New England Innovation Academy seeks an inspiring middle and high school art teacher who develops students’ passions and curiosities and helps them think deeply about the world through various lenses of instructing students in the basic principles of art, art history, and artistic behaviors in art mediums such as paint, pencil, charcoal, pastels, block-printing, clay and possibly fabric and photography.

The position requires maintaining a full teaching load, serving as an advisor to a small cohort of students, and actively supporting various student life activities. We seek a dynamic teacher who inspires students and works collaboratively and creatively with colleagues in various curricular areas and divisions. Candidates should be passionate about teaching middle and high school students and have a love for art.

Teachers at NEIA encourage collaborative teamwork in the classroom, teaching students to communicate effectively and thoughtfully, justify their reasoning, and consider multiple perspectives when solving problems. Teachers invest in the life of the school by participating in the advisory program, social and emotional learning, weekly multidisciplinary team meetings, anti-bias training, residential life when we include boarding students, and any and all aspects that support the student experience.

Under the general supervision and guidance of the Dean of Faculty, teachers are responsible for preparing lesson plans, educating students, and collaborating with colleagues. Their duties include assessing student work and performance, providing feedback, documenting student progress, and assigning homework if relevant. Teachers must be able to command their classroom and reach students with an engaging project-based curriculum. Teachers are responsible for creating and maintaining a learning environment that guides and encourages students to develop and fulfill their academic potential and accomplish the learning goals of NEIA.

Duties include:

• Embodying NEIA’s principles of empathy, equity, personalization, authentic work, and collaboration in all work activities and actions;
• Planning, preparing, and delivering instructional activities that facilitate active learning experiences;
• Incorporating goals, competencies, and objectives into lesson plans in ways that directly apply to the student’s life
• Achieving school and course-wide performance goals for every student in the class;
• Identifying students struggling with learning, emotional problems, or situations at home and finding them the resources they need.
• Hosting and collaborating with colleagues to work in partnership on curriculum planning and implementation
• Implementing an arts curriculum that includes a full range of art activities appropriate to the age and experience level of the students
• Planning and executing at least one art exhibition during the school year
• Engaging students in a beautification project
• Displaying student work throughout the school in a way that educates and informs the school community about work that is happening in a thought-provoking and aesthetically pleasing manner.
• Providing instructional support to help scaffold language and content domains to deliver rich, authentic instruction for all students
• Communicating with families regularly to discuss student performance, attendance, progress, etc. via phone calls, emails, written correspondence.