Dean of Culture and Community

1 day ago

Brooklyn, New York, United States Ascend Public Charter Schools Full time
Overview

We are seeking a dedicated and passionate individual to join our team as a Dean of Culture and Community. As a key member of our school leadership team, you will play a critical role in building and leading a school culture that serves every student and the whole student. Our ideal candidate is someone who is committed to creating a positive, inclusive, and equitable learning environment where students feel connected, empowered, and safe to take academic risks.

Responsibilities
  • Lead and drive the school's family partnership vision and strategic plans, including establishing partnership guidelines and support that results in reciprocity amongst our schools, our families, and our communities, and drives learning from and with each other
  • Co-lead the planning and execution of Tier 1 interventions, including serving as a model and delivering feedback to strengthen interventions
  • Lead and manage culture data systems (i.e. attendance, referrals, and logical consequences), related communication structures, and data-driven action plans that ensures data is used to strengthen school and classroom culture
  • Partner with the leadership team in leading school-wide morning meeting, advisory, and community meeting planning and execution
  • Partner with the student service team to implement systems that continuously provide the highest leverage support for vulnerable students
  • Support and partner with grade-level leaders and culture associates to ensure grade levels achieve culture goals
  • Coach and manage staff to achieve family communication vision and expectations, including providing effective family communication that benefits student learning
  • Plan, leads, and oversees family and community events that reflect our vision and values
Curriculum and Instruction
  • Develop teachers' ability to foster and maintain a safe and culturally responsive classroom that results in a love of learning
  • Partner with student service team and leadership team to ensure that all students, including those with exceptionalities, have the access and support needed to achieve and demonstrate readiness for the next grade
Fostering a Diverse, Equitable, Inclusive, and Anti-Racist Community
  • Model and support a race equity culture, including skill-building and leading self and others through awareness, growth, and development
  • Partner to plan and execute individual or team activities with systems that support continuous improvement with a focus on diversity, equity, inclusion, anti-racism, and excellence
  • Serve as DASA liaison (Dignity for All Students Act)
Effective Teaming
  • Serve as the manager and coach for culture associates
  • Coach and develops staff, including planning and leading professional development, on behavior management, responsive classroom, and social-emotional learning
  • Promotes and develops strong teams that collaborate, communicate, and work together for Ascend students and the community
  • Observes and supports grade-level leaders in their planning and facilitation of grade-level meetings
  • Works collaboratively, leverages data, and thinks flexibly to continuously improve school culture systems and decision-making processes that strengthen outcomes
Staff and Reporting Relationships
The dean of culture and community reports to the principal and supervises all culture associates.

Qualifications
  • Bachelor's degree, with an advanced degree, preferred
  • At least three years teaching experience with a proven track record of elevating student achievement and classroom culture metrics
  • At least one year of experience leading, managing, and coaching a team of adults that demonstrates an ability to drive results through others
  • A passion, commitment, and expertise in responsive classroom and restorative practices
  • A hunger for feedback and self-improvement
  • A high level of ownership over the overall outcomes of the scholars they lead
  • A hunger for feedback and self-important
  • Self-awareness, with an ability to treat all members of the school's community with respect and an accurate idea of one's strengths and areas of growth
  • Strong collaboration, interpersonal and communication skills, including working effectively with people from diverse backgrounds and with diverse perspectives
  • Strong organizational, self-management, and problem-solving skills with the ability to handle many responsibilities simultaneously
  • Alignment with the educational philosophy and core beliefs of Ascend Learning
Compensation
Initial salary offers for this position range from $85,000 - $115,000. Salaries are determined using an equitable compensation scale that accounts for years of experience and levels of attained education.

Diversity at Ascend
Ascend is committed to building a diverse and inclusive community, both through our hiring practices and our focus on creating a culture and environment where diverse perspectives, ideas, and identities are valued and integrated into our way of working and educating students. Ascend staff represent a wide diversity of racial, socio-economic, gender, religious, and national identities-opening a window to the entire Ascend community on the richness of humanity. We welcome all applicants who share our mission and vision to join us in our deeply consequential work.

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