4th - 6th Grade Learning Specialist (2020-2021 School Year)
- Employer
- The Quad Preparatory School
- Location
- New York, NY, US
- Salary
- Competitive
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Learning Specialist - Grades 4-6 (2020-2021 School Year)
Classification: Full-time Exempt
Reports to: Assistant Head of School
The Quad Preparatory School is an alternative, non-profit, K-12 college preparatory school dedicated to the education of twice-exceptional students, bright and creative children who learn differently. Quad Prep is a young, fast-growing school founded in 2013 that is a vibrant professional and collegial learning community for employees.
The Quad Preparatory School transforms the lives of twice-exceptional people - those who are gifted and learn differently - by redefining the experience of school. Our personalized model fully integrates social and emotional learning with challenging academics, empowering our students to rise to the level of their extraordinary talents. Through our innovative programs we are leading a larger movement in service of both twice-exceptional people and society at large.
Our teachers, clinicians, and staff joined together to craft our statement of values, which we are proud to share:
The Quad Preparatory School is looking for learning specialists to provide students with personalized support in one or more academic content areas or developmental academic skills beyond the personalized support available in the Quad Prepoom setting. Students who attend sessions with our learning specialists generally require support in math skills, foundational literacy skills, reading comprehension, and/or written expression. The learning specialist most often provides intervention in one-to-one sessions or in a dyad. The child-centered approach at Quad Prep is highly collaborative, a trait that the learning specialist must uphold to provide personalized support to each student. While most students who work with our learning specialists are performing below grade-level, learning specialists do, on occasion, work with students who are far exceeding grade-level expectations.
Expectations:
Competencies:
Work Environment:
This job operates in a school setting. The school is located on the fourth floor of a building with two elevators. This role requires working in various locations around the school and the potential for accompanying students to a local park or outings in the community.
Physical Demands:
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk and listen. This position is very active and requires standing, walking, bending, kneeling, and stooping all day. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move items under 20 pounds. During fire drills, the employee, unless physically unable, will need to use the stairs to go to ground level from the fourth floor. Typing is required for composing emails and writing reports. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Position Type and Expected Hours of Work:
This is a full-time position in an educational facility which is open eight hours a day. Learning support staff work 10 months out of the year according to the August-June academic calendar. Occasional evening or weekend hours may be required. In general, though, hours are Monday-Friday 8 A.M.-4 P.M.
Required Education and Experience:
Preferred Education and Experience:
AAP/EEO Statement: The Quad Preparatory School is based on an inclusive philosophy that does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, gender, age, disability, marital status, creed, sexual orientation, familial status, citizenship, veteran or military status, or any other characteristic protected by law in its hiring procedures and policies.
Classification: Full-time Exempt
Reports to: Assistant Head of School
The Quad Preparatory School is an alternative, non-profit, K-12 college preparatory school dedicated to the education of twice-exceptional students, bright and creative children who learn differently. Quad Prep is a young, fast-growing school founded in 2013 that is a vibrant professional and collegial learning community for employees.
The Quad Preparatory School transforms the lives of twice-exceptional people - those who are gifted and learn differently - by redefining the experience of school. Our personalized model fully integrates social and emotional learning with challenging academics, empowering our students to rise to the level of their extraordinary talents. Through our innovative programs we are leading a larger movement in service of both twice-exceptional people and society at large.
Our teachers, clinicians, and staff joined together to craft our statement of values, which we are proud to share:
- Quad Prep is a kind and joyful learning community where everyone is celebrated for who they are.
- We ignite students' strengths and passions and allow for safe academic pursuit at the highest levels by learning from mistakes.
- We are trustworthy and steadfast, and our high academic expectations challenge students to grow uniquely as people and in the way they learn.
- We widen our students' perspectives, giving them the tools to know themselves and find success in the future of their choosing.
- We never give up on each other and are driven by the ethos of "not if, but how."
