The Associate Dean of Students at Uncommon will work with the schools Dean of Students to ensure that all students demonstrate dramatic student achievement gains and internalize the schools values. This individual will also help lead the schools 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 achievementoriented 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 crisisintervention 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 schoolwide behavior plan including managing the schools 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 pullout and inschool suspensions.
- Modeling the schools values and the standard for professional behavior.
- Coordinating student apologies and school culture messages at Community Meeting.
- Supervising breakfast lunch inbetween 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.
- Bachelors degree is required
- Belief in and alignment with Uncommons core beliefs and educational philosophy is nonnegotiable.
Additional Information :
Our people are what make us Uncommon. We offer competitive compensation and comprehensive benefits that support the personal health wellness and finances of our staff and their families. Our compensation philosophy values equity & fairness and attracting & retaining top talent.
Compensation
Compensation for this role is between $65000 to $103900. Most candidates who meet job description requirements will receive an offer of $65000 $75000.
Starting pay is determined using various factors including but not limited to relevant professional development education certifications and tenure with Uncommon Schools.
Benefits
- Generous paid time off inclusive of sick time paid holidays and 10 weeks of paid breaks (Spring Winter and Summer).
- Extensive bestinclass training and development
- Comprehensive health dental and vision insurance plans pretax flexible spending (FSA) dependent care (DCFSA) and health saving accounts (HSA)
- Financial Planning
- 403(b) retirement savings program employer match
- Paid leave of absence options (parental medical disability etc.)
- Mental health and counseling support wellness benefits
*A detailed list of all benefits is located HERE.
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 an exceptional team that reflects the diverse backgrounds and experiences of our students. We also strive to ensure an inclusive community by creating a space for meaningful dialogue about issues of race and identity for our staff and students. As an equal opportunity employer Uncommon provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race color religion age sex national origin disability status genetics protected veteran status sexual orientation gender identity or expression or any other characteristic protected by federal state or local laws. We also ensure that individuals with disabilities receive all privileges and benefits associated with employment and are provided reasonable accommodations for the interview process and to perform core job functions. If you would like to request an accommodation please email
Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Fulltime