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High School Teacher & Mathematics Specialist
Grades 9-12

Tremont School is looking for a High School Teacher & Mathematics Specialist to complement our growing team for the 2023-2024 school year. We are seeking an outstanding educator with deep subject knowledge, a collaborative spirit, interdisciplinary experience, and a desire to connect with each student’s interests. This is an exciting opportunity for a skilled instructor to utilize their ideas, passions and experience to create a learning environment where all students thrive.

Job Responsibilities:
The High School Teacher & Math Specialist is an important member of our team, serving our High School and Post-Graduate programs, primarily teaching Math-related classes, and encouraging interdisciplinary opportunities in collaboration with our STEM Coordinator and our other faculty members. This teacher will primarily be teaching higher level Math subjects including Pre-Calculus and Calculus with the potential for teaching other subjects. The successful candidate will have a unique opportunity to help shape an evolving program that encourages creativity, builds confidence and fosters compassionate and thoughtful engagement in the world around us. We are interested in applicants with broad capacity to guide and teach a diverse community of learners as part of a collaborative and supportive team. We serve students with a range of interests and abilities, some of whom need additional support while others may be taking advanced courses at a local community college. Our diverse population is a critical part of what makes the Tremont experience one that fosters independence, connection and trust.

At Tremont School, we use a Living Curriculum approach that combines student-directed learning with teacher-guided, project-based, thematic curriculum. Our students and teachers learn together in a civic-minded community that highly values friendships and intellectual curiosity. Tremont is not a traditional school and seeks candidates who appreciate and want to be part of a dynamic learning environment that emphasizes expertise in learning to learn over content learning, and approaches curriculum as dynamic, changeable, and responsive to what is relevant. Tremont is a highly inclusive school community and creates a learning environment for all students, regardless of race, religion, color, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity, or economic background.

As the Tremont School curriculum is dynamic and changing, each educator, including the Math Specialist, has a high level of responsibility for the creation of the evolving curriculum of the school. Most educators also serve in an advisory role and are required to participate in Collaborative Proactive Solutions training.

Qualifications:
A strong commitment to Tremont School’s mission and vision
Highly energetic, highly motivated individual
A sense of humor, an optimistic outlook, a love of kids, an open mind and a desire to make a difference with an innovative school
Ability to thrive in a dynamic and flexible environment
Strong team player and collaborator
Experience working with students with different learning needs
Experience with project-based, thematic, and integrated learning
Experience with a wide variety of assessment approaches
An ability to discern students strengths and challenges; to build on strengths and to support challenges to help move students toward thoughtful self-determination
An ability to assist learners in finding learning paths that build upon their passions and interests
Willingness to take student perspectives seriously in solving problems
Interest in social/emotional learning as an important part of daily classroom life
Bachelor’s degree required, graduate degree preferred
Salary and benefits commensurate with experience

About Tremont School:
Tremont School is a small independent day school for grades 5-12 and post graduates located in Concord, MA. Celebrating its 10th anniversary this year, Tremont’s mission is to provide an innovative approach to education that (re)ignites a passion for learning, honors and embraces students’ individuality, and empowers them to be critical thinkers and compassionate citizens. The Tremont School learning community values developing trust, building connections and fostering independence.

Tremont School’s Core Beliefs:
Students thrive when they feel connected to what they are learning and contribute to a community
Strong communities are built on a foundation of respect for diversity of thought, learning styles, personality, and culture
Students need to learn how to navigate their own learning in order to become life-long learners
The richest learning environment integrates physical, social, emotional and cognitive lives
Tremont School is a collaboration among students, teachers, parents, and the community

For immediate consideration, please forward your resume, cover letter and three references to: employment@tremontschool.org.

The Tremont School does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national and ethnic origin, sexual orientation or gender identity in its employment practices, administration of its educational policies, admissions policies, scholarship and loan programs, and athletic and other school-administered programs.