Middle School Literacy Educator

Green School Bali is a wall-less campus in the heart of the jungle, where education is lived, not delivered. Sustainability is our operational floor: the way we care for resources day to day. But our true work is regeneration: restoring ecosystems, re-patterning relationships, and creating conditions for all life to thrive.

In this living curriculum, the humanities are not sidelined; they are indispensable. Regeneration is not only about soil, water, and energy, it is also about the stories we tell, the histories we inherit, the philosophies we live by, and the social structures we reproduce. Literature, history, and philosophy open spaces for students to question how humans came to live as if separate from the living world, and to imagine different futures grounded in reciprocity and participation.

Here, learning is woven with biomimicry for regenerative design, drawing principles from the natural world around us, while also challenging the symbolic and cultural systems that shape our ways of seeing and acting. In studying regeneration, students also study themselves: the myths, histories, and philosophies that shaped a world of separation, and the possibility of telling them otherwise.

Our invitation is bold: to educate young people who can hold complexity, critique power, and act regeneratively, not just as future professionals, but as present participants in the renewal of the world.

Role Description

The Middle School is a lively learning neighborhood of ~100 students across grades 6-8 within the wider Green School Bali community. Our teaching team works collaboratively to design learning experiences that are joyful, challenging, and deeply connected to real-world issues, always asking how we might learn with and contribute to the community (human and other-than-human).

We are looking for a passionate Middle School Literacies educator who can help young adolescents grow as readers, writers, speakers, and thinkers, not only in English but across the multiple literacies needed to navigate and shape today’s world. This role is about more than teaching comprehension or grammar; it’s about helping students discover how language and story shape our relationships, our communities, and our futures, and how they can be reimagined in service of Life.

Working in close collaboration with our dynamic Middle School team, the Literacies Educator creates learning that is integrated, project-based, community-connected, and grounded in regenerative practice. The role calls for creativity, adaptability, and a commitment to nurturing diverse ways of knowing and learning.

To thrive in this role, you’ll bring both a strong foundation in literacies and the imagination to cross boundaries, weaving reading, writing, and communication into dialogue with ecology, design, culture, and lived community experience.

**Position Criteria**
- Lives and teaches from a regenerative worldview: sees literacy not as a set of isolated skills, but as participation in meaning-making across living systems.
- Fluent in weaving reading, writing, speaking, and listening with wider literacies (digital, cultural, ecological) so students experience language as relational and world-shaping.
- Designs learning that grows voice and agency, where stories, texts, and communication practices help restore connection, renew imagination, and re-pattern how we live together.
- Brings practice to the role: literacy is not abstract, but lived through daily reading, writing, dialogue, and the creation of spaces where students’ voices matter.
- Courageous in helping young people see how language reflects and reproduces systems of power, and how it can also be used to question, challenge, and reimagine.
- Relational by orientation, cultivating classrooms as living communities where every student’s expression is honored and collective meaning-making is real.
- Reflective and growth-oriented, open to surprise and uncertainty, and committed to ongoing learning as part of a regenerative Middle School neighborhood.

**Other Requirements (by Indonesian Law)**
- Must be holding a Bachelor of Education in English Language/Literature - and have experience teaching in that field for a minimum of 5 years.
- Must hold a Teaching Certificate
- Must be able to pass a HIV test (legally required).
- Must not have any previous criminal convictions (legally required).
- Must not have any Child Protection concerns on file at previous schools or workplaces.
- Must be able to provide an original copy of certifications, transcripts, diploma and/or degrees (legally required).

**The Unique Green School Bali Opportunity**
- Be part of a mission-driven organisation and enjoy the freedom and independence to engage in new learning methods, projects and experiment with your ideas.
- Be a member of an inspirational, intellectual and vibrant community of professionals.
- Hone your educator skills through peer training, exposure to hugely inspirational visitors and community members, and