Position: Interdisciplinary Teacher (Grades 6–12)
Location: Stow, Massachusetts — Masters Academy International
Anticipated Start Date: August 1, 2026

Masters Academy International
Masters Academy International is New England’s only school that combines top-tier sports and academics to prepare future leaders who excel in athletics, academics, and life. At Masters Academy International, academics aren’t placed between training sessions—they are a vital part of developing an elite performer. We’ve created a curriculum that respects the demands of our athletes without sacrificing intellectual rigor. Students are challenged through engaging coursework, grounded in inquiry, which encourages healthy disagreement and debate and emphasizes quality over quantity.

MAI’s academic program aims to strike a balance between well-being and learning for our student-athletes, helping them develop not only knowledge but also the skills necessary to succeed in a rapidly evolving world. Students are encouraged to take ownership of their education and nurture the critical and creative thinking skills required to understand and solve global challenges. As a result, our students graduate from MAI as critical thinkers, effective communicators, and confident learners prepared to excel in any field.

The Opportunity
Our interdisciplinary teaching model engages students in projects that connect ideas across literature, history, philosophy, social sciences, math, science, technology, and the arts. In this role, you'll design project-based learning experiences that invite students to grapple with authentic problems and questions that matter both to them and to the broader community. You'll facilitate student-driven inquiry, creating structures that allow learners to pursue their own questions while building essential skills in research, analysis, and creative problem-solving. Rather than simply covering content from multiple disciplines, you'll help students synthesize knowledge across domains, discovering how different fields inform and enrich one another when applied to complex, real-world challenges.

Your work will extend beyond the classroom as you connect students with community partners, experts, and audiences for their work. You'll guide them in understanding how their learning translates into meaningful action—whether through service projects, exhibitions, presentations, or collaborative problem-solving initiatives. Throughout each unit, you'll scaffold the process of integration, helping students see patterns, make unexpected connections, and develop the confidence to tackle unfamiliar problems by drawing on diverse ways of knowing and doing. This is teaching as facilitation, mentorship, and intellectual partnership—supporting young people as they become not just learners, but creators, collaborators, and engaged citizens.

What You Will Do
As a lead instructor at Masters Academy International, you will guide student-athletes in grades 6–12 through interdisciplinary, project-based learning that connects multiple disciplines to real-world challenges. You will design and facilitate engaging units, support student-driven inquiry, and scaffold research, collaboration, and critical-thinking skills. In addition to leading class sessions and small-group work, you will mentor students, foster social-emotional growth, and help them balance the demands of academics and elite athletics. You will collaborate with colleagues to ensure coherence across units and grades, create a classroom culture that emphasizes curiosity and respect, and communicate proactively with students, families, and peers to support student progress and success.

Who You Are
You are an experienced, reflective, and collaborative educator with a passion for interdisciplinary, project-based learning. You bring several years of teaching experience, intellectual curiosity, and the ability to connect concepts across disciplines. You understand—or are eager to learn about—the unique demands facing student-athletes and can guide them in developing resilience, balance, and confidence. You take ownership of student success, approach challenges with integrity and courage, and value collaboration and relationships over individual recognition. Committed to lifelong learning and innovation, you embrace new ideas, use technology purposefully, and see facilitation and scaffolding as core elements of teaching, empowering students to become creators, collaborators, and engaged citizens.

Compensation and Benefits
The salary range is $85,000. Benefits for eligible roles include medical, life insurance, a 401(k) savings plan, and more.

Diversity, Inclusion, and Safeguarding
We are deeply committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion throughout our organization. We strive to build a culture in which every colleague feels that they belong, are trusted, and are valued. We welcome applications from candidates of all backgrounds and strongly encourage those from underrepresented groups to apply.

Cognita Schools are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff, volunteers and other third parties to share this commitment. Safer recruitment practice and pre-employment background checks will be undertaken before any appointment is confirmed.

We are an equal opportunities employer committed to diversity and treating all employees with dignity and respect regardless of background.

Early applications are encouraged, we reserve the right to interview and appoint at any time during this process.