MASTERY SCHOOL OF HAWKEN FACULTY - POLITICAL SYSTEMS

The Opportunity
We are seeking a dynamic, curious, collaborative individual to join the faculty of the Mastery School of Hawken for the 2024-25 school year. At the heart of our model is the idea that you learn while doing—so you’ll get coaching and support as you learn how to teach in a very different way at our ungraded, project- and problem-based high school.

About You
  • Wildly enthusiastic about mentoring and coaching adolescents
  • Experienced in creative problem-solving and building things in the real world
  • Skilled communicator and listener who enjoys working in a highly collaborative environment
  • Intellectually curious, self-directed, and motivated learner with a wide range of interests and skills, academic and otherwise
  • Committed to active, ongoing development of intercultural competence
  • Philosophically aligned with the mission of the Mastery School of Hawken
  • Able to operate in ambiguity and roll up their sleeves and jump in to do what the team needs
  • Significant depth of expertise and professional experience in Political Systems
  • An ideal candidate has experience in one or more of the following areas:
    • Government and Law-/Policy-making (Local, State, or National)
    • Political or Issue-Based Campaigning
    • Justice + Human Rights Advocacy and Coalition-Building
    • International Relations
    • Political Philosophy
  • Experience in one of the following additional areas is a plus:
    • Computational Thinking + Coding
    • Entrepreneurship
    • Math + Data Analytics
    • Spanish
    • Visual and/or Performing Arts and Music
About Us 
Hawken School is a preschool–12th co-ed independent day school with four campuses in Cleveland, Ohio, and founder of the Mastery Transcript Consortium, a national organization aimed at reinventing how students prepare for college, careers, and life. In August 2020, we launched the Mastery School of Hawken, a new project- and problem-based ungraded high school in the University Circle neighborhood of Cleveland. We will graduate our second class of seniors in June of 2024. 
We’ve designed The Mastery School of Hawken around three core principles: 
  • Learning experiences are organized around real-world problem-solving, where students learn while working on challenges with community partners.
  • We use new methods of teaching designed around individual growth, allowing for more project-based and personalized learning.
  • Our mastery assessment model emphasizes feedback for growth and credits enduring, deep, and transferable learning using mastery credits. 
Committed to strengthening our relationship to our city, we are building this school for greater socioeconomic access by offering a significant number of seats to full-need students from the city of Cleveland.

The Team 
You’ll join our dynamic team of educators as we enter Year 5 of the school. As you onboard and learn our methods and approaches, you’ll take increasing responsibility for program elements over your first year. You’ll also bring your unique set of strengths to all aspects of school life, in the classroom, in our Wayfinding program, and in co-curriculars. Together, we’ll create a high school that provides a new model for education. While experience working with young people is vital, classroom experience is not a necessity and career-changers are welcome! 

The Journey 
Within one month, you will: 
  • Learn how our model of teaching and learning works by participating in on-demand training through the Korda Institute for Teaching
  • Participate in an all-school onboarding experience designed to connect you to colleagues across Hawken and our city
  • Engage in a Mastery-School specific onboarding experience 
Within three months, you will: 
  • Design and teach learning experiences in our Macros and/or Micros 
  • Build initial connections with key community partners
  • Take leadership of one or more co-curricular offerings for students
  • Gain hands-on training to support your work in counseling and advising students
  • Collaborate closely with colleagues on all aspects of program implementation, jumping in to help as needed
  • Engage in new faculty support sessions designed to be responsive to what you’ll likely experience in your first few months 
Within the first six months, you will: 
  • Engage and reflect with colleagues on an ongoing basis about your learning, growth, and development
  • Refine your instructional practice with ongoing coaching from the Korda Institute for Teaching, the Head of the Mastery School, and collaboration with peers
  • Teach or co-teach a three-week Intensive in a topic area of interest for students from Hawken Upper and Mastery Schools
  • Revise and refine your plans for future learning experiences (Macros, Micros, and more) as the school continues to scale 
This position will require training in summer 2024 with a full-time start in August 2024.

INTERESTED? 
Please send a resume, references, and a cover letter to: mshemployment@hawken.edu.

Hawken School is an equal-opportunity employer dedicated to promoting all forms of diversity in the workplace and in our student body. We strongly urge all qualified individuals to apply.
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An independent, coeducational, college preparatory day school, toddler through grade 12

Early Childhood, Lower, and Middle Schools, 5000 Clubside Rd, Lyndhurst, OH 44124
Birchwood School of Hawken, 4400 West 140th Street, Cleveland, OH 44135 
Upper School, PO Box 8002 (12465 County Line Rd), Gates Mills, OH 44040
Mastery School of Hawken, 11025 Magnolia Dr, Cleveland, OH 44106
Gries Center, 10823 Magnolia Dr, Cleveland, OH 44106

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