The Quad Preparatory School is looking for learning specialists to provide students with personalized support in one or more academic content areas or developmental academic skills beyond the personalized support available in the Quad Prepoom setting. Students who attend sessions with our learning specialists generally require support in math skills, foundational literacy skills, reading comprehension, and/or written expression. The learning specialist most often provides intervention in one-to-one sessions or in a dyad. The child-centered approach at Quad Prep is highly collaborative, a trait that the learning specialist must uphold to provide personalized support to each student. While most students who work with our learning specialists are performing below grade-level, learning specialists do, on occasion, work with students who are far exceeding grade-level expectations.
Expectations:
- Provide personalized educational support for students whose needs cannot be met in the homeroom setting.
- Follow the guidance of the clinical, psychosocial, andoom-based academic staff in working with each student in accordance with each child's academic and social-emotional education plan.
- Support students in all of their goals for both academic and social-emotional development.
- Contribute to planning cross-curricular inquiry-based projects with a collaborative, integrated team of educators and therapists.
- Implement curriculum and instructional activities driven by student learning and multiple assessment alternatives and maintain portfolios of student work to illustrate and record progress and achievement.
- Propose strategies and programs that serve the needs of each student who is showing difficulty with reading, writing, language skills, and/or math skills.
- Support teachers in methods of using new/specific resources in theoom; propose strategies and programs that serve students with learning differences; collaborate with teachers to monitor learning progress and provide teachers with strategies to support students outside of scheduled sessions.
- Determine when a student needs more or less time with intense instruction and recommend next steps.
- Maintain records of all strategies and programs used for students.
- Conduct regular assessments to document the growth of students in areas needing support, and to support teachers in periodic benchmark assessments schoolwide.
- Empower students to take charge of their learning by providing all necessary scaffolding, modeling, materials, and resources, and consistently maintaining a high level of expectation for student success.
- Collaborate with other academic staff and psychosocial staff members to plan, integrate, and facilitate cross-curricular, inquiry-based projects.
- Communicate with parents and guardians to provide feedback on pupils' academic and social-emotional progress through parent-teacher conferences, written reports, phone calls, and emails.
- Mentor and delegating appropriate tasks to the associate teacher, in collaboration with the other head teacher in theoom.
- Follow the professional code and policies of the school and conduct oneself in a way that promotes the mission of the school.
- Utilize Google Suite, in particular Google Drive, Docs, and Sheets.
- Attend all faculty and staff meetings and required special events (e.g., open houses, Curriculum Night, Carnivale).
- Perform other duties as assigned.
Competencies:
- Love for working with children
- Desire and ability to work with students with special needs
- Lesson planning and the ability to provide engaging and personalized instruction
- Knowledge of various clinical and academic interventions
- Ability to connect with school-aged children
- Effective oral and written communication skills
- A solid understanding of school-age academic, social, and emotional development
- Attention to detail
- Maintaining confidentiality and privacy
- Ethical conduct
- Time management and the ability to multitask
- Teamwork and collaboration
- Patience and flexibility
Work Environment:
This job operates in a school setting. The school is located on the fourth floor of a building with two elevators. This role requires working in various locations around the school and the potential for accompanying students to a local park or outings in the community.
Physical Demands:
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk and listen. This position is very active and requires standing, walking, bending, kneeling, and stooping all day. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move items under 20 pounds. During fire drills, the employee, unless physically unable, will need to use the stairs to go to ground level from the fourth floor. Typing is required for composing emails and writing reports. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Position Type and Expected Hours of Work:
This is a full-time position in an educational facility which is open eight hours a day. Learning support staff work 10 months out of the year according to the August-June academic calendar. Occasional evening or weekend hours may be required. In general, though, hours are Monday-Friday 8 A.M.-4 P.M.
Required Education and Experience:
- Bachelor's degree in elementary education, special education, or a related field.
- Experience working with children in grades 2-5.
- Experience working with children with varying learning needs.
- Training and experience in the Orton-Gilligham Approach.
Preferred Education and Experience:
- At least three years experience as a learning specialist or special education teacher.
- Master's degree in elementary education, special education, or related field, or enrollment in a Master's program.
