Headmaster

Position Description

POSITION OVERVIEW:  The Capstone Classical Academy Board of Directors is seeking a Headmaster who will assist them in carrying out school policy and implementing the mission and vision of Capstone. The Headmaster will provide operational leadership in managing the organization and oversee all the educational components of the school while supervising, mentoring, and encouraging teachers and staff members. The position begins in July 2026 or as negotiated.

SUMMARY: The Headmaster is the chief executive of the academy and the board’s sole employee and will lead the ongoing development of a school still in its pioneering years. Capstone Classical Academy is working with Hillsdale College as a K-12 Education Member School, utilizing their K-12 curriculum recommendations and teacher training programs. The academy is also a member of the Society for Classical Learning (SCL) and the Association of Classical and Christian Schools (ACCS), planning to pursue accreditation through SCL. Candidates should, therefore, be committed wholeheartedly to establishing and advancing a Christian and classical education.

The selected candidate will have an opportunity to work with the board to shape the school as it adds one grade level per year, graduating its first class in May 2028.

The board believes that education’s telos is the promotion of human flourishing through development of the classical Christian virtues. Achieving this end requires a leader who can inspire teachers, students, parents, and donors to see and pursue their own potential via the classical method of education.

The Headmaster is a significant position that carries much and varied responsibility. This particular headmaster position has the added responsibility of helping the board develop a young school to maturity. This will require considerable tenacity, courage, hard work, imagination, and initiative.

In addition to being an academic leader, the ideal candidate will possess the strength of personality necessary to advocate for classical education and the school. This advocacy must reach not only the community of parents and philanthropic interest but also influence the educational establishment who may hold competing and contradictory ideas about the foundations, ends, and means of education. Winsome engagement with community leaders and legislative and government officials is a key part of promoting the renewal of classical education in Fargo and the rest of ND. The ideal candidate should, therefore, be personable, well-spoken, and able to speak passionately, convincingly, and reasonably about how and why classical education is different and critically important to the preservation of Western civilization in general and the American experiment in self-government in particular.

Additionally, the ideal candidate has an entrepreneurial spirit, is detail-oriented and can fulfill the duties necessary to grow and develop the school and manage it through its formative years and beyond.

To view a complete Headmaster Job Description and Profile and other information including the process for application go to: https://capstoneclassical.com/api/media/file/CapstoneHeadmasterOpportunitySmall.pdf  

For more information or questions contact Capstone Classical Academy at:  [email protected].