degree, and Master's degree in Education or related field
• Certified (or in the process of obtaining certification) in Massachusetts as a teacher, counselor, director or principal
• Experience as an educator and teacher leader in an urban setting
• Experience leading, supervising, and/or directing…