Beginning in August 2025, Lake Forest Academy seeks a reflective and collaborative English teacher who is an intellectually curious reader and an empathetic educator, one who can inspire a culture of inquiry while teaching skills with intention and creativity. Lake Forest Academy English teachers are skilled writers, lovers of literature and history, and eager scholars of the field. We seek teachers who inspire intellectual curiosity, creative thought, disciplined analysis, confident speaking, clear writing, and genuine appreciation of literature rooted in close reading of primary texts. 

This position will teach four English classes designed to develop students who are creative and critical thinkers, close readers of varied texts, effective writers, and engaged participants.

General overview of responsibilities:

• Teach assigned four sections of English courses
• Provide timely feedback to students and parents
• Engage in ongoing professional growth

• Fulfill co-curricular expectations, often through coaching in the athletic program

• Serve as a co-advisor to a small group of students
• Serve on committees and task forces, as needed
• If residential faculty, fulfill weeknight (once a week) and weekend (7) residential duties. 

Required characteristics and/or skills of this position:

• Embraces and contributes meaningfully to a supportive and inclusive community of students and adults in accordance with LFA’s mission and values
• Develops and maintains a classroom atmosphere that inspires learning and fosters respect for all students
• Prepares effective and aligned instruction 
• Differentiates instruction and appeals to a variety of learning styles
• Supports departmental goals and colleagues

• Possesses a strong understanding of 21st-century adolescents

• Is eager to be authentically involved in a boarding school community
• Upholds LFA standards of professional courtesy, discretion, and confidentiality

Preferred experience and/or education:

• Bachelor's degree or higher required
• Experience teaching a range of core English courses and electives
• Experience teaching writing 
• Experience teaching international students, especially ELL
• Experience with curricular design preferred 

Compensation/Benefits:

Lake Forest Academy offers a competitive compensation and benefits package that includes full medical and dental coverage, 403(b) retirement plan, and other benefits.  Final salary will be commensurate with the experience and expertise of the final appointed candidate within LFA's teacher salary scale.  

About Lake Forest Academy

Founded in 1857, Lake Forest Academy is a coed, boarding school serving 440 academically bright and motivated students in grades 9 to 12 from across the globe. The Academy offers a rigorous curriculum focused on academic excellence and characterized by small classes and close faculty/student interaction. The school's mission of educational excellence is founded on the four pillars of character, scholarship, citizenship, and responsibility. The LFA community places students at the center of their own learning and provides the support needed to develop confidence and strong values. Please visit our website http://www.lfanet.org/ for more information about us. Lake Forest Academy is committed to building and sustaining an inclusive school community where the human differences present in the school and in society are acknowledged, respected, valued, and viewed as essential; and where ideas and behaviors which oppress others are challenged and addressed through an educational process. These differences include, but are not limited to, gender, race and ethnicity, nationality, socio-economic status, physical ability, religion, sexual orientation, as well as a variety of physical, intellectual, and spiritual qualities that make unique individuals of us all.

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