About the Waldorf School of Louisville: 

The Waldorf School of Louisville (WSL) is a fee-based, independent school in Jefferson County, serving  children from Pre-Kindergarten through Grade 8. The school was established in 1992, and has been  providing a unique curriculum that blends the arts with rigorous academics for over thirty years. The  curriculum has been successful meeting the needs of our children worldwide, for over 100 years. Waldorf  education awakens a lifelong love of learning, inspires critical thinking, and fosters emotional intelligence  in our students. We educate the whole child, guided by a deep understanding of human development.  Waldorf is non-denominational and open to children of all cultural, racial, and religious backgrounds. The  Waldorf School of Louisville strives to make Waldorf education available to all families who value it,  regardless of financial circumstances.

The Grades Lead Teacher is a full-time position providing Waldorf Education to a class for in our lower school (Grades 1-5) or middle school (Grades 6-8). The task of the Grades Teacher of the Waldorf School of Louisville is to bring the Waldorf  graders curriculum to the children with enthusiasm, imagination, and integrity.

Requirements and Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree (required)
• Waldorf Teaching Certificate (completed or willingness to invest and begin in a program)
• Experience Teaching in a classroom setting

Location & Compensation:

This position is on-site at WSL’s campus. Organization hours are 8:00-3:15, with additional hours as agreed upon by team for meetings.

Summary of Salary for WSL Full Time Employees

Position:

• Rate of Base Pay: $38,325
• Completed Waldorf Training: $2,000
• Masters Degree: $2000

If you think this position may be of interest to you: Please send a letter of interest, your resume, and a brief biography to hiring@waldorflouisville.com. This is for a job opening for the 2025-2026 school year. 

About the Position:

* The grades teacher works towards a deep understanding of the Waldorf grades curriculum –
including child development providing appropriate activities, and creating the best physical
environment. The grades teacher works to provide group and individualized lessons for the
children and to provide remedial work when necessary.

* The grades teacher is committed to their own spiritual development and
meditative work upon the children. This includes a continued study of
anthroposophy as it relates to the Waldorf curriculum and child development.

* The grades teacher provides daily and weekly rhythmical actives that follow the Waldorf plan.
This includes movement, mental work, practical and academic activities, investigative and
artistic work.

* The grades teacher is expected to work with the soul development of their students in ways that
are pedagogically indicated.

* Each grades teacher will hold clear expectations for their students and work toward specific
social, academic, physical goals, and in the middle grades give written assessments at the end of
each block.

* The grades teacher creates an environment where authority is respected by the children and
guidelines and expectations are clearly defined. It is the teacher’s responsibility to hold the
physical and emotional safety of the children as the children develop their own social skills.

* The grades teacher creates a classroom community in which the children learn to respect and
understand themselves and one another. The teacher teaches the children to work out their
differences in a socially healthy way.

* The grades teacher is responsible for the physical well-being and safety of the children. This
includes attention to outdoor activities and physically aggressive behavior.

* The grades teacher works to develop their own artistic abilities so that the lessons can be
supported by the teacher’s skill and experiences. These experiences can include painting,
drawing, handwork, music, speech, and storytelling.

* The grades teacher is expected to communicate regularly with the specialty teachers so all are
aware of the children’s participation and progress. The class teacher will visit each specialty in
their class during the year and participate in a follow up conversation concerning the visit. A
written observation by that grades teacher will be provided at the follow up meeting.

* The grades teacher participates in child study on a voluntary basis.

* The grades teacher interviews children and families in order to make a
recommendation as to the placement of a child in the grades program.

* The grades teacher evaluates the progress of the children. These evaluations include three end-
of-term (trimester basis) written reports that follow a provided format. These reports are filed in
the child’s school file and shared with the parents. The teacher holds two yearly Parent-Teacher
conferences to discuss the content to the reports with parents/guardians.

About the Waldorf School of Louisville:
The Waldorf School of Louisville (WSL) is a privately funded, independent school in Jefferson County, Kentucky, serving children from Pre-Kindergarten through Grade 8. The School was established in 1992, and has been providing for more than thirty years a unique curriculum that blends the arts with rigorous academics. Waldorf education awakens a lifelong love of learning, inspires critical thinking, and fosters emotional intelligence in our students. We educate the whole child, guided by a deep understanding of human development. Waldorf is non-denominational and open to children of all cultural, racial, and religious backgrounds. The Waldorf School of Louisville strives to make Waldorf education available to all families, regardless of financial circumstances.

The Waldorf School of Louisville is seeking a full-time Early Childhood Lead teacher for the 2025-26 school year. The start date for this position is July 1, 2025. The ideal candidate has previous Waldorf teaching experience and/or a Waldorf Early Childhood Teacher Certification. The Lead Teacher will have the support of a classroom assistant, the Early Childhood Team, Administration and the full faculty. 

