Canterbury School seeks a dynamic, intellectually serious, and highly skilled English teacher to join the High School faculty beginning August 2026.
This role is ideal for an educator who combines a deep love of literature with expert teaching of writing and who thrives in a college-preparatory environment that values seminar-style discussion, authentic student voice, and close faculty-student relationships.
The successful candidate will typically teach five sections of English, including at least one core grade-level course plus upper-level electives or seminar-style offerings, depending on departmental need and enrollment.
As a mission-driven independent school, Canterbury also seeks a teacher who embraces the full life of the school: advising students, contributing to co-curricular programming, partnering with families, and collaborating actively with colleagues.
Canterbury’s portrait of graduates— Artist. Athlete. Scholar. —requires an English classroom where students learn to read with nuance, write with power and clarity, and speak with confidence, empathy, and evidence.
It also calls for a faculty culture in which English teachers work across disciplines to help students make meaningful connections among ideas, texts, history, science, the arts, and contemporary questions.
The school is especially interested in educators who see cross-curricular collaboration not as an add-on, but as an essential part of innovative and relevant teaching.
