Upper School Social & Emotional Learning Teacher

The Nueva School Upper School Social-Emotional Learning Teacher August 2025 The Position Nueva seeks an inspiring SEL teacher to co-design, plan, and lead core grade-level courses on social-emotional intelligence. In these courses, the SEL educator strikes a balance between providing intellectual frameworks and questions, teaching practices and skills in a student-centered pedagogy, and responding to issues and themes that arise. SEL courses aim to foster both the joy of learning and the habit of metacognition by building a space where students learn to engage deeply with their own mental and emotional models and each other through dialogue, perspective-taking, listening, identity awareness, and trust-building, while acquiring tangible skills in self-management, relationship-building, communication, and more. The SEL class is not a therapeutic space but a proactive skill-based curriculum intended to provide both the pragmatic techniques for lifelong success and the discursive habit for metacognition. Topics range from emotional regulation to civil discourse to holistic models of decision-making (epistemology), and are taught through activities, discussions, reflections, talking through scenarios, projects, and small tasks. Nueva’s belief in learning to care for the self, care for others, and care for the community has been fundamental to our commitment since the school’s inception. SEL helps make our motto of “Learn by Doing, Learn by Caring” a lived reality and as such is a stand-alone course in PK-12th grades, but also an ethos, the bedrock of the culture of kindness and emotional intelligence at Nueva, informing how students, faculty, staff, and families in the community relate to each other and to the world around them. Our SEL teachers are an important member of the Upper School faculty, reporting to the Upper School head, and they also liaise with the school wellness team, interfacing with advisors, deans, counselors, equity and inclusion practit

Salary : $77,000 - $141,800