26 Elementary Dean of Culture
- Newark, NJ
- $76,000-133,000 per year
- Permanent
- Full-time
The Dean drives the school-wide vision for positive, values-driven culture is the school-based owner of reactive discipline, and works to ensure that all adults in the school-building uphold the culture vision through consistent implementation of culture systems. In this role, you'll provide professional development for teachers on the school's vision for culture, routines, and procedures, coach teachers who need support executing classroom culture, meets with families and teachers of students who struggle to determine appropriate interventions and manages the Student Support Advocate/reactive discipline support staff.Here's what you'll be doing:
Serve as a key member of the school's leadership team
- Serves as the acting leader in the building if principals and APs are out for PD
- Collaborates with assistant principals to coach, teach, and uphold culture in relevant grade levels or departments
- Monitors school culture data and ensures that the leadership team problem solves culture data
- Develop school-wide procedures and routines
- Develop positive and negative school-wide consequences
- Conduct professional development on the school's vision for student culture and the corresponding routines, procedures, and consequences
- Consistently evaluates where classrooms fall against the school's expectation for culture
- Conducts real-time teacher coaching for classrooms where teachers are not meeting culture expectations
- Develops in-depth support plans for teachers for whom RTTC does not succeed as an intervention
- Use data to drive strategies for intervention
- Ensure that classroom consequences are clear, progressive, and communicated consistently to families
- Oversee proactive school-wide family engagement structures (family events, volunteer opportunities, etc.)
- Create and teach staff to use consistent family communication systems
- Facilitate family meetings with teachers and families of students who persistently struggle
- Handle culture-based concerns brought to school leadership by families
- Communicate with families of our most struggling students on a consistent basis to provide feedback on their performance/progress
- Attend and support at-risk for retention conferences as needed
- Create and teach clear system for removal and suspension
- Support the creation of individual behavior plans for students needing additional support
- Determine the appropriate consequence for students referred to the office
- Communicate consequences to families when students are referred to the office
- Spot trends in removals and suspension and work with classroom and support staff to reduce that student's referrals and increase his/her ability to meet the school-wide culture expectations
- Bachelor's Degree
- Strong presence and high expectations for all students
- Strong management and achievement of goals
- Experience coaching teachers in a middle-manager role (GLC, culture chair, etc.) strongly preferred
- Demonstrated ability to invest, impact, and influence
- Demonstrated leadership and organizational skills and the ability to motivate people
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills, able to relate well with students, staff, administration, parents, and the community
- Robust benefits that include medical, dental, and vision
- Participation in the New Jersey Teachers Pension and Annuity Fund, provided appropriate teacher certification
- Optional participation in the KIPP NJ 403b retirement plan, including matching contributions
- A school-issued laptop
- Transportation benefits for TEAMmates commuting into Newark from the New York City area
- Generous Time-Off including 3.5-4 school vacation weeks (depending on the year), allocated sick and personal days, and an extended summer break
- Up to 12 weeks 100% parental leave for primary caregivers
- Employer paid life insurance
- Extensive optional ancillary benefits including, short term and long term disability and accident and hospital indemnity