Kohelet Yeshiva High School, a private Modern Orthodox Jewish High School in Lower Merion, PA, seeks a full-time Learning Specialist for the 2023-2024 school year. Candidates should have a background working with students with a wide range of learning differences as well as social and emotional challenges.  We are looking for a reflective candidate who is passionate about teaching and who enjoys working as part of a team in an environment that promotes continuing professional learning.

Desired skills and experience include:

• A degree in education, special education, learning support, or a related field, including TESOL.
• Experience working directly with students on reading and writing support and instruction or on STEM support and instruction.
• Ability to teach a class in English or math focused on skill development and the cultivation of study, organizational, and time management habits
• Ability to provide academic support in the core academic subjects (English, history, science, math), with a focus on reading comprehension, writing, problem solving, organizational, and study skills.
• Ability to support student development in executive functioning skills to promote success in a rigorous academic environment with a dual curriculum in General and Judaic Studies.  
• Outstanding organizational skills and the ability to differentiate support for students with a variety of strengths and skill levels.
• Comfort with educational technology, including computers and learning management systems including Google Classroom and Google Suite tools.
• Ability to assist classroom teachers in implementing recommendations in students’ learning plans.
• Outstanding written and oral communication skills.

Position begins August 2023.  For more information about Kohelet Yeshiva, please visit the school’s website.  To apply please send a letter of interest and resume to Dr. Jeremy Sullivan, Associate Principal, [email protected].

Kohelet Yeshiva High School, a private Modern Orthodox Jewish High School in Lower Merion, PA, seeks a part-time Guidance Counselor for the 2023-2024 School year.  The part-time Guidance Counselor will be responsible for providing social and emotional support and counseling services to high school students, working closely with and reporting to the Director of Guidance and Student Support.  Responsibilities will include individual and small group meetings with students as well as consulting with teachers about implementing personalized plans developed to provide support for students.  The part-time Counselor will work with the Director of Guidance and Student Support to help ensure the emotional and behavioral needs of our students are being met, will also act as a liaison with any other mental health professionals servicing a student, and will serve as a member of the school’s Student Support Team.  Other duties may be developed in consultation with the Director of Guidance and Student Support and the school administration.  

Kohelet Yeshiva is a warm and embracing Modern Orthodox yeshiva day school committed to cultivating Bnei and Bnot Torah who think critically and creatively while exuding confidence and compassion.  We are looking for a reflective candidate who is passionate about helping adolescents and who enjoys working in an environment that promotes continuing professional learning.

The ideal candidate :

• Has a Master’s degree social work, counseling, or a related mental health field and related licensing 
• Has experience working directly with high school-aged children
• Has a deep commitment to seeing the whole child and comprehensively assessing their strengths, challenges, and needs
• Possesses outstanding communication and interpersonal skills
• Is organized, efficient, punctual, and reliable
• Is kind, warm, and committed to collaboration

Position begins August 2023. For more information about Kohelet Yeshiva, please visit the school’s website. To apply please send a letter of interest and resume to Jeremy Sullivan, Associate Principal, at [email protected].

Kohelet Yeshiva Lab and Middle Schools, an educationally progressive, K-8 Modern Orthodox Jewish Day School located in Merion Station, Pennsylvania, seeks a dedicated mental health professional for the position of School Psychologist/Counselor for the 2023-2024 school year. The School Psychologist position is envisioned as a full-time position focused on working collaboratively with the administration and staff to help students and their families manage social, emotional and psychological challenges.

The successful candidate will have:

• Experience working with elementary and middle school students.
• Excellent people skills and a strong work ethic.
• An understanding of the Modern Orthodox Jewish community.
• A good working knowledge of common elementary and middle school social, emotional, behavioral and psychological challenges.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to the following:

• Plan and implement psychoeducational/therapy programs and interventions with students on an individual, small group and/or classwide basis (e.g., behavior plans, social skills, or lunch groups).
• Observe students, and collaborate/consult with teachers and administration to help address behavioral, social, emotional and academic concerns.
• Oversee Advisory curriculum and consult with advisors.
• Create/initiate programming to address the social/emotional needs of the students; work together with the faculty and administration to develop and integrate social/emotional goals into the daily curriculum.
• Coordinate/collaborate with outside mental health professionals regarding students with psychological needs (e.g., plan meetings, collect data and share information with the administration and faculty).
• Interpret psychoeducational tests for the current in-house population and screen new applicants.
• Administer rating scales, forms and brief testing in response to parent/teacher/student concerns.
• Provide counseling for students and staff, including crisis counseling, if needed.
• Provide in-service training, contribute to staff conferences, and organize parent

If you want to be part of a team of passionate and talented educators committed to working as a team to help children grow, please email your resume to Kohelet Yeshiva Lab School: [email protected].

Visit us online for more information about our educational philosophy and to learn more about our school:

Website: www.koheletyeshiva.org 

Due to increased enrollment, Kohelet Yeshiva Lab School, an educationally progressive, K-8 Modern Orthodox Jewish Day School located in Merion Station, Pennsylvania, seeks a dynamic and talented educator for the position of Elementary School General Studies Teacher for the 2023-2024 school year. The General Studies Teacher position is envisioned as a full day position encompassing all General Studies (literacy, math, science, social studies) instruction for a lower elementary learning environment.

The successful candidate will have a BA in Elementary Education and a MA in a related field of study. The candidate will feel comfortable teaching and developing literacy, math, science, and social studies curricula for a lower-grade, learning environment for all children regardless of learning needs.

He or she will be excited by the opportunity to:

• Work in a highly collaborative, team environment to ensure that the diverse learning, social and emotional needs of all students are met.
• Co-teach with colleagues.
• Recognize their own weak area shortcomings, and actively pursue their own professional growth.

Compensation will be competitive and commensurate with experience.

If you want to be part of a team of passionate and talented educators please email your resume to Kohelet Yeshiva Lab School: [email protected]

Visit us online for more information about our educational philosophy, and to learn more about our school:

Website: www.koheletyeshiva.org