Teacher Founder / Lead Teacher
🌱 Teacher Founder – Launch Your Own Flourish School
📍 Madison / Donelson / North Nashville, TN
💼 Full-time | K–8 Teaching + Founding Role | Equity Offered
📅 Start: Summer/Fall 2025 (ASAP)
Ready to teach, innovate, and lead your own school?
Flourish micro-schools are small, joyful, AI-enhanced learning environments where students build real-world skills alongside academic growth. As a Teacher Founder, you’ll first teach in one of our flagship schools, then launch and lead your own Flourish school with full operational and mentorship support.
🚀 Year 1 – Learn & Lead
- Teach in a flagship Flourish micro-school using a project-based, AI-supported, student-centered learning model
- Collaborate with passionate educators to understand, refine, and expand Flourish’s approach
- Model and cultivate Flourish’s culture and student superpowers
- Build deep partnerships with students, families, and the school community
Year 2+ – Launch & Grow
- Open your own Flourish micro-school with mentorship, startup resources, and marketing support
- Recruit families and design a joyful, high-impact learning environment
- Gain equity ownership and join a network of pioneering Teacher Founders
✅ Who We’re Looking For
- Licensed K–8 educator with 2+ years’ experience (Master’s preferred)
- High sense of personal responsibility, reliability, and consistency
- Passion for student-centered, project-based learning
- Strong communication skills and family partnership mindset
- Entrepreneurial spirit and drive to innovate
- Adaptability and curiosity, especially around emerging educational tools and AI
Nice-to-Haves
- Experience leading teams or projects
- Spanish-language skills
- High-energy, joy-infused teaching style
🌱 Flourish Superpowers Framework
Students develop life-changing skills across five domains:
- Strong Self – confidence, persistence, planning/problem-solving
- Motivated Learner – curiosity, creativity, growth mindset
- Great Neighbor – empathy, communication, adaptability
- World Changer – leadership, strategic thinking, persuasion
- Force for Good – integrity, fairness, courage
Your role: make these superpowers real, measurable, and actionable through service projects, case studies, and student-family-teacher conferences.
💼 Compensation & Benefits
Year 1 – Lead Teacher Role:
💰 $50,000–75,000
🩺 Full benefits package
📈 Leadership training and professional development
Fast-Track to Year 2 benefits available for the right candidate!
Year 2+ – Teacher Founder Role:
💰 $80,000–100,000+
📊 Equity ownership in your school
🤝 Ongoing support and national founder network
🌟 About Flourish
Flourish is creating a new kind of school — one where kids don’t just learn facts, but build projects, solve real problems, and grow lifelong skills like resilience, agency, and communication. Teachers are supported by AI-powered tools, reducing burnout and freeing them to do what they do best: connect, inspire, and lead.
We believe every child deserves a life-changing teacher — every year. And every great teacher deserves the chance to lead a school of their own.
🤝 About Equal Teaching
Equal Teaching is a specialist recruitment and HR technology partner for alternative and innovative education providers. Based in Austin, Texas, we support pioneering schools around the world — including as the exclusive hiring partner for Flourish Schools.
🌱 Ready to build the future of learning — one joyful school at a time?
Apply now to take the first step toward becoming a Teacher Founder with Flourish.
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