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About the Role
Mary McDowell Friends School (MMFS), a K-12 Quaker school in Brooklyn, New York, dedicated to the success of students with learning disabilities, seeks an engaging and grounded leader—both an accomplished administrator and a deeply knowledgeable educator—to serve as its next Upper School Assistant Director. This role is the division’s second leader, serving on both the Upper School Administrative team and the school’s senior leadership team. The Assistant Director will lead the division's work on learning disabilities, support students' academic and social-emotional experience, strengthen faculty professional growth, partner with families, and ensure smooth daily operations. The position also involves teaching and serving as the building's administrative leader in the Director's absence.
Responsibilities
- Serve as a visible, trusted presence in students' lives through daily interactions and engagement across academic and co-curricular life.
- Partner with deans, counselors, and therapists to support each student's social, emotional, and academic growth.
- Help students understand how they learn.
- Elevate expertise in learning disabilities across the faculty by building and leading a robust, in-house professional development program.
- Partner with the Academic Dean and department clerks to weave differentiation, accommodations, and LD-informed practice into curriculum and instruction.
- Lead the development of a consistent, reliable standardized assessment program for the Upper School.
- Champion and support the Upper School’s speech-language pathologists and learning specialists, deepening their collaboration and connection to classroom teachers.
- Cultivate a culture of support and help shape how the division recruits, hires, and onboards new teachers.
- Deepen partnership with families through proactive communication and parent education on learning disabilities, the school's approach, and each student's path forward.
- Serve as a trusted, knowledgeable voice for the broader community.
- Partner with the Upper School Director in shaping the division’s vision and future planning.
- Understand and participate in all school-wide diversity and equity initiatives.
- Examine administrative practice through the lens of race, identity, equity, and privilege.
- Provide an equitable framework for leadership decisions.
- Support a school culture that allows for social identities to feel welcome.
- Teach, engaging with the full arc of upper school life.
Requirements
- Master’s degree in education, speech-language pathology, or a related field.
- A minimum of five years of direct experience teaching students with learning disabilities.
- Previous experience leading teacher training programs that develop adult understanding of students with learning disabilities.
- A minimum of three to five years of demonstrated leadership experience, including supervisory experience.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- The ability to be held accountable for the overall quality of the program.
- Submit a cover letter indicating the candidate’s particular interest in and qualifications for the position.
- Submit a current resume.
- Submit a statement of educational philosophy.
- Provide the names, email addresses, and telephone numbers of five references, including at least two recent supervisors.
- References should speak to your ability to be an effective educator and administrator, to work successfully with children, and to work collaboratively and collegially with adults.
- Indicate your relationship with each reference.
Skills
- Expertise in learning disabilities
- Organizational steadiness
- Leadership
- Administration
- Teaching
- Collaboration
- Communication (written and verbal)
- Understanding of students with learning disabilities
- Assessment program development
- Family partnership
- Diversity and equity
- Strategic planning
Location
- Brooklyn, New York
Work Type
- Full-time
- Exempt
- Twelve-month position
Experience Level
- Minimum of five years of direct experience teaching students with learning disabilities
- Minimum of three to five years of demonstrated leadership experience, including supervisory experience
Education Level
- Master’s degree in education, speech-language pathology, or a related field
Salary/Compensations
- $140,000-$165,000
About the Company
- Mary McDowell Friends School is a K-12 college preparatory program dedicated to the success of students with learning disabilities.
- Grounded in the Quaker values of equality, integrity, and social responsibility, we cultivate a diverse community in which each student can reach his or her full potential.
- Our specialized teaching methodologies and challenging curricula empower students to become academic achievers, creative thinkers, and contributing members of a global society.
- For over 40 years, MMFS has been guided by a simple and powerful conviction: that special education is excellent education.
- Across three divisions, more than 400 bright students with dyslexia, ADHD, language processing disorders, and other learning disabilities find a community built around their strengths and potential.
- Small classes, specialized teaching, and a rigorous college preparatory program sit alongside a vibrant life in the arts, athletics, and travel, all in service of the school's promise to reveal brilliance in every student.
Equal Opportunity
- Employment at Mary McDowell Friends School is based solely on qualifications and competence for a particular position, without regard to race, color, ethnic origin, nationality, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, veteran status, disability, familial status, or any other category protected by the law.
- Mary McDowell Friends School’s policy of non-discrimination extends to all employment practices including but not limited to hiring, transfer, promotion, training, compensation, benefits, layoffs, and termination.