Careers
AT HUDSON LAB SCHOOL
Career Opportunities
Join our incredible teaching team. We are seeking educators, summer camp leaders, and after-school instructors who love making, building, and creating art. Ideal candidates are forward-thinking, entrepreneurial educators with a passion for project-based learning, creativity, and collaboration. Our team designs and implements an emergent, academically rigorous curriculum and leads interdisciplinary projects with real-world applications in engineering, reading, writing, math, and science. Hudson Lab School is committed to building a faculty and student body that reflect the diversity of the world around us, and we strongly encourage candidates from underrepresented groups to apply.
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This is an incredible opportunity for a forward-thinking, talented, and entrepreneurial Elementary Educator to co-teach a small, mixed-age class in the 2025–26 school year. We are looking for teachers who are designers with a passion for project-based learning. We seek teachers who model a growth mindset and thrive when being creative and working in a collaborative environment. Teachers in this role work closely with our School Directors to create and implement an emergent and academically rigorous curriculum and to develop interdisciplinary project-based learning activities with opportunities for real-world applications in engineering, reading, writing, math, and science.
The duties of our teachers are many, yet center around a single concern: the creation and maintenance of a rich, varied, and engaging program that empowers students to become independent learners. We recognize that every teacher is unique, just as every student is unique. There is no single formula that defines an excellent teacher.
The following duties and responsibilities serve as guidelines that communicate the priorities of the Hudson Lab School program. Specific responsibilities may be added or re-assigned as circumstances require. The overall goal is for the teaching team to do whatever it takes to create an excellent and engaging program, supported by a positive and collaborative community of students and adults.
Hudson Lab School is still in its startup phase. While we anticipate remaining dynamic into the future, our current stage requires teachers who are self-starters and take strong initiative. This reality can be challenging, but it also provides a rare opportunity for creativity, personal initiative, and the excitement of being at the forefront of educational innovation.
Duties & Responsibilities
A Hudson Lab School Lab teacher will work as part of the team to:
Define and structure a well-rounded, experiential educational program delivering personalized learning activities to meet each student’s abilities, needs, and learning style for a mixed-age class.
Create and implement an emergent, academically rigorous curriculum that is rooted in project-based learning in diverse settings for a mixed-age classroom.
Determine students’ academic and social-emotional learning objectives and ensure that they’re met.
Balance observational documentation with summative and formative assessments to provide in-depth and accurate assessments of student learning throughout the year.
Regularly communicate learning targets and outcomes to colleagues, parents, and students.
Support students in their whole-child, personalized learning experience throughout the year.
Build and maintain positive, inclusive, and transparent relationships with parents.
Help market the school and recruit families.
Qualifications
No one formula defines an excellent Hudson Lab School teacher. Some of the qualifications we seek include (but are not limited to):
A passion for innovation in education and an entrepreneurial mindset
Undergraduate or graduate degree in education
Experience with the applicable grade bands, with a strength in core skills (math and literacy)
Experience in designing and implementing hands-on, child-centered learning curriculum
Must thrive in a collaborative environment, especially when it comes to teaching and planning
A passion for working in an inquiry setting where projects and problems are used to motivate students to research, solve, and explore solutions and creations
Commitment to working collaboratively with colleagues and parents
Passion for working with and engaging children in student-driven learning experiences
Belief in technology as a medium to learn and create, and a basic comfort level with STEM subject matter
Passion for innovation in education and an entrepreneurial mindset
A growth mindset and a drive to foster children’s social-emotional capabilities
The Basics: Good organization and management skills, a high level of responsibility, punctuality and reliability, and a strong work ethic, current CPR/First Aid Certification, and security clearance (fingerprints)
Gravy: Experience in Design thinking, co-designing with students, Reggio or Montessori approaches
A lifelong learner
Joyfulness
Resilience
A sense of humor
Salary: $65,000-$80,0000 Commensurate with experience
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Hudson Lab School seeks diversity in its faculty, staff, and student body. In admission and employment policies and practices, in its financial aid program, and in all its educational programs, HLS does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national and ethnic origin, disability, sexual orientation, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, and any other protected categories under applicable law.
Working as a Teacher
Hudson Lab School is where joyful, mission-driven people come together to find community, grow their professional purpose, and thrive. Teachers at Hudson Lab School embody this spirit by fostering independence, creativity, and responsibility in their classrooms. A Hudson Lab School teacher
Attempts to empower students in any way possible by turning over tasks to students as they gain the maturity to manage them. At the same time, they provide appropriate levels of structure to match students’ maturity level so that students are successful.
Enjoys creating differentiated, child-centered curricula to meet the needs of students with different abilities and at various developmental stages.
Loves progressive education, which defines the child as the protagonist in their own learning; with teachers serving as organizers, guides, and sources of inspiration.
Is committed to teaching the whole child – intellectual, social/emotional, and physical – and creating a balanced educational program with thematic units that integrate many subjects, including art and technology, through inquiry, real-world applications and/or service projects
Understands the importance of balancing creative and critical thinking, and encouraging persistence and intellectual fortitude
Honors child development as a major factor in creating teaching approaches for individual children
Is familiar with positive discipline techniques and is willing to embrace the character and community-building programs adopted at Hudson Lab School
Celebrates a diverse community, culturally, racially, economically, and in terms of styles and abilities
Encourages health, good nutrition, and mindfulness
Relishes inquiry about how students learn and embraces teaching for understanding rather than rote learning
Is passionate about design thinking and how it engages children with all different learning styles
Is familiar with the Common Core standards and can align student projects with the standards
Working with Our Team
A key factor to job success and satisfaction is who you’re working with. Our educators have chosen to be here because they are committed to creating a school that provides children with authentic, lasting learning experiences. Students and educators are collaborative, innovative, and entrepreneurial. They examine problems, generate solutions, take calculated risks, learn from their failures, and apply a growth mindset towards finding or redefining success. HLS is committed to engaging students and teachers in this kind of learning because it evokes passion for learning and demands a high degree of grit and creativity. Our team of educators dedicates their work to creating an environment where students can thrive in every endeavor now and in the future.