Private Educator

Live-IN Private Educator for 2e High Schooler: Advanced Math/Chemistry + Dyslexia/Reading Intervention | 2e StudentWoodside & Santa Barbara, California | $150,000–$250,000+/year | Full-time live-in roleThe 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 forThe 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 roleThis 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 experienceCandidates 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 haveTraining 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 locationThis 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.Start dateMid-September 2026, or as soon as the right candidate is available.To applyPlease submit a resume and a brief note specifically addressing:Your experience teaching gifted or highly advanced mathematics, AP Calculus, and AP Chemistry.Your experience providing reading intervention for students with dyslexia or significant reading disabilities, including any specific training or methodologies you have used.Your experience working with gifted, twice-exceptional, ADHD, or otherwise neurodivergent adolescents.Your experience supporting executive functioning and independent learning.Your availability to work full-time and divide your time between Woodside and Santa Barbara, including living with the student while in the Bay Area.Please include specific examples whenever possible. We are intentionally looking for an educator with expertise across both advanced STEM and literacy intervention.