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Middle and high school staff for Pacem School and Homeschool Center, VT

Pacem School and Homeschool Center is seeking part-time faculty in the following subject areas: Middle and high school Spanish Middle school writing and literature Middle or high school math Middle and high school art High school social studies Japanese Pacem School and Homeschool Center is an intellectually inspiring, joyful learning community for 10 – 18 year [...]

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Elementary Teachers, San Antonio, TX

The Circle School is a Family Cooperative teaching peace through culture.  Our curriculum is inspired by the work of Nicholas Roerich and is a synthesis of methods and insights taken from the work of many educators. Teachers at the school are given freedom to teach to their passions. Closing Date for applicants is May 5, 2012 Required: [...]

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Staff at Puget Sound Community School, Seattle, WA

Puget Sound Community School (PSCS), an innovative, approved private middle & high school in Seattle, has an open teaching staff position for a middle school specialist for the upcoming school year, 2012/2013, and likely beyond. PSCS is growing and part of that growth involves providing a new focused program for 6th & 7th graders. The [...]

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Upper Grade Elementary Teacher, New York

Blue Rock School (bluerockschool.org) has a position available for an Upper Grade Elementary Teacher.  Applicants must have an interest and experience in progressive educational practice, assessment and social learning.  Additionally, we are looking for applicants with strong skills in Math and Language Arts curriculum and experience working with elementary grade students. We are a small, [...]

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Bilingual English Elementary/Middle School Teacher, Mexico

The vision behind Cuixmala School is to provide a new standard of  excellence in education and further stimulate growth for the Coast of  Jalisco. The mission of the school is to create a learning environment  where students master core academic subjects, where physical education  and the fine arts are indispensable and where responsible ethics and  [...]

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Looking for alternative educator in Bali, Indonesia

A group of families living in central Bali are looking to hire a alternative education teacher (Waldorf, Montessori, etc.) who is interested in collaboratively developing a holistic learning environment for 10-15 children. This learning group will be in the style of an early one room school house. This person would need to be willing and [...]

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Lead Middle School Teacher at Mountain Sun Community School, Brevard, North Carolina

Job Overview:  We are seeking a creative teacher with a pioneering spirit to serve as our lead middle school teacher. We are a small non-profit independent school that was founded by a parent committee in August 2008.  We have grown from a 16 students in a 3-6 yr old classroom to 50 students in preschool [...]

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Staff at Sudbury Valley School, Framingham, MA

Are you looking for a career that is meaningful, deep and varied? Consider becoming a staff member at Sudbury Valley School. We are looking for people with strong executive skills, knowledge in maintaining an institution plus excitement about helping keep a cutting edge school vibrant, a commitment to treating children and adults with complete respect, [...]

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Ecology Educator / Naturalist and Interns needed at Pono Learning Center, New York City

Pono Learning is a democratic, outdoors education center in Manhattan, New York City, that serves children from the age of 2½ to 5 years old. Pono Learning is set up with the purpose of immersing children in stimulating environments and harmonious learning communities where each child’s interests and natural, innate desire to learn are cherished [...]

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Executive Director of the Trillium Charter School, Portland, OR

Job Description: Executive Director Trillium Charter School (TCS) is in its 10th year of operation. TCS serves students from all parts of Portland, Oregon, through an open lottery enrollment. Students are actively involved learners building a personal knowledge of the world around them through action, experience, and reflection. The educational philosophies center on contextual teaching/learning [...]

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Democratic table tennis club

I’ve been playing table tennis since I was a kid and I love the sport. Along the way I had [...]

Sir Ken Robinson to keynote 2012 AERO conference!

Register now! In line with the conference theme, “Finding the Catalyst for the Education Revolution,” Sir Ken Robinson will share [...]

A response to the crisis of our time

In the United States, many people express their political or philosophical opinions by attaching small signs on the back end [...]

Trivial pursuit

There’s a YouTube video going around online right now – maybe you’ve seen it – the one where a bunch [...]

The rights of children in school

In my work as an educational consultant, I have visited many schools all over the world. I have observed, in [...]

A place to grow

Nice title, isn’t it?  How do you like it as a name for a school?  Makom Ligdol – “a place [...]

A map of the alternative education landscape

What type of learning environment is right for your child? Choosing a school, or choosing to educate your child outside [...]

My brain said ‘no’

One of the benefits of homeschooling is that it is generally unnecessary to hold to a rigid schedule. In other [...]

Nature principle

The compelling reasons kids need nature were explained factually and forcefully by Richard Louv in Last Child in the Woods: [...]

Educating children in a violent world

I was recently asked to write a column for a national education magazine. When the editor told me the theme [...]

Caring education and meaningful democracy

Is it possible to have caring education or a meaningful democracy in a culture that is fundamentally competitive, materialistic, and [...]

Taking risks and breaking rules

Albert Einstein once said that it is a miracle curiosity survives formal education. Unfortunately, it often doesn’t. When my husband [...]

The peaceful school

“You must be so patient.” If I have heard that once, I’ve heard it a hundred times. I must be [...]

Education for a green society

There is a strong connection between the business world and the modern institution of schooling. Historians of education have explained [...]

How to listen and how to be heard

Do you really want a dead cat on your desk?” When a teacher took a parent’s phone call at the [...]

The lifelong journey

It was a cloudy day in April, 2004. It was cloudy in my mind. And storm clouds were brewing over [...]

Toward participatory democracy

As I pursued research for my book on the 1960s-era free school movement, I came across numerous references to the [...]

A history lesson and survival guide for young people during the decline of America

If you’re an American teen or young adult, you’re a pioneer. You may not think of yourself as a pioneer, [...]