Middle School Dean (Fall 2025)

Job Summary:

The Rashi School, Greater Boston’s Reform Jewish Independent School, serving students in grades Pre-K-8, seeks a Middle School Dean for the 2025-2026 school year. Reporting to the Assistant Head of School for Academic Operations, the Middle School Dean has primary oversight for the student and family experience in Grades 6-8. In our warm and inclusive community, children are appreciated for who they are as they learn and develop their identities. With the school’s foundation of rigorous academics and differentiated instruction and a mission rooted in social justice, we want our students to ask the tough questions—not just the who, what, where, but the how, why, and what can I do to fix it? Rashi graduates have the confidence to try new things and to fail forward. With kindness at their core, they become empowered learners, change agents, global Jewish citizens, and good friends. 

Rashi’s Middle School seeks to promote students’ academic, social, and emotional growth by nurturing an environment that promotes risk taking, flexibility, adaptability, empathy, and resilience. We are looking for educators with a history of positive, caring student-teacher interactions, rich content expertise, and student-centered approaches to join a team of exceptional faculty who utilize a strength based approach to empower students to be their best selves in and out of the classroom. We seek to employ faculty and staff with diverse backgrounds who model our core values (respect, learning, community, spirit, and justice) for our students and are eager to support Rashi in fulfilling its mission. 

This is a ten month position with occasional flexible summer availability required.

Position Responsibilities:

• Create and maintain a positive, safe, supportive environment for all students by developing strong relationships with students, families, and teachers
• Be a strong, proactive, and positive presence in middle school classrooms and community times
• Plan and run middle school division meetings as appropriate
• Plan and manage community blocks and electives 
• Oversee Advisory curriculum and programming
• Teach/co-teach a class or small groups as deemed appropriate
• Plan and/or coordinate middle school special events including the first day of school, field trips, graduation, etc.
• Assume primary responsibility for communication of middle school policies and practices
• Support teachers in Grades 6-8 with management of Tier I behaviors, including communication with families
• Manage Tier II and Tier III behavioral infractions, including communication with families
• Meet with families in Grades 6-8 to address concerns that have already been brought to the classroom teachers
• Monitor attrition risks and engage families to support positive relationships between school and home
• Send weekly newsletters to middle school families
• Participate in the admissions process
• Participate in Grade Level Meetings
• Review progress reports
• Attend middle school extracurricular events
• Convene grade level parent/family forums
• Participate in class placement decisions with the assistant heads of school and/or department chairs

Personal Characteristics:

• Collaborative
• Creative
• Analytical
• Continuous learner
• Open to feedback
• Strong communicator 
• Active listener
• Commitment to working in and fostering an inclusive community
• Belief in Rashi’s Mission and Core Values

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in education or related field required. Master’s degree preferred
• 5 to 7 years experience teaching in an elementary or middle school setting
• Restorative Justice training preferred

Physical Requirements:

• Able to sit, stand, type, twist, bend
• Able to use telephone and computers
• Able to lift 10-15 lbs. 
  

How to apply:

Interested candidates should email a cover letter, resume, and professional references to jobs@rashi.org. The application deadline is January 6, 2025.

Rashi is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Guided by our core values of justice, respect, learning, community, and spirit, and with social justice as a foundational cornerstone of our school, we are committed to building an inclusive community that honors and respects each individual, their varied identities, and their spirit. We seek to listen, learn, and grow together to ensure that we are a place in which all community members can thrive. We welcome applicants of all backgrounds, including age, race, color, national origin, ancestry, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, pregnancy, disability, mental disorder, familial status, veteran status, genetic information, or any other protected characteristic as established by law.

About The Rashi School

The Rashi School is the Boston area's Reform Jewish independent school serving students in grades PK–8. Located in Dedham, Massachusetts, the mission of The Rashi School is to provide a dynamic, child-centered program of academic excellence that integrates rich secular and Jewish studies curricula and nurtures in its students’ critical minds and compassionate hearts.

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