Middle School Dean of Students (Compass Coach, 2025-2026 SY)

Location: Nashville, Tennessee          

Employment Type: This is a full-time, in-person, 12-month, school-based leadership role for the 2025-2026 school year.           

Internal Application Deadline: Friday, August 1, 2025 at 8:00am CST          

Salary: The salary range for this role is $60,450-$69,550 and placement within that range is based on years of comparable professional experience.          

About the Role:       

The goal of the Dean of Students (known as a Compass Coach at Valor) is to create a positive, strong, and relationship-based school culture that aligns with Valor’s mission. Our middle schools, Valor Flagship and Valor Voyager, each have two Compass Coaches who serve as leaders and partner with the Assistant Principal of Culture to ensure schools have strong, sustainable behavioral systems and culture. As part of the Compass Team, you will work to create and implement strong behavioral systems (through mentor groups, scholar comprehensive human development work, Circles, school-wide positive behavioral intervention systems, family engagement) and restorative intervention systems (through restorative discipline, tiered scholar supports, classroom management training and coaching).         

At Valor, we believe that safe and supportive learning environments are rooted in having consistent, positive, high expectations, and we train our teachers and scholars to use consistent routines and systems. In the Compass Coach role, you will work to develop pathways to opportunity for our scholars, help build strong school culture systems, and foster a positive learning environment that contributes to their development.          

About Valor:      

Founded in 2014, Valor Collegiate Academies is a top-performing, public charter school network in Nashville, Tennessee, serving students in Grades 5-12 across three schools. Our mission is to create a community where students of all backgrounds have equitable access to an education that prepares them to live inspired and purposeful lives. This mission is made possible through an innovative school model that balances rigorous academics and whole-child education in an intentionally diverse environment. Learn more about Valor: https://valorcollegiate.org/our-model/          

Core Responsibilities Include:        

Family Relationships & Support          

• Lead conversations with families about student behavior, support plans, consequences, and behavioral successes  
• Forge strong connections between support for students at home and school to establish the most successful environment for students to thrive in  
• Be responsive to family concerns in a kind, solutions-focused and timely manner  

Teacher Training & Development          

• As a school-based leader, train, develop, and support Valor teachers in understanding and using Valor's Fortified Environment and behavioral support systems  
• Support teachers in facilitating weekly scholar Circles  
• Conduct weekly teacher walkthroughs, behavioral observations, and coaching to ensure teachers are building and maintaining classrooms that are safe and productive for scholars  

Scholar Behavioral Support          

• Support the Principal, Assistant Principal of Culture, and Compass Team to implement strong systems and routines in order to create a safe, productive, and joyful school environment  
• Develop and implement multiple school-wide Positive Behavioral Support (PBS) interventions and systems  
• Assist the Compass Team (student support team) in implementation of the Off-Compass (discipline and behavioral support) systems  
• Facilitate Re-Calibration (restorative justice) supports and Circles each week  
• Use behavioral data to identify students that are in Tiers 2 and 3 to create and implement Tier 2 and Tier 3 support plans  
• Support high-need scholars and families via Tier 2 and Tier 3 supports and interventions  
• Track, document, and effectively communicate accurate student behavior and school culture data to relevant stakeholders.
• Participate in the Compass Team meetings and carry out other program elements as needed  

School-Based Responsibilities           

• Enforce, uphold, and exhibit school’s values, student management policies, and culture  
• Own arrival duty, recess or lunch duty, and dismissal duty  
• Collaborate with the operations team on matters related to school operations and safety   
• Attend family meetings, student orientation, parent-teacher conferences, and other school-wide or community events  
• Attend fac