Dean of Students - (24-25) | KIPP University Prep High School

Company Description

KIPP Texas Public Schools is a network of 57 public charter, open-enrollment, pre-k-12 schools educating nearly 34,000 students across Austin, Dallas-Ft. Worth, Houston, and San Antonio. Together with families and communities, our mission is to create joyful, academically excellent schools that prepare students with the skills and confidence to pursue the paths they choose - college, career, and beyond - so they can lead fulfilling lives and build a more just world.

Founded in Houston in 1994, and operating as KIPP Texas since 2018, our commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, and antiracism in our classrooms, in our offices, and in the communities we serve is unwavering. We are looking to hire a diverse team of dynamic, collaborative, and dedicated individuals with an unyielding belief that every child will succeed. Join our Team and Family and champion equity, chase excellence, persist with purpose, bring joy, and help us rise together.

KIPP Public Schools is a national network of public charter schools that prepares students with the skills and confidence to create the future they want for themselves, their communities, and us all. We are a network of 280 schools, nearly 15,000 educators, and 175,000 students and alumni.

You can see all our job opportunities at https://kipptexas.org/join-our-team/.

Job Description

Through a deep rooted belief and commitment to our school vision and values, Dean of Students’ are responsible for developing and implementing programs to remediate behavioral and social challenges for students, serve as a support to school personnel and parents, assist in the development and implementation of behavior intervention plans/services for eligible students. The Dean of Students is responsible for setting a powerful cultural vision for students and for motivating others to follow that vision. S/he must strategically implement the school’s vision through effective leadership and management of the school’s students and staff. The Dean of Students’ leadership will result in a cultural program and school environment that prepares every student for success in college and in life.

Duties And Responsibilities

• The Dean of Students works closely with the School Leader to establish a positive, structured, achievement-oriented, and creative school culture
• The Dean of Students supports teachers to hold all students to high and consistent behavioral expectations
• The Dean of Students serves as the point person for dealing with behavioral crisis-intervention and acute behavioral issues
• The Dean of Students acts as a resource for teachers in their instructional practice, especially as it relates to issues of discipline relationships with students, classroom management, and school culture
• The Dean of Students assists teachers, students, and parents in the effective creation and implementation of individual behavior plans
• The Dean of Students leads staff efforts to ensure all students have excellent attendance and arrive at school on time, and works aggressively with students and parents to ensure excellent attendance
• The Dean of Students helps to reinforce the effective use of a school-wide behavior plan, including managing the school's demerit and rubric systems
• The Dean of Students serves as the point person for discipline/culture issues
• The Dean of Students ensures that the physical environment of the school reinforces school culture and facilitates student achievement
• The Dean of Students is highly present and visible during school hours, relentlessly ensuring the school has an exceptional school culture
• The Dean of Students proactively circulates throughout classrooms and hallways during the day, to gain valuable context on student behavior and help support positive school culture monitoring behavioral pull-out and in-school suspensions
• The Dean of Students models the school's values and the standard for professional behavior
• The Dean of Students coordinates student apologies and school culture messages at Community Meeting
• The Dean of Students supervises breakfast, lunch, in-between class transitions, enrichment, and dismissal, making sure students are always where they are supposed to be and ensuring a professional school culture at these times
• The Dean of Students manages afterschool detention
• The Dean of Students keeps accurate student discipline records, documenting all conferences, suspensions, and phone calls for behavior
• The Dean of Students tracks behavior on the school bus, ensuring students are exemplary bus riders to and from school
• The Dean of Students ensures that behavioral expectations and school culture standards are met outside of the classroom as well as inside, including establishing and monitoring bus behavior/culture as well as cafeteria/meal time behavior and culture
  
  

Work Schedule

• Weekday hours are from 7:00am to 5:00pm
• Professional Development: 3 ½ weeks from mid-July through mid-August
• This position will operate on the KIPP Texas-SAT academic calendar.
  
  

Qualifications

Education and Knowledge

• Bachelor’s Degree required
• 3-5 years of teaching experience required
• Demonstrated success in raising the achievement levels of traditionally under-served students preferred
• Strong track record of results and leadership in a school setting.
• Experience in analyzing student data and using data to inform instruction.
• Ability to multi-task and work within an ambiguous, fast-moving, start-up environment, while driving toward clarity and solutions.
• Extreme flexibility, with a strong work ethic and an entrepreneurial spirit to accommodate high levels of responsibility and multiple priorities.
• Unwavering commitment to the KIPP Texas mission, students, families and community
• Desire to continuously learn and increase effectiveness as a professional; offer and recive constructive feedback
• Willingness to be flexible and to go above and beyond to meet the needs of students
• Proficient in Google Docs/Sheets
• Comfort in manipulating data in excel to generate reports
• Strong communication skills with both students and adults
• Bilingual (Spanish/English) preferred
  
  

Compensation

Additional Information

Salary is based on years of experience, degree of education, and level of expertise..

As a full time KIPP Texas employee you are eligible to participate in all KIPP Texas’ benefit plans. KIPP Texas offers a robust variety of benefits choices with competitive rates, including medical, dental, and vision options, as well as life insurance and disability plans.

KIPP provides equal employment opportunity for all applicants and employees. As an equal opportunity employer, we hire without consideration to race, religion, creed, color, national origin, age, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status or disability.