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Lead Middle School Teacher for Mountain Sun Community School, North Carolina

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 through 6th [...]

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Staff at Summerhill School

A.S. Neill’s Summerhill School, a co-educational boarding school in Suffolk, England, is the original alternative ‘free’ school. Founded in 1921, it continues to be an influential model for progressive, democratic education around the world. We are seeking to recruit for September 2012: a Science Teacher an Art Teacher an English Teacher All three positions involve [...]

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Dorm staff at The Highland School, Highland, West Virginia

The Highland School has openings for dormitory staff for the 2012-2013 school year. The dormitory houses up to 8 students from the US and overseas. The Highland School was established in 1981. We practice democracy and value individual rights. Staff members are expected to be committed to the long term sustainability of the school. Staff [...]

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Manager for Ryerson Early Learning Centre

The School of Early Childhood Education invites candidates for the position of Manager of the Early Learning Centre. The incumbent reports to the Director of the School of ECE. The incumbent will provide leadership for the centre on activities related to childcare management, financial management, and supervision of the centre’s teacher-preceptors. The incumbent will develop [...]

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Associate Director for after-school program at Voyagers Community School

Voyagers’ Community School is looking for an Associate Director to spearhead our newly conceived after school program. We need an energetic, creative, take-charge individual who understands program design, marketing, facility management, fiscal responsibility and progressive education. This person will conceive of program ideas considering the expressed desires and needs of constituents and teaching resources in [...]

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Advisor at The Village Free School, Portland

The Village Free School is seeking to fill one full time staff position in our small non-profit democratic school. We are seeking applicants who have prior experience working with students between the ages of five and eight years old, and who possess strong skills in communication, conflict resolution, and a knowledge of early childhood development. [...]

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Assistant Teacher at Salmonberry School

Salmonberry School, a child-centered holistic independent school in Eastsound, WA is seeking a motivated, energetic and dedicated assistant teacher with experience working with elementary school age children for the 2011-12 school year and beyond. This position will be approximately 30-35 hours/week, including some paid prep time. Duties will include leading small groups of students with [...]

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Staff at Shenandoah Valley Community School, Harrisonburg, Virginia

Shenandoah Valley Community School has a full time staff opening for the 2011-2012 school year. We are a democratic, learner-centered school serving students grades K-6. Students at SVCS are in charge of deciding what, when, where, and how to learn. Our school emphasizes responsibility, communication, peaceful interactions, and self-direction. We are seeking a staff member [...]

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Math Teacher at the School for Independent Learners, Los Altos, California

In light of student enrollment, we seek to hire a Math teacher who can connect with students and explain material in a way that fosters meaningful learning. Although we prefer to hire instructors with previous teaching or tutoring experience, we encourage anyone with a comprehensive understanding of Math–and a good sense of humor–to apply. You [...]

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Intern at Horizon School, Atlanta, Georgia

Horizons School is working on plans to open a school-within-a-school which will help refugees of war who are moving into the Atlanta area. These students need a hand-up learning ESL and American culture. The students we are working with now are some the most enthusiastic and fun the we have ever taught. The internship would [...]

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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, [...]