Learning Specialist & All-School Learning Support Coordinator

POSITION STATEMENT

Learning Specialist & All-School Learning Support Coordinator

Start Date:

August 24, 2026

Brooklyn Friends School (BFS), a thriving Early Childhood-12 grade school located in vibrant Downtown Brooklyn, seeks a Learning Specialist & All-School Learning Support Coordinator within a dynamic community of colleagues. Founded in 1867, Brooklyn Friends School’s pillars – diversity, equity & belonging; global social impact; and wholeness & well-being – 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.

• Reports to and collaborates directly with the Head of Middle School
• 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 wellbeing team to ensure a student’s social-emotional wellbeing and academic needs are communicated and supported appropriately.
• Partner with teachers to ensure proper and appropriate testing accommodations for all school assessments.
• Provide academic support to students with evaluations through skill-building, metacognitive learning strategies, and direct curricular teaching.
• When appropriate, identify students with learning needs, facilitate their evaluation, design, share, and help teachers and students use an individualized Evaluation Summary, or Strategy Letter, which may include a behavioral modification plan or a reentry plan after a medical leave or other extended absence.
• Work in partnership with the Department of Education to evaluate students and meet the support needs outlined in student IEPs.
• Partner with parents to discuss their child’s learning needs and develop individualized support plans.
• Coordinate with outside programs through which students may obtain course credit to ensure that their academic requirements and needs are met.
• Collaborate with support personnel and outside providers to ensure students are adequately supported in and out of school.
• Promote equity and inclusion for students in all classrooms.
• Collaborate with the School Admissions Committee to assess applicants and ensure each newly-admitted student requiring resources is appropriately supported.
• As necessary, collaborate across the school to support inter-community events, traditions, and mission-aligned student experiences, especially in the case of identity works as it connects to neurodivergence.
• Teach a course or courses focused on cognition, executive function, and learning skills to students.
• Perform other duties as assigned by the Head of Middle School.

• Reports to and collaborates directly with the Assistant Head of School for Educational Program & Professional Growth
• Partners with academic leaders of the school to facilitate and coordinate professional development for colleagues pertaining to learning differentiation and support.
• Partners with other student life…