Year: 2021

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The Farm School Seeks Elementary School Teacher

Elementary School Teacher Needed 2021/22The Farm School is seeking a full time teacher to work with students ranging in age from 5 to 9. We are looking for an applicant with a bachelor’s degree and three years experience working with children in an educational setting (or equivalent experience).

Salary includes 5 weeks of paid school vacation in the school year spanning August – May. A quarterly allotment for teaching/classroom supplies is provided.Additional Information: Teachers start date: July 12 (to be paid at an hourly rate until August 1). First day of school is Wednesday, August 11. School hours are 8:30 am – 4:00 pm Monday through Friday (1-hour paid lunch).

Interested in applying?

Please email your resume to our School Executive Director at Kathie@thefarmschool.community.The optimum teacher/student ratio we strive for is 8:1 in order to enable teachers to meet individual student needs, both academically and emotionally. Working as a team with the staff, students and families is essential, as well as good communication skills, creativity, and most of all, the joy of working with children. We strive to be honest at all times, accept our differences and take care to work things through with each other. Environmental studies and global awareness are an important part of the curriculum. Tennessee education standards for all grades are followed.Love, Mary Ellen Bowen, for the Farm School Board

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The Sudbury School of Atlanta is seeking a staff member

The Sudbury School of Atlanta is seeking a staff member with an entrepreneurial spirit and a passion for empowering K-12 students through the Sudbury model of education. In addition to working with young people every day as part of our learning community, staff are expected to work collaboratively with School Meeting (made up of staff and students), the Board of Trustees, and volunteers on administrative duties that accompany the effective functioning of a small, independent school. Training is provided. Application Deadline: Position is open until filled, priority will be given to applications received by Mon. June 14th, 2021. Anticipated Start Date: Aug 2, 2021


Interested candidates can learn more about SSA, staff duties, and qualifications and how to apply here:https://www.freedomatssa.com/employment.

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Jerry’s Letter to Newsday About Democracy in Schools

Schools don’t need to teach democracy

April 11, 2021

Stephen Gessner criticizes the failure of schools to teach about democracy in his op-ed “Our schools fail to teach democracy,” Opinion, April 7]. But I believe he misses the point.

The need is not for schools to teach “about” democracy, critical thinking and decision making. Students need to grow up practicing democracy, to be “in” democracy.

Obviously, the best way to prepare students to participate in a democracy is not to be subjected to 12 years of authoritarianism in schools.

In our current system, students get rewarded for doing what the teacher and the system tells them to do rather that initiating their own directions of learning, based on their interests. They do not grow up making decisions democratically about their education or their school.

It is important to note that the education revolution has just happened, thanks to remote learning. At one point, we went from less than 5% of students learning alternatively to more than 90%! Now, 50 million American families know they have choices.

Where will this lead? We don’t know, but we should make sure that it leads to a learner-centered, democratic experience for all children. This actually is practiced by more than 250 schools around the world and, for example, over 30 public democratic schools in Israel.

Jerry Mintz, Roslyn

Editor’s note: The writer is director of Alternative Education Resource Organization, based in Roslyn Heights.