Applewild School invites applications to join our faculty as our lead kindergarten teacher on our Fitchburg campus. We seek teacher-leaders with strong interpersonal skills and the ability to lead by influence to help Applewild increase its inquiry-based, student-centered, interdisciplinary learning environment. Successful candidates will be willing to participate in all aspects of school life, and have a keen interest in fostering a culture of progress through professional learning and collaboration.

Some of the expected responsibilities are:

• Using curricular materials and methods consistent with Applewild’s philosophy and ethos, the faculty member plans and teaches across the academic disciplines using a variety of instructional methods
• Experience with systematic, research-based instructional methods to teach reading and writing
• Fluently deploys educational technology to maximize student learning, embraces STEM/STEAM and project-based, interdisciplinary curriculum to increase student engagement and performance
• Utilizes universal design to gracefully meet the needs of a range of learners.
• Embraces the School’s explicit focus on metacognition, with an understanding that what we teach is just as important as how we teach children to learn.
• Communicates effectively, sensitively, and collaboratively with families and fellow faculty.
• Participates in faculty meetings and professional learning communities.
• Creates a welcoming, supportive, and nurturing classroom.
• Supports general school house management tasks such as supervising lunch/transitions/recess, welcoming students at arrival and dismissal, etc.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee occasionally works in outside weather conditions
• The employee may have to ascend and descend stairs, as well as be able to move about our hilly campus
• The employee must regularly lift and/or move 25 pounds and occasionally up to 50 pounds