PART-TIME MIDDLE SCHOOL LEARNING SPECIALIST

Our Mission is to inspire and develop courageous leaders who think independently, work collaboratively, learn joyfully, and champion change.

We seek a part-time learning specialist starting August 2025. At Seattle Girls’ School*, we use an experiential, joy-filled, inquiry-based approach. We seek teachers who are collaborative, flexible, and love learning and doing alongside middle school girls and gender expansive students. Teachers work collaboratively to write original curriculum (no textbooks here!) that is project-based and hands-on, and integrates anti-bias work into everything they do. This part-time learning specialist position (30 hours/week, 0.75 FTE) is an opportunity to support students and teachers in making the most of a transformative SGS experience.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities:

• Build upon the existing academic culture of SGS to support teachers in providing innovative, motivating, and relevant learning experiences for middle school girls and gender expansive students.  
• Engage students in differentiated and meaningful learning through culturally responsive teaching practices.
• Write and manage individualized learning plans that target specific curricular/learning needs and outline necessary classroom and testing accommodations.
• Interpret educational evaluations and conduct student observations to identify helpful strategies and accommodations.
• Act as case manager to all students who have a learning plan, providing one-on-one or small group support related to study skills, executive functioning, and personal empowerment. 
• Lead goal setting meetings once a year with learning plan families. 
• Oversee academic accommodations for students with learning plans in the classroom and on standardized tests.
• Provide ongoing consultation and referral for new testing and retesting, tutors, and other supports. 
• Assume an active role in grade-level student support meetings and meet regularly with the Dean of Students and Assistant Head of School.
• Collaborate with outside service providers, including speech and language therapists, occupational therapists, tutors, therapists, and psychologists to support students.
• Provide consultation to classroom teachers regarding classroom accommodations, instructional modifications, adaptive equipment, and other similar instructional interventions to meet the needs of students with divergent learning needs.
• Work with classroom teachers and other specialists to identify and support gifted students, providing appropriate academic challenges and enrichment opportunities.
• Teach a once-weekly class in the fall term to support all 7th grade students with study skills, executive functioning, and personal empowerment. 
• Support the admissions process by attending Open Houses, meeting with prospective families, and reviewing applications for students with learning support needs.
• Beyond your curricular responsibilities, actively engage around the larger mission of SGS to develop students’ leadership and their understanding of social justice.
• Model a growth mindset by learning alongside students and colleagues.
• Engage in continuous personal identity development work, specifically in regards to race and privilege, and support students in their own learning.
• Provide a safe and active environment that will benefit each SGS student.
• Other duties as needed.

Qualifications:

• B.A./B.S. is required
• Master’s Degree in Special Education or a related field preferred 
• Classroom teaching experience in upper elementary and/or middle school grades preferred
• Experience with middle school-aged students
• Experience with student support for learning differences, especially related to reading, math, and attention/executive functioning
• Experience reading and analyzing educational testing evaluations
• A high level of cultural competence and sensitivity to the needs of middle school-aged girls and gender expansive students

Compensation:

Salary and benefit package commensurate with experience. The annual salary range for our full-time faculty is $66,800-$88,500. SGS uses a salary scale that takes years of experience and degrees attained into account. All faculty are compensated according to the scale and dependent on those two data points.

To Apply: 

Please submit a letter of interest and resume to: apply@seattlegirlsschool.org.  Questions welcome via email.

***Seattle Girls’ School is an Equal Opportunity Employer***

*Seattle Girls' School ("SGS") does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national or ethnic origin, sexual orientation, religion, disability, family composition, or other legally protected status in administration of its educational policies, admissions policies, employment policies, scholarship and loan programs, and athletic and other school administered programs. SGS admits female students, regardless of the gender they were assigned at birth, and non binary students who were assigned female at birth.

Learn more about our school at: http://www.seattlegirlsschool.org/

About Seattle Girls' School

Our Mission is to inspire and develop courageous leaders who think independently, work collaboratively, learn joyfully, and champion change. SGS is a 5th-8th grade middle school that admits female students, regardless of the gender they were assigned at birth, and non binary students who were assigned female at birth. Learning at SGS is joyful and inspiring, connects the personal with the academic, and culminates in transformative presentations where students share their knowledge and respond to issues in front of authentic, real-world audiences. We intentionally build a community of students and educators with growth mindsets, fortified by families and other partners who also uplift the students. Students at SGS develop a positive sense of self which includes the ability to understand and value the identities of others. SGS empowers every student with multiple opportunities to practice their leadership, advocate for themselves and others, and take action to create the world they want.

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