Secondary Visual Arts Teacher (School Year)

Crossroads Charter Schools is looking for highly effective highly qualified and highly motivated individuals to join our organization. Ideal candidates will have experience in urban education and be committed to our four core values: High Expectations Real World Learning Creative Culture and Belonging.

Crossroads Charter Schools organization is an equal opportunity employer. Applicants are considered for all positions without regard to sex race religion color national origin ancestry age disability sexual orientation gender identity or any other factor prohibited by law.

Job Description: Secondary Visual Arts Teacher

Direct Supervisor: Principal or designee

School Summary:
At Crossroads Charter Schools we

• Develop school environments where all students are actively and meaningfully engaged in rigorous instruction and authentic learning tasks.
• Interrupt the school to prison pipeline policies and practices that are directly and indirectly pushing the most at-risk students out of school and on a pathway to the juvenile and criminal justice systems.
• Engage families as partners in meaningful ways.
• Nurture an open collaborative and trusting environment because the work is enormous deeply personal emotional and often difficult.
• Engage in on-going job-embedded professional development through co-teaching and co-planning

Position Summary:

The primary responsibilities are to provide support in the instructional process by serving as a facilitator of learning developing lesson plans and delivering group and individual student instruction within established curriculum guidelines; collaborating with other teachers other professional staff and administrators in addressing classroom and school issues; and responding to a wide range of inquiries from parents or guardians regarding academic and social-emotional issues. The ideal candidate has experience with the workshop model and project-based learning. The teacher must be a hardworking goal-oriented and enthusiastic professional with excellent subject knowledge and a sound understanding of the Missouri Learning Standards and Common Core Standards. The teacher is a motivated individual with a keen interest in encouraging and inspiring students to love learning and excel both academically and socially. The teacher collaborates with staff to co-plan co-deliver and individualize instruction for all students in a class; work together creatively to accommodate special needs diversity and educational backgrounds of the students; and overcome instructional challenges constructively. The teacher is a hardworking goal-oriented and enthusiastic professional with excellent subject knowledge and a sound understanding of the Missouri Learning Standards and Common Core Standards.

Please submit a cover letter resume and references.

Position Responsibilities:

• Teach knowledge and skills in art including drawing painting lettering and art history
• Instruct students in citizenship and basic subject matter specified in state standards and procedures of the school
• Provide instruction by which students develop aesthetic concepts and appreciations and the ability to make qualitative judgments about art
• Demonstrate techniques in a wide-rang of art activities
• Understand a variety of masters techniques
• Knows and can apply elements of design and modern principles of art
• Knows the fundamentals and different approaches to different types of art
• Provide individual and small-group instruction to adapt the curriculum to the needs of students with varying intellectual and artistic abilities and to accommodate a variety of instructional activities
• Instruct students in proper care and use of tools and equipment
• Organize storage areas and control use of materials equipment and tools to prevent loss or abuse and to minimize time required for distribution and collection
• Evaluate each students performance and growth in knowledge and aesthetic understandings and prepare progress reports
• Select and requisition books instructional materials tools instructional aids and maintain required inventory records
• Plan and present art displays and exhibitions designed to exhibit students work for the school and the community
• Demonstrate gains in student performance
• Participate in meetings training and professional development
• Meet professional obligations through efficient work habits such as: meeting deadlines honoring schedules coordinating etc.
• Act in a professional and ethical manner at all times and comply with school policies procedures and expectations.
• Perform other duties and responsibilities as assigned by their supervisor.

Expected Salary - One of your application questions will ask you to indicate your expected salary. To respond to the question please review the 10-month Compensation plan to indicate your expected salary.

Skills and Qualifications:

• Bachelors or Masters Degree in Education
• Valid Missouri teaching certificate
• Desire to continue professional development
• Minimum 2 years experience teaching preferred
• Ideal candidate will have demonstrated success in urban education
• Ideal candidate will have experience with Choice-Based Art Education
• Desire to continue professional development
• Excellent organization skills and an ability to coordinate multiple tasks and activities
• Outstanding verbal and written communication skills and an ability to keep multiple stakeholder groups including parents teachers staff volunteers and partners informed of critical issues activities and schedules.
• An ability and enthusiasm for promoting the school and its mission to a broad and diverse group of people.
• Excellent work ethic positive attitude flexibility and willingness to perform tasks assigned
• Demonstrates ethical behavior and confidentiality of information about students and teachers in school environment and community.
  Must pass extensive background check.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS:The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• This job requires that the employee be able to: sit stand walk speak hear use hands fingers reach with hands and fingers; bend stoop lift objects of at least ten pounds. Job requires the employee occasionally to stoop kneel crouch. Visual ability requires mono and color vision close vision distance vision depth perception and ability to adjust focus. May have to intervene in student fights or when students are escalated using MANDT training.

COMMUNICATION:Maintains communication with teachers other school personnel and parents/guardians to enhance cooperative action which will meet the educational needs of students.

• Provides health services information and counseling in an effective and positive manner to enhance the health and wellness of the school community.
• Completes accident/incident reports for students/staff.
• Compiles data for statistical purposes.
• Maintains confidentiality regarding educational records.

ORGANIZATION:Must be able to organize and prioritize work in a manner understandable to the leadership team. Maintains a daily log of school/staff visits and documentation.

• Maintains the daily environment of the health office facility and supplies.
• Utilizes existing technology effectively in the performance of duties.
• Performs other related work as required.

REASONING ABILITY: Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists. Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written oral diagram or schedule form.

LANGUAGE SKILLS: Ability to read and analyze and interpret general professional journals technical procedures or governmental regulations. Ability to write reports general curriculum and learning theories correspondence and protocols. Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of administrators staff parents students and the general public.

WORK ENVIRONMENT:The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. The noise level in the work environment is usually loud and is a standard acceptable level for this environment. Is directly responsible for students and staff safety work output and well-being.

OTHER SKILLS and ABILITIES: Ability to apply knowledge of current research and theory to instructional programs; ability to plan and implement lessons based on division and school objectives and the needs and abilities of students. Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with students peers parents and community; ability to speak clear and concisely in written or oral communication.

All applicants must apply on the Crossroads website at: Working Relationships in Addition to Supervisor:

Teachers Students Parents Volunteers Office Staff Support Staff Assistant Principals Principals District Leadership Team Central Office Team

Both federal and state law requires all public school personnel to submit to and pass a criminal background check prior to employment by the school. Crossroads Charter Schools is required by law to exclude from employment any person who has pleaded to or been found guilty of a felony or crime involving moral turpitude under the laws of the State of Missouri any other State of the United States or any other country whether or not a sentence is or was imposed.

Please be advised that Crossroads Charter Schools does not seek information related to the conviction of crimes unrelated to those described in this question. Your conviction of a crime not otherwise listed above is not an automatic disqualification from employment consideration. The school will consider the nature of the offense and the relationship between the offense and the position for which you are applying.

Required Experience:

Manager