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title: 'Maricopa Lead Guide at Flourish Schools'
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# Maricopa Lead Guide at Flourish Schools

- **Company:** Flourish Schools
- **Location:** Maricopa, AZ
- **Compensation:** $43k
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-05-11
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-14
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/flourish-schools/ebfc7519-1320-4589-97cd-2f4802dd4253

## Job description

Lead Guide (Growth Track) | Flourish Schools | Maricopa, AZ $43,000 per year

## About Flourish

Flourish is a growing network of private microschools in the Greater Phoenix area serving students in grades 3–8. We are small, intentional, and different from most schools you have worked in or attended. Our classrooms are built around Relationships, SuperPowers, Passions, and Foundations, and we measure success by whether kids are growing, engaged, and developing the skills they will actually need.

## About Flourish Schools

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Flourish Schools is a network of AI-supported microschools serving grades 3–8 with a mission to make learning joyful through small classes, experiential projects, and skill-based "superpower" development.
- **Entity Type**: Private (startup/educational institution; no public funding rounds disclosed)
- **Headquarters**: Madison, Tennessee, United States (near Nashville)
- **Founded**: 2025
- **Founders**: John Danner and Adam Nadeau (previously colleagues at Rocketship; Danner previously founded edtech companies ProjectRead and SparkSpace)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Primary and Secondary Education (microschools / independent schools)
- **Target customers**: B2C — families with students in grades 3–8 seeking an alternative to traditional schooling; also recruiting educators as "Teacher Founders" to launch new school locations
- **Mission**: "Make Learning Joyful for Students." Flourish's four pillars are **Relationships, Superpowers, Passions, and Foundations**. The school focuses on preparing children for a future very different from the one their parents grew up in — moving from standards-based to skills-based learning.

## Products & Services
- **Flourish Microschool (3–8)**: A small, project-based school model serving approximately 50 students per school during the 2026–2027 school year. The school day runs 8:15–3:15pm, with no textbooks, workbooks, worksheets, or packets — instead, students work with concepts and real-world resources to solve interesting challenges. Enrichment "Clubs" (pickleball, guitar, stained glass artistry, cooking, etc.) rotate every 9 weeks, and partnerships with local sports leagues offer soccer, volleyball, basketball, and lacrosse.
- **AI-Powered Learning Coach Platform**: Proprietary AI platform that handles grading, testing, planning, hints, and nudges for students — freeing teachers to focus on relationships, mentorship, and deeper inquiry. AI coaches help students strengthen basic skills like reading, writing, and math. This platform is also a differentiator for Teacher Founders opening their own Flourish school.
- **Teacher Founder Program**: A franchise-like leadership track where experienced educators (5+ years of classroom teaching) can become founders of their own Flourish school, with comprehensive training, marketing/enrollment support, operational guidance, and an equity opportunity in their school.
- **Assessment Framework ("Superpower Skills")**: Skill-based assessments (Agency, Curiosity, Perseverance, etc.) rather than content-based tests. Flourish's goal is to prove that students with strong skills outperform students who merely memorize facts.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding — Not publicly available; Headcount is approximately **5 employees with +350.0% YoY growth** (monthly +12.5%) as of late 2026, with 2 active job postings
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not publicly disclosed; institutional partners include **Middle States Commission on Higher Education (MSA)** — preliminary accreditation received, final expected Fall 2026 — and the **State of Arizona** (approved as a Class 1 independent school). Enrolled families will apply for an **Education Spending Account** through the state of Arizona beginning Fall 2026.
- **Growth Signals**: Launching 2026–2027 school year with ~50 students per school; active Teacher Founder recruitment to expand the network; LinkedIn following of ~363 (+1.4% monthly); job postings up +100% quarter-over-quarter; founding team is a proven education operator duo (Rocketship, edtech exits).

## Competitive Advantages
- **Founding experience**: John Danner and Adam Nadeau met in grad school and went through the "charter wars" together at Rocketship, giving them deep operational credibility in launch and scaling of school networks.
- **AI-native, teacher-centric model**: AI handles administrative and repetitive tasks (grading, testing, planning, nudges) so teachers can focus on connection and mentorship — deliberately designed to bring joy back to the teaching profession.
- **Small-by-design structure**: Every teacher knows every student well; ~50 students per school creates an intimate, relationship-driven environment that is hard for larger institutions to replicate.
- **Skills-first curriculum**: A differentiated assessment and learning framework based on "superpowers" (Agency, Curiosity, Perseverance) rather than rote content mastery — positioning Flourish as a leader in the shift from standards-based to skills-based education.
- **Teacher Founder model with equity**: Unique ownership structure allows educators to build and share in the upside of their own school, attracting high-caliber teacher-entrepreneurs.

## Strategic Focus
- **Scale the network**: Recruit Teacher Founders to open additional Flourish schools, replicating the microschool model across regions.
- **Finalize accreditation**: Complete MSA accreditation (expected Fall 2026) and maintain state approvals (Arizona Class 1 independent school status).
- **Foster affordability**: Use Arizona Education Spending Accounts and scholarships to make the model accessible to all families, not just premium private-school consumers.
- **Prove the skills-first thesis**: Demonstrate that "superpower" skills lead to better outcomes than fact-based learning, positioning Flourish to "lead the charge" in the broader education market shift.
- **Evolve classroom nature**: Continue integrating AI to remove teacher administrative burden while expanding project-based, experiential learning.

## Why Work Here
- **Mission-driven environment**: Employees directly shape how the next generation experiences school — "more human, more joyful, more intentional." The stated culture for both educators and engineers is *we’re not just hiring, we’re building.*
- **Small, high-impact team**: ~5 employees currently with strong growth momentum (+350% YoY); employees get outsize ownership and visibility across the business.
- **AI + education innovation**: Engineers and educators work side-by-side to build and refine a proprietary AI-powered learning platform — a rare blend of edtech product development and classroom practice.
- **Teacher Founder pathway**: For experienced educators, the Teacher Founder role offers training in school leadership, marketing/enrollment support, operational guidance, competitive compensation, and **equity in your school**.
- **Compensation & benefits**: Competitive base salary with performance-based bonus opportunities (40–60% above base for top-performing recruiters tied to enrollment milestones); health, dental, and vision insurance with employer premium contributions; PTO and holidays; professional development and conference attendance; flexible work arrangements during non-peak recruitment periods; retirement plan with employer matching after one year of service.
- **Inclusion**: Flourish Schools is an equal opportunity employer committed to building a diverse and inclusive team and actively encourages applications from candidates who contribute to diversity of community and educational equity.

## Sources
1. [flourishschools.com — About](https://www.flourishschools.com/about)
2. [flourishschools.com — Careers](https://www.flourishschools.com/careers)
3. [flourishschools.com — Teacher Founders](https://www.flourishschools.com/careers/teacher-founders)
4. [linkedin.com — Flourish Schools Company Page](https://linkedin.com/company/flourish-schools)
5. [zerogtalent.com — Flourish Schools Profile](https://zerogtalent.com/space-companies/flourish-schools)

## Other roles at Flourish Schools

- [Community Manager](https://feeny.ai/job/community-manager-flourish-schools-phoenix-2sdse1wrzwdq) — Phoenix, AZ
- [Maricopa Assistant Guide](https://feeny.ai/job/maricopa-assistant-guide-flourish-schools-maricopa-xn6ngxj4scha) — Maricopa, AZ