Description
Description
Director of School Culture, Behavior and Discipline
Mission:
The Director of School Culture, Behavior, and Discipline serves as a strategic and operational leader responsible for shaping, guiding, and strengthening school-wide culture systems across the district. This role ensures the consistent implementation of equitable, student-centered behavior practices that align with the district’s values, state laws, and the Student Code of Conduct.
Reporting to the Vice President of Student Support Services, the Director leads initiatives that promote safe, inclusive, and restorative learning environments, with a focus on reducing exclusionary discipline, increasing student belonging, and improving school climate through the Multi-System of Support model (MTSS). The Director partners closely with national departments, regional teams and campus leaders, to coach, develop, and monitor high-impact behavior and discipline systems that result in positive outcomes for all students. The Director will work closely with their teammates on the Student Support Services Team to create a comprehensive, student-centered model to support all students at IDEA. They will serve as the district expert and will pursue ongoing development to uncover and integrate latest research and best practices related to the work.
This leader is responsible for ensuring discipline data reported to the state is accurate and within compliance of policies and state laws. The Director plays a key role in district-wide compliance, discipline data analysis, staff training, and the continuous improvement of systems that drive a positive school culture. In this position, the Director will review and update the preventative curriculum guidance for K-12 students. The Director will curate and create collateral materials and trainings for stakeholders to engage with aligned to the vision and will oversee the Phase 2+ implementation of the PBIS (Positive Behavior Incentive System) and the Phase 1 of the BRS (Behavioral Referral System) through their management of the System Administrator.
Supervisory Responsibilities:
Management of the Student Support Services Team System Administrator
Location:
Travel Expectations:
The National Director will be responsible for traveling throughout the state to observe and coach team leaders in the field and assess the implementation of the program's vision as well as the use of the systems required. Minimum 30% of the time
What You’ll Do - Accountabilities
Essential Duties:
Leadership & Strategic Planning
- Lead the development and execution of a district-wide vision for school culture, behavior, and discipline that promotes equity, inclusion, and restorative practices.
- Collaborate with district leaders to align culture and discipline strategy with MTSS, SEL, crisis prevention, at-risk, SPED and family engagement systems.
- Leads the development of training materials, resources for support and integration of school culture behavior and discipline content in the layers of the organization that ultimately reach all students.
- As a partner and Title IX decision maker, analyze data from multiple sources to determine strategic impact and/or strategic shifts to prevent or minimize the volume of reported incidents
Campus Support & Capacity Building
- Train, support and coach national partners, regional leader's, principals, counselors, and additional stakeholders in implementing high-quality Tier 1-3 behavior systems, classroom management strategies, and student support plans.
- Design and deliver professional development to build campus capacity in positive behavior interventions, restorative practices, and discipline compliance.
- Leads the curation of and vision for student facing curriculum that is both aligned to state policy and internal IDEA data trends to decrease crisis situations that impact student safety
Behavior Systems & Data
- Responsible to ensure quarterly data audits are complete and accurate resulting in reliable data being reported to the TEA. Analyzes and writes Executive Summaries to brief chief team on data for IDEA Public Schools
- Monitor district-wide trends in student behavior, suspensions, expulsions, and discipline disproportionality; identify root causes and lead strategic responses.
- Partner with SIS/PEIMS teams to ensure behavior and discipline data is accurately entered, reported, and used to inform campus action.
- Manages the National System Administrator who leads the support of multiple systems on the Student Support Services Team
- Collaborates with internal SIS/PEIMS team and the Development team to present a visual representation of the live data to inform stakeholders of progress towards goals and allows for analysis to drive action
Policy & Compliance
- Ensure campus implementation of the Student Code of Conduct and all related policies is consistent, compliant, and student-centered.
- Provide training and guidance on discipline requirements under state and