Academic-Student Success Coach (Dean Of Engagement)

Position Type:

CERTIFICATED (NON-ADMIN)/ACADEMIC AND STUDENT SUCCESS COACH

Date Posted:

5/27/2025

Location:

CASCADE MIDDLE SCHOOL

Date Available:

09/01/2025

Closing Date:

06/03/2025

Position Information:

Position FTE: 1.0 FTE, Employee Calendars

Position Type: Certificated (HEA); *Contract

(*Continuing or Non-Continuing contracts based on organizational requirements)

Annualized Salary:

*24/25 SY $70,207-$137,330*/ year

*prorated based on FTE and contract length

Contract Start Date: 09/01/2025

Cascade Middle School is seeking an Academic and Student Success Coach - Dean of Engagement to join our team of educators for the upcoming 2025-2026 school year!

PROFILE: The Dean of Engagement is an essential part of our Leadership Team, focused on engaging and empowering every young person at Cascade. We are seeking a team member who can articulate and implement a vision of instruction and culture, support schoolwide supervision and universal classroom practices, engage compassionately with students and families, and provide direct coaching and thought-partnership to a variety of stakeholders to bring others along in their vision. This person should be prepared to lead on:

Social Emotional Learning. Articulate a vision, scope, and sequence of current and incoming aspects of our SEL program, providing professional development and targeted coaching to act on this vision of culture, especially in the settings of Advisories.

Tier 1 Universal Practices. Synthesize current understanding of schoolwide instructional practices and incoming district guidance around literacy, providing professional development and targeted coaching/modeling to realize this vision of instruction.

Schoolwide Supervision. Support Dean of Culture to implement routines for climate/culture, including responding to behavior, engaging with students and families in crisis, leveraging social emotional learning, and providing targeted support to staff in order to build their capacities around restorative and accountable practices.

Student Leadership. Evaluate current program offerings that empower our young people, including reviewing Panorama data and anecdotal evidence to notice where there are gaps and barriers to specific demographics of students, and working to remove those barriers and open up new opportunities for student voice and agency in our school’s systems and routines.

Community Partnerships. Our White Center community is a valued stakeholder in our systems, programs, and decision-making matrices. Cultivate existing partnerships and nurture new ones based on a deep understanding of students’ strengths, identities, and interests, including organizing for after school programming.

Family Engagement With Instructional Program. Organize events that bring families into the learning space, including Business Day, Open House, Student Led Conferences, and heritage/multicultural events. Support teachers to build out their routines around family and community engagement in their own instructional contexts.

SUMMARY: The position of Academic and Student Success Coach will support students in excelling both academically and socially. This person works as a liaison between the classroom teacher and the student keeping students on track, checking on progress and solving student challenges. They work collaboratively with school and district staff, students and their families to implement and manage intervention strategies promoting student academic and/or social/emotional skills. The Academic and Student Success Coach will at times interact one-on-one or in small groups to understand and support students. In addition, the Academic and Student Success Coach may support the administrative team by heading up the school’s PBIS three tiered systems, coordinate/support teachers with social skills curriculum and reach out to family and community partners to build student culture.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:

CERTIFICATION: Current WA State Teaching Certificate OR WA State ESA School Counselor OR WA State ESA Psychologist Certificate and

Two years working directly with children/youth in schools and/or equivalent settings

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS: Criminal background clearance and all certificates, licenses, endorsements, permits, and vaccines (absent exemption) as required for this position by state and local authorities.

For a full job description, please see the attachment.

BENEFITS ELIGIBILITY: Eligible Highline Public School employees are offered a comprehensive benefits package. Check them out here!

NOTE: Individual positions may be filled via one the following processes: external hires, internal hires, internal displacements, or internal voluntary transfers. Highline Public Schools, District #401, reserves the right to privilege current employees in the hiring process.

OUR PROMISE: Every student in Highline Public Schools is known by name, strength and need, and graduates prepared for the future they choose.

The Highline Strategic Plan is centered on Our Promise. In 2023, the strategic plan was updated to prioritize our work through 2026, identifying four bold goals:

Culture of Belonging: A culture where all are welcome, valued, and safe.

Innovative Learning: Academic experiences that engage, empower, and challenge every student.

Bilingual & Biliterate: Multicultural skills that enable students to live, work, and communicate across cultures.

Future Ready: Students explore possibilities and develop mindsets that prepare them for a changing future.

Highline Public Schools, District #401, complies with all federal rules and regulations and does not discriminate in admission, access, treatment, or employment in education programs or hiring practices on the basis of race, creed, religion, color, national origin, age, sex, sexual orientation including gender expression or identity, marital status, honorably-discharged veteran or military status, the presence of any sensory, mental, or physical disability, or the use of a trained dog guide or service animal by a person with a disability. This holds true for all students who are interested in participating in educational programs and/or extracurricular activities. Highline Public Schools also provides equal access to the Boy Scouts and other designated youth groups. See Board Policy 5010 for Highline’s commitment to nondiscrimination and affirmative action. Any person having inquiries should contact: Age Discrimination Act, Americans with Disabilities Act, Affirmative Action, Civil Rights Act (employees), and Title IX: Chief Talent Officer,, ; Civil Rights Act (students): Ombudsman,, ; Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act- Director of Social Services and Mental Health,,, Address: 15675 Ambaum Blvd. SW, Burien, WA 98166.