Grades 9-12 Coordinator of Learning Services

McLean School (mcleanschool.org), a K-12 co-educational independent school in Potomac, Maryland, seeks applicants for a Grades 9-12 Coordinator of Learning Services to begin in August.

McLean School has for 70 years been helping bright students realize their full potential by providing a comprehensive college preparatory program that emphasizes small classes and differentiated instruction. We embrace both traditional learners and ones with dyslexia, ADHD, and executive functioning challenges. Through our Abilities Model®, we recognize and teach to individual strengths, responding to areas of challenge but never defining students by them—all within a program that incorporates challenging academics, championship sports teams, performing and visual arts, robotics, service learning, and more. McLean School is proud of its caring and collaborative community of highly trained and experienced educators.

This position reports directly to the Head of Upper School and collaborates with your Learning Services colleague in the office. They will work closely with McLean School counselors, college counselors, faculty, students, and parents. The ideal candidate possesses a minimum of a Bachelor’s Degree in Education or a related field. We seek an organized, patient, creative, and flexible professional who has an appreciation for students with mild to moderate learning challenges and aims to help foster self-confidence in our students as they learn to advocate and prepare for success in college and beyond.

Job Responsibilities

• Foster positive and productive relationships with members of the student body.
• Create and update Student Learning Profiles. 
• Develop and implement executive functioning instruction in Study Hall periods and through the School’s Advisory Program.
• Serve as one of the School’s SSD Coordinators (College Board) and Testing Accommodations Coordinators (ACT).
• Collaborate with the Upper School administration and faculty to ensure educational best practices are being implemented to support student learning.
• Manage and scaffold the acute educational support needs on a rotating basis.
• Partner with the College Counseling team to support students and parents in the standardized testing process.
• Support PSAT administration.
• Maintain and update resources on learning, best practices, strategies, and accommodations for students, faculty, and the community.
• Coordinate logistics for final exam accommodations. 
• Provide test or quiz accommodations that cannot be administered in the classroom.
• Communicate with teachers and outside professionals to provide updated student forms for psychological or neuropsychological assessments.
• Serve on the following committees:
  • Upper School Student Support Team
  • Upper School Admission Committee
  • K-12 Coordinators of Learning Services

Desired Skills and Personal Characteristics

Among many attributes, successful candidates will have:

• A steadfast belief that every student can be successful and a desire to get to know each student in the division. 
• An understanding of how students with dyslexia, academic anxiety, ADHD, and organizational issues learn and how best to support them.
• Be familiar with and passionate about individualized approaches that teach to each student’s strengths.
• Be experienced in the logistics of PSAT, AP, SAT, and ACT accommodations and testing.
• Possess cursory knowledge of how learning support measures are implemented in secondary and postsecondary educational institutions.
• Ensure McLean’s Abilities Model® is a foremost priority. 
• Be open-minded and eager to learn and adopt McLean’s uniquely successful ways of working with students’ academic and social-emotional needs.

Salary Range: $70,000-$90,000

McLean School is an equal opportunity employer and considers all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, ancestry, national origin, age, sex, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, family responsibilities, disability, genetic status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. If you need reasonable accommodation due to a disability during recruitment, please contact Director of Executive Support and Recruitment, Robin Speller.

Interested applicants should complete an online Application and upload their Cover Letter and Résumé.

Salary : $70,000 - $90,000