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Posted: 08-Feb-23
Location: Los Gatos, California
Type: Full Time
Salary: $85,000. to $135,000.
Required Education:
Scott Center for Social Entrepreneurship Experiential Education Lead
Start Date: July 2023
VISION: Inspire students to achieve their dreams and reach beyond themselves to make a difference in the world.
Scott Center for Social Entrepreneurship VISION: Help all learners see the world as it is, imagine what it might be and partner with their communities to make a difference for people and the planet.
MISSION: 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.
Scott Center for Social Entrepreneurship Essential Questions: What matters to you and what are you doing about it?
CORE VALUES: Be kind. Be curious. Take risks. Be your best.
The Position: What Will You Do & How Will We Collaborate
This Experiential Education Lead will play a critical role embedding a culture of social entrepreneurship and justice-in-action throughout the entire newly expanding upper school. The Experiential Education Lead will be someone who loves visionary thinking as well as tactical execution, and someone with an entrepreneurial spirit as well as a grounding in best practices in social entrepreneurship and experiential education. In the first year, the EE lead will develop and manage the place-based learning immersive program at the Upper School and oversee the Reach Beyond program in the middle school. The Hillbrook Upper School is an expansion of an already excellent JK-8 program and this is a chance to join the Scott Center for Social Entrepreneurship (SCSE) team at a strategic and exciting moment of growth internally and externally - a truly unique opportunity to shape and nurture a program from its infancy. The Experiential Education Lead will also have opportunities to visit and collaborate with local entrepreneurs, local activists, and lead programs locally and globally to ensure the very best design of the immersive and social impact education programs, serving as a critical connector of students core, creative and impact academic experience on and off campus.
The Experiential Education Lead: Who Are You
Do Hillbrook’s Core Values – Be kind. Be curious. Take risks. Be your best. – align with how you show up as an educator? Do our SCSE core questions (What matters to you? What are you doing about it?) resonate with you as a leader and educator on and off campus? Do you enjoy building curriculum and programs in the early stage? Are you committed to building and bridging inclusive communities rooted in justice and action? Do you value the importance of detail oriented logistics and clear communication to ensure incredible learning experiences? Are you naturally entrepreneurial and visionary? Are you excited about the possibilities of social impact education? Do you believe learning should be an active and relational process? Are you someone who understands how to manage the duality of a budget and a vision? Do you love to explore locally and globally? Do you often ask: How can we make this better? Who do I need to partner with to make this idea possible? Do you enjoy the ambiguity of starting something from scratch and sustaining it from idea to meaningful impact? Are equity and impact at the forefront of what you do? Do you thrive in small collaborative environments, and are you at the same time a self-starter? Do you love working with kids and adults alike? Do you have experience building interdisciplinary, experiential learning? Do you believe that high school students can make profound, long-lasting impacts on local and global communities? The team of expanding Scott Center leaders will emphatically say yes to each of these questions.
Specific Duties and Responsibilities
- Manage the Upper School Immersives program in partnership with Program Leaders and Upper School faculty
- Oversee the Middle School Reach Beyond Week program in partnership with Program Leaders and MS faculty
- Review and manage risk and operations of off campus learning experiences in partnership with the Senior Leadership Team
- Oversee and manage the logistics and planning (including the budget and communications) of the off campus social impact learning experiences
- Co-lead the SCSE Youth Leadership Council
- Support the SIL (Social Impact and Leadership) 8th grade flagship program to build cohesion and extensions of social impact learning from middle to high school
- Support the ongoing growth of the DEIJA (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Justice and Action) work and leadership across the JK-12 campus, ensuring the intersection of joy, challenge and activism
- Train faculty and staff in necessary risk management procedures
- Actively support the SCSE Program and Research lead in action research initiatives across the JK-12 campus
- Support potential creation of SCSE microsites
- Run SCSE Summer camps on or off campus (local and global)
- Teach various social impact electives, student clubs and exploratory courses as needed
- Support and guide faculty who work both directly and indirectly in the Social Impact Lab, including building interdisciplinary collaboration and connections
- Play a leadership role in the strategic planning and operational growth of the SCSE on and off campus to help position the SCSE as the leading voice on social entrepreneurship education locally and globally
- Participate in the design of the new campus, especially the Impact Lab
- Support ongoing SCSE communications, events and on-going sustainability efforts to reduce impact on the environment
- Manage and organize experiential education gear, tools, and supplies
- Lead collaborations with athletics, art and design colleagues to create experiential experiences in these areas
- Deepen use of social entrepreneurship frameworks such as the 17 Sustainable Development Goals and the SCSE 6 lenses of social entrepreneurship (Design, Finance, Systems, Civics, Story, Agency) in curriculum design and communication with the HIllbrook community
- Actively participate in a faculty culture that is committed to being at the leading edge of JK-12 education
- Report to the Director of the Scott Center for Social Entrepreneurship
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Education, Equity and Justice, Experiential Learning, Entrepreneurship or related field
