Middle School Learning Specialist
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About The Hockaday School
The Hockaday School is an independent, college preparatory school for girls of strong potential and diverse backgrounds who may be expected to assume positions of responsibility and leadership in a rapidly changing world. With an enrollment of more than 1,100 students, The Hockaday School is the nation’s largest prekindergarten through grade 12 independent girls’ school. Ranked among the country’s finest college preparatory schools, it was founded over a century ago and continues today to build on its original Four Cornerstones: Character, Courtesy, Scholarship, and Athletics.
Hockaday’s faculty are recognized as experienced leaders in their field and students in every grade benefit from outstanding faculty and access to unmatched resources. Families who choose Hockaday care deeply about providing their daughters with a comprehensive and rigorous education, both inside and outside the classroom. Hockaday’s student body reflects the diversity that is deeply valued by the School.
Job Description: Middle School Learning Specialist
The Hockaday School is seeking a full-time Middle School Learning Specialist to join the PK-12 Learning Support Team. This team, comprised of learning specialists, counselors, and the Director of Learning Support, works to promote excellence through best practices in inclusive teaching and learning for all Hockaday students.
The Middle School Learning Specialist will collaborate with the Director of Learning Support and faculty to provide support and enhance access to learning. This position reports to the Head of Middle School and is a member of the Learning Support Department overseen by the Director of Learning Support.
Essential Functions:
• Teach Learning Skills classes with a focus on executive functioning and study skills.
• Provide leadership and collaborate with faculty in teaching students with diverse learning profiles.
• Serve as a resource within the community of Middle School students, faculty, and parents.
• Promote best practices in learning within classroom settings and instructional leadership.
• Work within the Middle School and Learning Support teams as a collaborative and respectful colleague, with the ability to maintain confidentiality.
• Support students with approved learning plans through meetings, as needed, between parents, students, and teachers.
• Attend Guidance Team and other administrative and departmental meetings.
• Maintain a current understanding of and proficiency with assistive technologies that promote brain-compatible learning.
Qualifications/Experience:
• An advanced degree with a focus on learning differences, neurodevelopment, executive dysfunction, instruction and/or learning.
• Teaching experience in math and/or reading at the middle school level preferred, ideally in independent schools.
• Experience working with students with learning differences, preferably in a rigorous academic setting.
• Strong organizational skills and ability to mentor and coach executive functioning skills.
• Background and interest in guiding a program for students in which all students experience success in learning.
• Demonstrated leadership and facilitative skills.
• Experience with standardized testing and knowledge of learning needs and related legalities.
• Proficiency with various uses of technology.
• Commitment to being a supportive, respectful, and energetic colleague and mentor.
• Must have the ability to work in a school environment through satisfactory completion of all legally required and School-required background and screening checks and verifications, including criminal and sex offender background checks
