Open Positions
Grade 1 Teacher
Sanderling Waldorf School—located in sunny Southern California and ideally situated between LA and San Diego—is welcoming applications for Class Teacher of the 1st grade for the school year 2024-2025. A lovely, rising 1st- grade class is ready for its new teacher to shepherd them through the 8th grade.
Our diverse, energetic, and collegial faculty look forward to having you work with us at our palm tree lined school and minutes from beaches and field trip/camping possibilities galore. We are an established Waldorf school: 22 years old and fully accredited.
Our ideal candidate will possess at least a Bachelor’s degree and Waldorf teaching/training experience. We are located close to WISC, an established and highly recognized Waldorf teacher training institute. Of course, it is expected that you would have a deep love for and devotion to children and are willing to work collaboratively with parents, colleagues, and our close-knit community.
Your children would enjoy tuition remission at our Early Childhood through 8th-grade school and its full Waldorf curriculum, and also at our sister school, the San Diego Waldorf School, which has a thriving and well-established high school.
We offer a generous compensation package, including health benefits and a pay scale that acknowledges training, experience, and the realities as best we are able of living in Southern California.
Please email a letter of interest with your resume to, Michael Knauss, our Pedagogical Director:
Sanderling Waldorf School is a thriving educational community serving nearly 140 students from pre-school through eighth grade in Vista, California. If you are looking to join a Waldorf school with a highly respected faculty and staff that enjoys the support of dedicated, loving families, please get to know us!
Sanderling is located a few miles from the ocean, and about 20-30 minutes north of San Diego. The average temperature is 72 ºF (22.2 ºC) year-round. Our coastline offers 75 miles of beautiful beaches, hiking trails, botanical gardens, nearby mountains and deserts. The area offers a variety of natural foods markets, alternative healthcare practitioners, and organic farms, as well as a local branch of the Anthroposophical Society and the Waldorf Institute of Southern California (a Waldorf teacher training program).
We welcome a letter of intent addressing why you wish to be employed at Sanderling Waldorf School. In addition to your resumé, please include a short biography providing further insights about you, and three professional references. Email your references and documents to our Hiring Committee at hiring@sanderlingwaldorf.org and state the position you would like to be considered for in the subject line.
Sanderling Waldorf School is committed to increasing and supporting diversity in all of its forms in employment and in our programs.