About This Role
This leadership role ensures a safe, comfortable, and positive learning environment for all students, enabling them to achieve their academic and personal goals. The Dean of Students acts as a key part of the leadership team, providing operational support, managing discipline-related incidents, and guiding teachers on classroom management strategies. The role also involves supporting school-wide operations as assigned by the Principal.
Responsibilities
- Be an expert at responding to the challenges presented by today's diverse student population
- Maintain a positive climate and learning atmosphere for all students so that they can achieve their academic and personal goals
- Train staff on classroom management, student-staff relationships, crisis response, and school culture strategies
- Implement, monitor, and coach the community on the Distinctive Schools philosophy and model for responding to Student Code of Conduct violations
- Ensure 100% resolution of all Student Code of Conduct incidents
- Supervise, manage, and evaluate the members of the School Culture Team to ensure training, professional development, and goal setting in alignment with school goals
- Provide proactive leadership to engage all stakeholders in the delivery of programs and services to support the students' academic achievement, social and emotional development
- Lead cooperatively with the students, staff, and families towards a positive school climate
- Oversee specific teams of teachers or staff as assigned by the School Principal
- Drive coordinated response to school culture data
- Monitor and track student attendance by following mandates and demands for notifying parents and families about absences
- Assist teachers with absence tracking and parent conferences as needed to discuss attendance and tardiness concerns
- Oversee attendance data stored in school database systems to ensure accuracy
- Prepare monthly reports that categorize the total number of suspensions, discipline code violations, recidivism, and percent changes
- Track discipline data in all systems
- Enforce the school handbook procedures and policies including dress code guidelines
- Ensure 100% resolution of all Student Code of Conduct incidents in alignment with the DS model and necessary communication to all stakeholders for each event
- Develop and progress monitor student safety and behavior plans
- Follow all safety procedures and track/file all documents required
- Oversee the School Security Officer and motivate that person to support the Principal, Dean, and Team Leader's and the safety/climate of the school
- Maintain clear boundaries and professional demeanor with students, staff, and families when conducting/administering disciplinary consequences to students