An Invitation to Apply for the Position of

Theater Teacher (Available 2024-2024)

Girls Prep Bronx Elementary School (Grades Pre-K-5)

Bronx, NY

Public Prep is an award-winning network of charter schools across Manhattan and the Bronx and the nation’s first non-profit tuition-free charter school network that develops exceptional Pre-K, and single-gender elementary and middle public schools. 

We pursue continuous excellence through our dedication to an inclusive community focused on scholar, family, and staff collaboration. Our scholars are resilient and empathetic, guided to realize their power and promise through our four core values of scholarship, excellence, community, and integrity. 

Our teaching model is grounded in an anti-racist framework, and designed to incorporate a culturally responsive approach that is informed by data to cultivate an environment that empowers scholars to become independent learners. At Public Prep we believe race, income level, and zip code should not define your destiny, systemic and institutional racism must be disrupted, and all scholars should be empowered and ready to enter high school with voice, choice, opportunity and independence.

Our network comprises 7 schools across 5 campuses in the Lower East Side and Bronx, serving 2,100 scholars in grades PreK-8:

Girls Prep Bronx Elementary School (Grades Pre-K-5)

Girls Prep Bronx Elementary School II (Grades K-8)

Boys Prep Bronx (Grades Pre-K-8)

What Sets Us Apart

Our approach is rooted in love and justice and our ongoing commitment to delivering high-quality, accessible, and anti-racist education.

In addition to the academic rigor, Public Prep emphasizes character development, and college and career readiness as critical to supporting the whole child. Relationship-building and partnerships are the levers that move adults to move students and that move families to invest time and energy in schools. Each school has a committed leadership team and staff that strives to work collaboratively to build a warm, joyful culture of rigor that ignites the power and promise of every child. 

Public Prep is committed to investing in our adult learning culture. Our team of teachers and school staff reflects the diversity of our neighborhoods and scholars. As a team member at Public Prep, you can anticipate a learning environment where a growth mindset, humility, and data-informed decision making is evident through professional development that takes place within coaching cycles, observations, feedback, and targeted professional development opportunities within the network and from outside providers.

Public Prep offers a competitive salary commensurate with experience, qualifications, internal equity, and budgeted amount for the role. The salary range for this position is $67,000- $89,000. We offer a comprehensive benefits package. It includes Oxford Medical, United Dental/Vision, life insurance, parenting benefits, flexible spending account, generous paid time off, commuter benefits, referral bonuses, professional development, and a 403(b) package with a 5% employer match. For more details about our benefits package, visit our website atwww.publicprep.org/careers.

Public Preparatory Network is an Equal Opportunity employer. Public Preparatory Network is committed to the principles of equal employment opportunity for all employees and applicants for employment.

Primary Function & Position Overview

The Theater Teacher plays a critical role in ensuring our scholars can express themselves in a variety of forms, gain exposure to and knowledge about the arts, and develop strong character. Theater will be seen as the focal point of arts in this school for its capacity to teach structure, collaboration, and creative expression; integrate with other disciplines; and expose children to Theatrical traditions, techniques, and literacy. The Theater program may include imagination, enactment, improvisational skills, playing with sound and reflection, as well as work with grade teams to incorporate interdisciplinary work in literacy..

The Theater Teacher will meet regularly with grade level teachers, school leaders, and other specials teachers in order to build on the existing arts curriculum, which is inclusive of New York State standards. The Theater Teacher is responsible for creating robust and interdisciplinary units for scholars through this collaboration. The Theater Teacher reports to the Principal.

Duties & Responsibilities

Duties and Responsibilities

• Clearly defined processes and structures for planning, teaching, assessing, and reflecting that include designing curriculum and assessments that create a first-rate Theater program for young children
• Strategies that maximize scholars’ self-confidence and expressiveness
• Self-evaluation as part of a new faculty team and design of appropriate measures of evaluation for scholars based on the development of individualized goals for performance that are specific, measurable, action-oriented, realistic, and time-bound.
• Collaboration with all team members
• Maintaining records of scholars’ academic progress, behavior, and character development
• Communicating with families and building community with them through annual home visits and other school events
• Leading small-group reading interventions or guided reading groups
• Attending IEP meetings and ensuring appropriate accommodations are given to scholars during assessments as needed
• Completing duties as assigned by the Academic Director to support and strengthen the community such as breakfast, lunch, or dismissal duty.
• Supporting the school as directed by the Principal/ Academic Director.

• A bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university
• An M.A., Ed.M or master’s degree in the relevant content area, preferred
• New York State Certification for relevant grades and content area, or demonstrated process towards receiving reciprocity for certification from other states
• A minimum of 2 years of demonstrated success as a full-time elementary classroom teacher 
• Demonstrated success working in a high-performing, urban school setting preferred
• Preferred candidates who have a desire to work with a diverse population of students and linguistic backgrounds
• Evidence of excellence in teaching through continuous learning and data analysis
• Exceptional organizational and planning skills
• Superior communication skills
• An ability to work collaboratively
• A commitment to single-sex education

This description is intended to describe the type of work being performed by a person assigned to this position. It is not an exhaustive list of all duties and responsibilities required by the employee.

Please be sure to attach a resume and a cover letter including examples of how you have demonstrated continuous learning and specific ways you have used student data to drive instructional decisions.