Frank Tejeda Beyond Academy Academic Dean

Frank Tejeda Beyond Academy Academic Dean

Harlandale Independent School District

Frank Tejeda Academy - San Antonio, Texas

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Job Details

Job ID:5713635

Application Deadline:Posted until filled

Posted:Yesterday

Starting Date:Immediately

Job Description

Job Description

TITLE: Academic Dean Frank Tejeda Beyond Academy

Status: Exempt

REPORTS TO: Principal

QUALIFICATIONS:

Master's degree from an accredited institution

Valid Texas Principal Certification

Minimum of 3 years of successful teaching experience

Demonstrated success improving student achievement and instructional outcomes

Experience supporting historically underserved student populations

Experience working with over-age, under-credited, disengaged, or returning adult learners

Familiarity with adult education, dropout recovery, or reengagement systems

Knowledge of instructional coaching, PLCs, and data-driven instruction

Strong facilitation, communication, and relationship-building skills

Ability to lead change and support innovative school implementation

Preferred Qualifications

Experience in alternative education, opportunity youth programs, or reengagement settings

Experience with competency-based or personalized learning environments

Experience supporting dual enrollment or college and career readiness initiatives

Experience implementing restorative practices and culturally sustaining instruction

Experience implementing HQIM and curriculum internalization systems

Familiarity with TEA Effective Schools Framework (ESF)

Experience leading adult learning and coaching systems

Experience in school launch, redesign, transformation, or innovative partnership environments

SUMMARY: Frank M. Tejeda BEYOND Academy is an innovative opportunity school designed to reengage and accelerate students ages 16-26 through flexible pathways leading to high school completion, GED attainment, dual enrollment participation, industry-based certifications, workforce readiness, and postsecondary success.

The Academic Dean serves as a senior instructional and implementation leader responsible for ensuring instructional coherence, teacher development, implementation fidelity, and continuous improvement across the school's academic and learner support model. This role plays a critical part in translating the BEYOND vision into daily classroom practice during launch and early implementation years. Because BEYOND serves both adolescent and adult learners, this role must ensure instructional practices reflect principles of andragogy, learner agency, flexible pacing, relevance, and relationship-centered engagement.

The Academic Dean works closely with the Principal, the Texas A&M Institute for School and Community Partnerships (ISCP) leadership team, instructional coaches, counselors, and community partners to ensure students experience rigorous, culturally responsive, and relationship-centered learning environments aligned to an Expanded Definition of Student Success (EDSS), including academic achievement, belonging, agency, mindset development, and postsecondary readiness.

This position requires an entrepreneurial instructional leader who can build systems while simultaneously supporting implementation, refinement, adult learning, and instructional

improvement. The ideal candidate believes deeply in educational equity, restorative practices, adult learner pedagogy, and transformational outcomes for historically underserved students.

The Academic Dean will help ensure strong implementation readiness and sustainability aligned to the district-approved school design and the leadership expectations of the ISCP launch framework, including instructional leadership capacity, onboarding systems, coaching cycles, implementation planning, and continuous improvement structures.

Additionally, the Academic Dean will support operationalization of innovative school model components, including flexible scheduling structures, competency-informed practices, embedded workforce readiness experiences, dual enrollment integration, and interdisciplinary student support systems.

About Frank M. Tejeda BEYOND Academy

BEYOND Academy is designed to:

Reengage over-age and under-credited youth and young adults

Support adult learners returning to education through flexible, affirming, and barrier responsive instructional system

Create flexible and personalized learning pathways

Utilize andragogical instructional practices appropriate for adolescent and adult learners

Embed college and career experiences into the daily student experience

Integrate academic, workforce, advising, and postsecondary systems into a coherent learner experience

Foster learner agency, belonging, and purpose

Support academic achievement alongside mindset and identity development

Implement culturally sustaining and restorative practices

Build coherent systems of academic, behavioral, and advising support

Utilize continuous improvement to refine instructional systems and student outcomes

The school's model is grounded in the belief that student success includes:

Academic achievement

Belonging and connectedness

Student mindset and agency

Postsecondary readiness

Workforce readiness

Leadership and self-advocacy

SUPERVISES: Instructional staff, instructional coaches, academic intervention personnel, and assigned academic support systems as designated by the campus Principal.

WORKING CONDITIONS:

Mental Demands:

Ability to communicate effectively (verbal and written); interpret policy, procedures and data; coordinate campus functions, and maintain emotional control under stress.

Physical Demands/ Environmental Factors:

Occasional district and statewide travel; frequent prolonged and irregular hours.