The task of the Early Childhood teacher at the Waldorf School of Louisville is to bring the Waldorf Early Childhood curriculum to the children with enthusiasm, imagination, and integrity.

About the Position

Child/Curriculum:

• The Early Childhood teacher works towards a deep understanding of the Waldorf Early Childhood curriculum- including child development, providing appropriate activities, and creating an optimal physical environment. The Early Childhood teacher works to implement  the curriculum to best meet the particular group of children in their care.
• The Early Childhood teacher is committed to their own spiritual development and meditative work upon the children. This includes child study and a continued study of anthroposophy as it relates to the Waldorf curriculum and child development.  Developmental concerns are documented via the child concerns process and brought to team meetings.
• The Early Childhood teacher provides guidelines and expectations through a consistent daily and weekly rhythm. This includes age appropriate activities such as a movement circle, songs, games, story, artistic and practical activities, cooking, work with the festivals, and independent play.
• The Early Childhood teacher provides a model worthy of imitation that is imbued with clear gesture and movement. It is the teacher’s responsibility to hold the physical and emotional safety of the children as the children develop their social skills.
• The Early Childhood teacher creates a classroom community in which the children learn to respect and understand themselves and one another. The teacher provides age appropriate modeling in order to help the children work out their differences in a socially healthful way.
• The Early Childhood teacher is responsible for the physical well-being and safety of the children. This includes attention to outdoor activities and physically aggressive behavior. 

Colleagues and Parents:

• The Early Childhood teacher is expected to communicate regularly with parents,  the classroom assistant and aftercare provider about the children in their care
• The Early Childhood teacher participates in team meetings, faculty meetings, and committee meetings as well as other designated administrative work. 
• The Early Childhood teacher conducts ongoing observations of the children’s progress and provides a written evaluation at two parent/teacher conferences and the end of the year. Written evaluations are not required for parent-child.
• The Early Childhood teacher holds parent education meetings and distributes a class newsletter, articles and other relevant materials. 

Administrative:

• The Early Childhood teacher interviews Early Childhood children and families in order to make a recommendation as to the placement of the child.
• The Early Childhood kindergarten teacher completes assessments of first-grade-ready children within their own classroom and makes recommendations to the team, whole faculty, and to the parents, as to the placement of the child. .
• The Early Childhood teacher is expected to be knowledgeable about, and adhere to, the policies and procedures set forth by the Board of Trustees and Faculty.
• The Early Childhood teacher is expected to be knowledgeable about and to comply with state Daycare, Health Department and fire regulations as they apply to children. This includes an orientation through CHR within the first three months of employment, 15 hours of additional training in Early Childhood annually, and CPR/First Aid certification.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s Degree (preferably in a related field)
• Waldorf Early Childhood Training Certification (preferred) or ability and willingness to attend training is required for this position. Training stipend to be determined.
• childcare experience and classroom management skills.
• Organizational and communication skills
• capacity to supervise part-time staff

Location & Compensation:

When not subject to local workspace closure requirements, this position is on-site at WSL’s campus. Organization hours are 8:00-3:15, with additional hours as agreed upon by team for meetings.

Summary of Salary for WSL Full Time Employees:

• Rate of Base Pay: $ $38,325
• Completed Waldorf Training: $2,000
• Masters Degree in related field: $2000

WSL values the diversity of our students, families, faculty and staff, and seeks to support the inclusion of people with diverse backgrounds. Our school does not discriminate, nor do we tolerate any discrimination, against anyone in our school community on the basis of race, class, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national or ethnic origin, religion, age, or mental or physical ability. Furthermore, this applies to WSL’s hiring, admission, educational policies, scholarship, tuition adjustment and other school-administered programs. 

To Apply: Please send a letter of introduction, your resume, and contact information for three references to hiring@waldorflouisville.com

The primary responsibilities of the substitute teacher include:

• Serving as temporary teacher in the classroom.
• Serving as recess proctor when called for in outside playgrounds.
• Holding a safe classroom learning environment for the children and knowing their whereabouts
  at all times.
• Reading the lesson plan and day schedule as provided by the absent teacher.
• Locating and/or organizing identified materials for the given lesson.
• Delivering the curricular content of the lesson plan as provided by the specific teacher.
• Modeling proper behavior in the delivery of the lesson content while recognizing the developmental stage or age of the children in the class.
• Cooperating with and following through with suggestions and recommendations from teaching faculty.
• Communicating with administration to identify the classroom(s) and locations to cover and the documentation for pay.
• Completing required paperwork for the state of Kentucky background check system.

Hours and schedule:

• Normal school operating hours are 8:30am-2:45pm, Monday through Friday. The position of substitute is tailored to the specific hours and/or days needed by the absent teacher and may or may not encompass a full day or full week.
• This position is on-site position and as needed by faculty.

Rate of Pay:

• Hourly pay for this position is $16.