Job Description
Title: Dean of Students - Lowell Intermediate and Middle Schools
Job Goal: The dean of students will work closely with the principal, school personnel, and students to build and maintain a positive, safe school climate.
Qualifications:
Experience: Teaching and/or leadership experience in a school setting demonstrating use and implementation of successful student behavior management strategies.
Education: Bachelor's degree in education
Certification: Valid Indiana administrative license; or significant completion of supervision/administration program toward a valid Indiana administrative license.
Knowledge of:
- Positive Behavioral Interventions and Support
- Creating and implementing student behavior expectations
- Conflict resolution strategies
- State policy and laws affecting the management of student behaviors
Ability to:
- Build positive relationships with students, staff, parents, and community members
- Collaborate and communicate effectively with key stakeholders through a variety of methods
- Provide leadership in behavior management and supervision
- Facilitate the resolution of conflict
- Plan, organize, and manage time and resources
Classification: Full-time
Reports to: Principal
Performance responsibilities:
- Lead the Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports initiatives.
- Manage and enforce school behavioral expectations, including attendance.
- Manage student supervision before, during, and after the school day, as well as at extracurricular events.
- Complete classroom walk-throughs and work with students, faculty, staff, and administration to align classrooms with school-wide goals.
- Confer with students, parents, and teachers regarding student-related policies.
- Assist staff with the creation and alignment of classroom student behavioral expectations and classroom management plans.
- Serve as a resource to staff regarding student management issues.
- Create and coordinate education alternatives for students in need.
- Collaborate with staff, administrators, and parents through the Response to Intervention process.
- Assist in the planning, development, and implementation of student behavior plans.
- Confer with students and administer appropriate consequences.
- Openly communicate with staff and parents/guardians regarding student behavior.
- Coordinate the administration of student surveys (ex: drug/alcohol, bully/victim questionnaire, etc).
- Collaborate with the school counselor and personnel to create and maintain research-based behavioral interventions (ex: mentoring, small groups, check-in-check-out systems, etc) and train faculty and staff in those interventions.
- Possibly incorporate programs that positively include students in the management of school-wide behavioral expectations (ex: teen court, student liaisons to PBIS, etc)
- Manage the documentation of student behavior through the student management system (Harmony).
- Attend appropriate meetings regarding student growth and success (IEP and 504 case conferences, parent meetings, expulsion hearings, etc).
- Assist in the maintenance of the crisis management plan and school safety requirements.
- Compile, analyze, and share student discipline data regularly, and use that data to make decisions.
- Act as a home-school liaison.
- Any other duties that may be assigned related to student services.
ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS
The physical requirements indicated below are examples of the aspects that this position classification must perform in carrying out essential job functions.
- This type of work involves sitting some of the time, but may involve walking or standing for moderate periods.
- Persons performing service in this position must be punctual in attendance each day in order to carry out the supervisory aspects of the job.
- Perceiving the nature of sound, near and far vision, depth perception, providing oral information, the manual dexterity to operate business related equipment, and handle and work with various materials and objects are important aspects of this job.