Middle School Math Teacher                                               

Full-Time, Exempt

Start Date: August 2025 or August 2026

About Us:

Aspen Country Day School seeks a full-time Middle School Math teacher for the 2025/2026 or 2026/2027 academic year.

Aspen Country Day School is an independent PreK-Eighth Grade school known for its intentional approach to challenging and nurturing children as they build confidence, resilience, and joy in learning. Vibrant academic, arts, and outdoor programs led by dedicated teachers give students a solid foundation for lives of meaning and purpose. At its campus in the heart of the Rocky Mountains, the school welcomes approximately 300 students from throughout the Roaring Fork Valley. Graduates move on to top national and local public and private schools. Visit www.aspencountryday.org to learn more.

Salary:

The wage rate for this position will include a salary range of $70,000 - $90,000 and will be commensurate with experience.

This is a full-time position with health, dental, vision, disability insurance, and retirement plan offerings.

Essential Functions:

Sixth through Eighth Grades are part of the Middle School at Aspen Country Day, operating under the leadership of the Middle School division head. Students follow a schedule designed with the unique needs of middle schoolers in mind, creating bonds with dedicated instructors specializing in various subjects.

At Aspen Country Day School, Math teachers serve as a curricular bridge between the lower and middle divisions, ensuring seamless progression and alignment of mathematical skills and concepts. Teachers will develop curriculum materials that extend and enrich learning for students requiring additional mathematical challenges. A key component of this role is monitoring and assessing, student learning, growth, and progress through ongoing evaluation and data analysis. The utilization of comprehensive data analysis to inform course design, curriculum development and strategic student placement decisions are vital functions. This teaching role is expected to lead the implementation and management of data collection systems, including IXL.com and the CSU/UC Mathematics Diagnostic Testing Project. 

Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

The ideal candidate will have an educational background teaching. Minimum requirements are a bachelor’s degree and a commitment to advancing math curriculum. Social-emotional learning is an integral part of middle school. Teachers serve as advisors to a group of students, building positive relationships with students (and their families) and fostering a sense of belonging through the advisory program curriculum.

Learning at Aspen Country Day School is not limited to the classroom. The school’s outdoor education program and interdisciplinary arts curriculum are hallmarks of the student experience. Candidates will be expected to share in the day-to-day life of the Aspen Country Day middle school community.

Expectations

This is a full-time position that begins mid-August 2025 or mid-August 2026. The standard schedule is 7:45 am to 3:45pm, with a weekly faculty meeting until 4:30, although team planning meetings may require additional time. Additionally, all faculty members share daily supervision duties at the school. Occasional evening and weekend commitments are required throughout the school year.

NOTE:  This position requires a pre-employment criminal background check. Employment is contingent upon successful completion of a criminal background check.

Physical Demands

?      Visual Acuity: Ability to bring objects into focus.

?      Balancing: Maintaining equilibrium.

?      Bending: Bending or position oneself to move an object from one level to another.

?      Carrying: transporting or moving an object.

?      Crouching: Bending body downward and forward by bending leg and spine.

?      Climbing: Ascending or descending stationary objects.

?      Eye/Hand/Foot Coordination: Performing work through using two or more body parts or other devices.

?      Gripping/Grasping: Ability to apply pressure with fingers and palm.

?      Handling: Seizing, holding, grasping, through use of hands, fingers, or other means.

?      Hearing: Perceiving and comprehending the nature and direction of sounds.

?      Kneeling: Bending legs at knees to come to rest on knee or knees

?      Lifting: Moving objects weighing no more than 10 pounds from one level to another.

?      Pushing/Pulling: Ability to use upper extremities to exert force in order to press, draw, drag or haul objects in a sustained motion.

?      Reaching: Extending the hands and arms or other device in any direction.

?      Repetitive motions: Making frequent or continuous movements.

?      Sitting: Remaining in a stationary position.

?      Standing: Ability to sustain position for a period of time.

?      Stooping: Bending body downward and forward by bending spine at the waist.

?      Talking: Communicating ideas or exchanging information.

?      Walking: Ability to move to traverse from one location to another.

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.   

This job description is designed to indicate the general nature of the work. Duties and responsibilities may change at any time with or without notice.

To Apply

If you are interested in this position, please submit a resume to [email protected].

Aspen Country Day School provides equal employment opportunities to applicants without regard to age, race, sex, color, religion, national origin, military status, genetic information, sexual orientation, or any other status protected by applicable law. The school's statement of diversity, equity, and inclusion is HERE.