Ron Rubin School for the Entrepreneur - Instructor

Culver Academies is seeking an entrepreneurial studies instructor to join our professional community. The Ron Rubin School for the Entrepreneur [RRSftE] is an endowed program at Culver that features four core elective classes in innovation, applications of innovation, business solutions, and business management. The RRSftE funds two student-run businesses on campus: Rubin Café (specialty drink café) and Eagle Outfitters (custom apparel). The RRSftE also provides a wide range of co-curricular opportunities through hosting pitch competitions, business plan competitions, an annual speaker series, fostering alumni connections, investment simulations, a student ambassador program, and planning experiential trips for students. The RRSftE includes a traditional economics one-term elective, a financial literacy one-term elective, and a three-term Advanced Placement Microeconomics and Macroeconomics course. Finally, qualified students have access to a robust Honors experience that provides time and mentorship for the development of a product, service or venture.

Instructors in The RRSftE define entrepreneurism as one’s ability to identify meaningful opportunities within social, environmental, and economic pursuits and to be responsible for creating sustainable solutions within those pursuits. Instructors strive to position students to acquire deep understandings and authentic practice through leveraging their personal passions, reflective practices, and collaborative efforts. This position seeks those with diverse and intensive experience with startups, focusing on business models, operations, funding, financial management, and mentorship.

Instructors in The RRSftE at Culver support students, each other, and the community by committing to the following:

• Teach two eighty-minute blocks each day with an average class size of eighteen. Culver is on an intensive 4X4 block schedule.
• Collaborate regularly with colleagues on curricular objectives, lesson design, and experiential learning opportunities.
• Collaborate in biweekly department meetings to focus on department initiatives. Current projects include competency-based learning alignment, external mentorship development, and consistent planning of student experiences aligned with the department budget.
• Assist in the planning and promoting co-curricular events with the expectation to attend and facilitate Impact Competition (fall and spring), Miclot Family Business Plan Competition (fall) and other events designed for authentic learning experiences.
• Support students during class and outside of class in their pursuit of innovations, including preparation for external competitions.
• Learn continuously, staying abreast with current practices in entrepreneurial studies and keeping a list of contacts that can add value to the program.
• Communicate authentically, promptly, and respectfully in all communication with students, parents, and colleagues through clear and defined channels.
• Contribute to the residential programs of the school through evening supervisory duties and participation in the mentor-mentee program, OR
• Contribute to the extra-curricular programs of the school, as a personal interest and institutional needs dictate.

Professional development is available for all instructors and stems from goals set by individual teachers and goals established within The RRSftE. Department members are encouraged to attend the Babson College SEE Program withing their first three years at Culver, for example. Opportunities include traditional off-campus workshops and conferences, graduate work, research with students or colleagues, faculty-developed curriculum projects, and regularly scheduled on-campus teacher forums for learning support and educational technology.

Successful candidates will have a commitment to fostering belonging and inclusion in concert with our student-generated Diversity Statement. Interested candidates who find themselves aligned with Culver’s Teaching and Learning Model and supportive of the Commitments of Culver Educator should express interest by completing the application link below.