Job Description

High Meadows School in Roswell, Georgia, approximately 30 minutes north of Atlanta, is accepting elementary teacher applications for the 2025-2026 school year . The school takes pride in hiring dynamic, compassionate, and diverse faculty and staff who are among the finest in their areas of expertise.

School’s Mission Statement

The High Meadows community celebrates and perpetuates each individual’s quest for knowledge and skill, sense of wonder, and connection to the natural environment. We empower each to be a compassionate, responsible, and active global citizen.

School’s Vision Statement

High Meadows School and Camp inspires adventurous learners who ask questions that drive learning and seek sustainable solutions in collaboration with others. Our students emerge as ethical leaders with the skills and habits of mind to grow and adapt as they discover a place of purpose and joy in an ever-changing world.

Summary

Our educators are experienced, energetic, and collaborative individuals who follow a constructivist, progressive educational philosophy which is student-centered and holds kids to high and reasonable standards. Our tenets of progressive education include: (1) embracing the world, (2) hands-on and inquiry-driven learning, (3) holistic approach to educating children, (4) social justice and sustainability, and (5) transdisciplinary learning.

We look for educators who maintain excellent relationships with families, work successfully within a team, understand developmentally appropriate practices for students, recognize the educational value of the natural environment and demonstrate a commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice in their teaching practice. At High Meadows, we believe that children possess a drive for cognitive, physical, and social engagement—a drive that is developed and enhanced by an environment that promotes academic challenge, creativity, personal responsibility, and a positive self-image.

Knowledge and Skill Set Requirements

• Must be motivated, nurturing, creative, self-directed and a collaborative team member.
• Must have excellent communication and interpersonal skills as well as a passion and energy for teaching children.
• Desire to play a meaningful role in each student’s daily school life and the life of the school.
• Ability to clearly communicate, collaborate, and work effectively in a teaching partnership.
• Ability to nurture and challenge each student.
• Model continuous learning, and demonstrate a commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice.
• Understand academic, social, behavioral, and emotional development milestones of children.
• Understand positive discipline in a progressive educational setting.

Essential Job Functions

Our teachers:

• Adhere to the school philosophy recognizing the developmental nature of childhood growth and each child’s need for belonging.
• Work in accordance with the mission, vision and values of High Meadows School around approaches to learning/teaching, project-based instruction, and the Positive Discipline approach to behavior.
• Are responsible for supervision and direct instruction, student assessment, narratives, communication with parents, and parent-student-teacher conferences.
• Are responsible for student learning, classroom instruction, and curriculum implementation in the core subject areas or in a specialty area, depending on the teaching role and grade-level position.
• Will work with a team to design learning environments that are focused on creativity and innovation, striving to challenge students to a deeper thinking level and to develop a yearning for greater understanding.

Our elementary grades follow the International Baccalaureate Primary Years Programme®, and teachers are responsible for presenting and creating units of study used to develop inquiring, knowledgeable and caring young people who help to create a better and more peaceful world through intercultural understanding and respect.

The Campus

High Meadows School sits on 42 wooded acres in Roswell. The school is housed in several buildings spread across the two meadows on the property. We have an active barnyard on campus, serving as the home for horses, sheep, bunnies, and chickens. Faculty and staff must be comfortable traveling between buildings in all types of weather, participating in outdoor activities on the meadows and in the forest, and intermingling with animals.

Minimum Education/Prior Experience/Qualifications Required

• Minimum of three to five current, consecutive years as a full-time teacher in appropriate grade level
• Bachelor’s Degree required ( Preference given to those with a bachelor’s or master’s degree in Education).
• Collaborative and interdisciplinary instruction experience a must.

Preferences given to applicants with :

• Experience as a teacher in a progressive school setting
• Experience as a constructivist educator
• International Baccalaureate School (PYP) experience
• Current GA Teaching Certification

Our work culture is defined by mutual accountability to these ideals, as we work in service of the mission and values of High Meadows: 

• Autonomy - We are given the professional freedom to teach children. 
• Belonging - We are recognized and feel cared for through respectful relationships within a diverse community. 
• Voice & Collaboration - My perspective will be heard and valued and, equally, I will actively listen to the perspectives of others. 
• Growth Mindset - We encourage and place value on lifelong, continual learning. 

Application Process

Please send a cover letter indicating interest and philosophy and resume to HR Manager Jane Murphy at jmurphy@highmeadows.org. If you are selected for the next steps in the process, an application link will be emailed to you.

(Please, no phone calls. If you have applied in the past 12 months, no need to reapply. Only candidates selected for the next step will be contacted.)

High Meadows School does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, age, religion, sex, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or status as a protected veteran in employment, admission of students, or in providing its services in any manner.

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