Dean of Student Life and Interventions - 2023/2024 School Year (Woodlawn MS)
Full Time
Chicago, IL
Posted
Job description
The Woodlawn Campus of the University of Chicago Charter School (UCW) opened in September 2006. It has a three-part mission: 1) to assist students in developing the habits of mind, work, and heart to be successful in college and good citizens of their community; 2) to contribute to the community through student research, service, and leadership; and 3) to improve teaching and learning by serving as a site of professional development for teachers and school leaders. Woodlawn Middle School educates students in grades 6 - 8.
Position Responsibilities:
Position Responsibilities:
- Demonstrate and work to instill Scholarship, Leadership, Excellence and Grit into the lives of all UCW MS stakeholders
- Develop systems and structure to maintain a safe and civil school
- Provide guidance and philosophies for students to thrive in the areas of social, personal and emotional development
- Coordinate regular student discipline meetings with identified stakeholders
- Develop a professional learning community that provides training for staff regarding strategies for student engagement and success, i.e restorative justice practices, classroom management, social emotional learning strategies including, but not limited to cultural responsiveness
- Maintain positive interactions with students, staff, parents and the UCW community
- Develop a system for student life that is centered around inclusivity for all students regardless of any prejudice and bias
- Collaborate with UCW Case Manager to ensure that all eligible students are protected by the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)
- Implement a system that engages and tracks community service hours/projects for students
- Produce regular communication to administration, staff, parents and the UCW community regarding behavioral expectations and/or presenting concerns, i.e. weekly communication to staff and monthly communication to the UCW community
- Successfully document and maintain an appropriate record of disciplinary actions taken for each student per UCW standards and practices
- Collaborate daily with school security, including University of Chicago's Police Department (UCPD Deputy Chief and UCPD school resource officer (SRO) daily regarding safety and behavioral concerns
- Serve as administrative point person in cases of severe discipline and communicate directly to Campus Director
- Collaborate weekly with the attendance personnel regarding behaviors that could increase and decrease the average daily attendance for students, i.e. cuts, tardies, interventions and campaigns
- Develop and maintain a schedule that allows visibility during areas and times when students convene including, but not limited to arrival, lunch, dismissal, advisory, transitions, etc
- Provide data analysis reports to UCW admin, UCW MS community and UCCS network
- Provide oversight of the standards, policy, and protocols set forth in the UCCS Student and Family Handbook to ensure that they are maintained by students, families, and teachers and, when necessary and appropriate, support the Principal in overseeing this implementation
- Provide oversight for academic interventions for students, and monitor and support grade level GPAs/OnTrack metrics
- Minimum five years' experience in counseling/administrative school experience (preferred)
- Documented history of personal and professional success (that can be demonstrated through data results).
- Experience in leading full staff professional development that includes data with documented success as a result of the professional development
- Experience with analyzing data around student life and leading full school initiatives around improving that data
- Strong analytical, organizational, interpersonal, and diplomacy skills
- Experience working with adolescents and/or families, particularly in traditionally under-served schools and communities (preferred)
- Ability to receive, internalize, and respond to feedback from campus and network leadership
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