Your Career at MBS

Morristown Beard School

Your Career at MBS

A coed independent school, grades 6-12

Morristown Beard School

Our Mission

Within a culture of support and collaboration, Morristown Beard School students discover and develop their individual pathways to academic success and personal fulfillment while becoming enlightened, morally responsible citizens of the world.

Our Values

The bedrock of our curriculum is to provide rigorous academic preparation for college and beyond. Equally, we encourage all members of the MBS community to cultivate a life guided by moral principles.

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Powerfully Prepared for Learning and for Life

Morristown Beard School is an independent, coeducational day school serving students from more than 85 communities and nine counties in northern New Jersey. There are 600 students in grades 6-12, with an Upper School enrollment of 450 and a Middle School of 150.

In addition to effective communication and productive collaboration, nearly every list of skills required for 21stcentury success includes cogent writing, critical thinking, and solving complex, open-ended problems. MBS students practice these key skills across all subject areas and at all grade levels to prepare them thoroughly for the demands of college and life.

Faculty

Known for its warm and nurturing community, MBS expects its teachers to guide the intellectual and social-emotional growth of each of our students, putting the student experience at the heart of every decision.

Teachers are a school’s greatest asset. MBS hires passionate, dynamic, and talented teachers who dedicate their professional lives to the students in their charge and to the craft of teaching. MBS provides its teachers with opportunities and resources to develop their own learning and practice in order to design and deliver innovative and inspirational learning experiences.

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Commitment to DEIB

Faculty and administrators are encouraged and empowered to develop proactive curricular changes, programming, and School policies that enrich the students’ academic experiences. MBS supports the development of ethical leadership and cultural competency by providing opportunities for our students to attend multiple diversitycentered conferences, our MBS Diversity and Inclusion Retreat, and participate in facilitator training workshops to provide the skills required to become active agents of change on campus and in the greater community.

Faculty and staff at MBS participate in ongoing professional development to build cultural competency skills, enhance their understanding of diverse perspectives, and enrich their own curricular philosophy.

Professional Growth

At Morristown Beard School, our school-wide professional development initiatives are driven by our mission to help all of our students be courageous, curious, and “morally enlightened citizens of the world.”

MBS provides teachers with both individual and institutional professional development pathways.

Individualized Teacher

Growth and Learning

Excellence in Teaching is Sustained by Innovation

Innovation stems from experimentation in the classroom and is fueled by inspiration, new ideas, and exposure to a community of learners.

Lifelong learning is at the heart of the MBS experience for teachers as well as students. We believe that when teachers are supported in pursuing their intellectual passions, students reap the benefits in innovative curriculum and programming. MBS is committed to providing teachers with opportunities and resources to pursue learning. Professional development at MBS is composed of a wide range of offerings which include:

• Workshops run by our Center for Teaching & Learning, Center for Academic Writing, and Center for Innovation & Design

• Training sessions led by outside experts

• A Professional Growth Program available after a first year of introductory mentorship and a second-year formal evaluation. All teachers at MBS enroll in our Professional Growth Program—a teacher-centered, non-evaluative, two-year process that encourages teachers to reflect, seek inspiration, and experiment with purpose in their classrooms.

• MBS Summer Educators Sessions

• ExploElevate Innovative Schools Cooperative workshops and conferences

• NJAIS workshops and conferences

• Regional and National Conferences

• Folio

Teaching at MBS

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Morristown, New Jersey was recently highlighted in money.com and Livability’s annual ranking of “Best Places to Live in the U.S. in 2022.” Ranking 30th out of the top 100 communities across the country, Morristown is centered around its historic Green with a bustling downtown full of retail shops, great restaurants, and a rich arts scene that includes the nearby Mayo Performing Arts Center.

A vibrant community which values the arts and celebrates diversity, Morristown is also home to many historic sites such as Jockey Hollow National Park, Morristown National Historic Park, and Fosterfields Living Historical Farm. The MBS campus is adjacent to Morris County’s Frelinghuysen Arboretum, where a range of school classes and athletic practices take place and walks with colleagues are always a welcome way to end the workday.

Morristown is conveniently located 30 miles from New York City and 18 miles from Newark International Airport. The Morristown train station provides direct access to Hoboken and a 60-minute ride to New York Penn Station.

Morristown is a great place to live and work!