About Keys School
Keys School, a K-8 of approximately 320 students, 50 faculty, and 20 staff, seeks an experienced Seventh & Eighth Grade Middle School Social Studies Teacher & Advisor starting August 13, 2026.
Founded more than fifty years ago, Keys offers an inquiry-based education concerned with students' academic, social, emotional, identity, and physical growth. Today, Keys is known for helping students to become compassionate and empathic community members while developing the confidence to find their voice and advocate for themselves and others, with realized agency in their world.
The school is situated on two campuses, about a mile apart. The Lower School campus houses grades K-4, approximately 176 students, and 40 faculty and staff members. The Middle School campus houses grades 5-8, approximately 140 students, and 30 faculty and staff members.
With cross-divisional buddy and house programs, ice skating lessons, classes in self-science, and extensive outdoor education experiences beginning in kindergarten, the school offers an array of distinctive programs. These explorations, in concert with a strong academic program, prepare students to matriculate to the region's highly selective independent secondary schools and rigorous public high schools.
Middle School Social Studies Teacher & Advisor - Seventh & Eighth Grade Position
The Seventh & Eighth Grade Social Studies Teacher designs, delivers, evaluates, and updates the social studies curriculum for Grades 7 and 8 in alignment with the School's mission and culture. Reporting to the Head of Middle School, they create a dynamic, developmentally responsive curriculum that intentionally weaves social-emotional learning and culturally responsive, equity-centered practices into daily instruction, content, and classroom culture.
