Reporting to the Director of Extended Learning, the Middle School Extended Day Counselor is responsible for (a) the overall supervision of students enrolled in extended day care and after school classes (b) leading structured activities (c) assisting teachers in carrying out activities during the course of the day as needed (d) ensuring students arrive on time for all after school classes (e) teaching social and emotional skills (f) ensuring the safety and well-being of all children and contributing to the effective operation of WIS’ extended learning programs according to standards of excellence.

Daily hours are 3:00–6:00 PM or 2:30–5:30 PM (2 shifts) 

Salary range: $22–$25 per hour

Additional details are available on our application portal.

Primary School Early Years (EY) After School Teachers must be enthusiastic, creative, industrious, responsible, punctual, and resourceful and have a genuine appreciation for children. 

Early Years After School Teacher duties fall into three areas: (a) Lead groups of children in carrying out activities during the course of the day as needed, (b) supervise and actively engage children during class time, on the playground, or in the gym, and (c) actively support other WISEL staff members as needed to insure that all safe best practices are followed.

Early Years After School teachers are expected to carry out instructions from the Director of WISEL, the Assistants to the Director, and other senior staff. Their goal is to create a positive learning experience for children, which supports their Spanish language acquisition, social and emotional skill development, and the positive atmosphere of the community as a whole.

Early Years After School teachers oversee supervision, plan age-appropriate lessons and activities in Spanish; ensure the safety and well-being of all children, and contribute to the effective operation of WIS’s programs according to standards of excellence.

Salary Range: $21.75–$22 per hour

Additional details are available on our application portal.

Reporting to the School Nurse Manager, the Extended Learning Primary School Nurse is responsible for all issues relating to the health and welfare of the Primary School students during their attendance in the Extended Learning Program.

Salary range: $30–$50 per hour

Additional details are available on our application portal.

Reporting to the Primary School Principal and Assistant Principals, the Primary School Playground Monitor is responsible for supervision of students on the playground and assisting with other tasks. Daily hours are 10:00 AM until 1:45 PM or 9:35 AM until 1:45 PM.

Additional details are available on our application portal.

Salary is $22 per hour

Reporting to the Head of School and Associate Head of School, the Executive Assistant (EA) provides consistently efficient support to the Head of School, Associate Head of School, and the Board of Trustees, anticipates their wide-ranging needs, and serves as their liaison within the school community.

The EA exercises a high level of responsibility in managing the activities of the Head of School, Associate Head of School, and the Board of Trustees while anticipating their needs. The EA also provides high-level administrative support by conducting research, preparing statistical reports, handling information requests, and performing administrative functions such as preparing correspondence, receiving visitors, arranging conference calls, and scheduling meetings.

Additional details are available on our application portal.

SALARY RANGE: $60,000 - $95,000

We are currently hiring Coaches for the following WIS athletic teams: Girls Middle School and JV Volleyball. These are part-time positions that report to the Athletic Director. These positions are not eligible for additional benefits. 
Essential Functions: 
●  Responsible for the planning of practices and games 
●  Organization and use of equipment 
●  Communication in person and via email to student and parents 
●  Helping with uniform distribution and collection
●  Should have excellent interpersonal and communication skills 
●  Additional duties as assigned by the Athletic Director 

Additional details are available on our application portal.

STIPEND RANGE: $1,850 – $4,200 for Fall Season | Dates: 8/18/25 – c. 10/30/25 (Exact season end date determined by post-season play.)

Reporting to the Primary School Principal, the Primary School Learning Specialist provides academic support for students with diverse learning needs in order to help them become independent, responsible, and successful learners. The Primary School Learning Specialist also guides teachers in the implementation of appropriate methodologies for diverse learning needs.

Additional details are available on our application portal.

SALARY RANGE: $70,000 - $100,000

Reporting to the Director of Information Technology, the ideal candidate for the Associate Director of Academic Technology role will have a strong understanding of both educational technology and Artificial Intelligence (AI), with a passion for enhancing academic outcomes through innovative tools and solutions. This individual will work closely with administrative teams and school division principals to provide leadership for the effective integration of technology across the curriculum. As a member of the Teaching and Learning Committee (TLC), the Associate Director ensures that digital tools and resources are integrated in a manner that aligns with the school’s mission and instructional goals. The role will also focus on overseeing the integration, implementation, and enhancement of AI-driven technologies to support the academic environment. Collaboration with faculty, administrators, staff, and IT teams will be essential in advancing AI capabilities in teaching and learning.

The successful applicant will report to work beginning as soon as possible. Additional details are available on our application portal.

SALARY RANGE: $85,000 - $115,000

WIS is in need of substitute teachers for the 2024-25 academic year.

Substitute teachers are needed for all divisions — Primary (Early Childhood through Grade 5), Middle (Grades 6-8) and Upper Schools (Grades 9-12). There is a particular need for French, Spanish, and Chinese teachers (Chinese for Middle and Upper School only); native speakers only.

Early Childhood (Preschool, Prekindergarten and Kindergarten) is full immersion in either French or Spanish. Grades 1 through 5 receive half the instruction in English and half in either French or Spanish in all subjects (math, social studies, science). Specialists include Art/Digital Technology, Music and PE.

Expertise in all subjects is needed, including: math, the sciences (chemistry, biology, physics, general science), English (including writing as well as literature), digital media, history, geography, economics. 

