Posted: 25-Jan-26
Location: Rindge, New Hampshire
Type: Full Time
Salary: Negotiable
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SEEKING UNICORNS FOR THE PERFECT FIT
Over the following months, Hampshire Country School will be filling positions on our Academic Team. We are seeking Classroom Teachers (Talented and enthusiastic Math, Science, and Technology teachers are expecially encouraged to apply).
Classroom Teacher:
At Hampshire Country School a Classroom Teacher is more than just a teacher. In addition to being responsible for, but not limited to, delivering academic curriculum in both traditional and experiential learning models. Classroom teachers curate each student’s individual academic experience, attend regular faculty and departmental meetings, join meals, and assist in the dorms.
What is Hampshire Country School?
Hampshire Country School (HCS) 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.
This is the place where you will work, learn, and grow. We are radically on the side of who these boys are and who they can grow to become.
Growing up is hard.
Growing up with an asynchronously developing frontal lobe is even harder. Kids in this camp- often stick ered with labels like neurodivergent or twice-exceptional, or with diagnoses like autism or ADHD—face intense emotional and behavioral challenges in school and at home that set them apart from their peers. They’re often overwhelmed and angry, anxious and unsure of themselves- as are their parents, having exhausted untold energy, agony, and expense scrambling to help their struggling child.
These kids are brilliant, but boxed in by systems that often don’t serve them. Adults who often don’t hear them. Choices that often don’t interest them. No one is thriving. These families are desperate for a change. They know their kid’s not a bad kid.
We know it too.
These are our people. This is their place.
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. And we don't take a child's dysregulated behavior personally.
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.