Middle School Dean Of Students - (Miami)

About KIPP Miami

Founded in 2018 with 168 elementary students, more than 1,100 students from Greater Miami are educated and inspired today in KIPP Miami classrooms. KIPP Miami is part of the KIPP (Knowledge is Power Program) national nonprofit network of college-preparatory, public charter schools educating elementary, middle and high school students. KIPP has a 25-year track record of preparing students for success in college and life. KIPP Miami educates students in grades K-4 at KIPP Royalty Academy and middle school students at KIPP Courage Academy.

KIPP Miami is proud to partner with Miami-Dade County Public Schools, Miami Dade College, Girls Inc., Black Men Build, the Urban League’s We Rise Liberty City Initiative, the Miami Marlins Foundation, and Bridge to Hope to bring additional education options to our community. To learn more, visit www.kippmiami.org

Here’s what you need to know:
The Dean of Students 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, the Dean of Students provides professional development for teachers on the school's vision for culture, routines, and procedures, coaches 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

• 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

In partnership with the school leader, AP team and Director of Student Experience, develop vision for school culture and conducts professional development on the routines, procedures, and structures that support that vision

• Develop school-wide procedures and routines
• Conduct professional development on the school's vision for student culture and the corresponding routines, procedures, and consequences
• Develop positive and negative school-wide consequences

Coach teachers to ensure that all classrooms uphold the school's vision for culture

• Develops in-depth support plans for teachers for whom RTTC does not succeed as an intervention
• 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

In conjunction with grade level chairs, develop a strong school-wide incentive and consequence system

• Ensure that classroom consequences are clear, progressive, and communicated consistently to families
• Use data to drive strategies for intervention

Engage families

• Handle culture-based concerns brought to school leadership by families
• Attend and support at-risk for retention conferences as needed
• Facilitate family meetings with teachers and families of students who persistently struggle
• Communicate with families of our most struggling students on a consistent basis to provide feedback on their performance/progress
• Create and teach staff to use consistent family communication systems
• Oversee proactive school-wide family engagement structures (family events, volunteer opportunities, etc.)

Oversee reactive discipline

• Support the creation of individual behavior plans for students needing additional support
• Communicate consequences to families when students are referred to the office
• Create and teach clear system for removal and suspension
• Determine the appropriate consequence for students 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

Compliance

• Complete the referral process for when a student issue arises by responding to teacher support and completing compliance-related tasks for suspensions.
• Assume responsibility for and follows-through on harassment, intimidation, and bullying investigations, while demonstrating strong attention to detail and communication following the investigation

Must Haves

• Flexible and creative with adolescent interaction
• Solution orientated
• Present and invested
• Experience working with elementary middle-school aged children
• Excellent with giving/receiving feedback
• Strong interpersonal skills, able to relate well with students, staff, administration, parents and the community.
• Demonstrated leadership and organizational skills and the ability to motivate people.
• Physical Demands: Ability to intervene in physical altercations
• Key Mindsets and Skills:
• Ability and willingness to follow up with students, parents and staff
• Bachelor’s Degree, preferred but not required

Compensation & Benefits

• KIPP New Jersey | KIPP Miami is an equal opportunity employer
• KIPP Miami offers a full comprehensive benefits plan, including health care, competitive 403(B) plan, an optional subsidized wireless plan through Verizon, and a school laptop.