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Join the Slope School Team

Welcome to the application to join the Slope School team. We look forward to meeting you.

This application process is meant to be fun and useful. No long essays required. Just share with us what makes you tick.

If you have any questions, please reach out to us at apply@slope.school. Also, it may be wise to complete your answers on your computer first, so you don’t accidentally lose your work.

Basic Info

First Name

Last Name

Email address

Phone number

About You

1. What is one problem you would like to solve in your lifetime and how would you start?

2. At the ideal school for your child, what percent (%) of a normal week would be spent:

Learning through PEER DISCUSSION + DEBATE?

On STUDENT-DRIVEN LEARNING?

Learning through GROUP LECTURE?

Learning through DESIGNING + BUILDING + EXPERIMENTATION?

3. If you were to add any one book to the Slope School library for the future students of the middle school and high school studios read, what would it be? Why?

4. Imagine you are a Guide at Slope School for 5 wonderful years. Following that, you could start a new Slope School campus, start your own company or non-profit, go on to a top tech firm or graduate school program, or something else. What would be the ideal next step in your journey?

Research

Slope School embraces a new model of learning rich with opportunity. Please dive deeply into the resources below, then share with us your takeaways:

Slope School website
Slope School videos
Courage to Grow, by Laura Sandefer
Unschooling Rules, by Clark Aldrich
Laura Sandefer’s Acton Academy Parents Blog

1. After researching, what do you believe are the top three reasons that joining the Slope School team would be a great fit for you?

2. What are the 3+ most important questions or concerns you have?

3. Please provide a link to a short (1-2 minutes) video explaining why you want to be a Guide (or other role) at Slope School. (No need to overthink this! Just pull out your phone, record your thoughts, and upload it to Google Drive or Youtube marked “Unlisted” so you’re sharing the link just with us. All new students at Slope School do the same thing and it’s a lot of fun!)