Passages is currently has an opening for a part-time Program Facilitator position for the 2025/26 academic year.

We seek someone familiar with philosophies surrounding self-directed education, homeschooling and unschooling, who wants to work within a community built on trust and openness. Understanding neurodiversity and supporting youth to unmask and embrace their needs is essential, with a trauma-informed, shame-free approach and a sense of the mental health needs of current teens and LGBTQ+ youth.

We are most interested in your attitude, personal experiences with self-directed learning, and your desire for young people to lead empowered lives.

  • Willing and able to work with Passages staff in a consensus-based environment

  • Uses a youth-centred approach 

  • Supports learners in developing skills, connection and confidence

  • Understands how to introduce and utilize learning materials in an atmosphere of non-coercion

  • Demonstrates warmth, caring, fairness, diplomacy and respect to all Passages members 

  • A belief that meaningful learning is more important than curriculum expectations

  • Challenges thinking around schooling required curriculum and presupposition of knowledge

  • Understands developmental changes in pre-teens/teens' behaviour, attitude and intellect 

  • Enjoys teenagers and respects them as inexperienced yet responsible people

Find more details about the position here.

Send cover letters and resumes by July 15, 2025.