Dean of Students

Position Details
The Dean of Students at Los Angeles Leadership Academy will work with the school’s Principal to ensure that all students demonstrate dramatic student achievement gains and internalize the school’s values.  This individual will also help lead the school’s efforts to create a positive, structured, consistent, caring, and disciplined school culture.

Specific Responsibilities

• Working closely with Principal to establish a positive, structured, achievement-oriented, and creative school culture.
• Supporting teachers to hold all students to high and consistent behavioral expectations.
• Serving as the point person for dealing with behavioral discipline.
• Acting as a resource to teachers in their instructional practice, especially as it relates to issues of discipline, relationships with students, classroom management, and school culture.
• Assisting teachers, students, and parents in the effective creation and implementation of individual behavior plans.
• Leading staff efforts to ensure all students have excellent attendance and arrive at school on time, and working aggressively with students and parents to ensure excellent attendance.
• Helping to reinforce the effective use of a school-wide behavior plan.
• Ensuring that the physical environment of the school reinforces school culture and facilitates student achievement.
• Being highly present and visible during school hours, relentlessly ensuring the school has an exceptional school culture.
• Proactively circulating 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.
• Serving as the on site testing coordinator responsible for administering and overseeing the school's standardized testing, including ordering, distributing, and collecting all testing materials and properly training test proctors.
• Modeling the school’s values and the standard for professional behavior.
• Supervising 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.
• Keeping accurate student discipline records, documenting all conferences, suspensions, and phone calls for behavior.

Qualifications

• Drive to improve the minds and lives of students in and out of the classroom.
• Belief and alignment with LALA’s mandala words.
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written, and strong interpersonal skills with students, parents, colleagues, and community members.
• Understanding of the nuances of urban school environments and school culture.
• Bachelor’s degree is required; a Master’s degree is preferred.
• Minimum of two years teaching experience in an urban district or charter school setting.
• Spanish language fluency a plus.
• Ability to work long hours, including a 7:30a.m.start time and a departure time consistent with school and business needs but typically no earlier than 5:00p.m. and to support the school's extracurricular programs and events, including those that occur after school hours.

Compensation: TBD based on experience.