What are the responsibilities and job description for the Classroom Teacher - High School Humanities (Social Studies focus) position at Cabot School?
At Cabot School, we strive to ensure all students experience a culture of inclusion and belonging. We aspire to live our core values of respect, responsibility, kindness, engagement, and safety. Students’ voices are honored without judgment. All students feel well known by each other and the adults in their lives at school. We seek a secondary level educator who is committed to working collaboratively with a team of adults to meet the varied needs of the students in their classroom. We seek someone who shares our values and can build a culture of inclusion and belonging that allows students to thrive socially, emotionally, and academically.
Cabot School seeks a caring, dynamic and innovative teacher to join project-based high school team. Over the last several years, our high school teaching team has solidified an innovative project-based approach to our high school program. This is a highly unique and collaborative teaching team in which teachers teach Project Studio courses that are based on transferable proficiencies as well as content area proficiencies. The humanities teacher will be charged with designing and implementing social studies driven projects that culminate in the creation of a real work product or experience.
This position is a full-time position for the 2025-2026 school year. We are seeking a teacher with experience and a love of children in the high school grades who has experience with and a commitment to:
Collaboration. The teacher we seek will join the high school team in planning and implementing the high school program across content areas. The teacher must be willing to work collaboratively
Project Based Learning: Planning and implementing rigorous, relevant, real world projects that integrate transferable skills.
Creating a classroom culture that is characterized by a restorative approach to student relationships and fosters a climate of belonging, respect and inclusion.
Parents as partners: The ideal candidate will have a history of working collaboratively with families and students with diverse backgrounds and needs.
Lifelong learning: Approaches students, colleagues, families, and themselves from a growth mindset perspective.
The ideal candidate would have experience as a teacher leader and curriculum maker in a proficiency-based learning environment. They would be able to teach collaboratively with a variety of colleagues and think flexibly about the ways in which students engage in learning. Over the past few years students have demonstrated their learning through podcasts, choose your own adventure sites, creating websites, writing songs, and independent films.