Science Teacher (Temporary, Full Time)

The Chicago Academy for the Arts (chicagoacademyforthearts.org), Illinois’ premier visual and performing arts high school, seeks a temporary, full-time science teacher for the 2024-2025 school year.

The Academy’s educational model is co-curricular: students engage in rigorous, college-preparatory academic classes for five hours each day before being immersed in 3-5 hours of professional-level training in Dance, Media Arts, Music, Musical Theatre, Theatre, or Visual Arts. (Note: The Chicago Academy for the Arts is not “ChiArts”, a CPS school.)

This position within our Math, Science, and Technology Department includes teaching a selection of science courses including Biology, Astronomy, and a science elective (Plagues, Pests, and Politics). The position will require use of an established curriculum that includes student-led discussions, lectures, guided readings, and laboratory work. The ideal candidate will have a masters degree in teaching and/or science and clear evidence of success working with adolescents in a high school setting. Special consideration will be given to Masters-level students who have a strong desire to teach, particularly with adolescents.

Students at The Academy are characterized by an extraordinary sense of purpose and community. Most continue with the arts after high school; alums include hit songwriters, Grammy Award winners, Broadway stars, internationally acclaimed dancers, and award-winning filmmakers and writers. Students also pursue degrees and careers outside of the arts: many alums are working in the fields of science, mathematics, technology, business, law, and medicine.

Successful teachers at The Academy are deeply passionate about their subject area and its pedagogy, believers in the ethos of independent schools, committed to ongoing communication with colleagues and families, and have the interest and energy to uphold a rigorous curriculum while having a greater degree of autonomy than is typical at a larger high school.

$20,000 has been budgeted for this position.

Please submit a thoughtful cover letter and resume via email to Elizabeth Cunningham, Assistant Principal, at: employment@chicagoartsacademy.org. The Academy is an equal opportunity employer committed to building a culturally diverse faculty, and all qualified applicants — regardless of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law — are strongly encouraged to apply.