Lower School; K-1st Grade Head Teacher

Compensation

Lower School (K-1st Grade) Head Teacher: 1.0 FTE (with benefits), $85,000 - $100,000 depending on experience

Peninsula School, a leader in progressive education since 1925, is a Preschool-8th grade school where children thrive and develop to their full promise as confident contributors in the world. At Peninsula, children learn about themselves and others, discover their passions, and grow intellectually in an inclusive community rich with choices, exploration, and play. Peninsula School has an explicit focus on educating for democracy, student choice and voice, and social justice.

Peninsula School celebrated its centennial in 2025.

Head Teachers work closely together, sequencing and coordinating curriculum and miscellaneous logistics. All classroom teachers are responsible for teaching math, integrated social studies, literacy and social/emotional development. Teachers are provided flexibility in their classrooms to enable them to best serve the needs and interests of their students while remaining true to the mission, values, and progressive pedagogy of the school.

• Support and promote Peninsula School’s mission and values
• Provide a progressive program for children using instructional methods and materials that are responsive and appropriate to the intellectual, social and emotional needs of students and that fosters their positive learning and personal growth
• Maintain a cooperative classroom environment that encourages problem solving, creativity, critical thinking, and intellectual curiosity
• Create and maintain a welcoming, safe, equitable and respectful learning environment that honors and values a diversity of learning, cultural, ethnic, racial and sexual identities and lived experiences of the student population
• Center student growth by managing and monitoring student learning
• Remain current on educational research, topics and progressive practices
• Participate in and contribute to the school’s process of continual reflection and evolution of its program
• Collaborate and communicate constructively with all other Peninsula School staff members
• Integrate culturally competent ways of thinking; incorporate anti-racist principles and practices into your daily teaching and learning approach
• Recognize and address the unique needs and varied learning styles of all children, ensuring each child’s progress in all areas
• Develop and implement teaching units that explore and examine multiple cultures, ethnicities, perspectives, lifestyles, lived experiences and identities
• Monitor student learning
• Build class community by fostering students’ social/emotional learning

• Regularly adhere to the Peninsula School professional expectations and reflect on your engagement with our staff competencies (listed at end of job description)
• Teaching and Learning Program:
  • Serve as the head teacher who teaches math, English language arts, humanities with a focus on social-emotional development for students 5-7 years of age.
  • Recognize and address the unique needs and varied learning styles of all children, ensuring each child’s progress in all areas
  • Develop and implement teaching units that explore and examine multiple cultures, ethnicities, perspectives, lifestyles, lived experiences and identities
  • Deliver a math curriculum that is age-appropriate and that aligns with the scope and sequence of the overall school program
  • Deliver a structured literacy program that is age-appropriate and that aligns with the scope and sequence of the overall school program
  • Share high level (month by month) curriculum goals and objectives for students with Director of Instruction & Belonging by the first back to school staff day
  • Monitor and document student learning with work samples
  • Build class community by fostering students’ social/emotional learning
  • All Peninsula LS Heads are to have completed Orton Gillingham Comprehensive Training before the beginning of the school year (Kindergarten - 4th Grade)
  • Organize and lead fall and spring school overnight(s) and/or camping trip(s) (not including Preschool-1st grade teachers)
• Communications with parents/caregivers:
  • Prior to the start of the school…