Elementary Lead Guide

Overview

Greenspring Montessori School is seeking an Elementary Lead Guide for the 2025-26 school year. The Greenspring Montessori School Elementary Lead Guide is a dynamic, experienced, and mature leader with a deep commitment to implementing Cosmic Education.

ABOUT GREENSPRING MONTESSORI SCHOOL

Greenspring Montessori School has been offering a Montessori education to students since 1962. Nestled on a 7-acre property that was originally a dairy farm, students ages 18 months through grade 8 thrive in our newly renovated buildings, state-of-the-art Montessori classrooms, and rich outdoor learning environments.

At Greenspring Montessori School, we value life experiences alongside professional training. We welcome and celebrate people of diverse backgrounds, histories, perspectives, identities, cultures, religions, and races. Our learning environment is strengthened and enriched through a community that reflects the nuances and beauty of an intricate and complex world.

We are guided by our Professional Values here at Greenspring, and we are searching for self-motivated, collaborative, coachable individuals with a passion for learning and growing within our community. Personal values around a reverence for human dignity and a commitment to social justice, honoring the spirit of each child, and a love of nature and our environment are strong indicators of a potential fit for our school.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Cultivate a nurturing, respectful, inspiring, empowering, and safe learning environment.
• Know and honor each child, cultivating and celebrating their strengths, and gracefully supporting areas of struggle and challenge.
• Provide and support deeply engaging learning experiences in accordance with authentic Montessori philosophy and practice.
• Cultivate and generate a completely student-led environment, filled with independence, concentration, wonder, and joy.
• Create a rich culture of grace and courtesy in the classroom.
• Create a beautiful and inspiring Montessori prepared environment.
• Lesson plan weekly to ensure each child’s unique needs are being met in each area of the curriculum with lessons that support and generate curiosity and wonder, a deep love of learning, and strong academic skills.
• Keep accurate records, updated weekly, on individual students’ development and needs.
• Strive to observe for at least 15 minutes a day, and record these observations.
• Following the Student Support Protocol for students who present needs.
• Model and teach appropriate conflict resolution and problem-solving strategies.

• Ensure warm and effective connection between home and school, and support ongoing communication among the triad of parents, students, and the teaching team.
• Educate and fully support full parent understanding of the beauty and importance of Montessori Education on the spiritual, academic, emotional, and social development for the young child.
• Provide parent-teacher conferences three times a year to provide feedback on students’ intellectual, emotional, and social development.
• Create well-written, educational, and insightful conference summaries, progress reports, and newsletters.
• Provide well-written, insightful updates to parents, using the school’s chosen program and adhering to the guidelines and schedule agreed upon by the Director of Education and Guides.
• Participate in and lead inspiring parent education events.
• Respond to parent inquiries in a timely fashion, and respectfully and effectively.
• Build strong partnerships with your parents.
• Support communication to parents according to school guidelines.
• Ensure successful transition of students into the next level of programming.

• Be deeply committed to constantly deepening your understanding of authentic Montessori practice, and implementing the method rigorously and precisely in your classroom and beyond.
• Model lifelong learning and meet professional development requirements.
• Be a lifelong learner, taking full responsibility for your own self-awareness, spirituality, and growth and…