SY24-25 PER SESSION VACANCY NOTICE # 1253: Teacher - Arts Office Lead Teacher (Office of Arts and Special Projects)

Teacher

1. Listed in STARS as a full-time certified arts teacher teaching in their license area;
2. Minimum of two years satisfactory teaching experience in the arts, grades Pre-K-12;
3. Experience teaching and directing arts students and/or providing professional development for teachers in performing arts, film/moving image, and/or visual arts;
4. Familiarity with the current implementation of the Blueprint for Teaching and Learning in the Arts, Advance, the Danielson Framework for Teaching, and working with students with disabilities and/or multilingual learners;
5. Demonstrated ability to collaborate and communicate with others with patience and respect, all to foster a collegial and creative learning environment;
6. Demonstrated ability to plan and conduct meetings in both in-person and virtual settings;
7. Availability to attend in-person and online training sessions, meetings and events with Arts Office staff - and representing the Office - during the school year.

Based on the Arts Office’s shared data systems, AOLs will support the needs of Arts Office Directors to meet teachers’ needs for

professional learning and support in their specific discipline and borough. This may include:

1. Provide direct teacher support as requested; field and respond to questions;
2. Support development and facilitation of professional learning workshops that respond to the needs of the borough- and discipline-specific teachers, aligned to the vision of the Arts Office;
3. Share information, resources, and recommendations that support effective student engagement in the arts;
4. Strengthen the network/community of arts teachers in the borough.

Collaborate closely and maintain regular communication with Arts Office Directors. This may include:

1. Based on data and observations, develop a sense of teachers’ needs, successes and priorities specific to the discipline and borough, in order to inform Arts Office Directors’ programming;
2. Act as a thought-partner for both borough- and discipline-based needs;
3. Attend monthly meetings with Arts Office Directors;
4. Responding promptly to outreach and including Directors on all emails (cc’ing)

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