Educational Consultant - Beverly, United States - Landmark School

Description

Educational Consultant

Landmark School Outreach Program

About the Organization:

Landmark School's mission is to empower students with dyslexia and other specific learning disabilities (SLDs) to reach their educational and social potential through an exemplary school program complemented by assessment, research, outreach, and training.

Building on Landmark School's proven model, the Landmark School Outreach Program (Outreach) was established in 1977.

Outreach's mission is to empower students with SLDs by offering educators meaningful and effective professional development grounded in theory and practice.

Outreach currently partners with 75 schools and 5,000 educators—public and independent schools and educators.

Outreach supports schools' and teachers' efforts to design instruction to help students access the curriculum and build skills in each of the four domains of language:
listening, speaking, reading, and writing.

Outreach seeks to help educators enhance their instruction of students with SLD through three program components: 1) Online Learning; 2) Summer Institutes; and 3) School and District Partnerships.


About the Position:


Primary Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with administrators, specialists, and teachers in different schools and

districts.

• Ability to strategically guide the development of and expand a district partnership over at

least three years with the responsibility.

• Informally observe lessons and provide feedback (nonevaluative) for a teacher's

professional growth and students' success.

• Provide jobembedded informal professional learning beyond the coaching responsibility. Develop staff members' knowledge, skills, attitudes, and behaviors through professional development on a variety of topics.
• Develop and facilitate professional development workshops (in person and remote), as

needed, for leaders and teachers.

• Submit monthly coaching and professional development hours, mileage reports, and other pertinent data/documentation.
• Teach a 5day graduate course each July.

Requirements:

• Master's degree in special education, reading, or another educationrelated field (e.g.

speech-language pathology).

• At least 10 years of successful special education teaching and/or special education

administrative experience is strongly preferred.

• At least 5 years of experience teaching reading at the elementary level and/or to

struggling adolescent readers is strongly preferred.

• A minimum of two years of teaching experience at Landmark School is preferred.
• Demonstrated ability to conduct and facilitate effective presentations, both inperson and virtually.

aimswebPlus, teacher-generated assessments) and formal (e.g. CTOPP-2, WIAT-III,

KTEA-3, GORT-5) literacy assessments.

• Demonstrated leadership qualities and strong interpersonal skills, including giving and

receiving constructive feedback.

• Demonstrated knowledge of specific learning disabilities, reading and ELA assessments,

and reading intervention programs.

• Willing to travel, including to remote locations, when travel conditions are safe.
• Knowledge of Microsoft Office and/or Google Suite is a plus.

Benefits:

This is a 10-month position averaging 40 hours per week. Salary and benefits are

competitive and commensurate with experience.


Deadline:
Friday, May 31, 2024.

Job Types:
Full-time, Part-time


Benefits:

• 401(k)
• 401(k)

matching

• Dental insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Flexible spending account
• Health insurance
• Health savings account
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Parental leave
• Professional development assistance
• Retirement plan
• Vision insurance

Schedule:

• Day shift

Work Location:
Hybrid remote in Beverly, MA 01915