About Dhun School
Dhun School is an experiential learning environment in the heart of a 500-acre bioreserve at Dhun in the Jaipur district. Our educational model champions self-direction and collective wisdom across three interconnected pillars: Self, Community, and Planet.
Role Purpose
- Lead language and arts integrated learning for ages 410.
- Establish a strong daily culture of learning with clear routines, reflection, and joyful rigor.
- Design contextual, place-based learning that bridges Self, Community, and Planet.
- Interface with a partner organization to translate select practices; Build team capacity and co-create Dhun School's evolving model.
Key ResponsibilitiesLearning Design and Facilitation (Primary Focus)
- Plan and deliver daily/weekly learning with co-educators; use visible thinking routines and learning walls.
- Lead integrated Language & Arts blocks developing foundational literacy, oracy, and expression through storytelling, theatre/play, visual arts, poetry, and music.
- Use place-based provocations (ecology, local crafts, village stories) to design inquiry cycles and projects.
- Set up predictable micro-routines: morning meetings, read-alouds, studio time, reflection journals, closing circles.
Research, Documentation, and Assessment
- Observe like a researcher; document patterns and interests to iterate curriculum.
- Build learner portfolios capturing cognitive, physical, social-emotional growth and artistic expression.
- Implement holistic assessment (formative checks, rubrics, portfolios, learning stories)
- Guide learners in self- and peer-assessment to cultivate agency and metacognition.
Culture and Team Collaboration
- Model curiosity, care, and productive independence; create environments for focus, choice, and collaboration.
- Facilitate weekly class/community circles for belonging and restorative conflict resolution.
- Share exemplars and micro-PDs with co-educators on literacy-rich environments and arts integration.
Partnership Touchpoint (Small Component)
- Attend scheduled check-ins with the partner organization to understand key frameworks and tools.
- Contextualize select partner practices into our plans and routines; keep brief notes on what's adopted.
- Bring back learnings to a weekly learning meeting to align next steps.
Desired Background
- 35 years teaching ages 410 with strong early literacy (English) and arts-integration practice.
- Preferred exposure: Forest School, Montessori, Democratic Schooling, or inquiry/play-based frameworks.
- Bilingual proficiency in English and Hindi; comfort weaving in local languages and cultural forms.
- Values alignment: respect for local community and ecology; creativity, openness, and entrepreneurial mindset; thrives in hands-on, evolving settings.
Working Conditions and Ethos
- Work 35 km outside Jaipur city, on a 530-acre land bank rich in ecology and natural resources, surrounded by five villages.
- Experience freedom and creativity to follow your own interests and design your own learning.
- Co-create an innovative learning model with a bottom-up approach alongside other educators, the community, and learners.
- Access to multi-disciplinary change-makers working towards the idea of a sustainable future.
Application
- Email [HIDDEN TEXT] with Subject [Your Name]_Educator(Language & Arts)
- Resume and artifacts from previous work
- cover letter or 23-minute audio/video reflecting on an arts-integrated literacy experience
Education, in the true sense, is the understanding of oneself, for it is within each one of us that the whole of existence is gathered. - Jiddu Krishnamurti
