Are You Interested in Becoming a Guide at Acton Academy Dripping Springs?

Acton Academy, Dripping Springs, TX is hiring!

Do you want to change the world?

Do you crave working hard with a small, mission-driven,

world-class team of entrepreneurs changing the vision of school?

Position: Kinder/Spark (4-7 yo) and/or Elementary (7-11 yo) Apprentice Teacher/Guide

Start Date: August 1, 2025

If your passion is to fuel the love of learning in others while advancing your own personal and professional growth, this is your chance to get in on the ground floor of one of the world’s most innovative schools.

Acton Academy, founded in 2009, is a private school and learner-driven community with the mission that each person who enters its doors will find a calling and change the world. We combine elements of the Montessori method with Socratic guiding, hands-on experiential quests and interactive technology. Underlying our method is an application of the Hero’s Journey creating a lively learning environment that feels more like an adventure than school.

At Acton, we have mixed-aged classrooms called studios with a self-paced learner-driven learning design as opposed to grade-levels. Our real world-oriented quests culminate in a public exhibition of learning as opposed to test scores and report cards. In all areas of Acton life, our students are empowered to be in the driver’s seat of their learning.

We are seeking a full time Apprentice Kinder/Elementary School Guide to work with our Kinder/Spark studio (4-7 yo) Heroes and/or our Elementary studio (7-11 yo) learners. An Apprentice Guide has the opportunity to grow quickly and steadily into a Lead Guide and ultimately open his or her own Acton Academy or take on a leadership role on our Dripping Springs campus.

We are looking for smart, entrepreneurial individuals who are passionate about guiding children on their independent journey of lifelong learning, and who possess an understanding of the Hero’s Journey and the Socratic Method.

The Apprentice Guide will work with a Lead Guide to learn to lead Socratic discussions and will learn how to work with the Acton Academy learning design, processes and systems.

The Apprentice Guide will equip our Heroes to explore and take ownership of their learning, monitor progress on learner-driven, individualized learning plans, and create life-oriented projects that nurture curiosity.

If interested, as your first step in this process, please read deeply through the Acton Academy Dripping Springs website: http://www.actonds.org.

Job Type: Full-time

Preferred experience and skills: Experience managing mixed aged groups of children; experience planning and implementing games or projects; coaching or mentoring experience a plus; a passion for disruptive education opportunities; deeply curious and ready to learn and work hard; agile with online learning; excellent writing and interpersonal communication skills; entrepreneurial thinker; reader; deep heart for children and a trust and respect for their ability to learn and grow without heavy adult intervention; kind-hearted and tough-minded; independent worker; calm demeanor and secure in being on a Hero’s Journey.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $25,016.00 - $56,000.00 per year (or more commensurate with experience)

Benefits:

Dental insurance

Health insurance

Life insurance

Paid time off

Vision insurance

Schedule: Monday to Friday

Work Location: In person in Dripping Springs

Sound exciting?

First step:

Click the link below and start the audition process!