Jason Baeten

Head of School & Math Teacher

Jason’s belief in--and experience in making--irresistible learning spaces has fueled his career of being a founding teacher and leader in three schools across the Bay Area: Julia Morgan School for Girls, East Bay School for Boys, and, now, Field Middle.

An inspirational, thoughtful, and visionary educator, he is committed to fostering intentional learning communities with significant purpose, and is driven to inspire change through creating mission-driven and values-based schools and communities. Jason creates dynamic environments in which students and staff feel seen, are held equitably, and have agency to become lifelong learners and leaders.

Over his years as a teacher and leader, Jason has discovered that providing a safe space for boys to be boys and also to be vulnerable enables them to access their authentic selves and to learn that real power comes from self-love and through empowering others. He believes that teaching this to boys at a critical point in their development—middle school— is essential to dismantling racism and misogyny and in creating the critical thinking change agents our world needs.