Position Responsibilities
High School Educator Responsibilities
- Foster a sense of student belonging by cultivating joy and purpose throughout the High School.
- Cultivate a caring and culturally responsive learning community in Advisory and the classroom, taking into account physical, emotional, and intellectual well-being of students.
- Identify essential learning and use a planning framework with standards, learning targets, real-world connections, and a culturally responsive curriculum.
- Design quality standards-based formative, summative and self assessments that provide students with frequent feedback and communicate students’ growth and achievement.
- Plan and implement engaging learning experiences that are inquiry-based collaborative, culturally responsive, and differentiated.
- Respond to learners’ diverse needs using responsive, measurable, and research-informed interventions and extensions.
- Utilize flexible, rigorous and adaptive Tier I instructional practices to allow students of all diverse language and learning styles to effectively access learning.
- Collaborate as a member of a Professional Learning Communities (PLCs) that creates a supportive community, plans curriculum, gives and receives feedback with one another, and engages in professional learning and reflection.
- Actively engage in professional learning and growth through regular observation and feedback cycles, walkthroughs, and reflection with Professional Learning Community Coach and Principals, and participate in external opportunities.
- Design and implement inquiry-based learning experiences in and beyond the classroom to prompt learners to question, investigate, create, and reflect.
- Demonstrate an understanding of interdisciplinary connections, teaching and/or learning.
- Creatively leverage flexible learning spaces and flexible grouping to provide for a variety of learning styles, ability levels, and educational backgrounds
- Integrate technology in innovative ways in daily instruction to enhance learning.
- Engage with students in meaningful activities beyond the classroom that extend student learning experiences (coaching, organizing field trips, sponsorship of clubs, events, overseas travel and/or community service projects, etc.).
- Strive for continuous self-improvement as a life-long learner.
- Model the Core Values in your interactions with all members of the school community.
- Lead and engage with students in meaningful activities beyond the learning spaces, which extend learning experiences for students (i.e. travel on Interim Semester, sports coaching, field trips, sponsorship of clubs, attend events beyond the school day, community service projects, etc.)
- Connect with and be available to parents and students during and outside of school hours (in person and via email communication)
- Contribute to our commitment to Extraordinary Care by acting as an advisor for a small group of students and by teaching our advisory social-emotional learning curriculum
Role-Specific Responsibilities
- Demonstrate willingness to teach a variety of performing arts courses in addition to leading novice and advanced strings classes (i.e. guitar and band) and Advanced Topics Performing Arts
- Utilize National Core Arts Standards (NCAS) to plan, teach and assess.
- Plan, prepare, co-teach and/or collaborate with secondary Performing Arts departments on courses, performances, concerts, and/or opportunities for sharing learning with an audience.
- Run organized and efficient rehearsals that develop ensemble skills
- Serve as Strings Director for co-curricular program
- Direct the SAS “IASAS” conference strings ensemble each year. This includes auditions, rehearsals and travel.
- Be part of the directorial team for the SAS HS Musical bi-annually
- Provide opportunities for AMIS festival experiences
Position Requirements & Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree in relevant field
- Master’s Degree in relevant field preferred
- Teaching license or a degree in education
- At least two years of full time teaching experience preferred
- Expertise with strings/orchestra directing, conducting and pedagogy
- Mechanical and structural knowledge of string instruments
- National Core Arts Standards (NCAS) curriculum experience preferred
- Excellent verbal and written English language skills
- Confident administrative and music technology skills (i.e. Garageband, Sibelius, Smartmusic)
Working Requirements
- Sponsoring and/or coaching after school arts, activities or sports are part of the responsibility of the professional educator. Therefore, faculty shall be available to direct, coach and/or sponsor an athletic team or other extra curricular activity or arts. Each faculty member is expected to do a minimum of one category 1 activity or sport per year.
- Mandatory attendance of weekly faculty meetings beyond the school day, new hire orientation and educator professional learning days.
- Chaperone and participate in a minimum of four evening and/or weekend school activities each year, as assigned (including "Back-to-School Night", learning conferences, musicals, concerts, and more).
- SAS faculty members are expected to commit to chaperoning learning experiences including those requiring overseas and/or overnight excursions, including but not limited to High School Interim Semester, IASAS Music and other curricular and co-curricular trips.
