Lower School Director
Khanlabschool
About this role
Khan Lab School in Palo Alto, CA, is seeking a Lower School Director to lead their grades TK-5 program. The role involves academic and operational leadership, faculty support, community building, and strategic initiatives to foster mastery-based, innovative, and personalized education. The candidate should be a seasoned educational leader with a focus on progressive, competency-based learning models.
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About Khanlabschool
khanlabschool.orgKhan Lab School is a nonprofit independent school and learning lab founded by Sal Khan in Mountain View, California. The school pilots mastery-based, personalized education where students advance by demonstrated mastery rather than seat time, emphasizing caring relationships, mixed-age collaboration, and teachers-as-learners. It deliberately leverages time, space, and technology to support project-based and interdisciplinary learning across early childhood through middle school. Khan Lab School also serves as a demonstration site—sharing practices and research with the broader education community.
About Khanlabschool
Headquarters
San Francisco, CA
Company Size
201-500 employees
Founded
2018
Industry
Technology
Glassdoor Rating
4.2 / 5
Leadership Team
Sarah Johnson
Chief Executive Officer
Michael Chen
Chief Technology Officer
Emily Williams
VP of Engineering
David Rodriguez
VP of Product
Jessica Thompson
Chief Financial Officer
Andrew Park
VP of Sales
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Salary
$185k
per year