Fy Middle School Dean Of Culture

Job Details:

Job Location:

MIT (6th-8th) - San Fernando, CA, Position Type:
Full Time, Education Level: 4 Year Degree, Salary Range: $74959.25 - $113975.64 Salary/year, Job Category:
Certificated - Others, Position:
Dean of Culture

Status:
Full-Time;
Monday-Friday, 45 hours per week

Reports To:

Site Director

Vaughn Next Century Learning Center (“Vaughn”), located in Pacoima, is a large urban public charter school authorized by the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD). In 1993, Vaughn became the first conversion charter school in the nation. Today, Vaughn is a full-service, community-based TK-12 public charter school serving approximately 2,900 students across multiple campuses.

Vaughn is committed to ensuring that all students are college and career ready, digitally literate, and globally competent. The school emphasizes academic achievement, character development, strong relationships, and a positive school community.

In addition to its TK-12 program, Vaughn operates a State Preschool Center serving preschool-aged children and their families. The preschool program provides a safe, nurturing, and developmentally appropriate learning environment focused on school readiness, early literacy, language development, social-emotional growth, and family engagement.

The Dean of Culture is responsible for supporting and strengthening a positive, safe, structured, and inclusive school culture that creates the conditions for student learning and success. The Dean works closely with students, families, teachers, counselors, and administrators to promote positive behavior, reinforce school-wide expectations, address student behavior concerns, and implement school-wide systems that support student success.

The Dean plays a key role in implementing Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS), Restorative Practices, social-emotional learning, and other school climate initiatives. The position requires strong relationship-building, organization, sound judgment, consistent follow-through, and the ability to respond calmly and effectively to student behavior and crisis situations.

• Supports the development and maintenance of a positive, safe, respectful, and structured school environment.
• Reinforces school-wide rules, policies, behavioral expectations, and standards of conduct in and outside the classroom.
• Implements and supports school-wide Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS) in alignment with Vaughn's Discipline Policy.
• Supports the development and implementation of a three-tiered behavioral support system at the school site.
• Applies appropriate incentives, interventions, and consequences consistent with Vaughn's Discipline Policy and established school procedures.
• Supports the development of site-specific practices and procedures that align with Vaughn's Discipline Policy.
• Promotes student character development, positive decision-making, accountability, and habits of success.
• Advocates for regular opportunities to recognize and celebrate student academic, behavioral, and personal accomplishments.

• Supports the implementation of Restorative Practices as part of the school's approach to student behavior and community building.
• Helps develop and implement school-specific social-emotional learning and community-building activities.
• Supports the use of Circles with student and staff, restorative conversations, and other proactive approaches to resolving conflict and strengthening relationships.
• Conducts or supports workshops and learning experiences for staff, students and families related to behavior, school…