2025-2026 Learning Specialist

Learning Specialist

Job Description

FLSA Status: Exempt

(12 Month Position)

MISSION

Faithful to Catholic Tradition and to our Dominican heritage of scholarship and service, Bishop Lynch High School promotes the development of the total person by bringing together a diverse community in a rigorous, college preparatory environment where students are taught to strive for excellence, seek truth, and work for justice in the world.

SUMMARY

The Bishop Lynch Learning Specialist is responsible for promoting students’ academic success and personal development by implementing research-based strategies to support all students. Reporting to the Director of Teaching and Learning, the Learning Specialist establishes and maintains cooperative working relationships with students, teachers, staff, and parents, through meaningful, supportive and frequent communication regarding all students, with a special emphasis on students with learning differences. A Learning Specialist is responsible for the implementation of the goals of Catholic education as outlined in The Holy See’s Teaching on Catholic Schools (Archbishop Michael Miller):

• 
  Inspired by a Supernatural Vision
• Founded on a Christian Anthropology
• Animated by Communion and Community
• Imbued with a Catholic Worldview
• Sustained by Gospel Witness

Qualified candidates will be driven and inspired by the mission of Catholic schools to form young men and women in a high school setting “who will be good citizens of the world, loving God and neighbor and enriching society with the leaven of the gospel, and who will also be good citizens of the world to come, thus fulfilling their destiny to become saints” (Miller, p. 20).

JOB EXPECTATIONS Qualified candidates will be able to perform the following duties at an exemplary level:

• 
  Receive and review psycho-educational evaluations for potential students, incoming students and existing students with diagnosed learning differences.
• Use information obtained from the psycho-educational evaluation and classroom observations to develop written recommendations to improve student engagement and learning; consult with curriculum personnel, administrators, counselors, and teachers to help accommodate classroom practices for students.
• Host accommodations meetings with incoming students and parents to review the Student Accommodations Plan; communicate with current students and parents as learning needs change or testing is updated.
• Collaborate with other school personnel to create and maintain a continuum of services to support academic goals for students (guidance, health and wellness, etc.).
• Maintain accurate and up-to-date data of student academic sessions, student goals progress and notes.
• Establish and maintain effective communication with students, parents, teachers and administrators
• Participate in staff professional development activities.
• Coach teachers as needed on accommodations for students with unique learning needs.
• Collaborate with the school's college advisors to transition student support plans to the college and university setting.
• Observe students in the classroom.
• Meet students with accommodation plans periodically to build executive function skills.
• Coordinate the Learning Center daily testing schedule.
• Submit Learning Center attendance logs quarterly.
• Communicate, facilitate, and supervise extended time testing for Fall and Spring exams.
• Communicate with Dallas ISD personnel regarding special services provided for qualifying students.
• Design and lead professional development opportunities for staff to improve student engagement and learning.
• Participate in outside professional development activities to improve skills related to job responsibilities.
• Remain current on ethical and professional standards, as well as all applicable federal, state, and local special education laws, guidelines and procedures.
• Manage all aspects of accommodations for PSAT/SAT (College Board) and ACT testing for students with learning plans, including the application process, communication, proctoring as needed and written appeals.
• Perform other duties as assigned by the Assistant Principal for Academics and the Director of Teaching and Learning.

SKILLS REQUIRED

Qualified candidates will be able to demonstrate the following skills at an exemplary level:

• 
  Exemplify the core values of a Bishop Lynch faculty member: Faithful, Caring, Dedicated.
• Commit to being a supportive, respectful, and energetic colleague.
• Serve as a positive role model for students and support the school’s mission statement.
• Lead with poise, empathy, tact, and diplomacy.
• Participate as an active member of the Bishop Lynch community.
• Actively support the house system by serving as a mentor or co-mentor.
• Demonstrate exceptional organizational skills.
• Demonstrate exceptional verbal and written communication skills.
• Value and respect the diverse cultural differences among members of the Bishop Lynch community.
• Remain flexible, adaptable, and open to new learning and growth.
• Manage student behavior while maintaining a professional manner.
• Discern among competing priorities, separating what is essential from what is non-essential.
• Understand learning differences and apply corresponding intervention strategies and accommodations.
• Apply knowledge of child and adolescent development.
• Apply knowledge of curriculum and instruction.
• Maintain proficiency in the use of instructional technology, standard Office software and Blackboard (or similar LMS).
• Minimum of three years of classroom teaching experience

PREFERRED

• 
  Master's degree in special education or related field
• Experience working with students with learning differences, in special education or as a learning specialist
• Working knowledge of Universal Design for Learning
• Catholic high school teaching experience

Interested candidates should email their cover letter and resume to resume@bishoplynch.org and submit a formal application by clicking “Apply for this job!”.