Job Opportunities

Part-Time Learning Specialist with a Literacy Focus

Waldorf School of Lexington is currently accepting applications for a part-time Learning Specialist for the 2025-2026 academic year. This onsite position has an expected start date of December 1 or earlier and offers a salary range of $29,000-$35,000 commensurate with experience. This Learning Specialist role is part of the school’s Student Support Department (SSD) and includes collaboration with the class teachers to support students with identified learning challenges, with an emphasis on language-based learning disabilities.

Responsibilities

  • Identifying and supporting students who are struggling to engage in the curriculum as a result of a learning difference. 

  • Developing learning goals for each student who receives direct support. 

  • Preparing daily lesson plans and presenting tutoring sessions as scheduled

  • Evaluating student work and providing ongoing student support and guidance

  • Assessing the developmental and learning needs of students (ongoing)

  • Assisting teachers in differentiating classroom instructions and lesson plans to meet the needs of all learners

  • Cultivating and addressing student behavior and social skills

  • Maintaining a safe and orderly learning environment

  • Teaching (co-teaching and/or assisting) each grade level based on the school’s curriculum standards as needed

  • Cultivate and maintain a professional relationship and excellent communication with families

  • Work professionally and collegially with faculty and staff, and perform classroom and sectional administrative duties and school committee assignments.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in Special Education and/or Literacy Instruction

  • Experience in and training with providing multisensory reading instruction for students (Orton-Gillingham preferred)

  • Deep knowledge of learning differences and effective techniques for working with struggling students

  • Computer competency, including word processing, email, and Google drive 

  • Ability to communicate effectively and appropriately with colleagues and parents/guardians both verbally and in writing

  • Ability to work independently as well as part of a collaborative school environment

    Physical Expectations
    The Learning Specialist spends much of the day standing or moving about the classroom. Working with students may entail kneeling, squatting, stooping, and bending from a 50-70 degrees at the waist on an occasional to frequent basis, depending on the grade level and activity. Physical objects of up to 25 pounds may need to be lifted or moved in the classroom to accommodate classroom activities. The Learning Specialist must climb stairs into, within, and out of the school building while supervising students. Outdoor recess and other activities may require walking on uneven surfaces on the school’s campus and its play yards.

To Apply: Please email a cover letter, resume, and three references (written or provide contact information) in a single pdf to hiring@thewaldorfschool.org.

Working at WSL

Setting
WSL is situated 12 miles west of Boston in historic Lexington, Massachusetts—an area rich with culture, historical significance, and natural beauty. Abutting our campus is a 185-acre nature preserve that features a sports field, several play gardens, a vegetable garden, and beehives.

Pedagogy and Program
WSL provides an arts-integrated academic education. We offer a curriculum rich in the humanities and sciences as well as practical and fine arts, grounded in the pedagogical principles and methods of Rudolf Steiner. Cultivating critical thinking, creativity, and perseverance in our students, we strive to instill an enthusiasm for learning, skills in collaboration, and the confidence to engage in a changing world.

WSL serves nearly 200 students from preschool through grade 8. The school offers a challenging academic program, provided by faculty who understand students' cognitive, emotional, and physical developmental stages. Our educational philosophy and culture instill in students respect for themselves, for each other, and the living world around them. WSL prepares students for a lifetime of engaged, self-directed learning.

Diversity
Waldorf School of Lexington is committed to an ongoing process of learning, listening and deepening our understanding of equity, inclusion, and justice. With reverence, we strive to create, embrace and support a diverse, equitable, inclusive, and just community where everyone is respected, connected and valued. We welcome students, families, faculty, and staff of all races, ethnicities, cultural and religious heritages, socioeconomic backgrounds, geographic origins, gender identities, sexual orientations, and family structures. We reject discrimination in all forms and embrace the principles of common humanity expressed by the founder of Waldorf education, Rudolf Steiner. WSL has adopted the position statement of the Association of Waldorf Schools of North America (AWSNA).

Accreditation
The Waldorf School of Lexington is accredited by AWSNA and NEASC (the New England Association of Schools and Colleges), and are members of AISNE (Association of Independent Schools of New England), and NAIS (National Association of Independent Schools).