The working conditions described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Instructional Leadership

Lead implementation of the BEYOND instructional vision and academic model

Ensure rigorous implementation of high-quality instructional materials (HQIM), including TEA-approved curriculum resources

Support competency-informed, flexible, and personalized instructional practices that allow students to progress through multiple pathways toward completion and postsecondary readiness

Ensure instructional practices are aligned to principles of adult learning theory and engagement of reengaged learners

Monitor instructional quality through frequent classroom observations, walkthroughs, and feedback cycles

Lead instructional calibration aligned to schoolwide expectations for teaching and learning

Facilitate PLCs, lesson internalization, and student work analysis protocols

Support implementation of intervention systems and differentiated instruction

Support instructional systems that accelerate credit attainment, persistence, and successful student reengagement

Collaborate with instructional coaches to strengthen instructional practice and student outcomes

Collaborate with pathway, workforce, and postsecondary partners to align instructional experiences to real-world application and career readiness expectations

Ensure instructional systems support diverse learners, including emergent bilingual students and students requiring intervention support

Support alignment between instruction, assessment, and student outcome goals

Promote rigorous, culturally responsive, and student-centered learning experiences

Adult Learning and Teacher Development

Lead the campus professional learning system aligned to teacher competency goals, implementation priorities, and launch-year instructional needs

Support onboarding and development of new teachers and instructional staff

Oversee instructional coaching cycles and feedback structures

Ensure alignment between teacher competencies, observation systems, and professional development

Build staff capacity to effectively serve opportunity youth and adult learners with interrupted educational experiences

Support teachers in transitioning from traditional pedagogical approaches toward learner centered and andragogical instructional practices appropriate for BEYOND students

Build teacher capacity in:

o Adult learner pedagogy

o Relationship-centered instruction

o Restorative practices

o Data-driven instruction

o Student discourse and engagement

o Differentiated and flexible instructional practices

Facilitate instructional reflection and continuous improvement among staff

Develop systems that foster collective efficacy, accountability, and professional growth

Postsecondary and Pathway Readiness

Support implementation of multiple student pathways, including:

o High school diploma completion

o GED attainment

o Dual enrollment participation

o Workforce and industry certification pathways

Monitor student progress toward credit accrual, graduation, and postsecondary readiness indicators

Collaborate with counselors, advisors, and pathway partners to ensure student success

Support systems that help students build agency, self-advocacy, and future readiness

Ensure instructional systems align to college, career, workforce, and life-readiness expectations

Learner Experience

Foster learning environments grounded in belonging, trust, and high expectations

Support implementation of restorative and relationship-centered practices

Promote student voice, leadership, and learner agency

Ensure instructional practices support engagement and persistence

Collaborate with student support teams to strengthen attendance, intervention, and reengagement systems

Help create coherent systems of academic and social-emotional support

Support equitable outcomes for historically underserved student groups

Support trauma-informed, culturally sustaining, and dignity-centered approaches to student engagement and accountability

Ensure systems reduce barriers to student persistence, attendance, completion, and postsecondary transition

Continuous Improvement and Implementation Leadership

Lead regular instructional data review cycles

Monitor implementation progress toward academic and EDSS outcomes

Analyze subgroup performance and equity indicators

Support teachers in using assessment data to improve instruction

Participate in implementation planning and launch readiness monitoring

Help phase implementation of innovative model components over time

Collaborate with ISCP leadership and campus administration to monitor implementation benchmarks associated with the approved school design

Support rapid-cycle improvement and refinement of systems

Assist in development of systems documentation, implementation playbooks, and launch sustainability structures

Contribute to strategic planning and school improvement efforts

Build sustainable instructional systems that support long-term growth and scalability

Support implementation of Results-Based Accountability (RBA) and continuous improvement processes aligned to partnership goals and student outcome

SCHOOL/COMMUNITY RELATIONS

Articulates the school's mission to the community and solicits support in making that mission a reality.

Promotes two-way communication between the school and community.

Projects a positive image to the community.

Represents the principal at various meetings and functions.

OTHER

Performs such other duties/tasks and assumes such responsibilities as may be assigned by the Principal.

EVALUATION: Performance of this position will be evaluated in accordance with provisions of the Harlandale Independence School District Board of Education Policy on Evaluation of Personnel.

This document describes the general purpose and responsibilities assigned to this job and is not an exhaustive list of all responsibilities and duties that may be assigned or skills that may be required.

Position Type:Full-Time

Salary:$75,266 to $105,010 Per Year

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