K-4 Culture Support (2025-26 School Year)

Job Description

Job Description

Summary: The K-4 Culture Support position will work with the Principal, Deans of Culture and the Deans of Social Emotional Learning to ensure that all students demonstrate dramatic student achievement gains, build strong character, leadership skills, and internalize the school’s values. This individual will also help lead the school’s efforts to create a positive, structured, consistent, caring, and disciplined school culture through classroom management coaching and development. This position will report directly to the K-4 grade Dean of Culture and serve on the ES Leadership Team.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities:

• Co-lead new teacher culture and behavior management Professional Development. This may include hosting practice clinics or working with teachers individually if additional and regular support is needed.
• Reinforce the effective use of a school-wide behavior plan, including helping manage alongside the Dean of Culture, the school’s merit and demerit systems and scaled consequence matrix.
• Serve as another point person for dealing with acute behavioral issues
• Keep accurate student discipline records, documenting phone calls, suspensions, etc. alongside and with support from the Dean of Culture.
• Serve as the main culture point of contact if the Dean of Culture is absent
• Proactively circulate throughout classrooms and hallways during the day, to gain valuable context on student behavior and help support positive school culture
• Manage lunch duty and detention (if applicable)
• Work in collaboration with academic leaders and school leadership to support and maintain a high-trust, team-first, and inspiring staff culture that puts a high value on the well-being of the team as a whole and as individuals.
• Dedicated to building a joyful culture with all stakeholders (family, scholars, staff) ex: community celebrations, paycheck parties, staff appreciation, etc.
• Work closely with academic leaders to establish a positive, structured, achievement-oriented, and inspiring school culture and monitor student progress toward their goals.

Expectations:

At EEP, we value both clarity and flexibility. We know that school buildings are dynamic places and expect all of our associate deans to be flexible in their role and maintain a healthy “team first” attitude to support the overall needs of their school. We also know that “clear is kind,” and below you can see how associate deans should use their time and the standard weekly and monthly expectations. You may see expectations adjusted throughout the school year, and these serve to give a general expectation.

Thinking about your time (these are rough estimates)

• 5-10%: Development:
  • Continued development of skills:
    • Walkthroughs with the Dean of Culture to observe blind spots and gaps.
    • Conduct regular power routine monitoring with the Dean of Culture
• 20% other responsibilities:
  • updating trackers and turning in deliverables on time
  • special events (planning and executing personal ideas),
  • Coverage when delegated,
  • Inputting and pulling data from Deans's List
• 75% of your time should be spent on (Under the direction of the Principal/Dean of Culture):
  • Monitoring and supporting:
    • lunch, transitions, bathrooms, arrival/dismissal, classroom entry/exit, etc.
    • We will review and rotate the schedule for power routine check-ins per grade level
  • Responding to:
    • SLACKS, student referrals, calling parents and following up with teachers (ensure close collaboration with the AP/ Dean of Culture to ensure alignment and consistency of consequences).
      • Accurately resolving and sending Incident reports(with details) to families and setting Re-Entry meeting dates(on Google Calendar for all stakeholders) for incidents you resolve
  • Proactively checking in with specific students
    • Review and check in and off every highflyer on the master list
      • Morning rounds → intentional goal setting/ affirmation
        • Pick another point of the day** must be done before COB
      • Notes
        • If they are Slacked for (pulled out or Push in ) and your intervention ( Ex: 1:1 call to parent, Consequence)
        • Time in the Oasis documented
  • Cultivating small groups of students based on behavior / SEL needs ( DOC or DSEL will help) and providing mini-lessons to target behavior
    • Looks like pulling small groups of highfliers during RA time(30mins) and doing targeted lessons or touch points that you plan and turn in based on their consistent behavior or character traits we would like to see diminish
      • Splitting Grades k-4 with Addo
  • Staff and Student Culture help and progressions
    • Proactively Planning aspects of Community Celebrations, Staff celebrations, Paycheck parties, Incentive Ideas of your own to honor scholars who have gone above and beyond
  • Monitoring the Oasis Room/Deans Office, In-School Suspension, or Detention