Theater Teacher - High School

Are you looking to inspire the next generation of performers, storytellers, and confident leaders while helping students discover their voice through the performing arts?

If so, our Theatre Teacher opportunity may be the perfect role for you. At Cristo Rey, you'll have the opportunity to create engaging learning experiences, direct productions, foster creativity, and help students develop skills that extend far beyond the stage, all while making a lasting impact on their college, career, and life readiness.

JOB SUMMARY:

As part of Cristo Rey's faculty, the Theatre Teacher will inspire students through the power of the performing arts while educating them in mind and spirit. Through engaging, culturally responsive instruction, you will help students discover their voice, build confidence, and develop creativity, collaboration, and communication skills. By teaching theatre courses, directing productions, and fostering an inclusive environment for artistic expression, you will prepare students for college, career, and life success while contributing to a student body distinguished by achievement, a passion for justice, and readiness for the professional world.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Teach CRJ Theatre courses at a range of levels to students in grades 10 – 12.
• Develop students' skills in acting, performance, technical theatre, and theatrical production through engaging classroom and performance experiences.
• Direct and produce student theatre performances each year.
• Mentor students in both on-stage and behind-the-scenes roles, including acting, stage management, design, lighting, sound, and production support.
• Manage the CRJ black box theatre and play a vital role in selecting and maintaining sound, lighting, and related stage equipment.
• Collaborate with theatre organizations to enhance the student experience in theatre at CRJ.
• Engage students through equitable, culturally relevant teaching practices, and accelerate student growth through feedback, disciplinary literacy skills, and high-impact technology.
• Prioritize and manage your time to follow through on the various responsibilities of excellent teaching: planning, teaching, assessing student progress, giving feedback, intervening, grading, collaborating, differentiating, and reflecting.
• Provide one-on-one and small-group tutoring to students in class and/or after school as needed.
• Build a relationship with students in the spirit of cura personalis (care for the whole person).
• Forge strong partnerships with parents, and communicate frequently with them to support student success.
• Create a welcoming theatre community where students feel empowered to take creative risks, express themselves, and develop confidence.
• Maintain an equitable, vibrant learning and performance environment that promotes belonging, student engagement, and consistent expectations for behavior.
• Consistently uphold school-wide discipline practices and routines, as well as norms for student behavior.
• Develop students' skills in acting, performance, technical theatre, and theatrical production through engaging instruction and hands-on experiences.
• Mentor students in on-stage and behind-the-scenes roles, including acting, stage management, design, lighting, sound, and production support.
• Create opportunities for students to use theatre as a form of storytelling, self-expression, collaboration, and community building.

Professional Presence

• Approach teaching as a perpetual learner; seek and apply feedback on your instruction; deeply engage in CRJ professional development; independently access resources to further your own growth.
• Collaborate with peers with integrity, humility, commitment, humor, and joy to ensure the foundation of trust that will enable the team to accomplish ambitious goals.
• Make your teaching public to colleagues through analysis of your teaching, student work, and student data.
• Embrace the school's goals and results as the collective responsibility of the entire staff.
• Model values consistent with Catholic, Jesuit education and the CRJ Graduate at Graduation values.
• Engage in honest self-reflection and listening, courageous conversations, and ongoing development as a professional committed to creating a diverse, equitable, and inclusive school and workplace.
• Seek opportunities to push the team, to laugh with colleagues, and to celebrate peers' accomplishments.
• Problem-solve challenges with humility, creativity, and resilience.

QUALIFICATIONS

Successful applicants will embody the mission-alignment, openness to growth, commitment to equity, optimism, and zest that are central to the character of our staff, and they will meet or exceed the following requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Theatre, Theatre Education, Performing Arts, Education, or a related field; or equivalent professional theatre experience.
• Teaching license in the primary teaching discipline, or progress toward licensure.
• Experience directing, producing, or managing theatrical productions preferred.
• Record of strong student achievement as a middle school or high school teacher
• Proficiency with technology
• Experience working with English Language Learners and/or proficiency in Spanish a plus, but not required.
• Other duties as assigned

Cristo Rey Jesuit High School: Who We Are

Cristo Rey Jesuit High School is part of a national network of 41 high schools that transform urban education through a unique integration of college-prep academics, professional experience, and spiritual formation, with a focus on students of limited financial means. As a private, Catholic, Jesuit high school serving 450 students, Cristo Rey Jesuit's mission is to provide an affordable Catholic secondary education with a college-prep curriculum and a Corporate Work Study Program (CWSP) to prepare graduates for success in college, work, and life.

The Cristo Rey team believes that a sound intellect is only one important component of preparation for college and life. Through both their CWSP experience and intentional opportunities for character and spiritual growth within the school day, Cristo Rey students develop the work ethic, resilience, confidence, empathy, openness to growth, and commitment to justice that help ensure their long-term success and enable them to lead by example.

Interested:

For more information or to apply, please visit our website at https://cristoreymilwaukee.isolvedhire.com/jobs/. We kindly ask that you do not email your resume, as all applications are accepted through our Join Our Team page only.

Direct questions to gbushman@cristoreymilwaukee.org

Cristo Rey Jesuit High School Milwaukee is an equal opportunity employer that provides equal employment opportunities to applicants without regard to race, ethnicity, religion, sex, or national origin.