- Experience managing, coaching and mentoring teachers
- Experience managing budgets and program operations
- A love of and experience teaching middle and high school students
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment
- Experience working in or collaborating with industry professionals
- Ability to effectively communicate goals and learning outcomes of experiential education programs to students and families
- Experience working and creating in a project-based learning environment
- Demonstrated commitment to teaching and learning in a diverse, dynamic, and progressive school community
- Experience with competency-based education preferred
- A commitment to anti-racism and demonstrated skill designing equitable and inclusive experiences and demonstrated teaching at the intersection of justice and action
- Desire to work in a unique “action-research” based environment that sits uniquely within Hillbrook School
- Proficiency in and curiosity about educational technology
- A growth mindset, sense of humor, and excellent organizational and communication skills
Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Justice, & Action
As noted in our Statement of Inclusivity, we strive to reflect the extraordinary diversity of Silicon Valley, believing that educational excellence and equity depend on the creation of a diverse and inclusive community where all students, families and employees feel a full sense of membership. To live up to our DEI Teaching Philosophy Statement, all employees contribute to developing culturally competent students and building an educational institution committed to social justice and reaching beyond. We offer a wide range of opportunities for all employees to engage in work that furthers these goals, from personal dialogues that help us understand different perspectives, to pedagogical training designed to support equitable instructional practices and build habits to disrupt bias whenever we see it. Ultimately, we hope that this work helps all of our constituents—employees, students, and families—be more aware, empathetic, globally-minded, and justice-oriented.
A highly collaborative community, we use the following norms to guide our communication with each other:
- Assume good will
- Come from your own experience
- Be more curious than certain
- Hold yourself and others capable
Our commitment to these norms makes it possible for us to partner meaningfully, disagree productively, and lean into conversations that are both challenging and generative.
Each and every day our students will be challenged to live out our Core Values - be kind, be curious, take risks, be your best - as they engage with an exceptional team of educators committed to helping each student reach their highest potential in school and in life. Our program is also guided by the core questions of the Scott Center for Social Entrepreneurship - “What matters to you? What are you doing about it?” Simple yet provocative, these two questions inspire all members of our community as they convey two foundational beliefs: learning must be purposeful and have enduring impact, and leveraging student interest drives both engagement and success. Hillbrook, unlike any other school, not only calls on its students to make the world a better place, but also explicitly prioritizes the skills and habits that prepare them to do so, activating and empowering students to make immediate and lasting social impact during their JK-12 years while launching them into a lifetime of social impact work.
To Apply
Salaries are competitive. The salary range for this Scott Center for Social Entrepreneurship Experiential Education Lead role is $85,000. to $135,000. annually.
Benefits include: full medical, dental, and vision coverage; ample retirement planning with TIAA-CREF; a generous holiday schedule; religious/cultural holidays following each employee’s faith and background; access to the latest state-of-the-art educational technology; and a strong commitment to engaging and personalized professional development. Hillbrook School is an equal opportunity employer. Opportunities are open to all individuals without regard to race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, age, or handicap.
Please send resume/CV, letter of intent, and a list of three references with contact information to the Director of Human Resources Rozanne Schiro, rschiro@hillbrook.org. References will not be contacted until the candidate is notified.
The School: Who Are We
For more than 85 years, Hillbrook School has been a junior kindergarten-8th grade independent school located on 14 acres of oak woodland in Los Gatos, CA. Founded in 1935, the school remains deeply connected to its historical roots as a place where children are known, learning is authentic and active, and success is measured one child at a time. Over the years, we have grown and evolved from a small boarding school serving wards of the state to one of the leading independent schools in the Bay Area, and yet our vision remains the same—to inspire children to achieve their dreams and reach beyond themselves to make a difference in the world.
We are now embarking on one of the school’s most ambitious strategic initiatives ever: the expansion to a JK-12 with the addition of a new high school in downtown San José. We are driven by a foundational belief - that our 8th graders and other students deserve an extraordinary educational experience in high school that builds upon the exceptional foundation we provide our JK-8 students. The core differentiators for our current program - the placement of choice and engagement at the center of the learning experience, integrated, real world education that challenges students to reach beyond and make a difference, and a deep commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion - will translate seamlessly into a 9-12 environment, allowing us to extend our innovative approach into a market in need of a new model of secondary school education.
Location
Hillbrook has two campuses located in Los Gatos and San Jose. These locations in the heart of Silicon Valley are 35 minutes south of Stanford University, 30 minutes north of Santa Cruz, and 1 hour south of San Francisco. The Bay Area is home to world-class universities, museums and restaurants, farmers markets and wineries, and outstanding outdoor opportunities for biking, hiking, surfing and more.
