Career Opportunities
K-8 Principal
Elementary School General Studies Teacher
Kohelet Yeshiva Lab School, an educationally progressive, K-8 Modern Orthodox Jewish Day School located in Merion Station, Pennsylvania, seeks dynamic and talented educators for the positions of Elementary School General Studies Teachers for the 2025-2026 school year. The General Studies Teacher position is envisioned as a full-day position encompassing all General Studies (literacy, math, science, social studies) instruction for a kindergarten, first, fourth or fifth grade learning environment.
The successful candidate will have a BA in Elementary Education and a MA in a related field of study. The candidate will feel comfortable teaching and developing literacy, math, science, and social studies curricula for a lower-grade, learning environment for all children regardless of learning needs.
He or she will be excited by the opportunity to:
- Work in a highly collaborative team environment to ensure that the diverse learning, social and emotional needs of all students are met.
- Co-teach with colleagues.
- Recognize their own weak area shortcomings and actively pursue their own professional growth.
Compensation will be competitive and commensurate with experience.
If you want to be part of a team of passionate and talented educators please email your resume to Kohelet Yeshiva Lab School: [email protected].
Visit us online for more information about our educational philosophy, and to learn more about our school:
Website: www.koheletyeshiva.org
Facebook: www.facebook.com/koheletyeshivalabandmiddleschools/
Teacher of Hebrew Language
- Work in a highly collaborative team environment.
- Co-teach with colleagues in Judaic Studies so as to create meaningful integration between curricula.
- Admit their own shortcomings and actively pursue their own professional growth as an educator.
Website: www.koheletyeshiva.org
Facebook: www.facebook.com/koheletyeshivalabandmiddleschools/
Middle School General Studies Learning Center Teacher
Kohelet Yeshiva Middle School, an educationally progressive, K-8 Modern Orthodox Day School located in Merion Station, Pennsylvania, seeks a dynamic and talented educator for the position of General Studies Learning Center Teacher for the 2025-2026 school year. The Learning Center Teacher position is envisioned as a full-time position, encompassing support and intervention for all general studies subjects and executive functioning for a middle school learning environment.
Responsibilities
The successful candidate will be able to:
- Support student development in executive functioning skills to promote success in a rigorous academic environment with a dual curriculum in General and Judaic Studies.
- Utilize research-based best practices in subject instruction to create learning that closes the skill gap and supports learning of new material.
- Be the point person for faculty and parents for specific students.
- Assist classroom teachers in implementing recommendations in students’ learning plans.
- Assess students in a variety of ways, including informal and formal assessments, and use that data to assist student growth, self-reflection, and instruction.
- Determine students’ academic and social-emotional learning goals, ensure they’re met, and communicate them to colleagues, parents, and students on a regular basis.
- Be active in the school community (attend events at Kohelet Yeshiva Middle School, including professional development, and open house events, among others).
Qualifications
The successful candidate will:
- Have a BA and/or MA in Special Education or a related field of study.
- Experience working directly with students on reading, writing, or math support.
- Outstanding organizational skills and the ability to differentiate support for students with a variety of strengths and skill levels.
- Have prior experience with teaching middle school students with learning differences, ADHD, ASD, and students who have challenges with executive functioning.
- Have the ability to set concrete goals for students.
- Be comfortable with educational technology, including computers and learning management systems including Google Classroom and Google Suite tools.
- Demonstrate a willingness to work with students outside of their academic content area.
- Demonstrate a reflective mindset, intellectual curiosity, and leadership potential.
- Be excited and able to collaborate with colleagues and support team.
Compensation will be competitive and commensurate with experience.
If you want to be part of a team of passionate and talented educators please email your resume to Kohelet Yeshiva Middle School: [email protected].
Visit us online for more information about our educational philosophy and to learn more about our school:
Website: www.koheletyeshiva.org
Facebook: www.facebook.com/koheletyeshivalabandmiddleschools/
Middle School Judaic Studies Inclusion Teacher
Kohelet Yeshiva Lab and Middle School, an educationally progressive, K-8 Modern Orthodox Day School located in Merion Station, Pennsylvania, seeks a dynamic and talented educator for the position of Middle School Judaic Studies Inclusion Teacher for the 2025-2026 school year. The Judaic Studies Inclusion Teacher position is envisioned as a full day position encompassing all Judaic Studies instruction for a middle school learning environment.
The successful candidate will be passionate about the benefits of an inclusive learning environment for all students. They will have a MA in Special Education or a related field of study. The candidate will feel comfortable teaching and modifying curriculum for Judaic studies for a middle school learning environment that includes tracked classes the inclusion teacher will be teaching.
They will be excited by the opportunity to:
- Work in a highly collaborative, team environment to ensure that the diverse learning, social and emotional needs of all students are met.
- Work with the Director of Inclusion and the teaching team to create and implement academic, emotional and behavioral learning plans for students in need.
- Recognize their own weak areas, and actively pursue their own professional growth.
- Utilize research-based best practices in subject instruction to create rigorous, dynamic, skill-building learning environments for middle schoolers.
- Be active in the school community (attend events at Kohelet Yeshiva Middle School, including professional development, and open house events, among others).
Qualifications
The successful candidate will:
- Be passionate about the benefits of an inclusive learning environment for all students.
