Faculty & Staff
At a classical school the faculty is the curriculum. In the Lower School, your child has a homeroom teacher who knows her as a whole person and carries her through the year. In the Upper School, she meets subject specialists who studied what they teach in earnest. Across both, a shared team of specialists teaches music, art, theatre, PE, and Latin. Everyone in the building knows everyone in the building.
How we hire
A classical teacher is a scholar and a shepherd at the same time. Our teachers have read the book and are ready to argue about it — and they also know which students had a hard morning and need a small kindness before the bell. We hire for both.
Candidates spend a full day with us before an offer: they teach a real lesson, lunch with faculty, and talk with current teachers about what we do and don't do. We would rather leave a position open than fill it with someone who doesn't fit.
Leadership
Lower School · K–6
In the Lower School, your child's homeroom teacher is the constant — carrying the class through most of the day's subjects and knowing every student by heart by October.
Upper School · 7–12
From seventh grade forward, our students are taught by subject specialists — teachers who studied their discipline and still read outside of class.
Across the school
Our specialists teach the whole K–12 community. A kindergartener and a senior may have the same art teacher — a continuity of voice that makes a classical education possible.
Student support services
A serious classical school holds every child to the same standard — and makes sure every child has what she needs to meet it. Our intervention specialists and instructional aides work inside classrooms alongside teachers, supporting readers who need extra time with phonics and students with learning differences.
Working at NOCA
We hire every year. If you love your subject, love children, and want to teach in a school where Homer is on the syllabus and the students have the textbooks closed, we'd like to meet you.