- Experience working with twice-exceptional youth.
- Orton-Gillingham certification.
- Training and experience in Wilson Reading System.
- Experience with norm-based assessments, such as GORT-5, WIST, and MAP.
AAP/EEO Statement: The Quad Preparatory School is based on an inclusive philosophy that does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, gender, age, disability, marital status, creed, sexual orientation, familial status, citizenship, veteran or military status, or any other characteristic protected by law in its hiring procedures and policies.
Company
At Quad Prep, we are on a mission — to transform the lives of neurodiverse, twice exceptional people by redefining the experience of school. Through the collective, superlative and empathic work of our teachers and clinicians, we are empowering students to leave Quad Prep fully prepared to engage with the exciting and wonderful diversity of this world.
Entering our 10th year and a new phase of maturity, we are excited to welcome fellow groundbreakers to our team to help us further this inspiring and urgent mission. We are eager to challenge our status quo, to seek diverse perspectives and work together to develop better practices of neurodiverse education. The Quad Preparatory School actively seeks to forward diversity through its programs and hiring.
Why work at Quad Prep?
- COMMUNITY: We are committed to building a joyful and inclusive culture where everybody is celebrated for who they are.
- COLLEAGUES: Our colleagues are inspiring, consummate innovators and are at their happiest highly collaborating to create personalized solutions for each student.
- STUDENTS We guarantee that you will learn something eye opening every single day from our students!
- DEEP PROFESSIONAL LEARNING: Quad Prep supports mission-driven educators and clinicians to grow their professional skills and influence in the neurodiversity educational space. Close collaboration with colleagues, coaching from supportive leaders and well-designed learning sessions keep us growing.
- GENEROUS AND COMPREHENSIVE BENEFITS
- Health: Medical, Dental, Vision
- Student Loan Repayment
- Group Life Plan
- Disability Insurance
- Generous Parental Leave
- WORK LIFE BALANCE: We provide generous PTO and preparation periods so that you can live the life you wish for – inside and outside of our school
- PROTECTED TIME *NEW FOR 22–23: We provide coverage to allow you to learn from one another, participate in one of our special PD programs, conduct original research, develop special projects, and participate in our initiatives to create the culture YOU want to work in.
- EXTRAS
- You can build a private practice or tutor onsite during after school hours at very low rent or no cost.
Who We Are (If Quad Prep is for you, you'll read what's below and feel, "that's me!")
At Quad Prep, we are guided by values that we hold dear and we have developed a set of practices and abilities to meet our mission. We are:
- Groundbreaking: We ignite our students’ talents and are passionate about their futures. You are:
- Passionate about our work and our mission
- Creative and excited about reaching each and every learner in new ways
- Excited to use current best practice to create new best practice in this rapidly evolving field
- Able to set high expectations of both students and yourself and discover ways to meet them
- Collaborative: We function with an exceedingly deep degree of collaboration. You:
- Communicate effectively with colleagues
- Seek to understand yourself in order to welcome new perspectives
- Are generous of spirit and willing to give and receive feedback freely
- Trustworthy: We are steadfast and are accountable to our students and each other You:
- Can be counted on to do what you say you will do
- Have a high level of ownership for personal and team results
- Can purposefully develop skills to find success in your work and our learning community
- Ask for support when you need it
- Project an unflappable, firm and kind presence to our students
- Constantly Learning and Growing: You:
- Seek personal growth
- Help colleagues learn and improve.
- Help the organization improve by developing new ideas and approaches.
- Resourceful: At Quad Prep, we dig deep to meet our mission. You are:
- Highly effective and disciplined
- Show initiative
- Display good judgment and sensibility
- Excellent at classroom management
- Flexible: At Quad Prep, we never give up on each other and are driven by the ethos of “not if, but how.” You are:
- Open to new ideas
- Nimble in changing environments
- Excited by ambiguity and change during this time of unprecedented complexity and accelerating innovation
Company info
- Telephone
- 646.649.3913
- Location
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25 Pine Street
4th Floor
New York
NY
10005
US
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