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McDonogh is a PK-12 coeducational

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independent school with a five-day

• 1,450 STUDENTS, PK–12

boarding option for students in grades

• A FORWARD-LOOKING ACADEMIC AND CO-CURRICULAR PROGRAM

9-12. Situated on 800 acres

• EXPERIENCED AND TALENTED FACULTY

in Owings Mills, MD, our stunning

• GENEROUS PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

campus is conveniently located 20

• COMPETITIVE COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS

miles northwest of Baltimore City

• SUPPORTIVE LEADERSHIP

and 50 miles north of Washington D.C.

• WORLD-CLASS FACILITIES

BE A LIFEREADY TEACHER! Through LifeReady, our framework for teaching and learning, McDonogh faculty work to develop self-reliant critical thinkers prepared to do good in a diverse and ever-changing world. We believe that teaching students how to think—not what to think—ensures their intellectual growth and is foundational to a healthy democracy.

From prekindergarten to twelfth grade, our students engage with academic content through methods, routines, and practices that help them learn subject matter while simultaneously developing skills in six domains: Creative and Critical Thinking; Communication; Perspective Taking; Collaboration and Teamwork; SelfKnowledge; and Connecting to the World.

Under the guidance of master teachers, students learn to make sense of new material for themselves. To this end, classes at McDonogh are cognitively demanding, active learning environments. While our teachers provide critical guidance as students develop mastery in and across disciplines, students are expected to think deeply, explore a range of perspectives, collaborate, and communicate effectively.

LIFEREADY TEACHING AND LEARNING

MCDONOGH’S ACADEMIC AND CO-CURRICULAR VISION

McDonogh is committed to: • An engaging, comprehensive, and innovative liberal arts and sciences curriculum • A clear, supportive strategic vision for 21st-century academic programming and instructional design • Equitable and inclusive teaching and learning • Developing resilience, metacognition, and self-reliance in students • Preparing students to be global citizens • Educating students to be well in mind and body • Growing students to be authentically philanthropic and service-minded • Providing opportunities for students to discover passions and abilities on the field, on the stage, and in the studio

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT • Full-day professional learning programming during the school year

• All-school and divisional Professional Learning Community (PLC) meetings to foster faculty growth

• Financial support for summer professional learning • Generous funding for faculty earning their first advanced degree

• Funding for conference attendance

• New faculty orientation that provides ongoing support throughout the first year

• The McDonogh Seminar for Transformational Leadership—a program to prepare select faculty for leadership and growth in independent schools

• The LifeReady Fellows Early Career Program—a course designed to mentor faculty new to the teaching profession in the fundamentals of school purpose, instructional design, and pedagogy

COMPENSATION & BENEFITS

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Competitive salaries

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Tuition remission for faculty children

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Health, dental, life insurance, and vision plans

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Health Savings Account (HSA)

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Personal days, holidays, and illness leave

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Retirement plan with generous school contributions

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Comprehensive employee wellness program

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Breakfast and lunch provided (M–F)

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On-campus housing possibilities

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Access to the school’s training facility and campus walking, running, and hiking trails

LIVE AND WORK NEAR “CHARM CITY” • Are you a foodie? Have a farm-to-table appetite? Enjoy picking and eating Maryland steamed crabs?

• Do you love baseball, football, the symphony, theater, and bluegrass? Jazz? Underground metal?

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Our mission is to provide life-altering educational experiences that inspire personal and intellectual growth.

• Do you love history? Want to

neighborhoods with cafés, and niche grocery stores? visit stops on the Underground Railroad or learn where the “Star Spangled Banner” was written?

• McDonogh, a PK-12 nondenominational, coeducational, college preparatory school, was founded in 1873 and enrolls 1,450 students from the greater Baltimore region.

• Do you sail, hike, and bike? Do you love camping or going to the beach? Or are the mountains more your style?

• McDonogh’s student body represents a wide range of racial, ethnic, religious, socioeconomic, and geographic backgrounds.

(41% students of color).

• Do you have an interest in horse racing? Want to attend the second leg of the Triple Crown?

• Five-day boarding is an option for upper school students.

• McDonogh employs the equivalent of 190 full-time faculty members. More than 50 faculty and staff families live on campus and are involved in our vibrant boarding program.

• Interested in day trips to Philadelphia, New York City, and Washington D.C.?

• More than 67% of faculty hold advanced degrees, and the average teaching tenure is 15 years.

• The student-teacher ratio is 7:1.

• Need a flight? BWI or D.C. airports can get you everywhere!

• The campus serves as a classroom in the “great outdoors,” inviting students to experience the woods, fields, ponds, and streams that are part of our 800 acres.

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