Grade 5 Teacher at Laurel School’s Butler Campus

Description

Position/Title:  Grade 5 Teacher at Laurel School’s Butler Campus

Appointment:  School Year 2025/2026

Reports To:   Associate Director of Grades 3-5 and Outdoor Prekindergarten at Butler

Laurel School seeks talented faculty and staff who will put our students first and strive to make a difference in their lives.  We seek to attract faculty and staff who thrive on being engaged participants in our community and are committed to developing young women as authentic learners and leaders.  The most successful candidates are solutions-driven, are willing to listen to learn, embrace iteration and practice as a necessary part of the product, see opportunities before problems, and thrive in a fast-paced, forward-thinking educational environment. Laurel lives our mission: to inspire each girl to fulfill her promise and to better the world. 

Position Summary

This position is based at Laurel’s Butler Campus, our 150-acre outdoor learning environment. As a homeroom teacher, this position entails the design, detailed planning, and instruction of child-centered, interdisciplinary, place-based curricula that integrate the outdoors with language arts, math, science, and social studies.  Teachers work collaboratively with a grade-level team and with specialist teachers in world languages, art, music, physical education, and dance. Additionally, candidates might have previous experience with or a desire to develop outdoor leadership, such as Project Adventure, NOLS, or Wilderness First Responder.

Duties and responsibilities include:

• Preparation and implementation of daily lessons
• Assignment and timely evaluation of all relevant class work
• Design and implementation of appropriate, authentic assessments in each core curricular area
• Comprehensive, ongoing documentation of student progress
• Preparation of regular, detailed rubrics and formal narrative reports on student progress
• Assessment and support of students
• Integration of the outdoors into curricular and instructional experiences
• Collaboration with other members of the faculty and staff
• Participation in faculty and staff meetings
• Effective and timely communication in person, through email and through voice mail with varied school constituencies
• Support of divisional and school-wide initiatives 
• Supervision and/or participation in non-academic activities, i.e., lunch, recess, and arrival/dismissal
• Other duties as assigned

Requirements

The successful candidate ideally holds a graduate degree and has 3 or more years of teaching experience. This opening is for a teaching position at our Butler Campus -- interested candidates must embrace the outdoors and be interested in place-based education and curriculum development. Experience teaching or working in an outdoor learning environment is beneficial. She or he must possess a positive attitude, excellent written and verbal skills, strong organizational skills, and proven success within a work setting that requires collaboration, cooperation, and collegiality.  The candidate must possess or acquire and maintain a State of Ohio issued teaching license or non tax certificate.

Salary

Laurel offers competitive compensation and a comprehensive benefits package.

To Apply:

Please see www.laurelschool.org for further information and a job application.  

Work Environment  

Laurel School is a dynamic, forward-thinking, K-12 girls’ school with a co-ed early childhood division, where every child is well known.

Laurel teachers are committed to:

• The study of research on girls’ education and integration of this knowledge into classroom practice
• Creating a culture of belonging in which every member of the community feels valued 
• The academic and social development of girls
• Working with each girl to fulfill the school’s mission
• The creation of a classroom community
• The integration of community-based learning projects at the classroom level and as a part of the whole school community
• Involving parents as partners in the educational process
• Outdoor education and sustainability
• Flexibility and openness to new ideas

Laurel enjoys an outstanding local and national reputation and is home to the Laurel Center for Research on Girls. In a highly competitive school landscape, Laurel is fortunate to be a school of choice in Cleveland. Our emphasis on the whole child and our legacy of excellence in the teaching of girls set us apart. Located in Shaker Heights, OH (15 minutes from downtown Cleveland) with an additional rural campus 17 minutes away, the school has a suburban/rural advantage. The work environment is noted for being family-friendly and flexible. The feeling in the school is joyous, collaborative and innovative. Our curricular philosophy emphasizes community-based, interdisciplinary and experiential learning. Collaboration and reflective practice are key to pedagogy at Laurel. The school is fully committed to a culturally diverse faculty and student body.  

Laurel School is dedicated to providing equal employment opportunities to all personnel and applicants for employment without regard to race; color; religion; sex; gender identity; national origin; handicap or disability; sexual orientation; or status as a veteran, Vietnam era, or special disabled veteran.