Instructors who know the material
We are looking for people who can hold twelve teenagers in genuine conversation for an hour, and who understand the arguments they are teaching well enough to state the objections fairly.
Six gates before a student sees you
Vetting evaluates scholarship and instruction, in that order. Agreement is not a qualification.
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Subject-matter competence
An instructor teaching Burke or Sowell must understand the material, its influences, its critics, and its weakest points, not merely agree with it. Vetting evaluates the scholarship, not the politics.
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Instructional ability
A demonstration lesson is part of onboarding. We are looking for someone who can hold a room of twelve teenagers in genuine conversation for sixty minutes.
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Child safety training
Identity verification, a background check, and training in child safety and mandatory reporting.
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Socratic method
Internal training in discussion leadership, question design, and how to make a quiet student talk without embarrassing them.
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Parent communication
Instructors are trained to write to parents as partners: clearly, promptly, and always on the record.
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The Founding Principles
Every instructor is taught what the Lyceum stands for and where the line between teaching a perspective and propagandizing sits.
What we ask you to teach, and how
Individual liberty
The conviction that a free person, answerable to conscience and to God, is the basic unit of a decent society, and that education exists to prepare young people to exercise that freedom well.
Free enterprise
Markets are studied as a moral and human institution, not a spreadsheet: prices, incentives, trade, entrepreneurship, and the arguments of both their defenders and their critics.
Limited constitutional government
Students read the Constitution itself, the Federalist and Anti-Federalist arguments, and competing interpretations, and learn why the structure was built the way it was.
Personal responsibility
Attendance, preparation, and honest argument are treated as character, not compliance. Showing up prepared is a habit the Lyceum teaches on purpose.
The primacy of faith and family
Parents hold genuine authority over their children’s education here. The Lyceum is a partner to the household, never a substitute for it.
The Western intellectual and moral tradition
Athens, Rome, Jerusalem, the Enlightenment, and the American founding are treated as an inheritance worth understanding, read closely, and argued with honestly.
You may hold and state a perspective. You may not propagandize. In practice that means primary sources, named critics, and a classroom where a student can disagree and still earn an A.
What the Lyceum provides
You are paid by the Lyceum
Not a marketplace cut on a course you had to market yourself. Sections are filled by us, and you are compensated per section taught.
We own the infrastructure
Video, scheduling, rosters, attendance, boards, messaging and payments are all provided. You will never buy your own meeting license.
Curriculum support
Existing syllabi, readers, and reading plans you may use or replace. Developing new curriculum for the Lyceum is separately compensated.
Real institutional backing
An academic team that reviews courses, handles parent escalation, and defends a teacher who taught the material honestly.
Eight steps from idea to review
Once you are onboarded, building a course is a guided process. The academic team reviews every submission before it reaches the catalog.
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Basics
Title, descriptions, subject, ages, grades and tags
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Format
The kind of class, whether meetings build on each other or stand alone, and the color on its card
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Schedule
Meeting length, number of weeks, and at least two sections
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Academics
Objectives, syllabus, books and materials, prerequisites
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Pricing
Your price per meeting, and whether families pay for the whole course or week by week
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Cover image
The picture at the top of the class page and on every card
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Policies
Grading, rewards, recording, cancellation, support and perspective
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Submit
Check the finished class page, then send it to academic review
Apply
Tell us what you would teach and why.
The application is short and read by a person. If it fits, the next step is a conversation and a demonstration lesson.