- Have a MA in Special Education or a related field of study.
- Feel comfortable teaching and developing Judaic studies curricula for all children, regardless of learning needs, in a middle school learning environment.
- Be comfortable with Ivrit.
- Have the ability to set concrete, ambitious goals for students.
- Demonstrate a willingness to work with students outside of their academic content area.
- Demonstrate a reflective mindset, intellectual curiosity, and leadership potential.
Compensation will be competitive and commensurate with experience.
If you want to be part of a team of passionate and talented educators please email your resume to Kohelet Yeshiva Lab School: [email protected].
Visit us online for more information about our educational philosophy, and to learn more about our school:
Website: www.koheletyeshiva.org
Facebook: www.facebook.com/koheletyeshivalabandmiddleschools/
Middle School Tanach Teacher
Kohelet Yeshiva Middle School, an educationally progressive, K-8 Modern Orthodox Day School located in Merion Station, Pennsylvania, seeks a dynamic and talented educator for the position of Tanach Teacher for the 2025-2026 school year. The Tanach Teacher position is envisioned as a full day position encompassing Chumash and Navi instruction for a multi-age, middle school, learning environment.
Responsibilities
The successful candidate will be able to:
- Inspire Middle School students in developmentally appropriate ways to connect to Hashem through the study of Torah and the performance of mitzvot.
- Lead a mixed age and ability class along with other teaching team members.
- Work collaboratively to design and implement project-based and integrated curricula.
- Utilize research-based best practices in subject instruction to create rigorous, dynamic, skill-building, learning environments for middle schoolers.
- Demonstrate excellent classroom management skills, and create a positive classroom culture that fosters student ownership, creativity and problem-solving.
- Assess students in a variety of ways, and use data to assist student growth, self-reflection, and instruction.
- Determine students’ academic and social-emotional learning goals, ensure they’re met, and regularly communicate them to colleagues, parents, and students.
- Be active in the school community (attend events at KYMS, including professional development, and open house events, among others).
Qualifications
The successful candidate will:
- Role model for students how to live a life steeped in ahavat Hashem and yir’at Hashem both inside and outside of school.
- Have a degree/graduate degree in Judaic Studies, Jewish Education, and/or Semicha.
- Feel comfortable teaching and developing Judaic studies curricula in a multi-age, differentiated, learning environment.
- Be comfortable with Ivrit.
- Have prior experience with creating child-centered learning activities, and classroom teaching experience with MS students.
- Demonstrate a reflective mindset, intellectual curiosity, and leadership potential.
Compensation will be competitive and commensurate with experience.
If you want to be part of a team of passionate and talented educators who are committed to impacting Jewish lives, please email your resume to Kohelet Yeshiva Middle School: [email protected].
Website: www.koheletyeshiva.org
Facebook: www.facebook.com/koheletyeshivalabandmiddleschools/
Become part of The Sherwin I. Seligsohn Beit Midrash Fellows Program of Kohelet Yeshiva!
Kohelet Yeshiva is inaugurating a Beit Midrash program. Kollel members in our Beit Midrash program will spend approximately 75% of their day in our beautiful Novoseller Beit Midrash learning. Kollel members’ learning will be organized by our Rosh Beit Midrash, Rabbi Avrumi Schonbrun. By learning in our Beit Midrash, Kollel members will elevate Kavod HaTorah for our entire school community.
In addition to their own learning, Kollel members will also serve as sho’alim u’meishivim for 6-12th grade classes, attend school Shabbatonim and interact with students in a variety of informal learning experiences. Opportunities for learning about the field of chinuch and gleaning best practices in chinuch from master educators will also be available for the members of our Kollel.
Why choose to be a Kollel member in Kohelet’s Beit Midrash Program?
We know there are several Beit Midrash Fellows programs and community Kollelim. Why choose ours?
- Kohelet’s BMFP gives you an opportunity to spend most of your time continuing your own learning with generous compensation.
- Kohelet’s BMFP gives you the opportunity to make an impact on an entire community, not just a school, without having to go too far from the New York area.
- Join one of the most exciting school cultures in the country with an amazing array of educators to learn with and from.
Who should consider being a Kollel member in Kohelet’s Beit Midrash Fellows Program? Any of the following!
- People have completed their formal, advanced learning programs (e.g., Semicha) who want to be able to afford another year to learn before entering chinuch or communal work.
- People who have completed college (or graduate school) who want to learn for a year and give back to the community before starting their professional career.
- People who want experience in a school environment before beginning full time teaching.
Benefits to you!
- $37,000 Salary
- Inclusion in our generous faculty benefits package
- Travel stipend to facilitate returning home
If you are interested in becoming a Kollel member in Kohelet’s Beit Midrash Fellows Program, please contact Rabbi Aaron Horn at [email protected].
Mission
Kohelet Yeshiva is a warm and embracing Modern Orthodox K-12 yeshiva day school committed to cultivating Bnei and Bnot Torah who think critically and creatively while exuding confidence and compassion. The High School division, known as Kohelet Yeshiva High School, builds on these foundations by nurturing the talents and potential of every student while equipping them with the skills and knowledge they will need to succeed and to lead in the best yeshivot and seminaries, the finest colleges and universities, and well beyond.