Learning Support Specialist

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Posted: 25-Mar-25

Location: Park City, Utah

Type: Full Time

Salary: Competitive with local market.

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Salary Details

Park City Day School has a transparent compensation model normed against the NAIS and NWAIS salary ranges.

Preferred Education

4 Year Degree

Park City Day School is growing! Join our dedicated team of educators.

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.
  
  

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.

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
• Outdoor Education experience is a plus.
• Experience with WIDA assessment is a plus.
  
  

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About Park City Day School

Park City Day School is an intimate, community-minded preschool through 8th grade independent school located on a sprawling eleven-acre campus in the world-class resort community of Park City, Utah. We fulfill our mission and achieve our vision through a connected community, highly-engaging project-based curriculum, and programming in the arts, language, outdoor education, and a social emotional learning. A full member of NAIS and grounded in best practices, Park City Day School is also accredited by NWAIS (The Northwest Association of Independent Schools) and a member of the Round Square consortium of 270 schools from around the world.

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