Children’s House Guide

Greenspring Montessori School is seeking an Children’s House Lead Guide for the 2025-26 school year. The right candidate is a loving, experienced, and mature leader interested in supporting children ages 3-6 years in an authentic Montessori Environment.

ABOUT GREENSPRING MONTESSORI SCHOOL

Greenspring Montessori School has been offering a Montessori education to students since 1962. Nestled on a 7-acre property that was originally a dairy farm, students ages 18 months through grade 8 thrive in our newly renovated buildings, state-of-the-art Montessori classrooms, and rich outdoor learning environments.

At Greenspring Montessori School, we value life experiences alongside professional training. We welcome and celebrate people of diverse backgrounds, histories, perspectives, identities, cultures, religions, and races. Our learning environment is strengthened and enriched through a community that reflects the nuances and beauty of an intricate and complex world. Greenspring has a strong ability to mentor and encourage professional growth.

We are guided by our Professional Values here at Greenspring, and we are searching for self-motivated, collaborative, coachable individuals with a passion for learning and growing within our community. Personal values around a reverence for human dignity and a commitment to social justice, honoring the spirit of each child, and a love of nature and our environment are strong indicators of a potential fit for our school.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

The Classroom:

• Cultivate a nurturing, respectful, inspiring, empowering, and safe learning environment.
• Know and honor each child, cultivating and celebrating his/her strengths, and gracefully supporting areas of struggle and challenge.
• Provide and support deeply engaging learning experiences in accordance with authentic Montessori philosophy and practice.
• Cultivate and generate a completely student-led environment, filled with independence, concentration, wonder and joy.
• Create a rich culture of grace and courtesy in the classroom.
• Collaborate with and support guides throughout the school to effectively develop, share and participate in learning activities and community events.
• Create a beautiful and inspiring Montessori prepared environment.

Student Family and Support:

• Ensure warm and effective connection between home and school, and support ongoing communication among the triad of parents, students, and the teaching team.
• Educate and fully support full parent understanding of the beauty and importance of Montessori Education on the spiritual, academic, emotional, and social development for the young child.
• Provide parent-teacher conferences three times a year to provide feedback on students’ intellectual, emotional, and social development.
• Create well-written, educational, and insightful conference summaries, progress reports, and newsletters.
• Provide well-written, insightful updates to parents, using the school’s chosen program and adhering to the guidelines and schedule agreed upon by the Direct of Education and Guides.
• Participate in and lead inspiring parent education events.
• Respond to parent inquiries in a timely fashion, respectfully and effectively.
• Build strong partnerships with your parents.
• Support communication to parents according to school guidelines.
• Ensure successful transition of students into the next level of programming.

Professional and Personal Growth:

• Model lifelong learning and meet professional development requirements.
• Be a lifelong learner, taking full responsibility for your own self-awareness, spirituality, and growth and development.
• Be deeply committed to constantly deepening your understanding of authentic Montessori practice, and implementing the method rigorously and precisely in your classroom and beyond.
• Attend professional development workshops outside of school.
• Create yearly professional goals in partnership with the Educational Director to be supported by your professional development.
• Peer coach, as observer and instructor.
• Be open-minded and work in collaboration with the Director of Education and outside consultants to best support students.
• Seek resources for those areas of instruction or curriculum that are not your strengths.

Administrative Responsibilities:

• Follow protocols for managing information (i.e., attendance, record keeping) and completing requests (i.e., purchase orders, supplies, personal days), etc., as further detailed in Employee Handbook.
• Observe and meet all school deadlines (i.e. submitting classroom newsletters, preparing progress reports, etc.).
• Attend all required staff meetings and special events.
• Maintain open communication with administration and colleagues and voice concerns to and seek help from administration in a timely and positive manner.
• Offer leadership and mentorship to assistants, including support with and follow up on goal setting and providing insightful and inspiring evaluations.
• Respond to emails within 24 hours – weekends excluded. Copy Head of School and/or Director of Education (as appropriate) on concerning emails.

COMPETENCIES

• Understanding of and commitment to Montessori Philosophy
• Ability to work collaboratively with faculty to enhance whole school learning environment and community
• Outstanding communication skills – both written and verbal
• Commitment to professional development and best practices in education
• Commitment to meeting the needs of each child
• Willingness to both receive and offer coaching

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE

Required:

• BA/BS Degree
• AMI or AMS Montessori Primary Teaching Credential
• Minimum of two years of Montessori Lead Teaching experience

Preferred:

• Master’s Degree

POSITION DETAILS

This is a 10-month, full-time position, and hours of work and days are Monday through Friday, 8:00am – 4:00pm and until 5pm biweekly on Thursdays. Occasional evening and weekend work may be required as job duties demand.

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• Employee assistance program
• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Professional development assistance

Schedule:

• Day shift
• Monday to Friday

Ability to Commute:

• Lutherville Timonium, MD 21093 (Required)

Work Location: In person

Authorization to work in the United States is a pre-condition of employment at Greenspring Montessori School.