Job Description The Lower School Lead Teacher at High Meadow teaches students in a grade level cohort in grades 1-4. The lead teacher creates a warm, safe, and welcoming classroom environment that includes all students. They design and deliver lessons for social skill building and standards-based core academic instruction utilizing the schools curricular programs. HMS is a general education inclusion setting. Lower School Lead Teachers are responsible for differentiating the learning environment and academic lessons to meet each child's goals, including those with 504 plans or mandated services. Lower School Lead Teachers create inquiry-based units surrounding students' interests and strive to make interdisciplinary connections using our schools frames of sustainability, place-based education, social justice, and the arts. Lead teachers support their students' social and emotional growth using child-centered curriculum and restorative discipline approaches. Lead Teachers frequently collaborate with colleagues, including an assistant teacher when class size rises above 16, and foster supportive partnerships with the children and families in their classrooms.

Work Details This is a full-time, 10-month position This position functions onsite 5 days a week The physical demands of this job include lifting, carrying, pushing, pulling, crouching, reaching overhead, and/or climbing ramps or stairs The job is performed in a generally hazard-free environment

How to Apply: Please send a current resume and cover letter stating why HMSs mission resonates with you to careers@highmeadowschool.org.