Music Teaching Artist

*This position is for the 2025 - 2026 school year*

Discipline: Music

Location: Reef-Sunset School District (Avenal, CA)

Schedule: TBD; 30-week residency

Position Summary
P.S. ARTS Teaching Artists are equal parts professional artists and professional educators. Teaching Artists are responsible for delivering a high-quality, authentic, and engaging curriculum, that is inclusive, creative, and aspirational. As we move into a new era of education, Teaching Artists at P.S. ARTS are given the opportunity and challenge of designing new ways to deliver arts education.

P.S. ARTS serves schools and communities as a partner and ally. Knowing that each community will have different needs, P.S. ARTS strives to deliver programming that embodies our values of Art, Excellence, Equity, Innovation, and Community. 

A successful Teaching Artist is enthusiastic about creatively engaging with their students, open to adapting their teaching practice, and a dependable figure in the classroom. A Teaching Artist’s overall goal is to empower students to have the freedom to imagine and the power to create.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

• Demonstrated experience of in-school (K-5th) teaching
• Demonstrated knowledge and expertise in teaching music
• Demonstrated knowledge or familiarity with California’s Framework for VAPA
• Ability to work collaboratively in/out of a school environment and with school communities
• Experience working in Title I-designated schools and surrounding communities preferred
• Fluency in Spanish preferred

Responsibilities

• Deliver and/or facilitate in-person arts instruction; ✽
• Facilitate sequential standards-based, differentiated curricula in the arts; ✽
• Foster a creative and healthy classroom environment; ✽
• Implement classroom management techniques including routines and rules;
• Prep, set-up, and clean-up of lessons, classrooms, or carts;
• Utilizing and making connections with California’s Framework for VAPA
• Documentation of teaching practice:
  • Submit curriculum and lesson plans using P.S. ARTS’ online mapping program; and
  • Submit student evaluation rubrics and provide documentation of student work.
• Maintain a supply budget(s);
• Attend and participate in P.S. ARTS’ Family Art Nights and similar events (festivals, back-to-school nights, etc.) at assigned schools; ✽
• Attend and participate in P.S. ARTS’ trainings and professional development workshops; ✽
• Demonstrate implementation of new skills within teaching practice;
• Represent P.S. ARTS amongst multiple school community stakeholders, including classroom teachers, parents, administrators, and donors; and
• Responding to emails and other communication in a timely manner.

This description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive list of activities, duties, or responsibilities that are required of this position. Descriptions may change in response to Organization need at the discretion of the CEO.

✽ A criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with these identified job responsibilities potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment. Additionally, per California Education Code § 45122.1, § 45125.1, and § 44237, criminal history restrictions apply. 

Working Conditions:

Teaching Artists are required to maintain a safe and clean classroom environment – physical or virtual, that promotes learning, creativity, and equity. Teaching Artists may routinely:

• Lift, push, or carry supplies, equipment, instruments, or classroom furniture up to 40 lbs.
• Bend, twist, reach, stand, and/or sit for long periods of time.
• View LCD screens for long periods of time.
• Work/teach outdoors.
• Work with video equipment and a comfort with recording and/or being recorded.

About P.S. ARTS: 

The P.S. ARTS team is a diverse group of people with different skill sets and experiences, from various cultures and backgrounds with one thing in common – a dedication to arts education. P.S. ARTS encourages all employees to feel empowered by and model the Organization’s values of Art, Community, Equity, Innovation, and Excellence.

P.S. ARTS is an equal opportunity employer and is dedicated to better reflecting the communities we serve while building an inclusive environment for people of all backgrounds and ages. P.S. ARTS also supports and will provide reasonable accommodation to ensure the application process is accessible to candidates who require additional accommodation. P.S. ARTS will consider qualified applications with arrest or conviction records for employment in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.