Academic Life

Faculty

Under the direction of Robert (Skip) Mattoon, Avenues co-head of school, Avenues will assemble a faculty of extraordinary quality and ability. Skip brings decades of faculty-building leadership to Avenues and will be joined in faculty selection by co-head Ty Tingley and Gardner Dunnan, academic dean and head of the Upper School, as well as by Nancy Schulman, Libby Hixson and Tom Bonnell, the heads of our Early Learning Center, Lower, and Middle Schools.

Avenues: New York offers one of the great teaching opportunities of all time. The founding faculty, working together, will put their creative stamp on a 21st century school. They will inhabit a new campus in a great location, with classrooms outfitted with the very best technology and other equipment. Professional development will be encouraged throughout the year. Salaries will be highly competitive and advancement to leadership positions plentiful. The opportunities to teach at one or more of Avenues’ overseas campuses will grow rapidly over time. The High Line, Chelsea Piers, art galleries, the new Whitney Museum (when completed) and Chelsea itself will all be in the immediate neighborhood.

We expect our teachers not only to be excellent in their own disciplines, with a passion for teaching and for working with kids, but also to work collaboratively toward school-wide goals. We will structure the curriculum and school day to allow that to happen. We also want to support teachers with a multitude of professional development opportunities, including teaching at our campuses around the world. Faculty can model the behaviors we are espousing in our commitment to global competency and global citizenship.

“In an Avenues Classroom,” found here lays out some of Avenues’ expectations for its faculty.

Prospective faculty should have a passion for teaching, high standards, strong work ethics and deep knowledge of their teaching disciplines. They should have information technology skills and the desire to develop them. Faculty should expect to work collaboratively, assess their students regularly, and welcome frequent assessment of their own work. In addition, Avenues faculty should believe in the mission of global competency. We expect them to both model global citizenship and bring an international orientation to their teaching. But above all, we’re looking for people who have that special knack of reaching students of all ages and exciting them about the learning process, whatever they are studying at the time.

Avenues seeks to hire a faculty that represents diversity of race, religion, international experience, country of national origin, age and experience. Avenues is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer.