Joy and Fulfillment of Educating Differently
Empower students to recognize themselves as strategic pathfinders and holders of great wisdom. Welcome to Athena Academy, where your teaching career makes a transformative turn for students and yourself.
Your Mission
If your passion is to create environments that help students feel confident and believe in their wisdom, then we want you to educate with us.
With a mixture of conventional and pioneering educational methods, we focus on teaching dyslexic children how to own their neurodiverse talent. As we hope you do, we believe this makes them stronger students who feel academically and emotionally renewed.
If you trust that children who feel confident about how they learn, do better in school, we invite you to explore these employment opportunities and consider how your talents and aspirations align with ours, making us both better.
Classroom Teacher
Elementary School Teacher: Champion of Brilliant, Different Minds
Are you a teacher who sees "struggle" as a signal of untapped potential? At Athena Academy, we don’t just accommodate dyslexic and twice-exceptional (2e) learners—we celebrate their unique strengths and gifts. We are looking for an Elementary School Teacher who is ready to move beyond the traditional classroom and lead students who are "part genius, part mystery, and all heart". Someone who can hold space for both their genius and their vulnerability.
Why Your Role Matters
Our students are often asynchronous learners—they may solve complex algebraic patterns with ease while simultaneously struggling to read or comprehend a single sentence. As their teacher, you won't "fix" them; you will provide the tools that match their brain's operating system, helping them see their own brilliance.
Who You Are
- A Strengths-Based Educator: You focus on the dyslexic gift of 3D visual-spatial thinking and creative problem-solving.
- An Architect of Engagement: You thrive in a project-based learning (PBL) environment where engineering challenges, mood boards, and 3D modeling are essential, not "extras".
- A Guide for the 2e Mind: You understand that 2e learners need high-level intellectual stimulation paired with empathetic support for their challenges.
- A Multi-Sensory Expert: You use tactile and kinesthetic methods—like clay modeling or building physical harmonographs—to turn abstract symbols into concrete experiences
The Challenge You’ll Solve
Our students often live in a state of internal friction. You will be the guide who helps them navigate:
- The Gap of Asynchrony: Managing the frustration of a child who can discuss quantum physics but struggles to organize a backpack or write a simple paragraph.
- The Weight of Perfectionism: Supporting students who would rather not try than risk being "wrong," helping them reframe mistakes as essential data in the engineering process.
- The Shield of Anxiety: Creating a sensory-safe, high-trust environment where the "fight or flight" response to traditional academics is replaced by a sense of belonging and "I can."
- Executive Functioning Hurdles: Teaching the "hidden curriculum" of planning, prioritizing, and emotional regulation that their fast-moving brains often bypass.
The Athena Experience
- Tiny Classes, Big Impact: With an average 6:1 ratio, you have the space to truly see, hear, and value every child.
- Neuroscience in Action: You will apply the latest research to help students build executive functioning and social-emotional skills alongside academics.
- A Culture of Confidence: We believe that when a child understands how they learn, they can transform from a "struggling student" into a strategic pathfinder.
Please send resume and cover letter to Jo Mutch - jo@athenaacademy.org
