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Job opening: Full-time Staff Position at a Sudbury School in Pittsburgh, PA

Job opening: Full-time Staff Position at a Sudbury School in Pittsburgh, PA
Three Rivers Village School, a K-12 Sudbury school located in the Stanton Heights neighborhood in Pittsburgh, PA is looking to hire a full-time staff person for the 2015-16 school year.
Staff people at Three Rivers Village School act as dependable stewards of the school; facilitate student access to resources; exemplify mature practice of personal fulfillment and societal engagement; and anchor school culture to values of interpersonal respect and trust in the natural impulse toward personal growth.
 
Required Qualifications
  • Belief in the natural impulse of children (and adults!) to strive for personal growth; commitment to one’s own personal growth
  • Must be extremely reliable, punctual, and safety-conscious
  • Possess high levels of professionalism, personal maturity, and authenticity
  • Excellent communication and literacy skills, including abilities to express thoughts in writing, tailor communication levels for different age groups and developmental levels, and interact effectively with children and adults from a wide variety of backgrounds
  • Be an interested, interesting, engaged, and passionate person
  • Strong self-management skills, including high levels of initiative and ability to authentically and effectively prioritize, including the ability to decline requests from children when appropriate
  • High level of computer literacy, including fluency with word processing, email, and more
  • Ability to maintain confidentiality of student and family data, as well as to keep a constant eye out for the protection of student privacy in less formal ways
  • Ability to pass required background checks
  • General ability to physically participate in the school’s program, including the ability to navigate stairs and outdoor terrain easily

For more information about the position, please view the job description and application instructions on our website: http://threeriversvillageschool.org/about-us/employment/

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Attention Progressive Educators

Attention Progressive Educators

  • The powerful belief that children are creative, capable, powerful, and worthy of the deepest respect
  • Deep in-depth projects
  • The Arts as an integral piece to all learning
  • A workshop model where students actively learn
  • Teachers co-create practice, policy and direction of the school
  • Parents as valuable partners in the work

Interested? Then please introduce yourself to us and let us know why. E-mail Mike Chalupa, Academic

Director, at hiring@cityneighborsfoundation.org.

For more information on our schools, visit:

www.cityneighborsfoundation.org

www.cityneighbors.org

www.cityneighborshamilton.org

www.cityneighborshighschool.org

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Voyagers’ Community School Looking to Fill Positions

Voyagers' Community School, in New Jersey, currently a K-12, progressive school, is expanding. We have purchased an 18,000 square foot building that will soon house our current operation along with a preschool and extensive after school program. We are looking for teachers and administrators, all of whom must be innovative and passionate about working with children. We hope to find:

  • A preschool director and preschool teacher/researchers
  • A lower school and an upper school administrator who wants to continue teaching along with leading and supporting colleagues.
  • Admissions and development staff.
  • Teacher/researchers for children of all ages.


We are looking for intelligent, well rounded individuals with a zest for life and a love of learning. If you are interested, visit our website to learn more about who we are, voyagerskids.com. If you remain interested, submit your cover letter, resume, a statement that reflects your philosophy of education and other anecdotal items you would like use to review. If you are moved to do so be creative in telling us who you are and what you would bring to our school.

Also, help us by spreading the word to colleagues you feel might be a good fit for us. We will help candidates cover interviewing expenses and we offer relocation expenses when necessary.

Not ready to teach quite yet, but would like to intern in an innovative environment where you can hone your skills and learn from mentors? Apply for an internship or for an associate teacher/researcher position.

Thank you, Karen.

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Conference registration is open!

We're getting this year's AERO conference off to a flying start this week. The early bird rate is still on but will end after the first 100 of you have registered, and the price will go higher than usual because of the amazing people and things happening at this year's conference. You can now get full registration, make a deposit to hold the early bird rate, get single or double dorm rooms, or get a package including dorm and conference registration. We have the better (ground level) dorms this year, and we may run out of dorm space. Food will again be at the cafeteria a la carte, although we may have one banquet night. But generally this will save you a lot. Most venues don't let you do this.

 
 
Of course Sugata Mitra is now under contract  and will definitely keynote the AERO conference. He has some special ideas about it. The conference will also explore technology and educational alternatives. So workshops on that theme are welcome. But we will also be happy to have our usual wonderful spectrum of presentations about learner-centered education. We will be announcing other keynoters over time.

Submit your workshop proposals here