Insight is seeking a full time science instructor for the 2025-26 school year. If you are interested in joining our team, please check out the position description below.

Science Educator (Full Time)

Want to help prepare teens to make a difference in a rapidly changing and uncertain world? Inspired to guide high schoolers to explore their passions and find purpose? We’re looking for a full-time Science Instructor who fits in well with our team and is ready to dive in for the 2025-2026 school year!

Job Description:

Insight is seeking a dynamic educator who is committed to the co-creation of an educational environment that combines liberatory curricula, learner-driven explorations, rich interdisciplinary thinking, high standards, differentiated instruction, and a caring space that is responsive to individual student needs. Insight instructors are comfortable in a dynamic, collaborative, student-centered environment where innovation is essential. They are empathetic and passionate, embrace ambiguity, and are highly qualified professionals from a variety of backgrounds and disciplines.

The Science Instructor’s role in particular is to offer their students knowledge and skills that help them understand both the underlying principles that organize matter, nature, and life, as well as the contexts in which those forms of knowledge are produced. 

General Responsibilities:

  • Support the learner-driven mission of Insight.

  • Serve as a student advisor.

  • Collaborate with fellow educators, school leadership, and learners to help build Insight community and culture.

  • Design project-based, real-world, deep learning projects that encourage collaboration.

  • Coach learners through the experiential-based learning process, encourage peer-to-peer learning, and assist learners in approaching difficult concepts.

  • Foster meaningful, positive relationships with learners. Work individually with learners to personalize their development goals, mentoring them in discovering their passions.

  • Collect information about and share learning outcomes with learners, colleagues, and parents on a regular basis.

  • Support student leadership in student-driven initiatives, goals, and interests.


Instructional Responsibilities:

  • Design and teach a rotation of rigorous and timely semester-length courses in life, earth, and physical sciences that meet or exceed expectations of a high school graduate seeking admission to NC system colleges.

  • Historicize scientific discourses so that students understand the contexts in which people have produced scientific knowledge, including both the ongoing legacies of colonization, whiteness and patriarchy and the seminal contributions of women, people of color, and LGBTQ+ people to our knowledge of the natural world.

  • Include non-Western, indigenous approaches to observation.

  • Collaborate with Humanities and Math educators, as well as the Director of Curriculum and Instruction, to create interdisciplinary harmonies across the curriculum.

  • Hold regular office hours that allow for one-on-one coaching in your discipline.

  • Develop and publish course syllabi before classes begin.

  • In consultation with the Director and students’ advisors, adapt course requirements, assignments, assessments, and evaluations as needed for students with learning differences and/or alternative educational plans.

  • Provide consistent assessment opportunities and weekly formative feedback, as well as summative mid-term and end-of-semester evaluations for learners in your courses.

Successful Insight Educators:

  • Believe in the power of students.

  • Possess a passion for working with and engaging high school learners.

  • Embody a commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion.

  • Have a sense of humor, empathy for others, and grit.

  • Believe that creativity and critical thinking are linked, and that they are important skills for success.

  • Are flexible thinkers and doers with a drive for impact.

  • Honor a fail forward approach to learning and growth.

  • Demonstrate an entrepreneurial work ethic. 

  • Deploy creativity and flexibility to develop learning experiences within a fluid, learner-centered, project-based environment.

  • Embody curiosity, passion, honesty, innovation, communication, selflessness, courage, and a commitment to lifelong learning, and as such are engaged in their own independent research, study, and/or creative practices.

Qualifications:

The science instructor will have a passion for learning and teaching, along with a demonstrated ability to build rapport with students and adults. They will be committed to student-driven learning and have deep respect for young people, as well as empathy for the challenges they face. In addition, they will have:

  • Strong commitment to Insight’s mission and values.

  • Commitment to equity, diversity, and inclusion.

  • Experience working with teenagers in an educational and/or coaching capacity.

  • Interdisciplinary expertise usually achieved through excellent liberal arts education.

  • Broad working expertise in one or more academic disciplines as well as the historical, cultural, and or scientific contexts of the subjects and topics they will teach.

  • Working command of evidence-based pedagogy and curriculum development.

  • Experience designing relevant and engaging learning experiences.

  • Excellent writing, communication, and interpersonal skills.

  • Ability to collaborate and embrace the ambiguous nature of working in a startup environment.

Join our team and enjoy:

  • Small class sizes and opportunities for one-on-one work with students

  • Workplace culture that encourages creativity, innovation, and empowerment both in instructional responsibilities and the the instructors own independent research/creative practice

  • Life-changing moments in an organization that aims to change the world

  • Professional development in the most current practices of learner-centered education

  • Opportunities to inspire the next generation of undiscovered leaders

Compensation for this role is $52,000 - $58,000

As an equal opportunity employer, we are committed to identifying and developing the skills and leadership of people from diverse backgrounds. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, gender, disability, age, religion, sexual orientation, or national or ethnic origin.

Offers of employment are contingent upon satisfaction of certain pre-employment verifications and clearances including, but not limited to, undergraduate degree verification, criminal background check, and verification of eligibility to work in the United States.


Apply Today: We’re looking for someone who fits in well with our team and is ready to get started planning for the semester and beyond! If this sounds like your kind of gig, please send a cover letter and resume to Kevin Georgas, Director of Curriculum and Instruction, Insight Colearning Center at kevin.georgas@insightcolearning.org at your earliest possible convenience.

More About Insight:

Insight Colearning is a 501 C-3 nonprofit organization and NC Independent School based in Durham, NC with a mission to prepare teens to make a difference in a rapidly changing and uncertain world by providing an exemplary high school experience that combines rigorous, college-style coursework, authentic problem-based learning, one-on-one advising, accommodations and respect for learning differences, and participation in a dynamic and diverse learning community. Learn more about us at https://www.insightcolearning.org.

Insight is a dynamic micro school in the heart of Durham that is working to change the face of high school education. If you’d be interested in joining our team as an instructor or community partner, please email us at info@insightcolearning.org.