Career Opportunities
AT HUDSON LAB SCHOOL
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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Learn more about summer employment opportunities at Camp Hudson.
Hudson Lab School seeks diversity in its faculty, staff, student body, 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.