25-26 Learning Support Specialist (New!)

Title: Learning Support Specialist

Position Overview:

Park City Day School, a small, independent PS-Grade 8 school located in Park City, UT, seeks a passionate, creative, and energetic educator to join our team for the 2025-26 school year as a Learning Support Specialist.

Essential Duties:

• Work with the Student Support Coordinator to plan and support students on learning plans within classrooms and through small group instruction.
• Communicate regularly and proactively with students, caregivers, and colleagues, and contribute positively to the overall school culture while fulfilling duties as assigned.
• Collaboratively develop learning plans, host meetings, and communicate progress to families.
• Work within the MTSS system and work directly with Tier 3 students.
• Instruct literacy and math interventions in small groups and through push-in support.
• Help teachers to differentiate the curriculum, screen students, provide consultation and support to faculty.

Qualifications:

• A degree in Special Education or equivalent in experience; Master’s is preferred

• Experience working with students with Language-Based Learning Disabilities in reading and writing as well as math
• Ability to administer basic screenings, progress monitoring, and benchmark testing to gather information about how best to support students and make recommendations for a more comprehensive evaluation when merited
• Experience with direct, explicit, multi-sensory, structured literacy teaching methods (e.g., Orton-Gillingham or Wilson Reading System)
• Proven ability to modify instruction and materials to accommodate various student learning profiles
• Proficiency and interest in technology to support differentiated learning
• Experience providing parents and teachers with guidance and resources
• Experience managing MTSS systems within a school, interest in expanding the MTSS and educating teachers

Personal & Professional Qualities:

• Educational Expertise: PCDS teachers evidence a successful academic background and a mindset for lifelong learning and continuous professional improvement.
• Rapport with Children: PCDS teachers instruct in a broad range of curricular and co-curricular areas; however, the true subject (not object) of a PCDS education is children. PCDS teachers’ ability to connect, both individually and collectively, with children is critical to their success.
• Collegiality: Although the self-confidence and autonomy to plan and lead classes is essential, PCDS teachers collaborate with colleagues and share ideas to ensure that the whole is more than the sum of its parts. In peer groups, successful Park City Day School teachers serve both as contributing followers and respectful leaders.
• Engagement: As invested citizens of a school community and world network, PCDS teachers model the active intellectual and moral engagement necessary for a successful, sustainable society.
• Adaptability: To set a high standard in a world characterized by constant and rapid changes, PCDS teachers adapt creatively in response to institutional and global circumstances, advances in educational technology and innovation in instructional methods.
• "Strive for Five" School Values: Our teachers daily model our five School Values - Integrity, Responsibility, Respect, Teamwork, and Compassion - and actively integrate them into the fabric of our school community through reflective opportunities and other daily “teachable moments.”

To Apply:

Please email a resume, cover letter, and three professional references to jobs@parkcitydayschool.org.