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Lower School Director of Educational Resource Programs
PROFESSIONAL QUALITIES
- Strong understanding of current research related to learning, pedagogy, and intervention strategies
- Demonstrated leadership experience, including the management of people
- Demonstrated experience in supporting diverse learners
- Demonstrated experience supporting teachers and parents of struggling students
- Demonstrated skills in human relations with students, parents, and peers
- Possess a comprehensive understanding of contemporary reading research and how it informs literacy development, instruction and remediation
- Well-versed in the acquisition of mathematics skills and intervention strategies
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
Supervisory Responsibilities
- Communicate policy and procedures to tutors
- Schedule students with tutors
- Ensure that tutors are up-to-date with current best practices in intervention and have the materials necessary to best serve the students they work with
- Support tutors in individualizing instruction, assessing, and understanding student learning profiles, and problem-solving persistent learning challenges.
- Provide monthly tutor billing information to Human Resources Manager
Student Support
- Act as case manager for and monitor the progress of all students who are in the ERP.
- Serve as a member of the Student Support Team with the Lower School Administrative Team and Lower School Counselor
- Partner with teachers to support individual students' academic growth. Provide teachers with strategies and act as an instructional coach, as needed.
- Provide testing for students as needed and report testing results to teachers, parents and the Student Support Team
- Provide summaries of psychoeducational reports for teachers and ensure that teachers read them
- Work with the Early Childhood Director and the Lower School Director of Studies to monitor classroom accommodations for ERP students
- Visit classrooms to become familiar with the curriculum in all grade levels and to observe students to identify and follow up on student needs
- Partner with the Lower School Director of Studies and the Lower School Counselor to facilitate Strategy Share Meetings with homeroom teachers in 2nd-4th grade
- Monitor Lower School Student Assessment Data and attend Data Analysis meetings to identify necessary tiers of intervention for kindergarten and 1st grade students.
- Partner with the Lower School Reading Specialist
- Work on sectioning of students annually
- Be a resource for families
- Collaborate with teachers and tutors to provide annual recommendations for summer and school year tutoring.
- Coordinate with other divisional ERP Directors to ensure continuity of philosophies, policies, and procedures, to discuss all-school ERP needs and trends, to facilitate data transfer during transition years, etc.
Outside Providers
- Facilitate meetings to review testing reports with outside psychologists, parents, teachers and Early Childhood Director/Lower School Director of Studies
- Work closely with contracted Speech-Language Pathologists and Occupational Therapists on campus to coordinate communication with parents, teachers, and school administrators.
- Summarize psychoeducational reports
- Maintain current and accurate digital records regarding student evaluations.
- Facilitate communication between classroom teachers, ERP tutors, and outside support
LEADERSHIP RESPONSIBILITIES
- Prioritize division needs and report to Head of Lower School and Assistant Head of School
- Develop positive relationships with outside professionals
- Demonstrate ability to educate colleagues about learning disabilities and differentiation for students
- Serve as a resource to faculty
- Assist in the hiring of tutors
- Partner with ERP, LS Administration, teachers, and families to ensure students are successfully making appropriate growth
- Ability to communicate effectively and honestly while demonstrating care and compassion for students and families
