Careers

Please see below for our current open positions.

Full-Time Special Education Coordinator

Starting fall 2025. 5 days per week/10 months per year, 8:30 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.

School One is a private high school in Providence enrolling up to 100 students in a college preparatory program infused with creativity. Our Mission Statement affirms, “At School One, we teach students to think, write, analyze, and create. As a community, we treat each other with care and respect. We appreciate each other’s differences as people and as learners.”

The Academic Support Program currently includes approximately 20 students with identified learning differences. While several students are referred by area public school districts due to RIDE Special Education certification, the great majority are private pay supported by need-based financial aid. During one period in the six-period academic schedule, students receive Academic Support services at one of two levels of individual attention based on demonstrated need.

The Special Education Coordinator is responsible for scheduling these three regular sessions, providing support to the students, collaborating with each student’s other teachers, coordinating communication with the family of each student receiving Academic Support, evaluating the applications of prospective students with diagnosed learning differences, and sharing learning-difference related professional development opportunities with teachers.

The school’s average class size is nine students. Most of our students receive need-based financial aid and are drawn to School One from the Boston suburbs to the Connecticut border. We have recently welcomed international students from Qatar, Tanzania, Cambodia, India, and Spain. Students receive trimester narrative teacher comments but no grades. Our students are collaborative, creative, and curious; they embrace a welcoming school climate based on personal responsibility, trust, and cooperation.

This position’s responsibilities include:

Advising

Serve as an advisor for no more than eight students, with two advisee group meetings per week
Serve as the main communication link between the school and home and between the advisees and/or parents and teachers and administrators
Run twice-weekly advising periods with advisees, assist them with academic scheduling, and review their narrative teacher comments with them at the end of each trimester, focusing on growth.
Monitor student attendance, folders, graduation requirements and progress toward them
Help advisees to formulate post-secondary plans and help them apply to college, art school, or other placements
Attend and monitor advisee attendance at weekly General Meetings and other school events.

Teaching

Teach three to four resource classes of roughly three to six students each
Responsible for arriving in class by the beginning of the period and remaining in class throughout the period and responsible for keeping accurate records of student attendance, tardiness, and work completion
Liaise with regular education teachers to learn expectations for students and provide supports in the resource classroom to help students meet teachers’ expectations
Responsible for timely and carefully written evaluations and course descriptions
Provide timely notice and educationally valuable, period-long activities for classes when absent.

Special Education Coordination

Coordinate the development and implementation of Individual Education Plans (IEP’s) in accordance with student needs and state regulations
Ensure that IEP goals are met by communicating relevant information to all teachers and helping them modify classroom materials and pedagogy as appropriate
Provide consultation to regular education teachers on learning differences
Supervise teachers’ and advisors’ use of a weekly monitoring process for identified students
Collaborate with Admissions Coordinator to interview prospective students with identified learning differences, helping to evaluate whether they are likely to succeed at School One
Collaborate with School One Counselor/Social Worker to coordinate social and emotional supports for identified students
Ensure special education program complies with RIDE regulations via accurate record keeping, yearly reporting, and coordination of School One’s participation in the RIDE’s monitoring process
Administer required state exams to identified students and assist with seeking appropriate testing accommodations for identified students via The College Board
Serve as special education point person with school districts (LEA’s) and other key stakeholders
Consult once per week during the summer about student applicants with identified learning differences.

Service to the School Community

Maintain appropriate boundaries and uphold school rules per the Staff Handbook
Teach physical education or health for 90 minutes per week during two trimesters
Run one student Committee, 40 minutes per week.
Occasionally help to organize events that enhance the students’ experience such as performances and exhibitions, dances and proms, R-Days, and trips
Responsible for attendance at and participation in occasional afterschool events including Parents’ Nights, the Fall Festival, the prom, the Student Art Show, graduation, and a reasonable number of other school events and activities
Take an active role in continually improving one’s own practice
Participate in the staff goal-setting and self-evaluation process in a timely and productive way

Other reasonable duties may occasionally be assigned by the Head of School.

