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I love Explo. I love waking up eleven pubescent girls every morning, making their lives OK during the day, and turning off their lights at night. I love sitting in a classroom with fifteen of the brightest kids I've ever seen and talking about our place in the universe or the deeper meaning of classical myths. I love talking to teachers when they're insecure about their classes, or watching them light up when they've had an inspiring morning. I love every piece of the place -- if it can even be broken down into distinguishable pieces -- and I look forward to it, almost as a kind of all-is-still-well-with-the-world therapy every year.
-- Mandy Howerton

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working at exploration:
it's not easy, but it is rewarding

Some people have said that the intensity of activity at Exploration is something like a six-week exam period. You will move from teaching class, to comforting a homesick student, to organizing a special event, to preparing a class, to coaching a sport, to leading an art activity, to dealing with a roommate conflict, to facilitating a group discussion. And that list is hardly exhaustive.

Our Programs are faculty intensive; you will live on-campus and will be on-duty at all points throughout the day and evening—many times into the late evening. You will have approximately every other night off, but you will need every moment of your time-off to unwind after the daily intensity of the Program. We tell you this as a prospective faculty member not so much to frighten you, but rather to give you a sense of the intensity and commitment we will be asking of you.

For students at all three of our Programs, the summer is an important opportunity for learning, growth, excitement, and fun. Students arrive at Exploration with high hopes and expectations for a memorable summer experience. Our ability to give students this kind of experience will rest squarely on your shoulders and the shoulders of the rest of our faculty. This is not a job for passive onlookers, slow starters, or timid people. Successful Exploration faculty members must be hard workers, excellent communicators, passionate learners, and dedicated teachers in all stages of student interaction.

To support our diverse student body, we bring together a diverse faculty with a broad range of backgrounds, talents, styles, and interests. We work to establish an environment at Exploration that is comfortable and safe for students from all different backgrounds, styles, cultures, and opinions. As a faculty member at Exploration, you must be prepared to listen to other points of view, teach, and lead discussions with a recognition that the Program welcomes and encourages a wide range of personal beliefs and opinions.

Our students' families entrust us to care for and nurture their children, and we take this responsibility extremely seriously, putting it ahead of everything else that we do. Prior experience with children is helpful for working at Exploration, but more important is your enthusiasm, energy, good judgement, creativity, common sense, concern for others, and desire to do all the big and little things that make Programs like ours successful and safe.

It's not easy work. In fact, you may never work longer or harder. But the rewards -- tangible, visceral, instant -- more than make up for it. You will see the direct effect of your work every moment of the day -- in classes, on trips, during activities, and in casual conversations with students at meals. Exploration is an amazing place to share new experiences and new ideas with an exciting and diverse student body. And while, at the end of each day, we guarantee you'll be exhausted -- we also guarantee a sense of accomplishment.

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