Wheeling Country Day School is a student-centered, active, engaging environment. Preschool - 8th-grade children are encouraged to take risks and develop confidence and pride in their ability to think, create and communicate. 

With an opening in our middle school, Wheeling Country Day School is seeking an experienced co-teacher for the 2021-2022 school year to join our collaborative and innovative faculty. The right candidates will complement the strengths of WCDS and add their expertise and passion to enrich our excellent educational program and our vibrant professional learning community.

Founded in 1929 as a secondary school (8th and 9th grades) concentrating on preparation for high school studies, WCDS was different in that it focused on thorough and personal instruction. Soon adding grades in the more formative years of a child’s life, WCDS became known for its elementary education in the last two decades. Recent years found us dismayed by statistics showing that student engagement plummets to 40% during middle school with a simultaneous 90% loss in their creative capacity, so we re-opened our middle school doors to interdisciplinary deep learning in August 2019.

In that inaugural year, we housed a single class of 16 sixth-grade students in an open-ended, state-of-the-art learning space equipped with adaptive resources and furniture based on Universal Design For Learning (UDL) principles. In this classroom, we ‘Teach to the Edges’, an initiative by WCDS to reach all students by focusing on needs rather than pinpoint an average learner, who in reality does not exist in any classroom. In 2020 we added 13 new sixth grade students for a total of 29 middle school students. Rather than build, we secured space at a municipal park for our middle school classrooms to create physical distancing during the pandemic and access to a world of outdoor activities. We will open the eighth grade in 2021 to complete our new division.