2026-2027 VAPA Teacher (Art)

Position Overview

As an Art Teacher, you will drive exceptional student learning, ensuring all meet or exceed ambitious standards for academic and social-emotional growth and achievement. In addition to planning and implementing a rigorous standards-aligned art curriculum, you will coach and support a cohort of advisees throughout their time at Ednovate and actively contribute to a positive, solutions-oriented team and school culture.

What You'll Do

• Master and deliver high-quality content.
• Develop and implement cutting edge digital curriculum, powered by the Common Core Standards/NGSS Standards, and ensure students across all identity groups have access to a high-quality, personalized college prep experience.
• Engage students in the creative process and foster their artistic talents, while deepening their knowledge, critical thinking and conceptual understanding and appreciation of art, design and art history.
• Implement best-in-class personalized instruction.
• Create and execute rigorous lesson and unit plans through backwards planning.
• Regularly track student mastery through Ednovate’s data systems and use a data-driven approach to regularly adapt instruction.
• Lead students in developing their passion and purpose through project-based learning opportunities.
• Provide students with clear, actionable feedback to drive continuous growth.
• Create transformative relationships with students.
• Through your advisory, mentor a group of students throughout their high school experience.
• Support advisees in meeting yearly promotion requirements through guided reflection and one-on-one conferences.
• Create and maintain a caring and accountable student culture.
• Establish clear, consistent, logical class structures, routines, and expectations aligned with our student culture model.
• Foster a sense of community through relationship-building among students.
• Hold consistently high expectations for all students and support students to meet them.
• Create a sense of urgency, optimism, and engagement amongst students.
• Contribute positively to the team.
• Build positive relationships with your teammates.
• Leverage your vulnerability as a means of building trust.
• Actively engage in difficult conversations and debate to ensure the best ideas surface.
• Drive for clarity in decision making.
• Seek, implement, and offer feedback necessary for individual and team growth.
• Commit to collective results.

Who You'll Be

• Mission-driven professional passionate about increasing college attainment for historically under-represented students.
• Social justice champion committed to promoting educational opportunity for all students and families.
• Entrepreneurial spirit who thrives in a workplace characterized by autonomy, flexibility, transparency and accountability.
• Collaborative team player who works well with others from diverse backgrounds, uplifts and celebrates our teammates and engages in healthy debate and feedback to get the best results for students and families.
• Resourceful, persistent learner with a growth mindset, constantly seeking to “find a way or make one” to master your craft and improve results.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree, required.
• A California Single Subject Teaching Credential or Out of State Teaching Credential, preferred; clear path to receiving a teaching credential within a year, required.
• 2+ years of teaching experience in a relevant subject area with a strong record of improving student learning, strongly preferred.
• Significant content expertise in art, required.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to communicate effectively with various audiences (including colleagues, students, families), required.

Pay

$70,250 to $120,019, depending on background and experience.

Benefits

• Medical, dental and vision coverage - including a fully-paid medical and dental option for employees and their families - and flexible spending account options.
• Paid family leave, short-term disability and life insurance benefits.
• Fitness and entertainment discounts.
• Generous paid time off and holidays.
• 403b retirement savings plan, with company matching.

About the Role

We are looking for innovative changemakers who aim to continue our goal of becoming the high school experts across Southern California.