The Academic Dean is an administrative position that assists the heads of the Rhetoric and Logic Schools. The Dean ensures optimal conditions for student learning and serves the needs of students. Key responsibilities include maintaining positive school cultures, assisting with student discipline and guidance, managing the demerit system, overseeing grading and student achievement, and coordinating curricula and examinations. The Dean also teaches in their academic fields.

1. ACADEMIC DEAN JOB DESCRIPTION
The Academic Dean reports to and assists 1) the Head of Rhetoric School in areas of
instruction, student discipline and student activities supervision; and 2) the Head of Logic
School in the area of student discipline. The dean position is an administrative position that
serves to ensure that optimal conditions are met in order to serve the needs of all Logic and
Rhetoric School students through participation in the administration, management, and
operation of our schools. The position also includes Rhetoric School teaching
responsibilities in the Dean’s academic fields of competence.
Logic School Responsibilities
• Work with the Logic School Headmaster to establish and maintain a positive,
structured, Christ-centered, and cohesive logic school culture;
• Work with the Logic School Headmaster to maintain congruency between the
school's mission statement and the logic school culture;
• Assist with discipline, specifically in addressing student attitudes and behavior and in
setting and enforcing acceptable standards of conduct so as to create a predictable
and supportive environment;
• Manage and enforce the demerit system;
• Participate in administration team meetings.
Rhetoric School Responsibilities
GENERAL
• Work with the Rhetoric School Headmaster to establish and maintain a positive,
structured, achievement-oriented, Christ-centered and cohesive rhetoric school
culture;
• Initiate and support communication with and among teachers, parents, students and
the community;
• Maintain congruency between the school's mission statement and rhetoric school
culture and all academic activities;
• Assist the Head of Rhetoric School with the preparation of budgets within areas of
shared responsibility;
• Assist in the admission process for interviewing and evaluating Rhetoric School
applicants for enrollment;
• Participate in administration team meetings.
STUDENTS
• Work collaboratively with all stakeholders to assist students in reaching their
intellectual and leadership potential;

2. • Assist in the preparation of information for entry on students’ cumulative records
and contribute data concerning student needs to ensure that every student is on track
to graduate;
• Provide for the academic guidance of students including course selection and course
changes;
• Assist with discipline, specifically in addressing student attitudes and behavior and in
setting and enforcing acceptable standards of conduct so as to create a predictable
and supportive environment;
• Manage and enforce the demerit system;
• Assist in planning and supervising recognition and celebration events and other
school wide culture-building activities;
• Communicate regularly with parents and students both formally and informally;
• Oversee the grading and the reporting of standards and methods used by teachers in
measuring student achievement;
• Consult individually with and supervise the progress of students on academic or
behavioral probation or whose academic achievement falls significantly short of their
potential, and work the students’ parents and with the Rhetoric School staff to help
those students be successful;
• Provide the parents of students whose academic standing or behavior imperils their
continuance at Geneva School with written notice of their child’s situation and
consult with those same parents about how best to help their child overcome the
difficulties;
• Create and sustain a partnership with extra-curricular staff members for the purpose
of ensuring student success and compliance with behavioral standards;
CURRICULUM
• Assist with the coordination of the co-curricular and extra-curricular activity
programs of the school;
• Assist the Rhetoric School Headmaster in the evaluation and improvement of the
curriculum;
• Assist the Rhetoric School Headmaster as a consultant to teachers in matters of
classroom management, teaching methods, and general school procedures;
• Supervise the grading and reporting process, and provide appropriate statistical
analysis of grades and major grading patterns for the Rhetoric School Headmaster;
• Serve as the school’s Advanced Placement Exam Coordinator;
• Coordinate the scheduling of midterm and final examinations, PSAT, and AP
examinations.
OTHER
• Perform other related duties as assigned.