Returner: Arts Integration Coach | SALA; Summer Arts Learning Academy

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Arts Integration Coach | SALA (Summer Arts for Learning Academy)

SUMMER ARTS FOR LEARNING ACADEMY (SALA)

ARTS INTEGRATION COACH

Reports to:

Site Director, Summer Arts for Learning Academy

About the Summer Arts for Learning Academy:

Baltimore City Schools’ Summer Arts for Learning Academy (SALA), operated by Arts for Learning Maryland, offers students an opportunity to imagine, create, and express who they are through the arts. This is an action-packed, full-day, five-week program (Monday - Thursday) that introduces students to a wide variety of art forms —from illustration and spoken word to percussion, drama, and dance. This gives students a chance to work alongside students from across the city and be taught by professional Artists.

Students’ work is celebrated through a student showcase on the final day of the program. Arts for Learning Maryland will host ten Academy sites throughout the city, locations TBD.

Mission and Core Values:

The mission of Arts for Learning Maryland’s Summer Arts for Learning Academy (SALA) is to provide students with an opportunity to spend summer learning from the best Teachers and Teaching Artists our state has to offer. Through a dynamic, creative, and supportive environment, students will explore math and literacy in a unique arts-integrated environment that allows them to develop socially and emotionally, expands their personal creative process, introduces them to different art forms taught by professional Artists, and allows them to experience math and literacy content from a different lens.

We...

• believe unwaveringly that ALL students can achieve high standards in and through the arts.
• provide opportunities for students to develop powerfully articulate voices through art forms and honor their creative processes along the way.
• create safe, brave learning environments for students to grow, make mistakes, and contribute to the community.
• collaborate and reflect by learning from and with each other at every step of the process, cultivating positive relationships between all ages.
• encourage the development of critical thinking, problem solving, inquiry, imagination, and creativity, and provide multiple ways for students to demonstrate knowledge and mastery.
• learn about, honor, and leverage the cultural knowledge, experiences, and frames of reference of our students and community to make learning more relevant and effective.
• ensure that our students are known, loved, supported, celebrated, and valued.

SALA Arts Integration Coach

Job Description

The SALA Arts Integration Coach is the key to ensuring rigorous and meaningful learning in both literacy and math at SALA sites. They are considered the “arts integration specialists” in the building, and they are the first point of contact for content, collaborative planning, co‑teaching, arts integration, lesson plans (how to write them, how to submit them, what we are looking for), building classroom community, and reconducting observations (in partnership with the rest of the Site Admin Team).

Arts Integration Coaches will be placed at SALA sites to support staff in planning and co‑teaching, as well as to encourage them to reflect on their work, for which a coaching attitude and a desire to build mentoring relationships is essential.

Ideal Arts Integration Coaches Have:

• A strong and demonstrable understanding of effective arts integration and co‑teaching.
• A desire to support educators in growing their knowledge of arts integration, mentoring new staff, and leveraging the expertise of veteran teachers and teaching artists to the site’s advantage.
• An ability to successfully partner with the rest of the site Admin Team in order to support all staff and students alike.
• Experience coaching, leading professional development, mentoring, and/or being part of an instructional support team in various contexts.
• Experience working with SALA, thus having a strong understanding of the program culture, logistics, and procedures, as well as all position expectations.
• An ability to create inclusive environments where all students’ unique gifts and talents are discovered and cultivated and where students’ identities (racial, cultural, social,…