Founding Planning Team - Middle School

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• Position Type:
  Secondary Teaching & Certified School Positions
• Date Posted: 9/25/2026
• Date Available:
  
  11/16/2026
• Closing Date: 10/09/2026

Talon Ridge Middle School is seeking four exceptional educators to join our Founding Planning and help prepare TRMS for its opening in Fall of 2027.

Opening a new school offers a rare opportunity. We don't inherit a culture, we create one. We don't simply adopt routines and systems because "that's how we've always done it." We get to ask what our students need, what we believe about learning, and then intentionally build a school around those answers.

At Talon Ridge, that work has already begun.

TRMS is being built around R:
Respect, Responsibility, and Relationship and a commitment to developing young people as thinkers, learners, leaders, and connectors. We believe every student deserves meaningful intellectual challenge, increasing ownership of their learning, strong relationships with adults and peers, and a school designed to help them become increasingly capable and independent.

We also believe that adults who create that experience matter enormously.

Teachers at Talon Ridge will be trusted as professionals, expected to learn continuously, and asked to bring both expertise and curiosity to their work. Our Founding Planning Team will help us take these beliefs from ideas on paper to the everyday experiences of our students, staff, and families.

The four educators selected for the Founding Planning Team will work collaboratively with the principal and one another to help design and prepare Talon Ridge for opening.

This work will include:

• Building the Student
  
  Experience:
  
  Helping, translate our vision and R commitments into the routines, traditions, expectations, structures, and experiences students encounter every day.
• Building the Learning
  
  Experience:
  
  Helping develop the instructional structures and professional practices that support intellectual challenge, students ownership, HQIM, GELL, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Building the Adult
  
  Experience:
  
  Helping create the systems and cultures that allow adults to collaborate, learn, receive feedback, take appropriate risks, and continuously improve their practice.
• Building the Community: Helping establish traditions, celebrations, communication structures, family connections, and the rituals that will eventually make Talon Ridge feel like our school.
• Building the Founding Staff: Participating in the selection process for educators who will become part of the inaugural TRMs team and helping welcome and prepare that staff for opening.
• Solving the Thousand Things We Haven't Thought of Yet: Because opening a school requires people who can encounter ambiguity, ask good questions, create solutions, adjust when something doesn't work, and keep moving forward.

We are not looking for four people who think exactly alike. In fact, we hope they don't.

We are looking for educators with different experiences, perspectives, strengths, and areas of expertise who share a commitment to what Talon Ridge is trying to build.

Strong candidates will be educators who:

• Believe deeply in the potential of every student and refuse to…