Posted: 11-Mar-25
Location: Rindge, New Hampshire
Type: Full Time
Salary: Negotiable
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SEEKING UNICORNS FOR THE PERFECT FIT
Hampshire Country School (HCS) is hiring experienced teachers, dedicated mentors, hilarious role models, and devoted relationship builders for the 2025-2026 Academic Team. There is very little about this teaching job (or our students) which can be considered “standard”. Some of our most successful teachers are twenty year veteran educators. Some of our most successful teachers had never taught in a classroom until they got to HCS. This work is as hard as it is rewarding; it is as challenging as it is joyful.
Classroom teachers at HCS are responsible for delivering academic curriculum to small classes of neurodivergent children who have had enormous struggles finding scholastic success in other, more traditional, settings. Teachers rely on their strong creative ability, patience, and empathy to develop curated techniques and lessons which both engage our students’ unique strengths and support their emotional, social, and cognitive development. Our students are objectively brilliant, often need fine-tuned academic pacing, and require calm, understanding, quick-witted educators who respect their dignity, and work to keep things lighthearted.
Classroom teachers both develop and deliver curricula which include a combination of didactic, project-based, and experiential learning opportunities. They understand that student must be ready to learn if they are going to have a positive and productive educational experience and that, often, a teacher’s goal needs to pivot to coregulation, connection, understanding, and validation their student’s internal experience in lieu of the academic plan for the day.
What is Hampshire Country School?
Hampshire Country School is a very small and highly specialized boarding school community comprised of faculty, students, and families who are joined in our commitment to provide misunderstood, twice-exceptional boys the chance to have the best school experience possible.
It is a place where bright students who have struggled to find success elsewhere can come and find a home filled with knowledgeable adults who care deeply about their experience, and cherish them for who they are.
HCS is a Country School with a working farm and nearly 2,000 acres of land. It is low-tech, analog, and moves a bit more slowly in many ways. HCS’s teachers are more likely to use the farm and wilderness to deliver educational programming than they are to use screens.
This is the place where you will work, learn, and grow.
Who are we, that work at HCS?
- We appreciate living in a beautiful and rural setting surrounded by wilderness and agriculture.
- We have extraordinarily quick wits, thick skin, and are experts are keeping life light-hearted. We are models of resilience and good humor (even after having a piece of chalk hurled in our general direction).
- We are flexible and we teach flexibility (sometimes to rigid thinkers!). We are willing and able to pivot, sometimes constantly. We are most successful when we are not too terribly attached to a specific outcome and we often giggle after watching our plans crash and burn.
- We work very hard, support each other, and are not satisfied with stagnating. We are all eager to do better tomorrow than we did today, and are aiming at world-class educational experiences, not simply a “very good school”.
- We shovel snow off the stairs.
- We have had the life experience necessary for becoming experts at our own emotional regulation. We know when to take a break, we are aware of how our moods can affect the community, and none of us are afraid to go an extra mile (literally or figuratively) for our students.
- We are all experienced and/or deeply curious about neurodivergence and twice-exceptional students. We are constantly educating ourselves and each other; sharing observations, exploring teaching techniques, and capitalizing on our student relationships.
- Hampshire Country School faculty are experts at patiently and thoughtfully building healthy, productive, relationships.
- Our faculty works hard with challenging students and none of us ever presumes malice when other explanations are even remotely available.
- We understand that all behavior is communication.
Hampshire Country School (HCS) is a 10 month boarding school in southern New Hampshire for high-ability, neurodiverse boys enrolling in later elementary or middle school. HCS offers understanding, light-heartedness, and structure to educate boys in a family-style, supportive, and collaborative learning community.
For more information: http://www.hampshirecountryschool.org
Hampshire Country School is an AA/EEO employer and does not discriminate against any person or group on the basis of age, color, disability, gender, pregnancy, national origin, race, religion, sexual orientation, veteran status or genetic information.
Commitments, Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
- Ability to participate in individualized academic planning for each individual student.
- Ability to generate lesson plans adaptive to multiple settings and teaching modalities.
- A commitment to students’ dignity and their whole learning process.
- A commitment to the method of lightheartedness, understanding, structure, and compassion.
- A commitment to experiential, outdoor, and adventure based learning.
- Facilitation, presentation, interpersonal, and mediation skills.
- Have the ability to manage a number of competing demands and triage what needs attention first.
- Resilience and creativity.
- Familiarity with challenging students and difficult behaviors.
- Being willing and able to exercise judgement and take risks.
Desired Qualifications:
- A minimum of 2 years teaching experience in an academic setting working with twice exceptional students.
- A bachelors or higher degree in education and/or subject area.