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Associate Dean of Students

Employer
Uncommon Schools Inc.
Location
Boston, MA, US
Salary
Competitive

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Job Category
Administrator, Principal

Job Details

Company Description
Uncommon Schools is a nonprofit network of high-performing, public charter schools providing an outstanding K-12 education in historically under-resourced communities. We have proudly built schools that reflect our student population, with more than 60% of our teachers and staff across our network identifying as a person of color. Uncommon currently manages 53 schools serving more than 20,000 students in five cities: Boston, Camden, New York City, Newark, and Rochester. We are proud that Uncommon graduates persist in and graduate from college at five times the rate of their peers nationally. We achieve this by offering strong academic, co-curricular, and social-emotional learning that prepares students for success in college and beyond.

Job Description
Position Overview

The Associate Dean of Students at Uncommon will work with the school's Dean of Students to ensure that all students demonstrate dramatic student achievement gains and internalize the school's values. This individual will also help lead the school's efforts to create a positive, structured, consistent, caring, and disciplined school culture. Essential Duties & Responsibilities
  • Working closely with Dean of Students to establish a positive, structured, achievement-oriented, and creative school culture.
  • Supporting teachers to hold all students to high and consistent behavioral expectations.
  • Serving as a point person for dealing with behavioral crisis-intervention and acute behavioral issues.
  • Acting as a resource to teachers in their instructional practice, especially as it relates to issues of discipline, relationships with students, classroom management, and school culture.
  • Assisting teachers, students, and parents in the effective creation and implementation of individual behavior plans.
  • Supporting staff efforts to ensure all students have excellent attendance and arrive at school on time, and working aggressively with students and parents to ensure excellent attendance.
  • May participate in summer home visits highlighting the responsibilities of parents, teachers, and students.
  • Arranging for efficient homework collection in the morning, and ensuring homework is delivered to staff from students appropriately and accurately.
  • Helping to reinforce the effective use of a school-wide behavior plan, including managing the school's demerit and rubric systems.
  • Supporting the Dean of Students as the point person for discipline/culture issues.
  • Ensuring that the physical environment of the school reinforces school culture and facilitates student achievement
  • Being highly present and visible during school hours, relentlessly ensuring the school has an exceptional school culture.
  • Proactively circulating throughout classrooms and hallways during the day, to gain valuable context on student behavior and help support positive school culture Monitoring behavioral pull-out and in-school suspensions.
  • Modeling the school's values and the standard for professional behavior.
  • Coordinating student apologies and school culture messages at Community Meeting.
  • Supervising breakfast, lunch, in-between class transitions, enrichment, and dismissal, making sure students are always where they are supposed to be and ensuring a professional school culture at these times.
  • Managing afterschool detention.
  • Keeping accurate student discipline records, documenting all conferences, suspensions, and phone calls for behavior.
  • Ensuring that behavioral expectations and school culture standards are met outside of the classroom as well as inside, including establishing and monitoring bus behavior/culture as well as cafeteria/meal time behavior and culture
Qualifications
  • Drive to improve the minds and lives of students in and out of the classroom.
  • Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written, and strong interpersonal skills with students, parents, colleagues, and community members.
  • Understanding of the nuances of urban school environments and school culture.
  • Bachelor's degree is required
  • Belief in and alignment with Uncommon's core beliefs and educational philosophy is non-negotiable.
Additional Information
Our people are what makes us Uncommon. We believe our compensation philosophy and benefits should reflect our values-equity, transparency, and clarity-to enhance our ability to attract and retain talent and reward their expertise. Our staff receive best-in-class training, coaching, and support to develop and operate mission-driven schools that provide a high-quality education to our students and families.

Compensation for this position: The starting compensation for this role based in Bostonis between $57,000 to $79,500. The starting pay will depend on various factors that may include but are not limited to professional experience, education, training, certifications, tenure with Uncommon Schools, and work location. Because we value staff tenure in each role, we do not currently cap salary ranges. Please note:ranges may differ for staff who work from a location other than Boston.

Benefits: We offer comprehensive, flexible, and competitive benefits that support the personal health, wellness, and finances of our staff and their families.

Uncommon believes in the importance of being a diverse, equitable and inclusive organization that enables our students and staff to thrive.We are committed to building a talented team that reflects the diverse backgrounds and experiences of our students. At the same time, we work to ensure an inclusive community through creating a space for important dialogue about issues of race and identity for our staff and students. As an equal opportunity employer, we hire without consideration to race, religion, creed, color, national origin, age, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status or disability.

Company

Uncommon Schools starts and manages outstanding urban charter public schools that close the achievement gap and prepare low-income students to graduate from college.

At Uncommon Schools, our classrooms are named after colleges because that’s where our students are headed. We are a nonprofit network of public charter schools in New York, New Jersey and Massachusetts. Our 54 college prep schools consistently rank among the highest-performing in their home states for three reasons:

  • We know all students have what it takes to go to college. We are fiercely committed to cultivating the intellectual curiosity and grit that will spur their success in the classroom and in their communities.
  • We create and constantly fine-tune our systems to help teachers teach and students learn.
  • We know that without great teachers and leaders, nothing else matters. We also know there’s no limit to learning. That’s why people development is at our core. 
Company info
Telephone
9293034354
Location
826 Broadway, 9th Floor
New York
New York
10003
US

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