Employment

Substitute Teachers
Substitute teaching is a great way to learn about Giddens School while providing important relief to classroom and extended day teachers.  Please submit a resume and letter of interest to our Extended Day Director .

Support Staff
If you are interested in joining the Giddens School support staff for our Rainbow Kids Club afterschool and summer camp programs, please email your resume to our Extended Day Director .

Why Work at Giddens School?

Giddens School is dedicated to the ideal that true academic excellence is enriched by an understanding of equity, justice and social responsibility. We teach children to see issues from multiple perspectives.  Our educational philosophy is founded on anti-bias principles and constructivist curriculum.  Students at Giddens learn to interact empathically with other children, to think critically about bias and to challenge bias when they encounter it, both personally and institutionally.

Giddens is the most ethnically, economically and socially diverse independent school in the Northwest. Between 30% and 40% of our families receive tuition assistance.  Unlike most independent schools, families represent all points of the economic spectrum, including the middle.  With more than forty percent children of color, our 3- through 11-year-olds learn about diversity in a truly diverse community, rather than through the intellectual abstraction of multicultural curriculum.

Academic excellence at Giddens is broadly defined.  Critical thinking is its cornerstone, and our children love learning and self-expression without the confines of ability grouping, arbitrary rote instruction or narrow curricular conformity.

Teachers at Giddens School practice their craft with the autonomy necessary to bring their individual gifts and interests to the classroom and with the collegial coherence that brings meaningful articulation without standardization.

The Giddens Community includes families who support the social and academic goals of the school. Their trust in and support of the teaching faculty is unparalleled.  We do not “hurry” children to meet arbitrary standards of behavior or achievement.  Working together with teachers and staff, Giddens School families create a community that is dedicated to academic excellence, social justice, and the unique treasure of a nourishing childhood.

The Giddens Board and Administration are dedicated to responding to the voices of the faculty and community as we work together in the evolution of the school.