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Our mission at Touchstone is to cultivate a joyful learning community committed to creating a more innovative, just, and sustainable world. 

Touchstone offers a progressive, hands-on environment where a natural pace of development is respected, and play, community, integrated curriculum, and social justice activism are emphasized.  

Touchstone Community School is a co-educational independent day school that enrolls approximately 70-90 students, ages 2.9 through 8th grade. Its main campus is in Grafton, MA, and includes a five-acre island in Upton. 

Position for Early Childhood Assistant (4-6 year olds): 20 hours/week

Touchstone seeks a part-time (up to 20 hours a week) early childhood assistant for the 2024-25 school year. This individual is a reflective, life-long learner passionate about play-based, place-based, and thematic or project-based learning. This person profoundly respects childhood and is committed to progressive education, anti-racist and anti-bias learning environments, eco-literacy, integrated curriculum, and nature-based education.

Skills, Qualifications, Responsibilities:

• Possession of a high school degree, at minimum, while working towards a higher degree in a related field, such as an early childhood or elementary teaching degree  
• Knowledgeable and appreciative of early childhood developmental needs and dedicated to supporting the individual social and emotional development of 4-6-year-olds
• CPR and first aid certified, or willing to become certified
• Ready to assist with carrying out messy and emergent learning experiences for children
• Dedicated to collaborating with all colleagues
• Delighted to embrace all weather conditions as an opportunity for learning
• Ready to maintain the physical environment by contributing to housekeeping tasks, keeping materials organized, and the learning area inviting

Touchstone welcomes candidates who will add to the diversity of our community and who have demonstrated a commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion in their teaching and learning.

Touchstone Community School is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate based on race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, ancestry, sex, disabilities, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, family composition, or any other status protected by applicable law in the administration of its employment.