We hope that you will consider GFS as a profoundly rewarding community in which to teach. Strengths of the school include:

• A strong sense of mission and values that draws a diverse and talented group of faculty and families into powerful community. We learn a great deal from each other at GFS and our broad diversity of race, religion, sexual orientation, and life experience is a central and valued strength of the community.

• A strong commitment to faculty as professionals who are engaged in the profound and rewarding work of their own life-long learning and the sharing of this experience with students and colleagues. Value and support of faculty are experienced in many ways:

• Excellent salaries and benefits: beginning salaries at GFS are among the highest in the country for independent schools. Our median salary is in the 90th percentile of NAIS schools and at the top of schools in the Philadelphia region.

• Tuition remission-- 95% of GFS tuition is paid for up to two children for faculty and staff, among the most complete of such benefits in NAIS schools.

• Robust support of professional development. Professional development at GFS is widely defined; funding is provided for course work, travel, workshops, books and materials, even child care when appropriate, so that faculty may pursue a wide range of learning experiences.

• A short leave program that provides 6 months of uninterrupted time away from school at full salary every 7-9 years for faculty renewal and pursuit of new experiences.

• Broad opportunities for initiative and collaboration not only in curriculum but in many areas of school life. Quakers believe strongly in the capacity of individuals to bring many gifts to community and try not to restrict these contributions by role or rank. Decisions at GFS are highly collaborative and faculty are invited to play full roles in creating academic program, day to day decision making, creation of school policy, and planning for the future of the school.

• Strong faculty support in orientation upon joining the faculty, a web of supportive connection with principals, department heads, and colleagues, and the support of affinity groups such as our Faculty of Color Group which meets once a week in a scheduled meeting during the school day.

We continually seek to build our contacts with those interested in teaching at GFS. If interested, please send a letter of interest and resume to:

Judy Hughes
Assistant to the Director of Studies
Germantown Friends School
31 W. Coulter St.
Philadelphia, PA 19144
Email: judyh@gfsnet.org