SUMMARY

Hathaway Brown seeks a full-time Upper School Learning Specialist for the 2025-2026 school year.  The ideal applicant will have experience facilitating academic, behavioral, functional, and social-emotional support for students with diverse learning needs. The Learning Specialist provides individualized instruction and serves as a division-wide resource for parents and faculty. In addition, the Learning Specialist spearheads educational testing, interprets evaluations, develops accommodation plans, and administers professional development in areas related to student achievement. As Hathaway Brown School is the most diverse independent all-girls school in Ohio, we are committed to building a diverse, equitable, and inclusive learning community through our hiring practices, professional development, curricular and extracurricular programming, and school culture. Click here to be directed to our full DEI Statement.

We are searching for an educator who can:

• Develop and implement effective and engaging individual and small group instruction to support a wide range of learning needs.
• Collaborate constructively with colleagues and serve as a resource for faculty as they develop effective classroom practices for student learning. 
• Respond proactively to meet the social, emotional, and intellectual needs of girls in an upper school setting.
• Connect with students with a knowledge of adolescent development; build positive relationships with students and their families.
• Manage and organize multiple projects simultaneously with excellent attention to detail.
• Maintain confidentiality and communicate with discretion. 
• Communicate effectively and proactively with students, colleagues, and families.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Manage all aspects of individualized learning accommodation plans, including development, implementation, instruction, support, supervision, and monitoring

• Coordinate accommodations for standardized tests (PSAT 8/9, PSAT/NMSQT, ACT, SAT, and AP) and school-wide mid-year and final exams

• Identify the learning needs of struggling students to support classroom instruction

• Instruct students in a large group, small group, and one-on-one settings in learning, organization, communication, and executive function

• Administer educational assessments and interpret evaluation results

• Manage division-wide tutoring and support services

• Conference with parents and faculty across grade levels and divisions

• Provide short-term intervention to students as needed

• Attend division, department chair, and school-wide meetings

• Work closely with the Upper School Administrative  and College Counseling teams 

• Serve as a member of the Student Services and Learning Services teams

• Serve as testing coordinator for the College Board and ACT to complete applications for accommodations and administer exams to students with approved accommodations

EDUCATION

• A Master’s degree in Special Education or School Psychology and experience working in a secondary school setting are required for this position. 
• Minimum of five years’ experience as an Intervention/Learning Specialist, School Psychologist, or related field.

About Hathaway Brown School

Hathaway Brown is a school for girls, and it's so much more. It’s a school for scientists and writers and artists and budding entrepreneurs. It’s a training ground for athletes and dancers and musicians and actresses. It’s a place where young people are empowered to ask questions, challenge conventions and explore opportunities. And everything we do is guided by our motto: Non Scholae Sed Vitae Discimus - We Learn Not For School, But For Life. Since 1876, HB has given students the tools they need to confidently embrace all the possibilities that exist for them beyond our Shaker Heights campus. The faculty’s dedication to hands-on experiential learning at all levels can be observed every day in the classrooms, libraries, science labs, theatres, dance studios and art rooms, as well as on the athletic fields. In addition to the superior academic preparation they receive, at every turn HB students are inspired to become the best people they can be. We encourage girls of all ages and boys in our Early Childhood program to take chances, stretch their minds, work together, and pick themselves up and start over when they need to. The results of this philosophical approach are both ...astounding and humbling. Through the years, we’ve amassed more than our fair share of awards and accolades in every discipline you can imagine. Students continually perform with notable distinction on high-level tests and in the rate at which they’re accepted to their first-choice, top-tier colleges and universities. But no matter how well they fare by these measures, all of our students are able to apply what they’ve learned in the classroom to their lives. They know how to test theories, challenge conventions, find beauty in overlooked places, implement creative solutions, and lend a hand where it’s needed. Wherever they go from here, HB graduates bring strong character, unparalleled intelligence, unbridled enthusiasm, and an unquenchable thirst for knowledge along with them.

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