WHAT DOES A DEAN OF STUDENTS DO?

Updated: Mai 20, 2025 - The Dean of Students supervises and enforces school policies that emphasize individual responsibility and collective well-being through a structured disciplinary system. Proactively tackles emerging behavioral issues by crafting and executing strategies to foster positive student conduct, ensuring fairness and transparency in all disciplinary actions. Maintains meticulous records of disciplinary actions and oversees detention activities, including Saturday sessions, supporting teachers in promoting and upholding positive student behavior.

A Review of Professional Skills and Functions for Dean of Students

1. High School Dean of Students Duties

  • Student Discipline Resolution: Coordinating resolution of student discipline problems in a fair and just manner
  • Suspension and Expulsion Recommendations: Providing documentation and recommendations to principals regarding suspension and expulsion of students
  • Paperwork Organization: Prepares and files all paperwork in an organized fashion
  • Family and Team Communication: Completes communication with families as well as the grade level team
  • Behavior Issue Conferencing: Confers with principals, staff, students, and parents concerning student behavior problems and discipline issues
  • Disciplinary Updates: Provides daily updates to principals regarding disciplinary issues
  • Disciplinary Sanction Implementation: Assumes responsibility for the implementation of disciplinary sanctions including detention, suspension, and expulsion
  • Behavior Plan Development: Assists staff in developing, implementing, and monitoring individualized positive behavior plans

2. High School Dean of Students Details

  • In-House Suspension Structure: Developing a structure for in-house suspension
  • Behavior Support Collaboration: Collaborates with principals and teachers to create and teach material that supports scholars in exceeding school-wide expectations
  • Positive Behavior Support Planning: Plans and executes school-wide positive behavior supports such as Scholar of the Month
  • Student Services Coordination: Manages the Student Services Coordinator to facilitate wrap-around supports for scholars
  • Security Plan Development: Supports the development and implementation of a comprehensive security plan including fire and crisis plans
  • Attendance Issue Resolution: Assists principals in addressing chronic attendance problems and oversees the School Attendance Review Team (SART) and the School Attendance Review Board (SARB)
  • Scholar and Family Engagement: Leads efforts to invest scholars and families in loving PS7 and understanding how PS7 supports them for college success
  • Meeting Leadership: Participates and leads at applicable 504 and SST meetings

3. Dean Of Students Responsibilities

  • In-School Culture Management: Develops, supervises, manages, and maintains student in-school culture
  • Restorative Practices Development: Develops the school’s initiative for the use of restorative practices in collaboration with the Student Support Services Coordinator
  • Staff Development for Restorative Practices: Provides staff development around restorative practices in collaboration with external partners and the Principal
  • Restorative Circle Facilitation: Conducts and supervises restorative circles
  • PBIS Management: Manages the PBIS process with other members of the leadership team
  • Student Relationship Building: Fosters positive relationships with students
  • Parent Communication Protocols: Develops regular communication protocols with parents
  • Advisory Group Guidance: Delivers thoughtful guidance and support to advisory groups
  • New Initiative Engagement: Engages professionally and enthusiastically with new school initiatives
  • Extra-Curricular Leadership: Leads extra-curricular activities during and/or after school

4. Dean Of Students Accountabilities

  • Behavior Policy Supervision: Supervises and administers the school policies related to student behavior
  • Discipline System Maintenance: Supervises and maintains a system of discipline that stresses the importance of individual responsibility and the common good
  • Proactive Discipline Strategy: Proactively addresses mounting disciplinary problems, develops and implements policies to affect positive student behavior within the school
  • Fair Discipline Resolution: Resolves all disciplinary problems in a fair and just manner
  • Disciplinary Program Implementation: Implements the disciplinary program
  • Discipline System Explanation: Explains the discipline system to all teachers and staff
  • Teacher Support for Discipline: Supports teachers in implementing and enforcing positive student behavior
  • Disciplinary Record Keeping: Maintains accurate records of disciplinary measures and procedures
  • Detention Oversight: Oversees Detention, including Saturday detention sessions
  • Disciplinary Reporting: Reports to the Business Manager a monthly list of detentions/fines to be billed to students

5. Dean Of Students Functions

  • Student Discipline Communication: Communicates with students regarding disciplinary measures and procedures
  • Parent Behavior Communication: Communicates with parents/guardians regarding student’s behavior
  • Crisis Plan Management: Responsible for school safety and maintenance of the Crisis Plan
  • Safety Drill Coordination: Scheduling and reporting of safety drills
  • Community Safety Representation: Represents the school at Community Safety meetings
  • Faculty Supervision Advisory: Advises faculty about classroom, hall, and assembly supervision
  • Co-curricular Supervision: Shares in the administrative responsibility in the supervision of co-curricular events
  • Cafeteria and Security Oversight: Oversees cafeteria supervisors and scheduling of security officers
  • Attendance Supervision: Supervises the Attendance Officer and addresses persistent attendance issues.