Gardening Teacher

About the role

San Francisco Waldorf School is seeking a Gardening Teacher. The gardening teacher is responsible for bringing a biodynamic gardening curriculum to children in Kindergarten (2nd year) through third grade, and for maintaining and caring for the school garden and plantings elsewhere on campus. This is a combined .5 FTE position.

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement a biodynamic gardening curriculum for 2nd year kindergarten through third grade (including stories, songs, garden work, and craft/cooking activities)
• Site Management: oversee all garden care for the school, including preparation and clean-up of worksites, maintenance and seed propagation activities, watering, pruning, bee management, and weeding throughout the year
• Accompany and support the third-grade teacher on their annual overnight farm field trip, paid at the school’s daily field trip rate
• Research, identify, procure, maintain, and replace garden and educational tools and supplies
• Review monthly budget report and keep expenses within budgeted funds
• When deemed necessary, recruit and orient parent volunteers
• Organize garden workdays
• Year-end Report Writing – Write a curriculum overview for grades 1 through 3
• Year-end Report Writing – Write individual year-end reports for third grade students
• Other duties as required by Grade School Steering and salaried position (such as recess duties)
• Meetings: warmly invited to attend all faculty meetings; attendance at least once per month is appreciated, along with subject teacher meetings when possible
• Dismissal and Recess Duties: supervise up to 5–6 dismissals or recesses
• Invited but not required to attend: in-service days, beginning- and end-of-year faculty meetings, All School faculty meetings (4x/year), class plays/presentations, HS convocation, Founders’ Night,