Lower 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 Lower School Dean for the 2025-2026 school year. Reporting to the Assistant Head of School for Academic Operations, The Lower School Dean has primary oversight for the student and family experience in Grades Pre-K-5. 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 Lower School uses a collaborative teaching model to promote students’ academic, social, and emotional growth by nurturing an environment that promotes risk taking, flexibility, adaptability, empathy, and resilience through collaborative teaching which models behaviors of the adults. We seek to employ faculty and staff with diverse backgrounds who model these traits and our core values 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 lower school classrooms and community times
• Proactively communicate with all families individually on a regular basis
• Convene topical grade level family forums twice a year for each grade level
• Oversee Social Emotional Learning curriculum and programming
• Teach a class and/or small groups
• Participate in the admissions process
• Support teachers in Grades Pre-K-5 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 Pre-K-5 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
• Attend student meetings
• Review progress reports

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 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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