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CalWest's client school in the Greater San Francisco Bay Area seeks a Dean of Student Life to start in July 2025.
Responsibilities
- Actively participate in a collaborative employee culture that is committed to being at the leading edge of JK - 12th grade education.
- Meet weekly with Grade-Level Team Leads, grade level teams, Student Support team, leadership, and Head of Middle School
- Meet with Grade-level teaching and advising teams as necessary to discuss student concerns and MS planning for events, assemblies and potential speakers
- Plan and execute Outdoor Education in partnership with Grade level Team Leads and Head of MS
- Develop and implement systems that are developmentally appropriate, student growth-oriented, school values-aligned, and complementary to Developmental Designs classroom practices for responding to behavior and disciplinary concerns, including:
- Logical student consequences for infractions
- Structures to encourage student growth and learning from mistakes
- Parent communication from start to finish
- Documentation and follow-up from and for faculty
- Work with all faculty, especially advisors and the DEI+JA team, to support consistent and equitable implementation of student structures
- Support advisors and Grade-Level Team Leads in being a “first responder” to disciplinary infractions
- Support advisors and Grade-Level Team Leads in communicating with and meeting with families about serious or persistent behavioral concerns
- Stay abreast of best practices regarding student culture, discipline, and behavior and share such learning with senior leaders and faculty
- Develop vision for, and work with faculty to implement, initiatives to further cultivate a positive school climate and healthy student culture
- Coordinate teacher duties, parent conferences, office hours, club time, calendaring, dances, on and off campus events
- Coach faculty in classroom management and student facing responsibility
- Serve as thought partner and co-planner with Middle School faculty and Middle School Leadership Team on programming and structures that would contribute positively to student life
Qualifications
- Desire and ability to work in a collegial, highly collaborative environment
- Demonstrated commitment to teaching and learning in a diverse, dynamic, and progressive school community
- Experience in counseling and/or restorative justice processes is preferred
- A commitment to anti-racism and demonstrated skill designing equitable and inclusive educational experiences and learning environments that incorporate themes of diversity and justice
- Bachelor’s degree in Education is preferred/required
