Lower School Learning Specialist

Position Summary

The Lower School Learning Specialist is a senior learning-support practitioner and instructional leader who advances the School’s commitment to helping every young learner thrive. The Learning Specialist supports a caseload of students with learning differences and learning needs that may include ADHD, specific learning disabilities, dyslexia and other language-based learning differences, dysgraphia, executive functioning challenges, and related profiles involving attention, memory, and processing that affect learning.

The Learning Specialist delivers evidence-based, developmentally appropriate instruction and intervention through a combination of push-in, pull-out, small-group, and individual support. Equally important, the Learning Specialist partners with classroom teachers to strengthen inclusive and differentiated instructional practice, ensuring that accommodations and learning plans move from paper to daily classroom impact.

This role requires strong professional judgment, refined communication skills, comfort interpreting educational evaluations, and a collaborative, systems-oriented approach. The Learning Specialist is a member of the Student Support Team and contributes to a coordinated, student-centered model that integrates academic support with social-emotional and wellness supports.

Core Responsibilities

Student Support, Intervention, and Skill-Building

• Provide targeted intervention and strategy instruction aligned to student needs in areas such as foundational literacy and language, written expression, math problem-solving, and executive functioning (time management, organization, planning, initiation, self-monitoring).
• Support students in developing age-appropriate self-advocacy and a positive learner identity.
• Deliver support using flexible service models (push-in, pull-out, small-group, and individual) to meet the diverse needs of students.

• Master’s degree in Special Education, Learning Disabilities, or related field.
• Experience working with students with learning differences and learning needs.
• Strong professional judgment, refined communication skills, and comfort interpreting educational evaluations.
• Collaborative, systems-oriented approach with experience working in a team environment.