Apprentice Guide
Responsible for your own performance. You learn the model, run launches and reflections, keep the studio contract, and finish onboarding within a calendar year. The open role is middle school, ages 12–14.
Careers
Become a Guide
A calling with a clear path. Learn the craft, lead a studio, develop other Guides, and, for a few, carry the mission into ownership.
The work
You are not here to stand at a board and talk. You protect a learner-driven studio where young people own the journey.
Acton Academy North Broward is a micro-school in Coral Springs for ages 5–18. Guides launch the day, ask better questions, and hold the studio contract so learners can do the hard part themselves. Read how the model works and how the four studios are shaped.
We do not measure a Guide only by how long they stay. We measure the growth they experience and the impact they create. Some build a career here and become Master Guides or Heads of School. A few become Operating Partners and help launch another campus. Others take the Hero's Journey somewhere else. All of those are good outcomes. Leave stronger than when you arrived.
Who thrives here
The Guides who do this well are already on a Hero's Journey of their own. They believe children can carry more than they are usually trusted with.
- Youth leadership, including camps
- Design, making, and building
- Montessori or another learner-driven school
- Entrepreneurship
- The outdoors
- Writing, art, engineering, or music
Those are starting points, not a gate. What we actually look for is simpler.
- You build real relationships with young people
- You have a record of finishing hard things
- You can miss, adjust, and try again
- You trust learners to own the work
The path
Advancement is earned. Each step is a wider circle of responsibility, not a prize for time served. The question is what level of responsibility you have shown you are ready to carry.
Guide
Responsible for the studio. Learners keep their commitments, conflicts move through the studio's own process, and the culture holds without you hovering over it.
Master Guide
Responsible for other Guides. You coach apprentices and newer Guides, and your studio is a model the rest of the school can learn from.
Director / Head of School
Responsible for the organization. You build the team, the family experience, and the systems that keep the mission healthy when you are not in the room.
Operating Partner
Operating Partnership is not the next promotion, and it is not guaranteed. It is an invitation, offered only when the person and a real opportunity both fit.
Partners lead a campus, develop Guides, protect the culture, and steward the school's health. When we choose to fund a new campus, we may cover the Acton network's startup investment of about $10,000, under an ownership structure we agree on together.
Compensation
Pay follows contribution, leadership, and impact. A promotion changes pay when the promotion is approved. These are the current base salaries. We can adjust them for exceptional work, what the school needs, or the market.
$48,000
Apprentice Guide
Learn the craft.
$55,000
Guide
Lead the studio.
$68,000
Master Guide
Develop other Guides.
$85,000+
Director
Lead the mission.
Negotiated
Operating Partner
Agreed when an ownership opportunity is offered.
Performance bonus
Twice a year, a bonus recognizes people who make the people around them better. Doing the job is the baseline. The bonus is for the standard you raise.
Each session closes with a 360 review. Learners, parents, teammates, and directors all weigh in. The January bonus uses the average of sessions 1, 2, and 3. The June bonus uses the average of sessions 4, 5, 6, and 7. Several sessions count, so one hard week does not decide it.
Open role
Now hiring
Middle School Apprentice Guide
Ages 12–14
You are learning the craft. Launches, accountability, Journey Tracker, a studio that is ready before the learners walk in, and the judgment to let them own the struggle. By the end of this stage you can facilitate the core of the day on your own, still inside the model.
The question we will ask with you: can you run the Acton model well while the learners still own the work?
The studios
The audition
Three steps. One form. We will be in touch within one business day.
1. Apply
Tell us who you are and which role you feel called to. The form is short on purpose. This is the application.
2. A conversation and a visit
If we both see a fit, you will talk with us and spend a short time in a studio. You are watching the work. We are watching how you are with learners.
3. Meet the learners
Final candidates are invited back to meet a group of current learners. That step is by invitation.
Apply
Tell us who you are and which role you feel called to. We will be in touch within one business day.