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Since our founding in 1843, Miss Porter’s School has prepared young women to navigate complexity, chart their own paths, and thrive in a fast-changing world.
Since our founding in 1843, Miss Porter’s School has prepared young women to navigate complexity, chart their own paths, and thrive in a fast-changing world.
If you’re deeply dedicated to teaching and championing the next generation of great leaders, thinkers and innovators, then Porter’s is the place for you.
Porter’s is an independent day and boarding high school where young women discover and unlock their confidence and power. Here, students do so much more than memorize dates, recite facts and cram for exams. They wrestle with timeless questions and explore bold solutions to pressing problems. They seek out and learn from people with diverse ideas and perspectives. They advocate for themselves and others. They ask tough questions, speak with clarity and act with conviction. And they use their voices to make a meaningful impact—on campus and out in the world.
During their time at Porter’s and long after graduation, our students do incredible things. As they forge their own paths and shape their futures, they need exceptional faculty and staff members to champion, challenge and guide them.
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As a community of dedicated educators, we deliver a mission-driven and student-centered curriculum that sparks critical thinking, curiosity and confidence. Across the liberal arts and sciences, students build dynamic, future-ready skills through experiential projects, global travel and interdisciplinary coursework. They forge deep connections—with one another and with the faculty who challenge, mentor and inspire them. It’s a relevant and future-focused academic approach grounded in collaboration, mentorship and the investigation of real-world problems.
As a member of our faculty, you’ll not only teach but also act as an advisor and role model. You’ll play an essential role in helping your students grow into informed, bold and resourceful citizens—ready to navigate and shape a rapidly changing world.
Ready to join Porter’s vibrant learning community? Explore our open positions.
For general inquiries, please contact [email protected].
Open Positions →Our highest priority is attracting and retaining faculty and administrators who are prepared to keep the promise of our ambitious mission statement for each girl in our care. To that end, we strive to maintain a compensation program that:
Miss Porter’s School is committed to the principles of equal employment opportunity and a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. We seek to promote diversity through our programs and hiring.
This policy is intended to educate students, faculty, and staff about the nature of sexual harassment; to encourage members of the Porter’s community to discuss offensive conduct early to prevent such behavior and to stop it from escalating; and to eliminate any harassing behavior that may already exist.
Miss Porter’s School is a community in which all members have the right to feel safe and respected, and to live, work and learn in an environment that is free from sexual harassment. Inappropriate behavior of a sexual nature can undermine these rights. It is the policy of Porter’s that no member of the school may sexually harass another.
Sexual harassment encompasses behavior that is subtle and ambiguous as well as that which is direct and overt. It may involve peers, but it is especially serious when it involves a relationship of authority. Under no circumstances will a sexual relationship between an adult member of the community (someone over 18 who is not in the status of a student) and a Porter’s student be construed as consensual.
In determining whether behavior deemed offensive by the individual to whom it is directed constitutes sexual harassment and, if so, the severity of the harassment and the school’s response, the range of circumstances will be considered. Circumstances may include the nature, frequency, intensity, location, context and duration of the alleged offensive conduct. Perpetrators as well as victims of sexual harassment can be male or female, students, faculty, spouses or staff. Those who engage in sexual harassment will be subject to discipline up to and including dismissal.
No one should be inhibited by fear of reprisal from making a complaint of what he or she considers to be harassment for fear of reprisal. Therefore, any form of threat or retaliation against anyone who, in good faith, makes a complaint of sexual harassment is itself a violation of this policy and is cause for discipline. Violation of this policy, whether intended or not, will not be tolerated. The procedures that Porter’s follows are designed to ensure that incidents of sexual harassment will be investigated promptly, and that corrective actions will be taken immediately.
(Excerpted from full Sexual Harassment Policy)
In accordance with Connecticut law, smoking is prohibited in all student-occupied and employee work areas. All on-campus school housing units are considered non-smoking units. Employees, occupants and guests are expected to refrain from smoking inside school housing and on campus grounds, including athletics fields, etc. Miss Porter’s School is a smoke-free community.