Resident Teacher

Early Career Teacher:
Multiple Openings in Lower School (Kinder-4th)

Start Date:

August 2026

Inspire students to achieve their dreams and reach beyond themselves to make a difference in the world.

Hillbrook provides an extraordinary educational experience that fosters a love of learning in our students and helps them develop the knowledge, skills, and confidence to achieve their highest individual potential in school and in life. At Hillbrook, students are known, respected and valued as individuals and every day is a journey of self-discovery, imaginative thinking, creative problem solving, laughter and friendship.

Be kind. Be curious. Take risks. Be your best.

We are seeking multiple early career teachers to join one of our lower school homeroom teams (multiple openings across K-4th Grades) as part of our Resident Teacher Program for the 2026-27 school year. This is a paid, 1-2 year hands‑on, full‑time, salaried teaching and professional development experience for beginning and early career teachers. Resident Teachers immerse themselves in the intellectually rich and reflective culture of teaching and learning at Hillbrook School as members of grade‑level and/or departmental teaching teams.

The Resident Teacher Program (RTP) at Hillbrook School provides students and faculty with an exceptional educational experience and environment. Modeled after the medical residency practice, Resident Teachers at Hillbrook are full faculty members, teaching shoulder‑to‑shoulder with lead teachers at their grade level. Residents engage in all aspects of teaching and school‑wide responsibilities while collaborating, exploring, and exchanging ideas on cutting‑edge practices as members of both a Resident cohort, and of their departmental and grade‑level teams.

Our school’s emphasis on collaboration and co‑teaching creates opportunities for all of our faculty to make deep inquiries into teaching and learning.

• Realize our school’s mission to know, respect and value each child and to offer individualized instruction by increasing the number of educators who engage with each child.
• Foster collegiality and reflection on best practices by creating co‑teaching and collaborative learning opportunities for all of our faculty.
• Nurture early career teachers so they leave our program prepared for a wide variety of careers in education as confident, reflective practitioners with experience in a breadth of instructional approaches, and with a deep understanding of themselves as teachers.

Do our Core Values – Be kind. Be curious. Take risks. Be your best. – align with how you show up as a professional? Are you committed to building and bridging inclusive communities? Do you believe learning should be an active and relational process? Do you enjoy nurturing and maintaining best practices and continuity of programs, while also evolving programs in response to new information?

Is equity and impact at the forefront of what you do? Do you thrive in small collaborative environments? Do you seek opportunities for interdisciplinary, experiential learning? Do you believe that students are capable changemakers at any age and stage? A Hillbrook employee will emphatically say yes to each of these questions.

• Plan and prepare materials and learning spaces for differentiated lessons following shared learning outcomes, individually and as part of a co‑teaching team. (
  
  Please note:
  
  this position is part of one grade level’s homeroom teaching team, K-4th Grade, with the specific grade/department to be determined in the hiring process).
• Lead daily, small- and whole‑group academic, and social emotional student learning, individually and as part of a co‑teaching team.
• Assist with the observation, assessment, and documentation of student learning.
• Communicate with families about student progress, strengths and challenges, as part of a team.
• Reflect on teaching practice and student learning with both co‑teaching team and Resident cohort.
• Attend biweekly…