Atlanta, Georgia
Posted: 08-Apr-26
Location: Beverly, Massachusetts
Type: Full Time
Categories:
Dean of Learning
Position Title: Dean of Learning
Location: Landmark School, Beverly, MA
Reports to: Head of High School
Position Type: Full-Time (12 months)
About Landmark School
Landmark School is committed to empowering and educating students with language-based learning differences through a pioneering and innovative approach. Our goal is to enable each student to reach their full potential in education and life through highly individualized teaching and support.
Position Overview
“Learning” is the focus of this title — as this person is responsible for the ongoing learning experience of every member of the Landmark High School community, from the youngest student to the most seasoned veteran teacher. The title acknowledges that Landmark, and in turn our students and teachers, will only achieve sustained excellence in the education of LBLD learners through a commitment to pervasive and persistent self-improvement.
The Dean of Learning provides vision and oversight to all aspects of teaching — ensuring that our faculty are utilizing the practices and approaches that are most effective in propelling our LBLD learners to achieving their best, and that students are highly engaged in their learning and success. The Dean also guides and oversees all aspects of academic program and curriculum design to ensure program efficacy and the highest possible level of student engagement.
In addition, the Dean of Learning will provide the vision for the integration of assistive and emerging technologies to best enable both students and faculty, and to ensure our students are prepared to thrive after their time at Landmark.
An important aspect of this role is ensuring that there is a balance between Landmark’s tradition of remediation and fostering and celebrating our students’ distinctive neurodiverse strengths.
Landmark High School is both a day and boarding school, and the Dean of Learning plays an important role in ensuring that the academic program is responsive to the full scope of the student experience — including the residential community. All leadership of the high school, including the Dean of Learning, share in the responsibility for the full scope of each student’s Landmark experience.
Key Responsibilities
- Academic Vision & Instructional Leadership: Provide strategic oversight of all teaching practices across the High School, ensuring faculty consistently employ approaches that are most effective for LBLD learners and that drive meaningful student engagement and growth.
- Curriculum & Program Development: Guide the design and ongoing refinement of academic programming and curriculum to ensure both program efficacy and the highest possible level of student engagement.
- Student Learning Experience: Enhance the student learning experience to make it more engaging while better preparing students for college and career.
- Tutorial Pathways Implementation: Lead the implementation of the Tutorial Pathways initiative and related programs, providing highly individualized and scaffolded learning experiences from our least to most developed students, and consistently fostering increased independence on their journey toward becoming self-actualized learners.
- Faculty Development & Mentorship: Oversee the teaching and mentoring of a faculty of approximately 125 through a team of Program Directors, Department Heads, Instructional Coaches/Beacons, the Director of Academic Operations, and coordinators of new initiatives.
- Technology Integration: Provide the vision for integrating assistive and emerging technologies across the High School to best enable both students and faculty, ensuring Landmark remains at the forefront of innovation in LBLD education.
- Organizational Clarity: Streamline and clarify the High School organization to allow for easier and more consistent communications around each student’s experience, while making faculty collaboration far simpler and more innovative.
- Boarding Community Support: Partner with residential leadership to ensure that academic support structures, study expectations, and learning resources extend effectively into the boarding program, supporting the unique needs of students who live on campus. The DL is a member of the HS campus leadership team, and shares in all facets of residential life leadership with the other members of the high school senior team.
- Cross-Campus Partnership: Collaborate closely with the Dean of Learning at the Elementary/Middle School to ensure developmental continuity and alignment across the full Landmark experience.
Collaborates Closely With
- Dean of Leadership Development & Recruitment
- Dean of Learning, Elementary/Middle School
- Director of Student Progress & Performance
- Director of Outreach
- High School Dean of Students
- High School Dean of Engagement & Culture
- Director of Enrollment Management
Direct Reports
- Director of Comprehensive Literacy
- Director of Academic Operations and Systems
- Math, Science, and Elective Department Heads
- Instructional Leadership Team (ILT)
- Task Force and Special Initiative Leaders
Qualifications
- Education: Master’s degree required; relevant Massachusetts licensure preferred
- Experience: Extensive experience in High School educational leadership, ideally in settings supporting dyslexic learners
- Program Leadership: Proven background in leading organizations through rapid program development and fostering a culture of continued professional development.
- Technology: Demonstrated leadership in technology integration and supporting faculty through the adoption and implementation of emerging technologies.
To Apply
Interested applicants should submit a cover letter providing an overview of why they are the right person to be the academic leader of one of the world’s most highly regarded schools for supporting students with language-based learning differences, along with a current resume and a reference list including a variety of contacts — specifically, contact information for two of their three most recent direct supervisors or school heads. References will not be contacted until mutually agreed upon.
Please submit materials to Sue Madden, Director of Human Resources, at smadden@landmarkschool.org.
The expected salary range for this position is $90,000 - $125,000 annually. Final compensation will be determined based on the candidate’s skills, relevant experience, education, and alignment with Landmark School’s pay framework for internal equity. In addition to salary, Landmark offers a comprehensive benefits package for eligible employees.
Landmark School does not discriminate on the basis of race, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, homelessness, color, national origin, gender, gender identity, genetic information, disability, sex, or age in treatment or employment at Landmark, admission or access to Landmark, or any other aspect of the educational programs and activities that Landmark operates. Landmark is required by Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1975, and their respective implementing regulations not to discriminate in such a manner. Inquiries may be referred to the Human Resources Office at Landmark or the Office for Civil Rights, United States DOE or Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination.
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