26-27 South Campus Lower Elementary School K4-2nd Grade Dean of Student Success

St. Augustine Preparatory Academy • Milwaukee, WI

1d • Onsite

About The Position

Aug Prep is more than a school, it's a community where excellence, faith, and holistic education come together. We’re not only about high standards but also creating a place where people love to grow, learn, and inspire! We currently serve over 2,400 K4-12 students in our ninth year at our South Campus. We are thrilled to launch our North Campus in the 26-27 school year, initially serving about 300 students in grades K4-6 and 9.
In this role you will: serve as key culture leader, ensuring every student is known, supported, and held to high expectations. Deans lead and maintain clear, consistent systems for attendance, behavior, and school culture to create a safe, joyful, faith-centered environment.
This role is both proactive and responsive, using data to identify trends, address challenges, and implement strategic solutions. Deans coach and support teachers, partner with families, and collaborate with staff to remove barriers to student success.
As members of the leadership team, Deans are highly visible, relational leaders who support schoolwide initiatives, attend major events, and collaborate closely with school leaders and support teams. They maintain a strong presence during key times such as arrival, lunch, dismissal, and transitions, and adapt to new challenges with flexibility and a commitment to growth.

Requirements

• A belief in the ability of every child and a commitment to ensure excellence for each student.
• Passion for working with young children and fostering creativity and confidence.
• Bachelor's Degree, including any other requirements for accreditation, (Master’s degree a plus). State teaching license preferred but not required.
• Strong understanding of early childhood and elementary instructional practices.
• Minimum 5 years experience teaching or social work, with a strong track record of successfully impacting student achievement and working successfully with students who have the greatest needs.
• Proven ability to work cooperatively and effectively with colleagues, including the ability to create and nurture a professional community of adult learners.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, including high impact facilitation of meetings and presentations, and giving and receiving constructive feedback.
• Proven ability in using student-level data to guide cultural and instructional decisions
• Demonstrated teacher leadership with strong pedagogical knowledge and content expertise or clinical experience with adolescent youth.
• Active participation in a Christian church.
• Effective oral and written communication skills
• Skilled in planning and preparation, and organization development; able to balance a focus on big picture priorities while not losing sight of the school goals and objectives. Committed to continuous growth and professional learning.
• Team player committed to the St. Augustine Preparatory mission and model.
• Lastly and most important, the candidate must demonstrate and possess the highest integrity, and be able to live the values, beliefs, and culture of St. Augustine Prep.

Nice To Haves

• Master’s degree a plus.
• State teaching license preferred but not required.

Responsibilities

• Own and manage schoolwide attendance systems and initiatives, including daily attendance, tardies, chronic absenteeism, and family follow-up.
• Ensure accurate and timely documentation of attendance data and interventions, and maintain clear records for leadership and support teams.
• Analyze attendance trends weekly and daily where needed to identify students, grade levels, and patterns requiring intervention.
• Swiftly addresses chronically absent or frequently tardy students, including action plans, check-ins, and accountability structures.
• Partner with families, social work, teachers, and school leaders to remove barriers and drive improved daily attendance and on-time arrival.
• Support staff on attendance expectations and systems so students experience consistent messaging, predictable follow-through, and supportive intervention.
• Work in collaboration with all school levels to ensure a consistent and positive experience for Aug Prep families.
• Serve as the school’s main leader for behavior systems while ensuring they are consistent, fair, restorative, and aligned to Aug Prep core virtues.
• Respond to and manage high-impact behavior situations, including student conflict, repeated defiance, safety concerns, and escalated incidents.
• Lead restorative conversations and re-entry plans when students have disrupted learning or experienced removal from class.
• Track, analyze, and use behavior data to reduce repeat incidents, suspensions, and overall loss of instructional time especially for high-need students.
• Coordinate behavior plans and tiered supports in partnership with social work and leadership, ensuring interventions are implemented and monitored with fidelity.
• Provide clear follow-through on consequences and supports so students experience both accountability and care.
• Be a highly visible, steady culture leader across the day: arrival, transitions, lunch/recess, dismissal, hallways, and schoolwide events.
• Build and protect a school environment that is joyful, safe, welcoming, and clearly Jesus-centered where students feel known and loved.
• Lead positive culture systems (recognition, incentives, celebrations, traditions) that reinforce the Aug Prep Way and strengthen student belonging.
• Plan and support culture resets, onboarding experiences, and student orientation to ensure expectations are clear and students re-enter successfully.
• Partner with school leadership to ensure schoolwide expectations are taught, modeled, reinforced, and consistently upheld in every space.
• Support classroom culture by coaching adults on routines, expectations, transitions, student engagement, and restorative practices.
• Conduct classroom walkthroughs focused on culture indicators (structure, engagement, tone, redirection, de-escalation, relationship-building).
• Provide real-time coaching and follow-up support for staff when classroom culture challenges are impacting learning.
• Partner with principals, director of faith and culture and instructional leaders to strengthen classroom environments so learning can happen at a high level every day.
• Ensure students who struggle most experience consistent expectations across classrooms, not a different standard in each room.
• Own and maintain accurate culture data (attendance, behavior incidents, interventions, family contacts, re-entry plans) and ensure documentation is complete.
• Use data to prioritize support, identify students who need tiered intervention, and evaluate whether systems are working.
• Provide regular culture and student success updates to the principal and leadership team, including trends, proposed solutions, and support needs.
• Strengthen systems and protocols so the school runs predictably and students experience consistency.
• Collaborate closely with principals, assistant principals, social work, advisors, instructional leaders, and fellow Deans of Student Success.
• Drive cross-campus alignment so expectations, processes, and student experiences are consistent and clear.
• Model professionalism, integrity, growth mindset, and a calm leadership presence under pressure.
• Support schoolwide events and duties as a leadership team member, contributing to the broader success of the school.
• Build strong relationships with families, especially those whose students need additional support, and communicate with clarity, respect, and compassion.
• Lead challenging parent conversations when needed, including behavior escalations, repeated concerns, attendance barriers, and safety-related issues.
• Communicate expectations clearly and directly, including consequences, restoration steps, and what partnership is needed moving forward.
• Ability to escalate challenging interactions with professionalism while still holding firm boundaries and protecting student and staff safety.
• Ensure families receive timely updates and feel informed even when conversations may be hard so that trust is built through consistency and follow-through.
• Collaborate closely with social work and other school departments to provide coordinated support for students and families.
• Be open to coaching and feedback to continuously improve practices and support positive student outcomes.
• Participate in ongoing professional development to build a strong culture (TLaC, Restorative Practices, etc).
• Collaborate as a team player and proactively offer solutions as challenges arise throughout the school year.
• Collaborate with colleagues to support staff and students to enhance student learning and a strong classroom culture.
• Work collaboratively and supportively with colleagues, supervisors, students, parents/guardians, and community members, maintaining positive, solution-oriented relationships that foster a strong, inclusive environment for optimal learning.
• Continuously seek professional growth through building and department meetings/professional development, formal coursework, workshops, and seminars/in-services.
• Serve as a role model for students by demonstrating professionalism, integrity, and positive behavior.
• Remain open-minded to professional growth and actively engage in the school community as we continue to grow and evolve over the coming years.
• Monitor and support students during morning arrival, lunch, recess and dismissal.
• Serve with a flexible, open heart that recognizes no duty is outside the scope of your role, we are a team that is stronger together in service of our students.

Benefits

• Aug Prep offers a robust benefits package including medical/dental/vision,a 401(k) with employer match and employer-sponsored disability coverage.
• Full-time employees each receive $2500/year for college courses or professional development.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Number of Employees: 11-50 employees