Middle School Leadership Lab Teacher - Summer 2026 in Seattle, Washington at Lakeside School

About the Role:

Summer at Lakeside is currently recruiting for a Middle School Leadership Lab Teacher to teach at our Investigative Learning Camp, an academic and experiential summer camp designed for students entering Grades 5-8.

“Leadership Lab: Tutoring, Babysitting, and Beyond,” is a two-week course open only to students in Gr.7-8. In this course, campers learn the skills necessary to become excellent tutors, babysitters, camp counselors, or coaches. Skills honed will include leadership, teamwork, and business planning. In the first week, campers will explore how young children play, learn, and communicate. Campers will reflect on their own talents and interests to create and deliver their own mini-lesson for younger children. In the second week of the program, campers will put on their entrepreneurial hats, developing their own teaching, tutoring, babysitting, or coaching service with a simple business plan. The second week also includes a Red Cross First Aid/CPR course taught by a certified instructor.

The Investigative Learning Camp (ILC) offers students the opportunity to take classes covering STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics)-based topics. All courses encourage creative play and hands-on learning; courses are project-based and do not assume students have any previous knowledge of the subject matter. No homework is assigned.

These art classes run afternoons, 12:30-3:30 p.m., Monday-Friday, July 6 – July 17. There will be a mandatory orientation meeting on Wednesday, July 1. Visit our Investigative Learning Camp webpage to read more about this camp, including descriptions of the courses offered for summer 2026.

• Create an inclusive and culturally responsive curriculum that encourages creativity, collaboration, risk-taking, and critical thinking. Our camp administrative team will provide you with a draft curriculum that can be adapted as needed.
• Create organized and engaging lesson plans that include additional challenges for each day
• Order and organize supplies as necessary
• Supervise and instruct a diverse group of students that have different educational backgrounds and experiences
• Train and supervise the assigned high-school counselor, who serves as a classroom teaching assistant
• Provide individual support and adapt different teaching strategies for students needing additional instruction

• Demonstrated cultural awareness, including knowledge of themselves and the cultural lenses they bring to interactions. The candidate will understand different perspectives; interact respectfully with cultures other than their own; and cultivate meaningful relationships with people that have different cultural frameworks.
• Prior experience teaching a diverse group of elementary, middle-school, or high-school age students; demonstrated equity and inclusion mindset
• Candidates should be aware of their own identity and biases; candidate actively works to create an inclusive classroom environment
• A bachelor’s degree; master’s degree in a relevant subject area preferred
• Experience with inclusive and multicultural curriculum development
• Excellent communication and organizational skills
• Positive and collaborative attitude
• Candidates must satisfactorily complete two criminal background checks.
• Valid CPR & First Aid certification by July 1, 2026.

The stipend for this position is $2,000. Lunch is included. The course may only run if enough students register. Enrollment will remain open until June 1. If the number of students enrolled is too small to run by June 1, or if the course is canceled for any reason, the stipend will not be paid. Summer at Lakeside also offers free camp for children (grades 3–8) of all summer employees for the weeks when they are working for the summer program. Employees must register their children via the Summer at Lakeside webpage.

Application Process

Interested candidates should submit a brief cover letter, resume, and work history. The application process will remain open until a qualified candidate has accepted an offer. Applicants being considered will be interviewed. Interviews will be conducted via Zoom. Application materials need to be submitted online. Applications will be accepted until the position is filled. Lakeside School is an equal opportunity employer seeking to diversify its workplace.

Working At Lakeside

At Lakeside we are committed to sustaining a school in which individuals representing diverse cultures and experiences instruct one another in the meaning and value of community. To learn more about working at Lakeside, including our professional development and mentoring programs, benefits, diversity and inclusion, and opportunities for involvement in non-academic programs, please visit our Careers page on the Lakeside School website.