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About the Role

The Lower School Learning Specialist facilitates an inclusive learning environment by providing direct learning support for students in grades K-5 within the context of a holistic approach to addressing student needs. This role collaborates with the student support team to ensure a coherent and continuous multi-tiered system of support and actively communicates with all stakeholders to foster a joyful and supportive experience for all students.

Responsibilities

Support the Director of Student Support in gathering, updating, and interpreting data on student progress and needs.
Maintain records of student progress and services.
Collaborate with the Director to identify students with emerging or shifting needs and administer initial psycho-educational evaluations.
Collaborate with the Director of Student Support, the student support team, and faculty to create data-informed learning and support plans.
Facilitate student-centered, inclusive processes for regularly updating learning plans.
Provide small group, targeted Tier 2 support in English, constituting at least 20 hours of direct student contact.
Support groups of students during after-school study hall for up to 2 hours per week.
Support students in the development of executive functioning skills.
Support faculty in providing robust tier 1 classroom accommodations through coaching, class visits, and resource sharing.
Foster inclusive physical learning environments.
Complete necessary documentation for accommodations on external standardized testing.
Act as case manager for individual students as assigned.
Communicate consistently with classroom teachers to share current strategies and ensure implementation of learning plans.
Maintain strong lines of communication with families and caregivers, providing progress reports and sharing resources.
Participate in meetings regarding student progress.
Design and deliver professional development for faculty on key areas including differentiation, executive functioning, and core literacy.
Communicate and collaborate with outside evaluators and service providers.
Maintain a strong understanding of current learning support techniques and provide a developmentally-appropriate sequence of research-based strategies.
Chaperone overnight trips as requested.
Participate in the life of the school and perform other duties as assigned.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree and/or professional coursework or certification applicable to the responsibilities of the position.
All prospective staff will be fingerprinted and submit a criminal background check.
Consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Skills

Excellent knowledge of best practices in learning support with grades K-5.
Strong cross-cultural communication skills.
Ability to develop trust with all constituencies.
Team-oriented, collaborative approach.
Desire to work in a fast-paced multilingual environment.
Empathy, patience, and a genuine passion for supporting students’ holistic development.
Growth mindset.
Practice of keeping current with developments in the field.
Expertise in language and literacy development, particularly in a bilingual setting.
Knowledge of French a plus but not required.

Location

San Francisco

Work Type

Full-time
Temporary

Experience Level

Based on education and relevant years of experience

Education Level

Bachelor's degree
Advanced coursework preferred
Professional coursework or certification

Salary/Compensations

$65,153 - $110,975 pro-rated for the length of Leave coverage

About the Company

The International School of San Francisco is a bilingual, multicultural learning community where students learn to navigate the complexities of the world with confidence, empathy, and joy.
Our vibrant urban campus is situated in the heart of the city and serves nearly 1,100 students beginning at age 2 and continuing through grade 12.
Guided by the principles of academic rigor and diversity, The International School of San Francisco offers programs of study in French and English to prepare its graduates for a world in which the ability to think critically and to communicate across cultures is of paramount importance.
Working at The International School of San Francisco opens up a myriad of opportunities both personal and professional.
When minds and cultures from around the world come together, boundless curiosity takes hold; faculty and staff benefit from that deep intellectual engagement and joyful discovery as we live out our values of respect, integrity, inclusion, collaboration, and curiosity.
Each employee is both teacher and learner in our vibrant, multicultural, multilingual school community.

Equal Opportunity

The International School of San Francisco is committed to providing an open, fair, inclusive, non-discriminatory environment for all individuals across differences of race, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, socio-economic status, ethnicity, age, physical ability, or medical condition.
We seek to increase the presence, representation, and inclusion of U.S. historically under-represented people of color, international, bilingual, and bicultural students, faculty, and staff; and, to provide an environment that will attract and retain individuals identified as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning and intersex (LGBTQQI).
Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.