Director
No longer accepting applications
Start Date: July 1, 2025
Co-ed, Preschool-6, Day School, 150 Students
263 Chapel Street, New Haven, CT
Director Search for Cold Spring School
Educators Collaborative is pleased to support the Director Search for Cold Spring School seeking a leader to begin July 1, 2025.
Opportunity Brief
Cold Spring School, a progressive New Haven, Connecticut school for children from preschool to grade 6, is seeking an inspiring, engaging, and experienced educator for the Director position. This leadership position offers the opportunity to build cohesion around progressive, experiential curriculum while fostering a diverse and inclusive community. The school seeks a leader who will uphold our commitment to innovative, creative and child-centered progressive education.
The Director serves as the chief executive and educational leader of Cold Spring responsible for building the school community, sustaining the school’s enrollment strength, and developing and retaining the school’s faculty to ensure its commitment to the holistic development of every student in a nurturing environment. This role involves strategic planning, administration, and community leadership, guided by the mission and values of the school.
Cold Spring School
Cold Spring School was founded in 1982 by a group of parents who wanted the philosophy they admired at a much-loved childcare program to continue through their children’s elementary school years. Since then, Cold Spring has carried forward its mission to challenge children to become self-reliant, curious, and resourceful problem solvers with the academic and social skills to engage constructively and ethically in our diverse, changing world. With that aim, the Cold Spring community lives by its Core Principles which emphasize:
- A sense of belonging for a diverse, inclusive community
- Empowering children to speak for themselves
- Fostering the wonder of learning through joyful discovery
- Social justice and environmental curriculum and initiatives
- Teachers as learners, researchers and collaborators
- Documenting, supporting, challenging and enhancing each child’s learning path
- Intentionally developing a resilient, courageous, growth oriented mindset in children
- A multi-grade learning model where every child experiences being the youngest and the oldest in any given year
How to Apply
Candidates interested in the Director search for Cold Spring School are encouraged to contact Carol Santos or Sally Mixsell, partners at Educators Collaborative, to arrange a time to learn more about how they may be the best fit for this rewarding leadership position.
Carol Santos, Partner, Educators Collaborative
Sally Mixsell, Partner, Educators Collaborative
Original Listing Date: August 12, 2024
Updated: October 23, 2024
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