Dean of Academics (2026-2027 SY)

About the role

Ambition Preparatory Charter School is deeply committed to ensuring that every student in grades K-8 receives the high-quality education they deserve. Our mission is to provide students with the academic skills and self-discipline needed for college and life success through high-quality instruction, intensive academic supports, and hard work. We are a new college preparatory elementary and middle school serving the students of Jackson, MS.

Responsibilities

• Maintain positive ongoing relationships with students, families, and staff.
• Promote strong staff and student culture.
• Manage school-wide character development and behavior management systems that maximize instructional time and reroutes student behavior back into the instructional time frame
• Support teachers in understanding processes and roles in student support and intervention.
• Manage parts of daily school operations (i.e. arrival, dismissal, lunch, recess, etc.)
• Collaborate with the leadership team and stakeholders to promote diversity and consistency in candidate selection.
• Build own and teachers’ instructional knowledge of standards, content, and instructional methods.
• Provide high-quality instructional & cultural coaching with consistent teacher observations, actionable feedback, and accountability for adjustment in practice to develop the understanding of academic standards
• Coach emerging leaders on instructional coaching practice.
• Implement strategies that focus on instructional practices & design, culture, and progress monitoring as it corresponds to the improvement and enhancement of student success
• Serve as a coach to teachers by providing expert advice on improving and enhancing individual lessons and units based on ongoing analysis. This will include, but is not limited to:
  • Reviewing lesson plans, unit plans, and assessments.
  • Understanding scope and sequence models.
  • Observing classroom instruction and offering comprehensive analysis and feedback.
  • Providing instructional strategies as needed.
  • Supporting the implementation of curriculum, using the backward design model and advising scope and sequence based on essential content knowledge that addresses local, state, and national standards.