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Position: Full Time Elementary Guide
If your goal is to instill a love of learning in others while advancing in your own professional growth, this is your chance to join a truly unique schooling opportunity in Green Lane, PA.
Seeds Academy: an Acton Academy is a private K-5 school that opened in September 2024, with aspirations of growing into a K-12 program. Acton blends state-of-the-art software and cross-curricular quest-like projects with real-world application, Socratic discussions, apprenticeships, and the Hero’s Journey in a learner-driven, multi-age studios. Our approach to learning is not centered around tests, grades, or teachers leading lectures. Our classroom structure is unique. It ensures that the Guides create and facilitate the learning environment, but empowers students to take ownership of their individual learning path and collective classroom governance.
Acton exists to move learners (adults and children alike) on a journey to understand and develop their most precious gifts, discover their deepest passions, and use them to serve their community in a meaningful way. This journey takes them from being receivers of knowledge to self-seekers of knowledge who find their callings and are capable of leading schools, businesses, or community organizations if they choose. At Seeds, we believe our learners are truly geniuses destined to change the world in their own special way and learners will excell when given the freedom to grow.
Position Description:
This is a full-time position (5 days per week) from September ’24 to June ’25 (school calendar can be provided). Our program consists of 5 days per week spent in the Studio and with ample time spent outdoors or in the gardens. The Guide position will work in partnership with the Head of School (and/or other Guides) to:
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-affirm students, holding them accountable to their promises and to delivering “the best work they can do” as they discover and pursue a calling on a hero’s journey
-create meaningful exhibitions, ceremonies and celebrations that reinforce the rules of engagement and personal/group contracts to provide and strengthen a safe learning community
-act as a role model as an independent learner on a hero's journey
-launch and lead Socratic discussions
-co-create and launch quests (projects), including daily challenges and curating world class examples
-supply a positive studio environment and set up studio as inspiration for learning
-encourage learners to track their progress and create portfolios to show parents, peers and apprenticeship employers what they can do
-uphold the contract of the studio: pass along responsibilities to learners as quickly as possible, so as to empower them to lead themselves in their learner-driven journey.
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Pay (hourly): Seeds Academy: An Acton Academy offers competitive pay; however, no additional benefits are provided (medical insurance must be acquired independently). This is a 10-month position (mid-August through mid-June). Employees are paid every two weeks. There is an opportunity for this position to move to a salaried full-year position over time as the school grows.
Qualifications:
-a deep curiosity about life and love of lifelong learning
-innovative and entrepreneurial spirit
-endless patience to allow students to experience and learn from failure
-commitment to religious, political, and economic freedoms
-proven commitment in guiding children (in or out of a school environment); alternative educational training/experience helpful (nature or project-based, coaching, homeschooling, learner-driven, Montessori, etc.)
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This is a position for an independent learner who can take direction, but also work with little direct guidance; someone who likes to collaborate, experiment, evaluate and continually improve; someone who has a deep respect for all children, believing that each human has a genius within; and someone who is a flexible problem-solver. It is essential that this person can learn fast, loves to work hard, and is a active in their own pursuits of learning.
Next Steps:
Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis. Qualified candidates should begin reading “Courage To Grow” by Laura Sandefer, and refer the media page on the Seeds Academy website. Once an application is reviewed, a phone call and an in-person meeting at the school building in Green Lane will be scheduled at applicant's earliest convenience.
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