Private Educator

Modulo; Santa Barbara (CA); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Housing provided

Vehicle provided

Meals included

Job summary

Modulo seeks a live-in private educator for a twice-exceptional high school student in the San Francisco Bay Area and Santa Barbara. The role requires mastery of advanced STEM subjects and substantial reading intervention experience, with a focus on giftedness, dyslexia, ADHD, and executive functioning.

Responsibilities include designing an individualized homeschool program, coordinating tutors, managing schedules, and guiding entrepreneurial projects.

Qualifications

• Experience teaching gifted or highly advanced mathematics, ideally AP Calculus or beyond.
• Verifiable professional experience providing reading intervention to students with dyslexia or reading disabilities.
• Ability to teach AP Chemistry and support rigorous high school science coursework.
• Experience with gifted, twice-exceptional, or neurodivergent adolescents.

Responsibilities

• Design and manage an individualized homeschool program.
• Coordinate tutors, specialists, mentors, or educational therapists.
• Manage the student’s academic and extracurricular schedule.
• Research and coordinate social, academic, and extracurricular opportunities.
• Help the student pursue an entrepreneurial project with actionable steps.
• Accompany and drive the student to classes and activities.
• Communicate progress, priorities, and recommendations with the family.
• Foster independence and strong learning-life management systems.

Skills

AP Calculus

AP Chemistry

Reading intervention

Gifted education

Education

Advanced degree in mathematics or chemistry

Job description

Live-IN Private Educator for 2e High Schooler: Advanced Math/Chemistry + Dyslexia/Reading Intervention | 2e Student

The Modulo team is conducting a search for an exceptional private educator with an unusual combination of advanced STEM expertise and substantial experience in reading intervention to work one-on-one with a gifted, twice-exceptional high school student.

The student is exceptionally advanced in mathematics, highly curious, and entrepreneurial. At the same time, he has significant reading-based learning disabilities and needs meaningful support with reading, written language, executive functioning, organization, and focus.

We are specifically seeking an educator who understands the complexity of a 2e profile, including the enormous discrepancy that can exist between a student's advanced mathematical and conceptual reasoning and their literacy skills.

This position requires strength in BOTH advanced STEM and reading intervention. Candidates whose experience is exclusively in one area will not be a fit.

What we’re looking for

The successful candidate must be able to:

• Teach AP Calculus and highly advanced high school mathematics to a gifted math student.
• Teach AP Chemistry and support rigorous high school science coursework.
• Provide skilled, individualized support for a student with significant reading difficulties.
• Demonstrate verifiable experience with reading intervention, such as Orton-Gillingham, Wilson Reading System, Barton, structured literacy, educational therapy, or another evidence-based approach to dyslexia and reading disabilities.
• Understand giftedness, twice-exceptionality, asynchronous development, dyslexia, ADHD/executive functioning challenges, and neurodiversity.
• Adapt intellectually advanced material so that a student's reading disability does not limit access to sophisticated ideas.
• Support executive functioning, including planning, organization, focus, task initiation, time management, prioritization, and follow-through.
• Provide structure and accountability in a way that is encouraging, respectful, and appropriate for a highly intelligent teenager.
• Support a student who is entrepreneurial, independent-minded, and motivated by meaningful real-world projects.

The role

This educator will serve as the student's primary private teacher, learning specialist, mentor, and educational program manager.

In addition to direct teaching, responsibilities will include:

• Designing and managing an individualized homeschool program.
• Coordinating any additional tutors, specialists, mentors, or educational therapists.
• Managing the student's academic and extracurricular schedule.
• Researching and coordinating high-quality social, academic, and extracurricular opportunities.
• Helping the student pursue an entrepreneurial project, including breaking ambitious goals into concrete steps, identifying appropriate resources and mentors, organizing meetings, and following through on projects.
• Accompanying and driving the student to classes, extracurricular activities, meetings, and educational opportunities.
• Communicating regularly with the family about progress, priorities, challenges, and recommendations.
• Helping the student become increasingly independent and develop strong systems for managing his own learning and life.

The family is looking for someone who can combine very high academic expectations with patience, warmth, flexibility, and a sophisticated understanding of neurodivergence.

The right educator will see the student's learning differences clearly while never underestimating his intellectual ability.

Required experience

Candidates should have:

• Demonstrated experience teaching gifted or highly advanced mathematics, ideally through AP Calculus or beyond.
• Ability to teach AP Chemistry.
• Verifiable professional experience providing reading intervention to students with dyslexia or significant reading disabilities.
• Significant experience with gifted, twice-exceptional, or neurodivergent adolescents.
• Strong understanding of executive functioning and strategies for supporting attention, organization, and independent work.
• Experience working effectively one-on-one with teenagers.
• Excellent organizational and project-management skills.
• Ability to coordinate other educators and manage a complex individualized educational program.
• A valid driver’s license and strong driving record.

Particularly strong candidates may have

• Training or certification in Orton-Gillingham, Wilson Reading System, Barton, structured literacy, educational therapy, or a comparable reading-intervention methodology.
• An advanced degree in mathematics, chemistry, physics, engineering, education, special education, educational therapy, or a related field.
• Experience teaching AP Calculus, AP Chemistry, advanced competition math, Art of Problem Solving, college-level mathematics, or similarly advanced coursework.
• Experience working specifically with gifted students with dyslexia, ADHD, dysgraphia, or other learning disabilities.
• Experience as a private educator, homeschool teacher, learning specialist, educational therapist, or educational program director.
• An interest or professional background in entrepreneurship, technology, engineering, AI, startups, or project-based learning.

Schedule and location

This is a full-time, approximately 40-hour-per-week position.

The typical instructional day is expected to be approximately 10:00 AM–4:00 PM, with additional time devoted to planning, educational management, transportation, and occasional evening or weekend activities. Some weekend availability will be required.

The student's time will be divided primarily between Woodside in the San Francisco Bay Area and Santa Barbara, California.

The educator must be comfortable traveling between both locations.

While in the Bay Area, the educator will live in the same residence as the student and provide appropriate educational and logistical support outside formal lesson time. This is not a traditional nanny position, and the educator will not be responsible for general childcare, housekeeping, or meal preparation.

In Santa Barbara, the educator may live with the family or maintain separate accommodation.

Housing can be provided in both locations if desired. Accommodation and meals are included whenever the educator is living with the student.

A vehicle will be provided for work-related transportation, and a valid driver’s license is required.

Compensation

$150,000–$250,000 annually, depending on experience and qualifications.

The upper end of the range is intended for an unusually strong candidate who combines genuinely advanced STEM teaching ability with substantial expertise in reading intervention and twice-exceptional learners.

Mid-September 2026, or as soon as the right candidate is available.