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Dean of Students, Grades 6-10

AvenuesNew York, NY
Onsite

About The Position

A Dean is a leader (also mentor, cheerleader, confidant, and occasional tough-love-giver) who supports students' wellbeing and partners across Avenues and with their families to support each student to thrive. A dean works with an entire grade level of students and moves with those students from grades 6 through 8 or grades 9 and 10. This allows deans to build powerful, lasting relationships with students and nurture their development and wellbeing. Deans and teachers work together closely to make the secondary experience a rewarding one for each student.

Requirements

  • Five years experience in a teaching or counseling role
  • BA required, MA preferred
  • Experience working with families strongly preferred
  • Experience leading adults strongly preferred
  • Extensive experience working with middle grades students in classrooms or other contexts
  • A love and respect for adolescents. You feel deeply passionate about supporting them to learn, grow and thrive as people
  • Experience with advisory and social-emotional learning
  • Ability to build deep relationships with students and their families
  • A commitment to collaboration; you work enthusiastically with other adults in supporting student success
  • You identify opportunities to support students, take action and mobilize resources on their behalf
  • You communicate in lucid, compelling ways with a high level of accountability and responsiveness
  • Ability to navigate difficult conversations with grace and empathy
  • Effectively handle multiple priorities in a fast-moving environment

Responsibilities

  • Advise and guide a total of 100-130 students and their families in grades 6-10 each year.
  • Teach, and help develop, a socio-emotional learning curriculum
  • Develop strong, ongoing relationships with parents and students
  • Monitor and guide students' academic progress and social and emotional well-being
  • Uphold high standards of personal conduct by students
  • Be the primary point of contact for parents and colleagues about individual students
  • Lead daytime and/or evening programs for parents and students on special topics
  • Partner with faculty, associate division heads, and members of the student success team to build strong communities of students
  • Develop plans to support students' success in school, and follow through with colleagues and families to ensure student needs are met
  • Be relentlessly resourceful and highly collaborative, guiding colleagues on how to best support each individual student's success, growth and happiness
  • Enthusiastically contribute to a deans team dedicated to all Avenues students' wellbeing

Benefits

  • medical
  • dental
  • life insurance
  • 401K savings plan
  • generous paid time off
  • family-forming benefits
  • health and wellness benefits

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