Environmental and Outdoor Education Lead

The Toronto Heschel School Seeks a Dynamic Jewish Educator to Lead its Award Winning Environmental and Outdoor Learning Program

This Role:

• Take the lead role in overseeing the implementation of the school’s environmental and outdoor learning programs.
• Further develop and enhance the school’s Jewish environmental and outdoor learning programs and learning garden curriculum.
• Oversee and maintain the Heschel Garden and Garden Guardians program.
• Train faculty in implementing outdoor and environmental education.
• Act as co-advisor, student council environment committee
• Oversee Eco-school’s annual accreditation process.
• Coordinate annual Tu Bisvhat environmental symposium, earth day, mitzvah day gardening, and other environment education special events at the school.
• Research and apply grants to further support the environment education and stewardship programs of the school.

The Environment and Outdoor Education Lead is a part-time position (40%-50% FTE).  This position may be combined with other teaching, training, and/or program development positions to create a full-time role for interested and qualified candidates.

You are:

• Passionate about advancing environmental and outdoor education through a Jewish lens.
• A hands-on, hands-in-the-soil educator who is not afraid of worms.
• A creative and flexible thinker who can meet deadlines, work with specific criteria, and collaborate on innovative projects within clearly defined parameters.
• An experienced educator with proven ability to develop user-ready learning programs and materials through the whole development cycle: conceptualization, development of teacher guides and student materials, training and guiding faculty in use of materials; iterative revision of materials based on evaluation of their efficacy.
• Familiar with progressive learning methods including, interdisciplinary learning, learning through the Arts, inductive / discovery-based learning, Big Ideas learning, project-based learning.

We are:

• An Innovative Jewish Day School with classes from JK to Grade 8
• Pluralistic and Egalitarian within Halakhah
• Implementing integrated Jewish/General Studies Curricula
• Employing arts-based curricula and methods
• Dedicated to a collaborative teaching model
• Committed to Teaching for Understanding (Harvard University model)
• Committed to a strong environmental ethos

Position to commence in June, 2023

Interested applicants are asked to forward a cover letter and current CV to teaching@torontoheschel.org. We thank all those who apply for this position, however only those selected for an interview will be contacted.