Watershed School seeks a passionate, energetic full-time middle school humanities educator to begin August 7, 2019.  Watershed is a progressive, 6-12 independent school in Boulder, Colorado. We believe that students learn best when engaged in learning not just about the world, but in the world and for the world.  Our program involves science and humanities teachers team-teaching courses focused on big topics and questions, for example: Farm to Table, Source to Sea, and Home.  Teachers have significant collaborative planning time, and work to engage students regularly in learning from experiences and experts outside the classroom.

Teaching at Watershed also includes leading an advisory group, engaging in orientation camping trips, teaching a May Term course (alternating between domestic travel with middle school and international travel with high school), and participating in extensive professional development, including the school's annual Traverse Conference.

The ideal candidate will have

• 5+ years experience teaching humanities at the middle school level.
• Demonstrated experience with a project-based and/or expeditionary approach
• Experience with interdisciplinary curriculum and/or team-teaching
• Consistent record of working to innovate and improve their teaching through both experimentation and professional learning
• Experience leading outdoor trips
• Proven ability to collaborate effectively
• Ability to travel on overnight trips, including international travel, for durations up to two weeks long
• Broad global and multicultural competency
• Strong interpersonal skills with a wide range of adolescents
• Have, or be able to obtain by August 7, 2019, either Wilderness First Aid or Wilderness First Responder certification