Middle School Learning Specialist

POSITION STATEMENT Middle School Learning Specialist

Start Date:

August 24, 2026

Brooklyn Friends School (BFS), a thriving Early Childhood-12 grade school located in vibrant Downtown Brooklyn, seeks a Middle School Learning Specialist within a dynamic community of colleagues (BFS uses the all-inclusive term, colleagues, to refer to all rather than one that delineates faculty/staff). Founded in 1867, Brooklyn Friends School’s pillars – diversity, equity & belonging; global social impact; and wholeness & wellbeing – serve as guideposts for our action-oriented collective work.

Our school’s history has been illustrious and reflective of the expansive nature of human experiences. Guided by our mission, BFS provides a dynamic, diverse, and robust social/emotional environment and academic program that cultivates compassionate, intellectually curious, and confident changemakers. As a school, we affirm that human diversity includes, but is not limited to: race, ethnicity, culture, national origin, religion, gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, age, socioeconomic class, family structure and physical ability, as well as diversity of thought, talents, and learning style.

Brooklyn Friends School does not discriminate based on these characteristics or any characteristic prohibited by law and provides reasonable accommodations to otherwise qualified colleagues and applicants. If you need an accommodation related to any part of the hiring process, please send an email to hiring. This short video gives you a glimpse into our contemporary experience.

Brooklyn Friends School seeks a creative, dynamic, and equity-focused Middle School Learning Specialist to join our Student Support Team. Rooted in the school’s Quaker mission and values, this educator will foster a joyful, inclusive, and rigorous learning environment for students in grades 5–8, supporting their growth as empathetic, expressive, and socially conscious individuals.

The Middle School Learning Specialist will support the academic progress and achievement of students in the Middle School Learning Community (MSLC) and our classrooms. The Learning Specialist (LS) will help to ensure that all BFS students finish Middle School as self-reliant, confident, resourceful learners, well-equipped to succeed in a rigorous high school environment.

In partnership with the All School Learning Support Coordinator, Middle School Leadership Team, and Student Support Team (SST), the Learning Specialist supports student learning in a dynamic, student-focused, and socially and emotionally responsive academic environment in which teaching for understanding, integrity, and compassion are the guides.

The LS uses a variety of research-based methods to share and practice with students executive functioning skills, foundational mathematics skills, analytical thinking, writing and critical inquiry, as well as assist students with diagnosed learning differences. Additionally, the LS facilitates individual and small group faculty workshops in and out of the classroom to model, partner, and support faculty to differentiate instruction for all students, integrate metacognitive strategies for learning, and design and practice student-centered learning approaches.

• Work in partnership with the All School Learning Support Coordinator, Student Support Team, and Enrollment Management to support student learning for students with evaluations and academic challenges.
• Facilitate learning, support, and collaboration with faculty to enable teachers to differentiate instruction, integrate metacognitive strategies, teach toward mastery, and use student-centered methodologies across all subject areas and grade levels.
• Analyze, summarize, make accessible and constructive for teachers and families information regarding neuropsychological evaluations, psycho educational evaluations, IESPs, and 504 Plans completed in consultation with the Middle School Counselor to ensure a student’s social-emotional wellbeing and academic needs are communicated and supported appropriately.
• Partner with teachers to ensure proper and appropriate…