We are looking for an experienced educator who shares our Christian classical commitments and has a background in history. The ideal candidate will be an enthusiastic and thoughtful educator capable of engaging (primarily high school) students in the history of ideas over the course of human history, with particular emphasis on modern European and American history. Additionally, the ideal candidate would possibly take on department chair duties, overseeing our K-12 history curriculum.

1. Plan and facilitate history lessons across various grade levels in the Upper School, adhering to the school’s educational philosophy and in conversation with the Upper School Principal and Academic Dean.
2. Facilitate, evaluate, and track student learning.
3. Serve as an advisor to a small group of students.
4. Collaborate effectively with colleagues, staff, and school leaders.
5. Actively participate in school life, attending advancement events, school retreats, etc.
6. (Eventually) lead and manage the History Department, ensuring curricular excellence and alignment with the school’s mission, engage in faculty evaluations, and regularly collaborate with other department chairs toward schoolwide goals.
7. Engage in continuous professional development and lead departmental workshops.

About The Cambridge School

If you’re looking for a meaningful vocation that seeks to form young people to live flourishing, eudaemonic lives while collaborating with thoughtful, mission-focused colleagues in an intentional community of faith and learning, The Cambridge School in beautiful San Diego, California, might be just the place for you! We are a JK-12th grade Classical Christian school that is 20 years old and thriving. We are committed to equipping students to think well, love rightly, and live wisely through an educational model that is rooted in historic Protestantism and the best of the classical tradition. Our mission embodies a dedication to shaping students’ affections towards the true, good, and beautiful by providing them with an education that is formative and not merely informative. While this is no easy task in our day and age, together we are faithfully seeking to cultivate wisdom and virtue in our students through our academically vigorous and spiritually-robust community of faith and learning. If this resonates with you, please go to our school website at www.cambridgeclassical.org to learn more and apply!

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