Teaching Artists: Visual Art, Design, Music, Music production, Theater, Poetry,

The Organization

DreamYard Vision:

Building Artists- Building Community- Building Dreams- To change the world.

Job Description

DreamYard is currently accepting applications for Teaching Artists in Visual Art, Design, Music, Music production, Theater, Poetry, Dance, Entrepreneurship, Career Readiness, and more for the 2023-24 school year. We are looking for passionate, experienced candidates with a strong practice in teaching for social justice and racial equity for in-school, after-school, and summer residency opportunities at our Bronx partner schools and the DreamYard Art Center. TAs must have demonstrated previous experience teaching in their discipline, in NYC public school settings or youth-centered spaces.

About DreamYard

DreamYard Project is committed to being an anti-racist organization. We lead with race because we operate in a country founded on the genocide of Indigenous people, the enslavement of African people, and the oppression of countless others. We acknowledge the role this history plays in perpetuating inequity and dominant white culture. We are intentionally building a path toward racial equity by:

• Challenging oppression and its intersections
• Using art and education as a platform to offer a hopeful vision of the future
• Identifying and uplifting the power and cultural assets that exist within our community of educators, artists, dreamers, young people and life-long learners
• Encouraging the principles of justice, unity, equity, creativity, and joy
• Transforming policies, procedures, practices, and programs (for example: striving for transparency and equity in pay and compensation structures regardless of race, culture, gender, ethnicity, creed, etc)
• Understanding our staff, community members and partners are at different levels on the anti-racist continuum and embracing that we all have a place in this work

As a DreamYard employee, we invite you to join us on this journey.

Teaching Artist Position

DreamYard’s Teaching Artists are a powerful force in moving our educational system towards racial equity. DreamYard Teaching Artists are highly skilled artists and educators, committed to creating equitable learning spaces through collaborative teaching practices and social justice pedagogy. They report directly to the Program Director and are supported by DreamYard Department Heads and Program Coordinators.

Qualifications

• Expertise in an arts discipline exhibited through an educational degree and/or professional accomplishment (published writing, exhibited artwork, performance experience etc.).
• Minimum two years full-time (or the equivalent, e.g. 4 years part-time) teaching an arts discipline in a school and/or community-based setting. Teaching experience in NYC public schools preferred.
• Bachelor's degree and/or Masters degree in arts discipline or related area.
• Department of Education fingerprinting (PETS) will be required (cost partially covered by DreamYard).

Responsibilities

Instruction:

• Design and facilitate robust project-based learning through a social justice lens.
• Residencies can include up to 9 hours of weekly planning meetings (with classroom teachers for In School residencies);
• Providing instruction in the arts (development of skills in arts disciplines consistent with NYC Blueprint) and through the arts (the achievement of academic goals as outlined in a school’s curriculum) by:
• Teaching and planning for 2-8 in-schools per week and/or possibly as many as 4 after schools per week;
• Developing long-term project-based unit designs (in collaboration with classroom teachers for In School residencies)
• Assessing participant learning based on learning goals and residency objectives;
• Organizing at least 2 sharings of student work.

For In-School Residencies:

• Working in close collaboration with classroom teacher partners to:
• Plan lessons and projects during one in-person 45-minute planning session per week (and via email and phone as well, when necessary);
• Share skills with the teacher to build capacity for arts instruction at the school;
• Co-teach lessons in which both TA and teacher partner have clear roles and responsibilities for generating student learning;
• Coordinate at least one trip to an NYC cultural institution and/or one guest artist per class with a connection to learning in the classroom.

*A note: After-schools are typically not co-taught with classroom teachers but are designed in collaboration with the school administration.

Salary Range (per residency):

$2700 - $7100

To Apply

Please submit (1) a resume, (2) a cover letter, and (3) contact information for at least three academic or professional references.

DreamYard is committed to the principles of arts education, educational reform, and social justice, and fashions its programs to specifically address the needs of urban communities that are typically underrepresented because of race, sex, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status. Accordingly, we welcome and encourage applications from a diverse range of individuals. Bronx-based and Spanish-speaking applicants are strongly encouraged to apply. DreamYard Project, Inc. employs without regard to race, sex, sexual orientation, religion, national origin, age, disability, or any or other attributes not related to superior performance.

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