Frank Tejeda Beyond Academy Academic Dean

Frank Tejeda Beyond Academy Academic Dean

Harlandale Independent School District, Frank Tejeda Academy – San Antonio, Texas

Job : 5840886

Final date to receive applications: Posted until filled

Posted: Jul 20, 2026 5:00 AM (UTC)

Starting Date: Immediately

Title: Academic Dean – Frank Tejeda Beyond Academy  School Year)

Status: Exempt

Reports To: Principal

• Master’s degree from an accredited institution
• Valid Texas Principal Certification
• Minimum of 3 years of successful teaching experience
• Demonstrated success improving student achievement and instructional outcomes
• Experience supporting historically underserved student populations
• Experience working with over-age, under-credited, disengaged, or returning adult learners
• Familiarity with adult education, dropout recovery, or reengagement systems
• Knowledge of instructional coaching, PLCs, and data-driven instruction
• Strong facilitation, communication, and relationship-building skills
• Ability to lead change and support innovative school implementation

• Experience in alternative education, opportunity youth programs, or reengagement settings
• Experience with competency-based or personalized learning environments
• Experience supporting dual enrollment or college and career readiness initiatives
• Experience implementing restorative practices and culturally sustaining instruction
• Experience implementing HQIM and curriculum internalization systems
• Familiarity with TEA Effective Schools Framework (ESF)
• Experience leading adult learning and coaching systems
• Experience in school launch, redesign, transformation, or innovative partnership environments

Frank M. Tejeda BEYOND Academy is an innovative opportunity school designed to reengage and accelerate students ages 16–26 through flexible pathways leading to high school completion, GED attainment, dual enrollment participation, industry-based certifications, workforce readiness, and postsecondary success.

The Academic Dean serves as a senior instructional and implementation leader responsible for ensuring instructional coherence, teacher development, implementation fidelity, and continuous improvement across the school’s academic and learner support model. This role plays a critical part in translating the BEYOND vision into daily classroom practice during launch and early implementation years. Because BEYOND serves both adolescent and adult learners, this role must ensure instructional practices reflect principles of andragogy, learner agency, flexible pacing, relevance, and relationship-centered engagement.

The Academic Dean works closely with the Principal, the Texas A&M Institute for School and Community Partnerships (ISCP) leadership team, instructional coaches, counselors, and community partners to ensure students experience rigorous, culturally responsive, and relationship-centered learning environments aligned to an Expanded Definition of Student Success (EDSS), including academic achievement, belonging, agency, mindset development, and postsecondary readiness.

• Lead implementation of the BEYOND instructional vision and academic model
• Ensure rigorous implementation of high-quality instructional materials (HQIM), including TEA-approved curriculum resources
• Support competency-informed, flexible, and personalized instructional practices that allow students to progress through multiple pathways toward completion and postsecondary readiness
• Ensure instructional practices are aligned to principles of adult learning theory and engagement of reengaged learners
• Monitor instructional quality through frequent classroom observations, walkthroughs, and feedback cycles
• Lead instructional calibration aligned to school wide expectations for teaching and learning
• Facilitate PLCs, lesson internalization, and student work analysis protocols
• Support implementation of intervention systems and differentiated instruction
• Support instructional systems that accelerate credit attainment, persistence, and successful student reengagement
• Collaborate with instructional coaches to strengthen instructional practice and student outcomes
• Collaborate with pathway, workforce, and…