Middle School Dean of Students

Grades 7 and 8

2024-2025

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The mission of the Academy of Health Sciences Charter School (AHS) is to provide a learning environment that ensures academic achievement while preparing students for college and career readiness and lives of service in the health sciences.

WHY AHS?

In 2024-2025, AHS will empower 5th-8th grade students as teachers and students build strong bonds and engage in rigorous learning through thematic health sciences connections in all subject areas that support success academically and socio-emotionally. Our student-centered school will offer a team of dedicated professionals the opportunity to have an impact by supporting growth and distributed leadership. If you want to have an impact and grow as a leader, AHS is a DNA match for you.

ABOUT THE ROLE

The Dean of Students at AHS will work with the school’s Principal, Assistant Principals, team of Deans and all staff every day 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 dynamic school culture based on the foundation of authentic, life-altering relationships. At AHS, the Dean of Students maximizes the skills of a behavior specialist, a reinforcer of expectations, cultural leader, a key partner to families and students in the pursuit of engagement and empowerment, and models an empowered mindset at all times with all students, staff, and families.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• You are a specialist. Proactively provide additional support to classroom teachers, assess students’ needs and apply consistent interventions as determined by the AHS Code of Conduct and Discipline Plan to ensure students are in class and learning with an engaged mind. Intentionally communicate effectively (face to face, phone, text, home visits) with families to engage families in the process of improvement for every student.

• You build strong relationships. Intentionally establish positive, life-altering relationships needed for a middle-school child, a colleague, or a family member to learn with you and from you through daily authentic and culturally relevant/responsive mindsets and actions in the classroom and outside of the classroom. • You are a cultural leader. Strategically and creatively create and contribute to positive norms and expectations for how the classroom and school will function, learn, and grow through holding yourself and others accountable to the highest standards of kindness, excellence, positive communication, and an empowered mindset.

• You own and empower learning. Take daily ownership of your own learning and the learning of students in order to model empowerment and a growth mindset even in the face of ongoing challenge. Engage in productive struggle and teach specific actions, skills, and strategies to overcome learning and mindset barriers in self, colleagues, and students.

• You are an executor and analyzer. Go beyond planning and researching to execute consistently within an ongoing continuous improvement in all areas in order to maximize effectiveness and learning. Ensure teachers and leaders find you reliable and consistent in performing all duties as assigned. Analyze results daily to ensure authentic learning and progress towards goals in all areas. Keep accurate records that reflect planned actions, lessons learned, results, and follow up actions.

• You prioritize school safety first. Supervise and maintain the physical safety of self, students, colleagues, and families at all times. Lead the documentation and communication of all disciplinary processes in collaboration with the principal and teachers.

•You are adaptive and humble. Seek ways to improve through feedback, service leadership, and flexibility.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Strong cultural competence and the ability to communicate effectively with a diverse community of parents, students, and teachers
• Well-established communication and collaboration skills and a desire to work on a start-up team
• Exceptional willingness to both learn and lead through feedback
• Mastery of and enthusiasm for strategies proven to support trauma-informed care and effective behavioral intervention
• MA/M.Ed, required
• Experience with 10 to 14 year olds in an urban educational setting highly desired
• Computer skills: Strong skills, including fluency with Google productivity tools
• Language skills: fluency in English required
• Mathematical skills: basic skills required, such as calculating percentages and interpreting bar graphs
• Reasoning ability: very high skills in defining problems, collecting data, drawing conclusions, and deal with abstract concepts
• Physical demands: ability to regularly stand, walk, sit, use hands, reach with hands and arms, and talk/hear; occasionally lift/move up to 15 pounds. No special vision requirements.

AHS EXPECTATIONS OF EXCELLENCE

•An effective Dean of Students will participate fully in a collaborative planning setting to determine the most effective intervention and response plans for every student

•An effective Dean of Students will approach all communication and interventions with cultural relevance and responsiveness consistently collecting evidence of learning by giving and getting feedback

•An effective Dean of Students will co-lead and engage all students, teachers, and families in a school culture that is transparent, well-designed, and empowers and transforms barriers to success

•An effective Dean of Students narrates positive student actions to reinforce expectations and ways of learning

•An effective Dean of Students provides consistent, known, and expected incentives and accountability with equity and clarity of intent

ABOUT BENEFITS & COMPENSATIONAHS staff receive a competitive benefits and compensation package. Deans are paid according to a salary scale, starting at a minimum of $55,000 and increasing based on years of experience. In addition, Deans are eligible for paid time off, medical and dental insurance, a 401(k) with matching contributions, and more.

This position is classified as exempt. AHS is NOT part of the NYS Retirement System.

DIVERSITY MAKES US STRONG AT AHS

AHS is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes candidates of diverse backgrounds and is committed to equal access for those with disabilities in compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). As an equal opportunity employer, we hire without consideration to race, religion, creed, color, national origin, age, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status, disability, or any other category protected by applicable law. If there is a need for reasonable accommodation for any part of the application and hiring process, please contact the H.R. Manager to discuss potential accommodations related to your application.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $52,000.00 - $82,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Health insurance
• Paid time off
• Professional development assistance

Grade levels:

• 5th grade

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

School type:

• Charter school
• Public school

Work Location: In person