Flourish Founding Lead Teacher

🌱 Founding Lead Teacher – Build the Future of Education with Flourish

📍 Madison / Donelson / North Nashville, TN

💼 Full-time | 5th–8th Teaching + Microschool Leadership | Equity Potential

📅 Start : Fall 2025 (ASAP)

Are you ready to launch and lead a school built for joy, impact, and innovation?

Flourish is a founder‑led, mission‑driven network of microschools reimagining the middle school years (5th–8th grade) through project‑based learning (PBL), deep community stewardship, and bold integration of emerging tools and technologies.

Each Flourish school is intentionally small (~100 students, 4 teachers), creating a close‑knit environment where every child is known, supported, and empowered to take ownership of their learning.

As a Founding Lead Teacher, you’ll design and deliver meaningful projects, build a thriving school culture, recruit and engage families, and ultimately step into equity ownership of your own Flourish campus.

🚀 Year 1 – Lead & Learn

• Build our community : develop family partnerships, support student recruitment & enrollment
• Lead a small team of educators to deliver rigorous, joyful, student‑centered outcomes
• Model and champion Flourish culture : high joy, low bureaucracy, deep purpose
• Help refine and expand our innovative AI‑supported, superpower‑based learning model

🌱 Year 2+ – Grow & Own

Requirements

✅ Who We’re Looking For

🌟 Key Competencies

🌱 Flourish Superpowers Framework

Students develop life‑changing skills in five key areas :

You’ll guide students in applying these superpowers through projects, service initiatives, case studies, and family‑teacher‑student conferences.

Benefits

Year 1 – Launching Teacher Role

Year 2+ – Teacher Founder Role

🌟 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