Posting Date: January 2019
Application Deadline: Open Until Filled
Start Date: August 2019

About the School: Charles Wright Academy (CWA), located on a beautiful, wooded 107-acre campus, serves 654 students in Preschool through 12th grade. The only coeducational independent Preschool-12 school in Tacoma, Washington, CWA provides challenging, college preparatory academics that prepare students to thrive in college and in life. Equally important is a wide array of experiential education, artistic, athletic, and service opportunities that promote students’ social-emotional development and provide avenues by which they discover and pursue their passions. Close, respectful, and trusting relationships between faculty and students result in an environment in which all community members embrace both the hard work and the joy inherent in the journey of intellectual and personal growth.

Our Mission Statement: Charles Wright Academy provides a rigorous and dynamic liberal arts education built on the principles of excellence and compassion. Within an inclusive and globally aware learning community, we foster self-reliance, integrity, social responsibility, and humor, inspiring our students to discover within themselves the courage to achieve their personal best in mind, body, and spirit.

Summary:
This is a full-time faculty appointment for the 2019-2020 school year. The position includes music instruction for Pre-K through 5th grade. This position could also be a 75% faculty appointment teaching grades 1-5.

Responsibilities:
- Implement a music curriculum in Preschool through 5th Grade, which includes choral singing, Orff and percussion instruments, and instruction in basic musical concepts appropriate to the grade and developmental level of the students
- Use a variety of instructional methods to create dynamic, engaging lessons, which support a diversity of learners
- Impart the love of music and inspire students to participate fully
- Direct the 4th and 5th grade choir
- Prepare several concert opportunities throughout the year
- Collaborate with homeroom teachers to coordinate learning experiences
- Collaborate with the Lower School Director to include community singing in the Lower School’s weekly Town Meetings
- Collaborate with the performing arts department
- Oversee the private piano program
- Practice thoughtful, respectful, and effective classroom management techniques which support active learning and promote responsibility and self-management.
- Supports positive student behavior for all of the Lower School students throughout the school day
- Attends all faculty and community meetings.
- Participates fully in the life of the school.