The above position may be filled by a RI-certified secondary special education teacher with an interest in pursuing RI Special Education Administrator certification. Professional development funds are available to support at least part of this process. The ideal candidate will already possess RI Special Education Administrator certification.

Compensation: This position comes with full individual health insurance and a 4% retirement match in addition to other benefits. Please be aware that School One salaries tend to be approximately 20% below comparable Rhode Island public school positions. That said, the average length of teacher tenure at School One is over ten years.

To express interest, please send a cover letter and resume to careers@school-one.org

At School One, we believe that our staff should reflect the diverse community of students we serve. We encourage applicants from groups that have historically been underrepresented in the workplace, and we continuously strive to create an inclusive community for all. School One is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, age, sex, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, color, disability or veteran status.

Full-time Counselor

Full-time Counselor

Starting August 18, 2025

Mental health support for up to 100 students for up to 100 students

Five days per week/10 months per year, 8:30am– 3:30pm. Half days once per week over the summer.

At School One, we teach students to think, write, analyze, and create. As a community, we treat each other with care and respect. We appreciate each other’s differences as people and as learners. (Mission Statement)

School One is a college-preparatory high school in Providence for up to 100 students. Believing that students learn best when they feel safe, School One values collaboration and creativity over competition and rote memorization. Creativity is infused in classes across the curriculum. Students and families receive detailed written teacher comments at the end of each trimester; our transcript does not record letter grades. Each student has an academic advisor with whom they meet regularly. The advisor is also the liaison between home and school. Most of our students receive need-based financial aid. Informed by research about adolescent sleep patterns, our academic day begins at 9am.

The Counselor at School One is dedicated to helping students develop their intellectual, emotional, and social potential, while helping to reduce distress and promote emotional wellness. Duties include provision of ongoing assessment of students’ mental health needs, individual brief psychotherapy, crisis intervention, identifying goals for IEPs, consulting with faculty and staff about student mental health issues, consulting with parents/guardians, and assessing and providing referrals for mental health treatment outside of school. In addition, the counselor is expected to participate in school-wide activities, such as Farm Day, Fall Festival, the Art Show and Graduation. Please note that class placement and college counseling are not part of this position.

This position’s responsibilities include:

Provide on-going, as-needed support to individual students during time-limited sessions, usually arranged by appointment
Provide crisis de-escalation skills for ongoing support to students
Assist in oversight of the advising program, providing consultation to advisors on students’ needs
Serve as a member of the Special Education Team with involvement in the IEP process, provision of services to students, and collaboration with other members of the Special Education Team.
Attend adjunct and staff meetings to provide consultation for students’ needs
Work in collaboration with Admissions to provide consultation on prospective students’ mental health needs to help determine appropriate fit for school
Work with school leaders to develop and implement programs to promote a respectful, engaging, safe school culture including involvement with School One’s disciplinary processes and safety planning
Assist with developing programs to promote student, staff, and parent understanding of adolescents’ needs and development
Maintain confidentiality, as specified in state and federal guidelines.

Service to the School Community

Coordinate with colleagues in support of students
Responsible for maintaining appropriate boundaries, professional behavior, and upholding all school rules per the Staff Handbook
Lead a Committee (cross between a club and an elective class, meeting for one 40 minute session per week) for at least two Trimesters
Organize voluntary E-day events that enrich the students’ experiences
Attend and participate in occasional afterschool events including Parents’ Nights, the Fall Festival, the prom, the Student Art Show, and graduation
Take an active role in continually improving one’s own practice
Participate in the staff goal setting and self-evaluation process in a timely and productive way

Other reasonable duties may occasionally be assigned by the Head of School.

Qualifications:

Professional verbal, written, and presentation skills
Master's degree in behavioral health specialty: Social Work, Counseling or Psychology
A minimum of 1-2 years supervised counseling experience with teens
Knowledge of adolescent and child development
Candidates with a clinical license are preferred.

Please reply with a resume and statement of interest to careers@school-one.org

At School One, we believe that our staff should reflect the diverse community of students we serve. We encourage applicants from groups that have historically been underrepresented in the workplace, and continuously strive to create an inclusive community for all. School One is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, age, sex, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, color, disability, or veteran status.