Dean of Students - Lowell, United States - Tri-Creek School Corporation

Description

Position Type:
Dean of Students/Dean of Students

Date Posted:
4/17/2024

Location:
Lowell Senior High School

Date Available:
08/01/2024
Lowell High School
Job Description
Dean of Students

Title: Dean of Students - Lowell High School

Job goal: The dean of students will work closely with the principal, school personnel, school resource officer, 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 and a valid Indiana teaching certificate
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 of behavior management and supervision
• Facilitate the resolution of conflict
• Plan, organize, and manage time and resources

Classification: Full-time, 195-day contract

Reports to: Principal or designee

Performance responsibilities:

1. Lead the proactive positive student behavior initiatives.
2. Manage and enforce school behavioral expectations, including attendance.
3. Manage student supervision before, during, and after the school day as well as designated extra-curricular events.
4. Provide guidance and establish clear lines of communication with staff regarding student behavior, discipline, and consequences; involve students' parents when appropriate.
5. Confer with students, parents, and staff regarding student-related policies.
6. Assist staff with the creation and alignment of classroom student behavioral expectations and classroom management plans.
7. Serve as a resource to staff regarding student management issues.
8. Create and coordinate education alternatives for students in need.
9. Collaborate with staff, administrators, and parents through the Response to Intervention process.
10. Assist in the planning, developing, and implementation of student behavior plans.
11. Confer with students and administer appropriate consequences.
12. Coordinate the administration of student surveys (ex: drug/alcohol, bully/victim questionnaire, etc).
13. 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.
14. Incorporate programs that positively include students in the management of school-wide behavioral expectations (ex: teen court, student liaisons to PBIS, etc)
15. Manage the documentation of student behavior through the student management system.
16. Attend appropriate meetings regarding student growth and success (IEP and 504 case conferences, parent meetings, expulsion hearings, etc).
17. Serve as an expulsion examiner.
18. Serve on the district's student handbook committee.
19. Assist in the maintenance of the crisis management plan and school safety requirements.
20. Compile, analyze, and share student discipline data regularly, and use that data to make decisions.
21. Act as a home-school liaison.
22. Guide and work closely with the School Resource Officer(s).
23. Work with Safety and Security Coordinator regarding implementation of school safety plans and drills.
24. Other student services duties as assigned.