Jersey City, NJ6 days ago
Implementing and managing the school’s uniform system of positive discipline at their academy; Using age-appropriate behavior management tools; Overseeing academy staff training in behavior management policies, techniques, and strategies; Serving as an expert resource to teachers on issues of scholar culture, classroom management, discipline, and relationships with scholars; Ensuring consistent and uniform implementation of behavior management and incident documentation protocols; Meeting with students referred by teachers for behavioral problems; Communicating with scholars’ parents/guardians regarding discipline, and ensuring that proper records are kept of such communications; Appropriately addressing acute behavioral issues; Coordinating the temporary class and school removal of scholars; and. In addition, the Board sees it as the Dean’s particular responsibility to devise academy rituals and protocols (e.g., morning meetings, songs, chants, celebrations, distinctive assemblies, scholar rewards and recognitions) and to think about how hall and classroom posters and other elements of the school physical environment can be used to promote the Board’s vision for scholar culture.