Dean of Culture

OUR MISSION

BRICK is on a mission to support families from pre-cradle-to-career through holistic support, excellent schools, and clear pathways to college and career. By creating a comprehensive network of services, we are righting the wrongs of racial and economic inequality and paving the way for families to forge futures abundant with opportunity, wellness, and joy

BRICK envisions a world of racial and economic justice, where every child and family has the support they need to learn, achieve, and work towards a fulfilling life of personal and collective prosperity.

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BRICK currently has schools in three regions:
Newark, New Jersey, Rochester, New York and Buffalo, New York.

As a full K-12 continuum, we start our college-focused academic programming in kindergarten and yield better results for Newark students for generations to come. We are more than a school; we are a full ecosystem of supports from cradle to career. We provide our families with free wraparound services like prenatal care, career services, and housing support. Our high school alumni receive up to six years of post-graduate assistance.

Role:
The BRICK Education Network separates the core responsibilities of running a school day-to-day into three primary functions:
Instruction, Operations, and Social Emotional Learning. The Dean of Culture collaborates with school leaders and other members of the Ubuntu Culture Team to create a positive and restorative school culture and assists with leading the school’s work on student identity development and trauma informed practices infused in all levels of instructional and social emotional programming. The Dean of Culture leverages relationships, mentorship, evidence-based strategies and data to help students make choices that are supportive of their academic and social-emotional success.

The Dean is chiefly responsible for implementing the school wide plan for creating a culture built on positive, academic, kind, and forward-thinking behavior among all students, and for administering disciplinary actions.

The ideal candidate is comfortable organizing and analyzing data, and has experience creating and/or implementing restorative practices that focus on child development instead of power and control. This role will be both proactive in case managing students and interventions; as well as reactive to student misbehavior and crisis. Experience working in mental or behavioral health settings is preferred.

• Build trusting relationships with and among all students
• Provide on the spot feedback to teachers on classroom management best practices through the use of relationship and evidence-based techniques
• Organize and conduct community meetings and convocations to strengthen relationships and ground student and staff in the school values
• Conduct climate and culture walkthroughs
• Collaborate with School Operations team to maintain systems and procedures conducive to a safe and supportive learning environment
• Identify, monitor, and analyze individual and school-wide student behavior trends to make strategic shifts and respond to student needs
• Manage and respond to progressive discipline referrals
• Document interventions and programming for SSDS report submission
• Constructively address problematic behavior
• Facilitate accurate student discipline log entry
• Create weekly quantitative data reports and create short and mid-term action plans
• Create and maintain a positive school culture that aligns to the BRICK core values
• Provide Tier II and Tier III classroom supports
• Facilitate Restorative Conferences and/or Circles as needed or when requested by school administration
• Create and implement Check-in/Check-out Interventions and other behavior plans
• Mentor and support a caseload of students to help them proactively set and meet their goals
• Provide a safe space for students to mitigate issues and respond to conflict
• Activate small group sessions that address specific SEL (e.g. attendance, anger control)
• Ensure that biweekly Restorative Justice subcommittee meetings occur with fidelity
• Serve as Advisor for the student-led…