Details
Posted: 20-Jan-23
Location: Hillsborough, California
Type: Full Time
Salary: Commensurate with experience
Categories:
Science
Required Education:
4 Year Degree
Additional Information:
4 openings available.
The Nueva School
Garden Coordinator & Lower School Science Specialist
Starting August 2023
The Position
The Nueva School seeks a dynamic garden and science educator to become part of our faculty. Nueva is continuing to build a preeminent science/technology/engineering/math (STEM) program, with a specialty in design thinking. We seek a science and garden specialist to collaborate with a team of science teachers, classroom teachers, and other specialists to design and deliver integrated, differentiated, and challenging curriculum, and to work with middle and upper school science teachers to maintain vertical articulation within the science curriculum across the school. The ideal candidate will be passionate about working with a range of ages, teaching biweekly lower school science classes (grades preK-1). This person will also be committed to cultivating in students a deep sense of stewardship of the natural world through meaningful experiences in Nueva’s organic garden and throughout its natural campus.
We are committed to constructivist education, authentic, project-based learning, and an inquiry science and garden program that features hands-on investigations, experiential education, and authentic problem solving opportunities. In addition, Nueva has a commitment to social-emotional learning that pervades the culture of the school.
Additional responsibilities for all full-time teachers include supporting student well-being, generating a regular blog, writing student narratives, participating in regular duties, supporting the admissions team, and co-chaperoning interdisciplinary trips that bring student learning off-campus and into the community and across the world.
We are seeking applicants who represent the full diversity of our community in the Bay Area. Our ideal candidate will possess a deep appreciation for the diverse socioeconomic, racial, cultural, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, academic, and ethnic backgrounds present in our community. In joining our team at Nueva, you will become a part of an inclusive, iterative and equity-minded community that recognizes that equity and social justice is a lens with which we examine all aspects of our school community in order to ensure an educational experience where all students and colleagues can thrive. In deciding whether to apply for a position at Nueva, you are strongly encouraged to consider whether your values align with Nueva’s Mission, Vision, and Values.
General Responsibilities
- Maintain an organic garden taking responsibility for all aspects of the site including administering the garden program, care of chickens, planting and harvesting crops, and maintaining shed and greenhouse (40% of the position).
- In collaboration, design a dynamic, intellectually engaging, and relevant science curriculum for lower school grades.
- Help maintain science lab, equipment, curriculum materials, and consumables.
- Promote diversity, equity, and inclusion in classroom culture and curriculum
- Use documentation to make learning visible to the children, parents, and larger community, and as a basis of your own reflection and professional growth.
- Communicate with parents and colleagues through regular curricular updates and individual student feedback.
- Collaborate with teachers and students across disciplines and grade levels to develop garden-based programs.
- Write narrative student progress reports twice per year.
- Mentor an associate teacher in collaboration with other members of the science team.
- Leading a Garden Committee (with parent volunteers) and garden work days (family volunteer days in the garden)
- Support the campus composting initiative in partnership with our Director of Environmental Citizenship
- Participate in after-school meetings, some evening/weekend events, overnight trips, and committee work.
Position Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree, deep science background, and experience working in and maintaining an organic, educational garden.
- Formal or informal experience with elementary-aged students
- Excellent communication skills
- A desire to integrate curriculum with other subjects and to teach collaboratively
- Compensation will be competitive and commensurate with experience. The Nueva School is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Compensation
The full-time salary range for this position is from $70,000 - $135,000. The starting salary is based upon, but not limited to, several factors that include type and years of creditable experience, education level, and expertise.
We offer a full benefits package that includes fully paid medical, dental, vision, life insurance for employees, employer contribution toward dependent insurance premium, a generous match on our 403(b) retirement plan, long-term and short-term disability insurance, employer match into flexible spending account, and free lunch. Eligibility rules apply.
To Apply
Please submit a cover letter, résumé, and the contact information and job title for at least three professional references at https://nuevaschool.applytojob.com/apply. If you have questions about this position, please contact Scott Bowers, Director of Human Resources, at (sbowers@nuevaschool.org).
The Nueva School is an Equal Opportunity Employer – we do not discriminate against any employee or job applicant on the basis of race, color, gender, national origin, age, religion, creed, disability or sex. We welcome applications from people of color and those with experience outside the education field.
About The Nueva School
The Nueva School, an internationally recognized, nonprofit, independent day school, has served gifted learners since 1967. Today, Nueva serves nearly 1000 students in grades PreK–12. Nueva is located in the neighboring towns of Hillsborough and San Mateo, equidistant between San Francisco and Silicon Valley, serving six counties throughout the Bay Area of Northern California.
A constructivist school, Nueva is known for its distinctive inquiry-based interdisciplinary studies, project-based learning, and pioneering work in social-emotional learning and design thinking. The Nueva community instills a passion for lifelong learning, fosters social and emotional acuity, and develops the imaginative mind. Our school has received the US Department of Education National Blue Ribbon Award, the US Department of Education National Green Ribbon Award, and the American Institute of Architects Award for School Design and Sustainability; has been recognized as an Apple Distinguished Program and appointed an Ashoka Changemaker School; co-founded the Common Ground Speaker Series; hosts the biennial Innovative Learning Conference, and was highlighted by the Pulitzer Prize–winning and New York Times best-selling author Thomas Friedman in his book That Used to Be Us in the chapter “Average Is Over.”
For more information about The Nueva School, visit our website: www.nuevaschool.org
About The Nueva School
The Nueva School, an internationally recognized, nonprofit, independent day school, has served gifted learners since 1967. Today, Nueva serves nearly 1000 students PK–12. Nueva is located in the neighboring towns of Hillsborough and San Mateo, equidistant between San Francisco and Silicon Valley, serving six different counties throughout the Bay Area of Northern California.
A constructivist school, Nueva is known for its distinctive inquiry-based interdisciplinary studies, project-based learning, and pioneering work in social-emotional learning and design thinking. The Nueva community instills a passion for lifelong learning, fosters social and emotional acuity, and develops the imaginative mind. Our school has received the US Department of Education National Blue Ribbon Award and the American Institute of Architects Award for School Design and Sustainability, has been recognized as an Apple Distinguished Program and appointed an Ashoka Changemaker School, co-founded the Common Ground Speaker Series, hosts the biennial Innovative Learning Conference, and was highlighted by the Pulitzer Prize–winning and New York Times best-selling author Thomas Friedman in his book That Used
...to Be Us in the chapter “Average Is Over.”
For more information on The Nueva School, please visit www.nuevaschool.org.
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