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Employment Opportunities at Mountain Middle 

Mountain Middle School offers one of the best benefits packages in the region for its employees paying 100% of our full time staff members health, dental, vision and life insurance as well as ​retirement benefits of Colorado’s PERA. Teachers with ten or more years of K-12 teaching experience will be given full credit for their first ten years. Each year after ten years experience will be credited at one year per two years of experience rounding down. (example 16 years of experience would equal step 13, 19 years of experience would equal step 14).

Our current teacher salary and compensation framework can be viewed here. Our design principles are at the bottom of this page. 

We will be adding two teachers to our growing 4th and 5th grade teams:

Below are our current open positions for the 2022/23 school year: 

1. Assistant Head of School - full time

2. 4th Grade ELA Teacher - full time

3. 5th Grade Social Studies/Science Teacher - full time

4. 4th Grade Math Teacher - full time

5. 7th Grade Teacher Leader - full time

6.    6th Grade Teacher Leader - full time

7.   8th Grade Humanities Teacher - full time

If you are interested in employment opportunities at Mountain Middle School, please submit a cover letter, resume, and 3 letters of recommendation to: 

Shane Voss, Head of School at shane.voss@mountainmiddleschool.org

Hard copies can be sent directly to the school:

Mountain Middle School

attn: Shane Voss, Head of School

108 West 31st Street

Durango, CO 81301

If you would like additional information, feel free to call the MMS main number  970-828-5600.

THE DESIGN PRINCIPLES OF MOUNTAIN MIDDLE SCHOOL

Teacher as Designer

• Teachers are program and curriculum designers. They work in interdisciplinary teams to design the courses they teach. 

• They take the lead in staff meetings and action groups addressing school issues. 

• They participate in critical decisions regarding curriculum, assessment, professional development, hiring and other significant areas of the school. 

• Our schedule supports team teaching and teachers have ample planning time to devise integrated projects and common rituals by which all students demonstrate their learning and progress. 

Personalization 

• Our Small school environment fosters personalized attention and supports students in learning at their unique level.

• Advisory groups in which every student is known well and encouraged to develop personal strengths and interests.

• Individualized team teaching where our faculty develops individual goals with each student, specific to their needs in each course.

Adult World Connection 

• Taking students outside the school: Internship requirement for all students, completed in 8th grade. Feature opportunities to solve adult-world problems using classroom-learned skills.

• Bringing community members to the school: adults participating in the life of the school and making contributions that improve education for students.

• Developing a curriculum of place: learning through tangible engagement in local issues.

Common Intellectual Mission 

• Rigorous project-based learning - Learn by doing, creating, thinking, and presenting. Establishing relevance of subject matter to the real world. Team and individual project work mimic real life.

• Technical and academic integration. Teaching across disciplines helps to integrate learning. The traditional “college prep” curriculum is infused with high levels of technology, encouraging students to think from multiple perspectives and utilize technology in appropriate ways.

• Individualized assessment using rubrics, public exhibits of work, and digital portfolios. Performance-based evaluation that assesses both process and product.