High School - Music Teacher 26-27

About the role

Family Life Academy Charter School (FLACS) is a nonprofit network of high-performing charter schools in the South Bronx. FLACS, together with the Latino Pastoral Action Center and parents, creates the conditions for self-empowerment for all its K-12 students to excel academically, take responsibility for their own learning, and affirm human values, today, in college, and beyond. We are guided by this mission and through it, we have revolutionized education for students from K-12.

Responsibilities

• Creates academically rigorous, standards-based, culturally relevant lesson plans that allow students to create their own music, perform music, respond to the music that others have created, make connections between music and the world, and relate musical ideas and works with societal, cultural and historical contexts.
• Utilizes student-centered instructional strategies to engage students and differentiate teaching based on the diverse, individual needs of students including those with disabilities and ELLs.
• Implements units using common network curriculum resources, maps, frameworks, pacing documents and instructional philosophies to ensure alignment across our schools from kindergarten through high school graduation.
• Integrates literacy skills across the arts, includes explicit vocabulary development and prepares students to read, write, speak and listen within this discipline.
• Analyzes data from ongoing formative and summative assessments/projects to refine instructional practices and impact student artistic growth.
• Maintains strong classroom management and implements school wide policies and procedures to ensure a safe, caring and orderly school environment.
• Establishes a classroom culture of caring, respect and rapport which holds all students to high academic standards, promotes inclusion, fosters a love of learning, and builds positive relationships.
• Grades student work and provides students with actionable feedback, and returns work and enters these grades into online systems shared with students and families promptly.
• Sets high expectations for students and for themselves as an educator.
• Supports students in preparing performances of their work.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree is required; Masters degree is preferred
• Prior satisfactory teaching experience preferred
• New York State Certification in Music (all grades)
• Clearance for fingerprint and criminal background check

Professional Responsibilities

• Upholds the FLACS mission, core beliefs, and educational philosophy.
• Is a lifelong learner who reflects on their practice, is receptive to critical feedback from leaders and colleagues, and strives to improve instructional effectiveness.
• Has high expectations for students and for themselves as an educator.
• Demonstrates self-motivation and willingness to be a team player.

Benefits

FLACS is committed to providing educational and employment opportunities without regard to race, color, religion, creed, national origin, alienage and citizenship status, age, marital status, disability, sexual orientation, gender (sex) or prior record of arrest or convictions (except as provided by law), and to maintaining an environment free of discriminatory harassment, including sexual harassment, or retaliation, as required by civil rights law.

Pay

$60,654 - $123,968