Candidates with flexible schedules who are available for frequent assignments in several subjects and/or grades are likely to work more often. 

Requirements include a relevant degree and a minimum of two years of teaching experience. Knowledge of the IB PYP or IB DP preferred but not required. APPLY HERE.

PAY RATE: $200 per day

TEACHING

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• Expect that all people can learn. 
• Maintain appropriate expectations that challenge all learners. 
• Share their passion for learning. 
• Regard all interactions as teaching/learning opportunities. 
• Model curiosity and persistence.

ASSESSING

Therefore:

• The primary purpose for assessment is to improve learning.
• Assessment provides all learners with the capacity to demonstrate what they know, value, and are able to do.
   

TEACHING

Therefore educators:

• Are concerned with the development of understanding.
• Recognize that ideas are constructed and open to question or refinement.
• View curriculum as being based on key ideas or questions.
• Are patient with the time it takes to build meaning.
• Expose students to multiple perspectives and cultures.

ASSESSING

Therefore:

• Assessment focuses on demonstrations of understanding that move beyond gathering and recalling information.
• Assessment is moderated through collaboration to enhance fairness, reliability, and validity.
   

TEACHING

Therefore educators:

• Recognize and respond to individual differences and learning styles. 
• Demonstrate care for and understanding of each learner. 
• Include and maximize the participation of learners of different abilities and backgrounds.
• Differentiate instruction through a relevant range of teaching approaches and strategies.
• Collaborate/communicate with learners about learning goals, activities, issues, and contexts.

ASSESSING

Therefore:

• Learners self-assess and develop their capacity to monitor their own learning. 
• Learners reflect upon and evaluate assessment tasks.
   

TEACHING

Therefore educators:

• Seek to discover what learners already know, value, and are able to do.
• Build on the diverse personal, social, and cultural experience, knowledge, and skills that learners bring to new learning.
• Make explicit the connections between different aspects of learning.
• Structure activities to challenge learners’ suppositions and preconceptions.
• Assist all learners in extending their levels of thinking and understanding.

ASSESSING

Therefore:

• A range of assessments and monitoring processes are used to gather information about what learners know, value, and are able to do.
• Assessment about what learners know, value, and are able to do is used to plan teaching sequences and to diagnose areas for challenge and intervention.
• Assessment respects and includes different ways of knowing.
   

TEACHING

Therefore educators:

• Develop positive relationships with and between all involved in the learners’ learning.
• Build a sense of community, group identity, and appropriate learning partnerships.
• Plan for purposeful, collaborative teacher/teacher, teacher/learner, and learner/learner interaction.
• Maintain a sense of humor.
• Promote a sense of participation and responsibility from the local to the global.

ASSESSING

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• Assessment is fair, free from bias, and inclusive for all learners.
• Assessment incorporates judgments from learners, peers, and educators.
• Assessment includes the work of groups as well as individuals.
   

TEACHING

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• Provide a consistently safe, positive, and secure environment.
• Acknowledge emotions and emotional contexts.
• When appropriate, make use of these contexts as opportunities for learning.

ASSESSING

Therefore:

• Assessment includes the monitoring of learners’ emotional wellbeing.
• Learners monitor the extent to which emotions affect and influence their learning.
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TEACHING

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• Communicate positive expectations and confidence in the learners’ abilities.
• Acknowledge and celebrate progress.

ASSESSING

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• Assessment provides timely, precise, and constructive feedback.
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TEACHING

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• Act intentionally, planning for interactions with learners.
• Make their intentions or expected outcomes clear and explicit to learners.
• Involve learners in goal setting.
• Connect what is being taught to hypothetical and real-life experiences.
• Relate what is being taught to learners’ experiences and interests.
• Engage learners in multi-sensory experiences.

ASSESSING

​​​​​​​Therefore:

• Learners are clear about what is being assessed.
• Assessment encourages learners to exhibit their actual understandings.
• Assessment is in itself a central learning experience.
• Assessment tasks are based where possible on real-world contexts and embedded in recurrent learning.
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TEACHING

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• Acknowledge that environment and culture influence learning.
• Consider how their own behavior influences the context for learning.
• Encourage multiple points of views or solutions.
• Encourage learners to recognize the context of their own learning and beliefs.

ASSESSING

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• Assessment takes different contexts into consideration.
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TEACHING

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• Explicitly teach thinking and learning strategies.
• Model meta-cognition.

ASSESSING

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• Assessment encourages learners to question and reflect on their learning and their use of thinking and learning strategies.
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TEACHING

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• Design learning sequences that explicitly support the application and transfer of learning to new problems and settings.
• Draw attention to similarities, connections, and analogies between the known and the new.

ASSESSING

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• Assessment opportunities are designed to explicitly test learners’ ability to apply their learning in new and unfamiliar situations.
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TEACHING

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• Are intentional about learners’ extending, elaborating, reorganizing, reformulating, and reflecting upon their own frameworks of knowledge.
• Provide the time for this to happen.
• Recognize the educational potential in risk-taking, mistakes or errors.
• Encourage perseverance.

ASSESSING

​​​​​​​Therefore:

• Assessment encourages learners to reflect and question and to continuously plan for future learning.
• Learners note and use errors as a means of improving their own learning.
• Assessment products may vary widely to reflect different ways of demonstrating understanding.