As KIPP North grows next year and adds 2nd grade, we’re able to hire an additional specials/enrichment teacher. Currently our students have either art or yoga for an hour each day and we’re hoping to add music to that rotation for the 2019-20 school year. To do that, we need to find an amazing music teacher to add to our team. This job is a great opportunity for the right person to both build a program from scratch and make a big impact on kids who deserve fantastic arts education. What makes this such a great opportunity?
- As a founding music teacher for a growing school (K-2 next year, growing to K-8 eventually), our ideal candidate can design a program from scratch and then have the resources and support to make it happen. If you’ve dreamed about all the ways you would change a current role or imagined what you could make happen for kids with more time/support/money, you have the freedom to make it happen at KIPP North.
- Besides teaching general music classes, we’re hoping to have some form of student performance and/or extra programming for students with a real passion for music. Since this is a founding position, we’re open to pretty much all musical styles and specialties. We want the music teacher to have experience and passion that she/he can share with our students. One of the other KIPP Philadelphia elementary schools has a big focus on string instruments and a partnership with the Philadelphia Orchestra, while the other has a jazz band and teaches drumming to all students. Our focus at KIPP North could be one of those…or something totally different.
- You’re part of a team of teachers and staff working hard each day to create an amazing school for kids and families who deserve it most. At KIPP Philadelphia, we firmly believe that students in North and West Philadelphia should have access to the same high-quality teaching and programming that affluent families get and that extends to the arts. Too few schools in Philadelphia are able to provide those opportunities to students and we’re proud that students from North Philadelphia will have a music education as good as a private school – and we need a great teacher to make that true!
- We want music to be awesome and we’ll put the resources behind the program to make that happen. You’ll have a classroom just for music, a robust budget for instruments and supplies that you'll have a hand in creating, a schedule with at least 60 minutes of prep time per day (plus additional time for music pull-out/small groups), and an auditorium for performances.
- You’ll have freedom and flexibility to create the music program at KIPP North, but you’ll also have support from music teachers at our other five schools at KIPP Philadelphia, as well as other enrichment teachers at KIPP North.
