Lower School Dean of Students for the 2026 - 2027 School Year

The Geneva School•Casselberry, FL

About The Position

Lower School Dean of Students The Lower School Dean of Students is tasked with fostering the culture and discipline of Geneva’s lower school (K4 - 6th grades) and with oversight of school functions and aftercare personnel. The Lower School Dean of Students is an exempt position and must be in full compliance with the school’s official mission, vision, and values, as stated below: Mission: The Geneva School seeks to provide students in grades K4–12 an extraordinary education, by means of an integrated curriculum, pedagogy and culture, both distinctly classical and distinctively Christian, that pursues goodness, truth, and beauty in all spheres of life, while viewing these spheres as elements of a divinely ordered whole. Vision: The Geneva School seeks to become an educational institution of scholastic and cultural gravitas, of extraordinary and exemplary virtuous scholars, a formidable force in the expansion and enrichment of Christ’s kingdom, in the life both of the individual and of the world. Values: The Geneva School seeks to instill in the educational community it cultivates an enduring love of learning, a commitment to serve others, and a dedication to the pursuit of religious truth, moral goodness, and aesthetic beauty, forged from historical models of orthodox Christianity. To both the external and internal constituencies of The Geneva School, the Lower School Dean of Students champions that we inspire students to love beauty, think deeply, and pursue Christ’s calling. To the internal constituency of the school, the Lower School Dean of Student’s leadership is exerted because students need an education that orders their loves and renews their minds in preparation for service in the kingdom of God. He/she is charged with cultivating an educational community of faith and learning within the Christian, liberal arts tradition whose community of learners studies, re-imagines, and teaches within the Christian, liberal arts tradition.

Requirements

Demonstrated leadership ability—with both adults and children
Distinguished academic and administrative leadership experience
Understands and works well with children K4-6th grade
Demonstrated teaching mastery
Proven relational, counseling, and negotiation capabilities
Strong written and verbal communication skills
Handles conflict management and problem solving with redemptive expectations
Demonstrates initiative and team-building experience
Experience and proven success with discipline for K4-6th grade students
A bachelor’s degree in elementary education
A proven track record of professional development
Significant teaching experience, preferably at a wide range of grade levels
Ascribe to and agree with The Geneva School’s statement of faith without exception
Theologically Reformed in worldview
Love for students
Love for classical education
Committed to long-range planning
Strong knowledge of The Geneva School’s culture, history, policies, and educational philosophy
Lift 20 lbs. occasionally and 10 lbs. frequently
Sit frequently and stand and walk on varied surfaces
Bend, stoop, crouch, push, pull, climb, balance, kneel, crawl
Use hands/arms to reach in any direction and seize, grasp, hold, and turn objects using hand(s).
Use fingers, versus the whole hand, to pick, pinch, and feel objects.
See, talk, and hear to communicate with others in person, electronically, by phone, or by radio.
Visual functions include the ability to identify and distinguish colors and bring an object into sharp focus.

Responsibilities

Serve as chief administrator of student activities and affairs
Create both a sense of what a “virtuous scholar” is and an environment conducive toward its living out.
Mentor specific students and, working with the other administrative staff, offer one-on-one time throughout the year, during and after school, with the rest of the student body.
Work to raise the cultural expectations of our students, in order that they might pursue the triadic virtues of the good, true, and beautiful. Illustrative examples of this include dress code, language, personal habits, heart desires, and relational charity.
design and implement the chapel and discipleship programs for the school.
work with the Directors of the Lower School to ensure that the curriculum includes a biblical world- and life-view that is thoroughly and consistently integrated into the classroom experiences.
Oversee the Ambassador program which focuses on cultivating servant leadership within our 6th grade students and work to expand the program into other grade levels.
Organize and oversee the Knighting program in 4th grade which provides faculty mentors as well as upper school mentors to our 4th graders.
Create and oversee a program encouraging and emphasizing intellectual virtues that allows students to be recognized for displaying these virtues.
Attend various extra-curricular activities (sports and co-curricular) in support of the student body.
Oversee the arrival and departure of all students each day and managing the software that aids that, in this case being SchoolPass.
Facilitate clear and regular communication with the parent and student community regarding cultural expectations as pertains to ethical Christian behavior. Annually updating all documentation for accuracy and current applicability.
Citing and applying the vision of our guidelines consistently in day-to-day circumstances in the life of the school.
Supervise the Aftercare staff to also understand and apply the cultural expectations in order to be consistent with the vision throughout the academic and co-curricular life of the school.
Provide classroom support to teachers to counsel on implementing structures and routines that cultivate Geneva classroom culture that is warm in nature and redemptive while also being structured and predictable.
Serve on the school’s executive administrative team and work cooperatively with the other members of the team in the leadership of the school. This includes responsibilities such as attending administrative meetings, faculty meetings, parent- and community-oriented meetings of the school, promoting and safe-guarding the mission, vision, and values of the school, reporting needed to the board of governors, and other such responsibilities as may be assigned by the Head of School.
Be responsible to follow through and successfully resolve student behavioral issues in a fashion that reaffirms the school’s commitment to academic excellence and Christian ethics, while seeking the continued good will and commitment from both the student and the parents. This includes behavior plans and behavioral probation.
Serve as a resource to parents as they navigate the naturally occurring, God-directed changes that take place in a student’s life by talking individually with them as well as providing regular programming to cultivate relationships with parents and learn alongside them from various speakers and experts.