Forest School Lower Elementary Teacher, VA, US

We are seeking an experienced and enthusiastic elementary teacher to join us in our inaugural year at our new forest school which will carry a STEM and project-based learning focus.  This is your opportunity to work with us to develop the best possible school that we can imagine!  If you love children, enjoy the outdoors, and are eager to challenge yourself to work outside of the boxes of traditional pedagogy, this could be the position for you.   Our instructors will manage daily classes of no more than 10-11 students per teacher in a mixed-age full-time program.  Edson Forest School is on a 6 acre wooded parcel with a former residence being converted to purely educational usage.  Conversion work and permitting is still ongoing, but we expect to be an active and operational private school in Fall of 2023.  We are planning to have students from K-8, but are likely to skew young in our first few years. 

We would love to find someone with experience in a forest school or other outdoor setting; we expect to spend close to half our time outdoors on any given day.  Expertise in Reggio Emilia philosophy, POGIL, or project-based learning would be a plus.  VA teaching license and a degree in early childhood education is preferred, but relevant experience could replace this.  We expect our salary to be competitive with other private schools in the area.  The school is located in the Shenandoah Valley, just outside of Harrisonburg, VA.  We have begun recruitment of students, and finding a great teacher for our youngest prospective students is going to be an important key to our initial success.  See our website at Edsonforeschool.com and send a resume to admin@edsonforestschool.com if interested.