Qualifications:  Bachelor’s degree in education, reading, or special education and experience working with children with learning differences. Certification in Dyslexia or a graduate degree in reading instruction is preferred.

Responsibilities and requirements:
The Overbrook Catholic School Reading Specialist provides support to those students in need of remediation in reading, spelling, and/or written expression. Also included is reviewing educational testing and creating Individual Action Plans for students.

Overbrook educates children to seek and embrace the truth, encounter Christ, and give joyful witness to truth in their lives. Founded in 1936 by the Dominican Sisters of the St. Cecilia Congregation, Overbrook is a co-educational, prekindergarten (3-year-olds) through sixth-grade independent Catholic school with a dynamic tradition of educating children in a community setting through study, prayer and service. The school is located on the Dominican Campus at 4210 Harding Pike also home to St. Cecilia Academy (high school) and Aquinas College. Overbrook encourages academic excellence, creativity and the development of leadership within each student.