What are the responsibilities and job description for the Student Learning Support Teacher position at High Meadows School?
High Meadows School in Roswell, Georgia, approximately 30 minutes north of Atlanta, is accepting support teacher applications for the 2025-2026 school year. The school takes pride in hiring dynamic, compassionate, and diverse faculty and staff who are among the finest in their areas of expertise.
School’s Mission Statement
The High Meadows community celebrates and perpetuates each individual’s quest for knowledge and skill, sense of wonder, and connection to the natural environment. We empower each to be a compassionate, responsible, and active global citizen.
School’s Vision Statement
High Meadows School and Camp inspires adventurous learners who ask questions that drive learning and seek sustainable solutions in collaboration with others. Our students emerge as ethical leaders with the skills and habits of mind to grow and adapt as they discover a place of purpose and joy in an ever-changing world.
Summary
Our educators are experienced, energetic, and collaborative individuals who follow a constructivist, progressive educational philosophy which is student-centered and holds kids to high and reasonable standards. Our tenets of progressive education include: (1) embracing the world, (2) hands-on and inquiry-driven learning, (3) holistic approach to educating children, (4) social justice and sustainability, and (5) transdisciplinary learning.
We look for educators who maintain excellent relationships with families, work successfully within a team, understand developmentally appropriate practices for students, recognize the educational value of the natural environment and demonstrate a commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice in their teaching practice. At High Meadows, we believe that children possess a drive for cognitive, physical, and social engagement—a drive that is developed and enhanced by an environment that promotes academic challenge, creativity, personal responsibility, and a positive self-image.
Knowledge and Skill Set Requirements
• Must be motivated, nurturing, creative, self-directed and a collaborative team member.
• Must have excellent communication and interpersonal skills as well as a passion and energy for teaching children.
• Desire to play a meaningful role in each student’s daily school life and the life of the school.
• Ability to clearly communicate, collaborate, and work effectively in a teaching partnership.
• Ability to nurture and challenge each student.
• Model continuous learning, and demonstrate a commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice.
• Understand academic, social, behavioral, and emotional development milestones of children.
• Understand positive discipline in a progressive educational setting.
Essential Job Functions
Our teachers:
• Adhere to the school philosophy recognizing the developmental nature of childhood growth and each child’s need for belonging.
• Work in accordance with the mission, vision and values of High Meadows School around approaches to learning/teaching, project-based instruction, and the Positive Discipline approach to behavior.
• Are responsible for supervision and direct instruction, student assessment, narratives, communication with parents, and parent-student-teacher conferences.
• Are responsible for student learning, classroom instruction, and curriculum implementation in the core subject areas or in a specialty area, depending on the teaching role and grade-level position.
• Will work with a team to design learning environments that are focused on creativity and innovation, striving to challenge students to a deeper thinking level and to develop a yearning for greater understanding.
Our elementary grades follow the International Baccalaureate Primary Years Programme®, and teachers are responsible for presenting and creating units of study used to develop inquiring, knowledgeable and caring young people who help to create a better and more peaceful world through intercultural understanding and respect.
The Campus
High Meadows School sits on 42 wooded acres in Roswell. The school is housed in several buildings spread across the two meadows on the property. We have an active barnyard on campus, serving as the home for horses, sheep, bunnies, and chickens. Faculty and staff must be comfortable traveling between buildings in all types of weather, participating in outdoor activities on the meadows and in the forest, and intermingling with animals.