Capitol Hill Day School seeks a full-time Middle School Math teacher for 5th and 6th grades for the 2026-2027 academic year.

At Capitol Hill Day School, learning is challenging, engaging, playful, and relevant to the real world. Students learn across subjects with an experiential curriculum that integrates academic subjects and the arts, physical education, service learning, and technology. Through an extensive field education program, students take part in experiences beyond the classroom related to topics of study. Teachers collaborate in developing, planning, and implementing curriculum; school-wide, they create a spirit of camaraderie through their interactions with students, parents, and other members of the staff. Also essential to the School’s program is its commitment to diversity, ensuring that students from varying backgrounds, cultures, and learning styles learn from and with each other. Emphasis is placed on building a classroom community that respects each individual while teaching children how to become caring, engaged members of the group.  

The Middle School Math program is a four-year sequence that thoughtfully and systematically helps students consolidate and deepen their learning of number and operations concepts while developing their understanding of algebraic principles, proportional reasoning, statistics, probability, and geometric thinking. Emphasis is placed on cooperative learning activities, inquiry-based lessons, and problem solving. The Math teacher collaborates with other middle school faculty to create and facilitate interdisciplinary and project-based learning opportunities. As one member of a team of four “cohort leaders,” the Math teacher serves as a student advisor and helps ensure the smooth functioning of the weekly schedule in 5th and 6th Grades. 

Requirements

Master’s degree and/or experience teaching math at the middle school level;  understanding of child development and progressive education pedagogy; experience using a range of strategies to differentiate instruction to meet individual student needs; commitment to working in close collaboration with professional colleagues.

Differences in religion, socio-economic status, racial and cultural heritage, sexual orientation, and gender identity and expression create the opportunity for people to learn from each other as they learn with each other. As such, Capitol Hill Day School provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, termination, compensation, and training.

About Capitol Hill Day School

Capitol Hill Day School is a coeducational independent day school serving approximately 230 students from prekindergarten through eighth grade. Located on Capitol Hill, CHDS is known for its progressive educational philosophy, deep commitment to experiential learning, and strong connections between classroom learning and the broader world. The School’s mission is to deeply engage a diverse community of students in connecting the classroom to the larger world, supporting each child in developing confidence, compassion, and intellectual capacity. CHDS is a close-knit community that values curiosity, collaboration, reflection, and purposeful leadership.

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