Middle School Math Teacher 2025-2026

About The Lovett School: Mission, Core Values, and more

The Lovett School Culture and Community

Reports to: Middle School Division Head

Primary Responsibilities:

• Carries out all responsibilities associated with a normal teaching load in order to engage, inspire, and challenge students consistent with Lovett’s core values, mission, and whole child education model including the following:
• Designing purposeful curriculum, multi-modal instruction, and a variety of assessments in order to reach a diverse community of learners (academically, culturally, racially, religiously, etc.).
• Developing a classroom culture of belonging for all students.
• Working in concert with a teaching team and following through on shared plans.
• Providing regular and timely student feedback, informative parent communication, and unique mid-semester comments for every student.
• Conducting tutorials during scheduled times.
• Asking for and reflecting on student feedback.
• Serves as an advisor, providing a sustained adult relationship to support their academic and personal growth, meeting daily to open school, providing primary academic advising, point of contact for parents, and mid-semester student-parent conferences. Attends assemblies and chapels with advisory each rotation.
• Takes part in the life of the School outside of the classroom through athletics, fine arts, extracurricular activities, or other Upper School responsibilities.
• Participates in faculty, department, team, and grade-level meetings.
• Fulfills additional duties as assigned, including occasional responsibilities that may occur on weekends and evenings (e.g. parent night, graduation events, admission open houses, and student or faculty interviews). 

Position Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree with significant coursework in mathematics or a related field. A master’s degree is preferred.
• Proficiency with common technological tools for teaching math (e.g., Desmos, GeoGebra, DeltaMath, graphing calculators) is preferred.
• Self-directed with good time management skills and the ability to manage concurrent responsibilities.
• Love of working with adolescents and a willingness to engage them as whole students, balancing care and compassion with challenge and accountability.
• Commitment to developing one’s own self-awareness, cultural competence, and emotional intelligence.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills to facilitate effective communication with students, parents, colleagues, and supervisors.
• A strong desire to work in a collaborative learning community, employ a growth mindset, and participate in ongoing professional development during the school year and summer.
• Purposefully design curriculum, instruction, and assessment in order to reach a diverse community of learners (academically, culturally, racially, religiously, etc.).
• Professionalism, consistent application of school policies, and regular and reliable attendance.

Physical Demands:  

• NOTE: The Lovett School employment process includes a post-offer drug (hair) test and background check. See the employment application for more information.
• The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions