Assistant Guide – Primary or Lower Elementary

Overview

The Assistant Guide is an experienced educator who partners closely with the Lead Guide to bring Montessori philosophy to life in a public charter setting. The Assistant Guide supports the preparation and maintenance of a fully prepared environment, contributes to individualized instruction, and helps ensure that every child receives consistent care, structure, and guidance.

We’re seeking an Assistant Guide with a deep grounding in Montessori principles, belief in student-centered learning, and the adaptability needed for a start-up setting. As a founding culture-builder and instructional partner, you’ll create daily classroom stability and warmth while upholding high expectations for instruction, consistency, attendance, and a fully prepared environment.

Key responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

Planning and Instruction

• Partner with the Lead Guide to observe children, prepare the learning environment, and deliver lessons as directed, ensuring students receive individualized Montessori instruction aligned to state standards.
• Provide academic support through answering student questions, grading assignments, giving assessments, and reinforcing lessons, in alignment with Montessori scope and sequence.
• Assist with daily documentation and observational record-keeping, including grades, anecdotal notes, and other data that informs instruction and interventions.
• Support the development and implementation of student intervention plans (RTI or similar) in collaboration with the Lead Guide and Student Support Team.
• During non-instructional time, contribute to classroom readiness by preparing Montessori works, cleaning, organizing, and resetting the environment to support concentration and independence.
• Serve as a mentor and point of contact for a small, assigned group of students within the daily mentoring program, supporting academic and social-emotional growth.
• Assume the lead role when the Lead Guide is absent, ensuring continuity of instruction, culture, and safety.

Classroom Culture

• Support a classroom community grounded in peace, order, respect, grace, courtesy, and positive discipline, modeling calm, warm authority.
• Foster habits of excellence and responsibility through practices such as connecting before redirecting, matching children to meaningful work, using a warm tone, and reinforcing virtuous literature and reflection.
• Actively supervise and support students in all environments—classroom, transitions, playground, bathroom breaks, lunch, and field experiences—so that expectations stay consistent across the day.
• Uphold Invictus values by engaging students with empathy, clarity, and strong relational trust, helping children feel safe, known, and capable.
• Be a daily model of character, virtue, and professionalism, reinforcing the school’s habits of success.

Family Communication

• Participate in shared classroom family communication, including parent-teacher conferences, progress updates, and relationship-building communication.
• Assist in preparing and contributing to monthly progress reports and quarterly report cards, ensuring clarity and accuracy.
• Support a strong home–school partnership by helping families understand Montessori practices and how to reinforce them at home.

Professional Development and Relationships

• Engage in weekly formal check-ins with the Lead Guide, offering updates, reflection, and shared planning for student success.
• Observe the Lead Guide and provide supportive feedback at least twice per term, contributing to a culture of continuous improvement.
• Participate in biweekly check-ins with academic support team members and actively engage in teacher meetings, team planning, data reviews, and schoolwide professional development.
• Embrace coaching and feedback with a growth mindset, contributing to an adaptive, evolving school community.
• Support other school responsibilities as assigned, consistent with a founding-team/start-up environment.

Qualifications

• Preferred experience working or volunteering in high-need communities and/or Montessori environments.
• Associate’s degree and/or appropriate childcare credential preferred; Bachelor’s degree in education or related field welcomed.
• At least two years of experience working with elementary-aged children in instructional or youth-development settings strongly preferred.
• Strong understanding of (or willingness to learn) Montessori principles, child development, and prepared environment practices.
• Demonstrated ability to support structure, consistency, and professional attendance habits that create classroom stability.
• Strong interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills; ability to collaborate across diverse teams.
• Commitment to equity, inclusion, culturally responsive instruction, and anti-bias classroom practices.
• Flexibility, initiative, and ownership mindset required to thrive in a fast-paced public charter start-up.
• Demonstrated ability to build strong relationships with students, colleagues, and families.

Travel: This role may require up to 15% travel

Compensation and Benefits

• Annual Salary: $40,000–$55,000 (based on experience and credentials)
  Sign-On Bonus: $1,500 for Montessori-Trained Assistant Guides
• Health, dental, and vision insurance
• Paid holidays and PTO
• Ongoing professional development, coaching, and career growth opportunities

Interested Applicants 

Please apply using  the following form: https://form.jotform.com/253246720970155

You can learn more about our school by visiting our website: https://www.invictus-nash.org/

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