AP/ Dean of Academics

Job Description:

The Dean of Academic Leadership creates and sustains the structures, systems, and relationships essential to a school culture rich in A Disciplined Life©, Leadership, and College for Certain. By overseeing our ADL/Leadership classes, instilling our LEADER values in staff and students, and investing the entire school in college graduation, the Dean of Academics creates the foundation for success of all Joslin scholars.

Qualifications:

• Masters in Instruction and Curriculum and/or Educational Leadership.
• Skilled ability to build relationships and teams with diverse stakeholders.
• Highly organized and efficient.
• Master Teacher with history of impacting student achievement and inspiring and motivating students.
• Ability to coach and train teachers around classroom management and student engagement.
• Analytical thinking with proven ability to collect and analyze meaningful data to assess school culture.

Principal Responsibilities (Academics)

1.        Manages ADL/Leadership class, curriculum, and instruction.

2.        Creates rubric to assess ADL/Leadership classes and uses rubric to coach and evaluate teachers and to collect data to improve program.

3.        Observes and coaches teachers weekly around classroom management and facilitation of ADL/Leadership class.

4.        Administers school climate surveys and uses results to make strategic improvements in school-wide structures and systems.

5.        Creates and implements school-wide positive behavioral interventions and awards. Provides weekly feedback to teachers.

6.        Creates and facilitates school-wide celebrations that merge academics, ADL, and leadership.

7.        Conducts weekly culture walk with leadership team, collects data, and uses data to make improvements and to celebrate with staff and students.

8.        Write, update and maintain systems and policies for entry, bathroom usage, dismissal and homework.

9.        Analyze school-wide trends around attendance, behavior, homework and class transitions and develop and lead initiatives to address challenges.

10.    Invest students and parents in Joslin's goals and core values; ensure that all students care deeply about their Joslin community, about their own academic performance, about graduating from college, and about becoming the next generation of leaders in their communities; ensure students find joy in learning and have fun; emphasize core Joslin messages in one-on-one, class/advisory, grade level and school-wide venues.

Principal Responsibilities (Culture)

1.        Build and maintain systems to ensure a joyous and achievement-oriented school culture

2.        Possess incredibly clear vision of what great school culture looks like and regularly articulates this vision to students and staff.

3.        Write, update and maintain systems and policies for attendance, entry, class transitions, cafeteria usage, lunch, third meal, and dismissal.

4.        Plan and implement a behavior management system with meaningful incentives to reward good behavior and with effective consequences to correct misbehaviors. (Paw)

5.        Lead school culture and character development

a.        Build investment and clarity around ADL culture and JOSLIN's mission and vision.

6.        Create individual plans for students with behavior challenges; partner with teachers to provide extra interventions.

7.        Create onboarding process for new students who join JOSLIN after initial school routines week.

8.        Coach a small group of teachers in management and the establishment of expectations/routines.

a.        Help teachers build effective relationships with students and parents.

b.       Model great instruction which might include teaching at least one ADL class.

9.        Lead parent engagement activities

a.        Engage families in support of the school's goals; create a culture and an expectation so that teachers reach out to parents and enlist their proactive of getting all our scholars to college; build strong relationships with parents.

b.       Create and lead the parent-onboarding process, meeting one-on-one and communicating regularly with new parents to introduce them to the school's culture and priorities.

10.    Coordinate the activities of the Parent Leadership Council with Program Manager.

11.    Establish protocols and best practices to ensure that teachers communicate regularly with parents.

12.    Partner with Dean to ensure smooth entry, dismissal and transit to and from school.

a.        Collect culture data and use it to inform Joslin policies.

Dean of Discipline 

Job Description

The Dean of Students manages the ADL culture for the school, which encourages students and staff to be intellectually reflective, caring, and ethical individuals. High morale and a safe and civil learning environment are the primary outcomes for which the Dean is held accountable. As such the Dean not only has responsibility for student behaviors outside the classroom, but also works proactively with teaching staff on classroom management. Direct counseling of students with infractions of the discipline code will be the primary responsibility of the Dean.

Qualifications:

·          Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university;

·          3 years' experience working in an educational setting; preferably with adolescents in diverse schools

·          Proven ability to communicate ideas effectively- both written and verbal

·          Proven ability to work well with in diverse constituents

·          Proven ability to exercise good judgment and compassion in the conduct of position responsibilities

·          Experience working in highly sensitive situations and maintaining confidential information

Essential functions:

1.        Schedules and manages security and support staffs who supervise entrances, corridors, and lunchroom.

2.        Enforces all aspects of the discipline and dress code, by ensuring that all appropriate school staff consistently fulfill their responsibilities.

3.        Provides training for support staff on appropriate interventions with students.

4.        Oversees the consistent and accurate input of disciplinary measures into PowerSchool.

5.        Oversees the taking of attendance and follows up on exceptions, such as truancy, excessive tardiness, and skipping of classes. Provides school leadership with analyses to help manage attendance and tardiness to meet or exceed school goals.

6.        Closely communicates with school social worker and college counselor to provide and receive insight on individual students and their family relationships and challenges.

7.        Serves as primary contact with parents on student behavior and discipline issues.

8.        Consistently attends to criteria as outlined in the "Culture Walk" to insure school compliance.

ADA Compliance Statement

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to sit. The employee is occasionally required to stand, walk, use hands to finger, handle or feel objects, tools or controls; reach with hands and arms, stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl.

• The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 10 pounds

• Specific vision abilities required by this job include vision, distance vision and the ability to adjust focus

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions

• The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate

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