SY 25-26 Middle School Dean of Student Life

Key responsibilities include but are not limited to the following:

Establishing Maintaining and Celebrating a Positive School Culture and Climate 

• Set and uphold high standards for school culture including behavior academic performance and attendance.

• Own the schools social emotional curriculum and philosophies and ensure it builds and reinforces positive selfidentity and necessary character strengths

• Partner with families to build an authentic schoolwide community including organizing events

• Lead recognition assemblies families academies community meetings and other schoolwide culture building activities

• Facilitate staff trainings on studentteacher relationships classroom management family partnership and school culture

• Coordinate schoolwide social emotional learning programs

• Coordinate weekly celebrations and community meetings

• Work with and through student leadership groups to build student culture and incentives

• Set learning environment goals including family engagement designing systems to meet goals tracking progress to goals and designing celebrations and recognition

Establishing Maintaining and Celebrating a Culture Rooted in Relationships and Restoration

• Lead schoolwide efforts in developing a restorative culture rooted in student achievement 

• Assist staff students and families in creation and implementation of individual behavior plans

• Support implementation of individual behavior plans for consistency and adjustments as needed

• As needed work directly with students in individual and small group settings with direct instruction on social skills and social emotional development

• Work closely and effectively with children who have/are experiencing trauma

• Coordinating reentry meetings with staff and families of students when appropriate

• Attend and facilitate professional development on restorative practices with our staff

• Serve as an advocate for core groups of students to engage families and teachers effectively and meaningfully to support student success

• Keep accurate student records documenting all incident reports conferences suspensions and phone calls for behavior

• Following KIPP Columbus policies determine in and out of school interventions

• Support student tier 2 and tier 3 interventions including out of class time with core group of students in order to promote restorative culture

• Support team members who responds to inthemoment tier 2 and tier 3 interventions

• Support operations staff in developing a welcoming affirming and positive environment that promotes restorative culture

Team and Family Support and Access

• Support families in accessing community resources for immediate and external needs

• Meet regularly with the culture team and regional counterparts in order to ensure consistent educational experiences

• Analyze operational and academic data such as attendance behavior grades etc. in order to identify students that need more support

• Lead family facing intervention efforts in order to ensure student needs are met

• Proactively communicates and meets with families on a regular basis

Support teachers in cultivating and upholding a culture of achievement

• Ensure alignment of school practices to schoolwide priorities

• Support daytoday operations of the school including regular data monitoring and progress towards goals

• Model promote and coach others toward effective communication with families cultivating engagement in their childs success and the KIPP Columbus mission

• Directly coach a cohort of teachers around learning links curriculum data analysis and culture of achievement

• Coach and provide support for struggling classrooms modeling or coteaching if necessary

Qualifications :

The following is required of all candidates:

• Four year Bachelors degree

• Minimum of three years of successful fulltime lead teaching experience in lowincome communities

• Minimum of 1 year of school leadership or teacherleadership experience

• Experience in analyzing student data and using data to inform instruction 

• Strong track record of results and leadership in a school setting

• Current Ohio Teaching License or willingness and ability to pursue certification by start date

• Belief that outstanding school leaders staff and teachers can achieve excellent outcomes for all students

• Ability to persevere with a sense of optimism strong problem solving skills and desire to learn and grow in a collaborative professional learning community

• Willingness and commitment to go above and beyond to prove the possible with students.

• Ability to multitask and work within an ambiguous fastmoving startup environment while driving toward clarity and solutions

• Excellent written and oral communication skills

• Extreme flexibility with a strong work ethic and an entrepreneurial spirit to accommodate high levels of responsibility and multiple priorities

• Model the values of KIPP Columbus (Imagine Navigate Seek Persevere Integrity Responsibility and Empathy)

Additional Information :

Compensation and Benefits

KIPP Columbus offers a competitive salary and a comprehensive benefit plan including medical and dental insurance as well as group term life insurance retirement plan and paid time off.

Statement of NonDisclosure 

KIPP Columbus is committed to a policy of equal treatment for all individuals applying to the school for consideration of any position (admission employment etc.). KIPP Columbus does not discriminate on the basis of disability gender nationality race or ethnicity religion sexual orientation or any other characteristic that is contained in the definition of hate crimes set forth in Section 4112.02 of the Ohio Revised Code.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Fulltime