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Posted: 01-Mar-25
Location: Marion, Massachusetts
Type: Full Time
Categories
Other
Preferred Education
Masters
Dean of Academics
Start Date: July 2025
Application due Date: March 19, 2025
Position Overview
The Dean of Academics is Tabor Academy’s academic leader, ensuring the academic program aligns with the school's mission and fosters exceptional teaching and learning. Reporting to the Head of School and serving on the Senior Leadership Team, the Dean oversees curriculum design, academic policies, faculty development, and student progress. This role balances strategic vision with operational leadership, including the implementation of a new daily schedule in 2025-26. The Dean ensures the academic program supports strategic priorities, including global education, wellness, belonging, leadership, and ocean-facing programs.
Position description can be viewed here.
To Apply
Interested and qualified candidates are invited to submit the following materials
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About Tabor Academy
Tabor Academy has a rich history that dates back to 1876 when the school was founded by Elizabeth Taber. Mrs. Taber had a lofty vision for the institution, including building character of young people from across the country. Today, we honor that legacy and embrace an international and diverse student body. Our work is guided by our principles of life-long learning, personal responsibility, and care for others. Here, students are encouraged to take risks and challenge themselves as they prepare to step into the world as global leaders. For nearly 150 years, Tabor Academy has served the Marion, Massachusetts community as a premier coeducation, college preparatory boarding and day school. As the School by the Sea, Tabor offers an uncommonly beautiful setting in which to learn for students grades 9-12. The school provides a wide breadth of academic offerings for students to explore their interests, understand their strengths, and develop their critical thinking and communication skills. Tabor graduates are leaders, adaptable, and exceptionally skilled at navigating the 21st century. Tabor Academy is committed to building a diverse and inclusive community informed by the NA...IS Principles of Good Practice – Equity and Justice. Across all areas of school life, we prioritize practices based on MindBrainEducation research; the relational skills of active listening, empathic understanding, critical thinking, and genuine inquiry; and pursuits that actively seek out and invite in diverse perspectives. At Tabor Academy, students come from all over the United States and over 21 countries to be part of an engaging community. The diverse and inclusive student body welcomes individuals from all races, religions, and economical backgrounds. Located 15 minutes from culturally rich New Bedford, home to the Whaling National Historical Park; stories from when the city was a station on the Underground Railroad and home to Frederick Douglass; a hub for Blue Economy Corridor innovation; seafood from America’s #1 fishing port; and a landscape that attracts sailors, bikers, and golfers, Marion and the Southcoast are teeming with opportunity.
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Posted: 01-Mar-25
Location: Marion, Massachusetts
Type: Full Time
Categories
Other
Preferred Education
Masters
Dean of Academics
Start Date: July 2025
Application due Date: March 19, 2025
Position Overview
The Dean of Academics is Tabor Academy’s academic leader, ensuring the academic program aligns with the school's mission and fosters exceptional teaching and learning. Reporting to the Head of School and serving on the Senior Leadership Team, the Dean oversees curriculum design, academic policies, faculty development, and student progress. This role balances strategic vision with operational leadership, including the implementation of a new daily schedule in 2025-26. The Dean ensures the academic program supports strategic priorities, including global education, wellness, belonging, leadership, and ocean-facing programs.
Position description can be viewed here.
To Apply
Interested and qualified candidates are invited to submit the following materials
- A cover letter expressing their interest in this particular position;
- A current résumé;
- A list of three professional references with name, relationship, phone number, and email address of each (references will not be contacted without the candidate’s permission) to:
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About Tabor Academy
Tabor Academy has a rich history that dates back to 1876 when the school was founded by Elizabeth Taber. Mrs. Taber had a lofty vision for the institution, including building character of young people from across the country. Today, we honor that legacy and embrace an international and diverse student body. Our work is guided by our principles of life-long learning, personal responsibility, and care for others. Here, students are encouraged to take risks and challenge themselves as they prepare to step into the world as global leaders. For nearly 150 years, Tabor Academy has served the Marion, Massachusetts community as a premier coeducation, college preparatory boarding and day school. As the School by the Sea, Tabor offers an uncommonly beautiful setting in which to learn for students grades 9-12. The school provides a wide breadth of academic offerings for students to explore their interests, understand their strengths, and develop their critical thinking and communication skills. Tabor graduates are leaders, adaptable, and exceptionally skilled at navigating the 21st century. Tabor Academy is committed to building a diverse and inclusive community informed by the NA...IS Principles of Good Practice – Equity and Justice. Across all areas of school life, we prioritize practices based on MindBrainEducation research; the relational skills of active listening, empathic understanding, critical thinking, and genuine inquiry; and pursuits that actively seek out and invite in diverse perspectives. At Tabor Academy, students come from all over the United States and over 21 countries to be part of an engaging community. The diverse and inclusive student body welcomes individuals from all races, religions, and economical backgrounds. Located 15 minutes from culturally rich New Bedford, home to the Whaling National Historical Park; stories from when the city was a station on the Underground Railroad and home to Frederick Douglass; a hub for Blue Economy Corridor innovation; seafood from America’s #1 fishing port; and a landscape that attracts sailors, bikers, and golfers, Marion and the Southcoast are teeming with opportunity.
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