Dean of Instruction 2025-2026
Dean of Instruction 2025-2026
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Join Us at Our Upcoming Hiring Fair!
Looking to join Southwest Public Schools Meet our team in person at our upcoming Hiring Fairon Saturday April 26 2025at 6400 Westpark Houston TX 77057! This is your chance to learn more about our schools interview on the spot and take the next step in your career. Click the LINK to RSVP!
OUR MISSION
Our mission is to prepare college and careerready students for lifelong success.
OUR VISION
We are a premier district of choice that meets the diverse needs of all students by creating an inclusive community that fosters a strong sense of selfworth.
DISTRICT CULTURE
Southwest Public Schools believes in promoting a culture that embodies and fosters a collaborative approach to learning. Staff relationships are collegial collaborative and productive and all staff members are held to high professional standards. Mistakes are not seen as failures but as opportunities to learn and grow for both students and educators.
POSITION SUMMARY
Assists and supports the Principal in providing overall instructional and administrative leadership necessary for increasing academic achievement and school effectiveness.
RESPONSIBILITIES AND DUTIES
Assists and supports the Principal in developing and implementing plans to:
- Comply with federal state and local laws and Board policies and procedures and other school district initiatives.
- Increase attendance
- Increase graduation rates
- Increase student achievement
- Provide a safe learning environment
- Provide extracurricular activities and academic programs
- Provide student services
- Recruit and retain student enrollment
- Strengthen instructional opportunities
- Assists and supports the Principal in communicating collaborating and building strong relationships with key stakeholders including:
- Teachers and staff students and parents community and business partners and other members of the school and district community.
CTE Support
Assists and supports the Principal in:
- Designing and updating CTE course offerings aligned with industry standards and student needs.
- Selecting appropriate instructional materials and technology for CTE classrooms.
- Conduct regular classroom observations for both CTE and teachers providing actionable feedback to improve instructional practices.
- Lead efforts to incorporate crosscurricular integration of CTE concepts into core academic courses.
Instructional Leadership and School Management
Assists and supports the Principal in:
- Administrative responsibility and instructional leadership for the campus.
- Analyzing and assess past school performance to support new programs
- Appraising coaching and providing feedback to teachers to improve academic outcomes for students through the TTESS appraisal process
- Building a common vision for school improvement with staff.
- Demonstrating thorough understanding of state and federal accountability systems.
- Developing and implementing the master schedule and student course of study
- Developing maintaining and using information systems records and student assessment program to show progress on performance as well as college readiness and success in advanced courses and CTE Pathways.
- Developing reviewing revising and continuously updating the Campus Improvement Plan.
- Directing the development and implementation of campus specific Professional Learning Communities (PLCs) and staff development.
- Establishing clear expectations for staff performance with regard to instructional strategies classroom management and communication with the public.
- Fostering collegiality and team building among staff members. Encouraging their active involvement in decisionmaking process.
- Implementing communicating and monitoring a MultiTiered System of Support (MTSS) expectations to staff parents and students.
- Monitoring department and teacher lesson plans
- Remain abreast of current curriculum trends instructional strategies. Practices developments instructional materials and updated local state and federal guidelines
School/Community Relations
Assists and supports the Principal in:
- Analyzing and interpreting available data to address needs of school and community.
- Communicating effectively with students staff parents and other administrators to share information develop plans resolve conflicts and maintain a positive culture and climate.
- Establishing techniques to ensure parent and community involvement.
Student Management
Assists and supports the Principal in:
- Conducting campus level investigations and responding appropriately.
- Conducting conferences about student and school issues with parents students and teachers.
- Ensuring that school rules are uniformly applied and that student discipline is appropriate and equitable in accordance with Student Code of Conduct and student handbook.
- Working with faculty and students to develop and communicate a student discipline management system that results in positive student behavior enhances the school climate and addresses atrisk students.
Personnel Management
Assists and supports the Principal in:
- Coaching staff and helping them identify and develop appropriate professional goals and identify growth opportunities as well as accomplish improvement goals recognizing them for efforts and achievements.
- Conducting campus level investigations and responding appropriately.
- Defining expectations for staff performance regarding instructional strategies classroom management and communication with the public.
- Enforcing contractual provisions and administrative regulations regarding employees conduct and performance.
- Interviewing selecting evaluating and growing high quality school staff
- Observing employee performance recording observations and conducting evaluation conferences with staff.
- Recommending to the Principal decisions regarding termination suspension transfer promotion renewal or nonrenewal of employees assigned to the campus.
Fiscal Administrative and Facility Management
Assists and supports the Principal in:
- Assuming responsibilities for requisitions supplies textbooks equipment fixed assets and all materials necessary to the operation of the school.
- Compiling maintaining and filing all reports records and other documents required including accurate and timely reports of maximum attendance to requisition textbooks.
- Managing the use of and coordinating the maintenance of school facilities and grounds to ensure a clean orderly and safe learning environment.
- Overseeing expenditures maintaining fiscal control based on documented program needs and accurately report financial information.
EDUCATION CERTIFICATION AND WORK EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS
- Bachelors degree; Masters degree preferred
- Valid Texas Administrators Certificate preferred
- TTESS certification preferred
- Minimum of 3 years successful teaching experience preferably at the secondary level
- Minimum of 3 years leadership experience preferably at the secondary level
- Experience working with diverse student populations parents and other stakeholders
- Experience with campus reconstitution and/or turnaround preferred
OTHER POSITION REQUIREMENTS
- Ability to adjust the eye to bring an object into focus; judge distance (close and distant); reach with arms extended and use hands to manipulate the keyboard smart board and other campus technology.
- Ability to lift/carry up to 25 pounds including but not limited to: books paper and presentation materials/supplies.
- Ability to travel districtwide and statewide as needed by means of personal/private or public transportation in compliance with the states department of motor vehicle and/or public transportation laws.
- Maintain regular attendance.
- May work prolonged or irregular hours; maintain emotional control under stress.
- Perform other jobrelated duties as assigned by the Principal.
- This position requires frequent standing walking sitting bending kneeling and/or the ability to be mobile.
EXPECTED KNOWLEDGE SKILLS AND ABILITIES:
- Ability to build and sustain positive collaborative relationships both internally and externally
- Ability to collect analyze and interpret data
- Ability to facilitate various size groups using facilitative leadership skills
- Ability to interpret federal state and districtwide laws rules and policies
- Ability to manage budget and personnel
- Ability to plan and present information to a variety of audiences
- Ability to utilize soft skills such as emotional intelligence flexibility teamwork problem solving creativity organization communication and possess a strong work ethic
- Indepth knowledge of assigned program and service area
- Knowledge of current educational trends methods research and technology
- Knowledge of federal state and local educational goals objectives accountability and compliance
- Knowledge of learning theory program planning curriculum and technology integration in the classroom and management of instructional programs
- Knowledge of statutory and regulatory requirements in area of responsibility
- Skills in written and oral communication planning and organization
Employment Type
Full-Time
