Deans create an effective learning environment by addressing student behavior and discipline with an emphasis on maintaining a positive, supportive academic culture and a safe, well-managed school building.
Responsibilities
- Collaborating with school staff in the enforcement and implementation of school rules to promote positive student behavior
- Maintaining records of any action taken to ensure that the discipline code is administered in a fair and just manner and that an optimum learning environment is maintained
- Helping to create a strong school culture and sense of community
- Tracking patterns of misbehavior and coordinating appropriate measures as needed with school staff
- Responding to acute behavioral issues
- Communicating and meeting with parents/guardians, and ensuring that consequences for student infractions are fairly and consistently implemented throughout the school
- Coordinating in-school and out-of-school suspensions, ensuring regulatory compliance
- Participating in re-entry conferences/restorative discipline for suspended students
- Enforcing the school’s uniform policy
- Assisting in management of morning arrival and afternoon dismissal
- Supervising students during assemblies, breakfast, lunch, recess, transitions, athletics, and in-school suspension
- Addressing matters of student attendance and making recommendations to school leaders for resolution of chronic attendance problems
Qualifications
- Strong alignment with the Vertus mission and organizational values
- Ability to form strong relationships with students
- Demonstrated professionalism
- Hard worker; creative, flexible self-starter who is comfortable in a demanding, fast-paced environment
- Collaborative working style, able to work as part of a tight-knit team
Submit Your Resume
Are you passionate about developing young men of character, discipline, and purpose? If you are aligned with the mission of Vertus and would like to become part of the Warrior family, we invite you to submit your resume. A member of our team will review your information and be in touch.