Dean of Students (High School) TEMPORARY for the 2025-2026 School Year

About the role

The Dean of Students is responsible for managing students, analyzing data to determine interventions around behavior, using strong relationship development skills to partner with students, staff, and parents to ensure strong youth development.

Essential Functions

• Implement, develop, and reinforce positive behavior in our schools
• Use school-based data to develop plans of action for positive behavior
• Look at trends in behavior and translate these trends into actionable next steps that reinforce expectations and focus on youth developing skills
• Use restorative practices at the center of their approaches
• Seek out students with conflict and use a set of tools (restorative circles, restorative conversations, mediations, etc.) to develop scholars' ability to grow and resolve conflict in more productive ways
• Use behavioral data to determine the root causes for particular behaviors and coach scholars and teachers to adjust practices in order to develop stronger culture in classrooms, common spaces, and, more broadly, the school
• Aid in implementing programs that recognize and reward students; support school-wide procedures and protocols in response to academic and behavioral needs of students, and support teachers and administration in the administration in their enforcement of school-wide policies on a consistent basis
• Work on a team with leadership, and school counseling/social worker personnel

Communication and Reporting

• Learn and work with school specific adopted administrative technology
• Participate in meetings to analyze trends in student incidents
• Support the school-wide use of tools such as the culture tracker for reporting and documenting infraction data and other information, in order to ensure that proper records are kept and timely data are generated for staff review
• Attend and assist in meetings with students' parents/guardians, and ensures that responses to infractions are fairly and consistently implemented throughout the school
• Identify patterns of misbehavior and coordinate appropriate measures as needed

Safety Operations

• Work on issues that affect overall culture and climate of the school
• Examples include, but are not limited to: situations affecting the safety of the school, assessing students' social emotional state for referral to social workers or crisis intervention, et al.
• Assist in supervising student entry/dismissal, locker rooms, transitions, lunchroom and hallway duty as needed under the direction of school leadership

Additional Duties

• Performs other related tasks as assigned by the Principal and other district office administrators as designated by the Superintendent

Equipment

Uses standard office equipment such as personal computers, printer, copy and fax machines, and telephone.

Travel Requirements

Travels to school district buildings and professional meetings as required.

Knowledge, Skills And Abilities

• Knowledge of data information systems, data analysis and the formulation of action plans
• Knowledge of applicable federal and state laws regarding education and students
• Ability to use computer network system and software applications as needed
• Ability to organize and coordinate work
• Ability to communicate effectively with students and parents
• Ability to engage in self-evaluation with regard to performance and professional growth
• Ability to establish and maintain cooperative working relationships with others contacted in the course of work

Physical and Mental Demands, Work Hazards

Works in standard office and school building environments.

Special Conditions of Employment

• Favorable Criminal Background Check and Child Protection Registry Check for the candidate who is offered employment
• Tuberculin Test
• Mandatory Direct Deposit of paycheck
• The State of Delaware has initiated a lag pay policy which means that new employees will receive the first paycheck at the end of the second pay period of work.
• The Seaford School District reserves the right to extend or shorten the application and/or interview period, to fill or not fill a position, to modify the job requirements within one's primary area of certification, and to reject any or all applications for just cause.
• The State of Delaware does not discriminate against qualified persons with disabilities in its programs or services. Persons with disabilities are encouraged to contact the Human Resource and Public Information Office, at (302) 629-4587, as soon as possible to request an auxiliary aid or service.
• The Seaford School District is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate or deny services on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, disability, or age in its programs and activities. Inquiries should be directed to: Director of Personnel, 390 North Market Street Ext., Seaford, DE 19973. Phone: (302) 629-4587.

Disclaimer

If there is any conflict in interpretation between this posting and information from the Delaware Department of Education, the Delaware Department of Education prevails.

JLC:tac Grade Configurations

• West Seaford Elementary School - Kindergarten through Grade 2
• Blades Elementary School - Kindergarten through Grade 2
• Central Elementary School - Grade 3 through Grade 5
• Frederick Douglass Elementary School - Grade 3 through Grade 5
• Seaford Middle School - Grade 6 through Grade 8
• Seaford High School - Grade 9 through Grade 12

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EMPLOYEE CLASSIFICATION: Professional - Teacher

POSITION TITLE: Dean of Students

MANAGEMENT POSITION? (Y/N): N

CONTRACTUAL? Y/N: Y

PAY SCALE: Teacher

FLSA STATUS (Exempt/Non-Exempt): Exempt

MONTHS EMPLOYED: 10

DAYS EMPLOYED: 188 (pro-rated if start date after 1st day)

JOB CODE: P50500

DEPARTMENT: 952300500

REVISED: 1/2020