3rd Grade Teacher

Great things are happening at Battle Creek Public Schools!

Battle Creek Public Schools (BCPS) is located in Calhoun County, Michigan (between Chicago and Detroit), serving the City of Battle Creek as well as parts of Emmett, Pennfield and Bedford townships, and the City of Springfield. With a bold goal of achieving 100% success for every Bearcat, we offer a broad range of educational experiences to meet the individual needs of students at all levels, including experiential learning, individualized instruction, advanced and accelerated curricula, and outdoor education.

In 2017, BCPS received an historic investment from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, and we are continuing our transformation plan, advancing bold, top-to-bottom changes to provide a world-class career, college, and community-ready education for every student, in every grade, at every school. In May of 2023, we were thrilled to announce an average teacher pay increase of more than $10,000, positioning us as one of the best-paying districts for teachers in Southwest Michigan.

We offer competitive compensation, comprehensive benefits (including up to $20k in home purchase assistance), and opportunities for professional development.

The Northwestern Academy of Visual and Performing Arts seeks a passionate and creative Third Grade Teacher to join our innovative educational community. Our curriculum prioritizes the academic with the arts to nurture essential character skills critical for personal and professional success. Arts integration is embedded across all subjects, fostering critical thinking, promoting student engagement, and supporting equity and empowerment, while cultivating empathy, cultural competency, and other vital personality traits.

Our transformative K-8 arts-integrated curriculum engages students from kindergarten through eighth grade. The ideal candidate will deliver a dynamic, arts-integrated curriculum that combines language arts, mathematics, social studies, science, and technology with creative expression and exploration through theatre, music, movement, visual art, and digital tools. This role requires a commitment to fostering a nurturing, inclusive, and engaging learning environment where students build holistic academic and social-emotional skills, critical thinking abilities, creative self-expression, cultural awareness, and collaborative skills.

• Arts-Integrated Instruction: Plan and implement engaging, arts-integrated lessons that connect academic concepts from language arts, mathematics, social studies, science, and technology with theatre, music, visual arts, movement, and digital tools to develop student engagement and learning.
• Student-Centered Learning: Create a flexible, student-centered classroom environment that supports exploration, individual learning styles, curiosity, collaboration, and inquiry.
• Differentiated Instruction: Tailor lessons to meet diverse student needs, ensuring that all students have meaningful, accessible, and challenging experiences in academics and arts.
• Foundational Skill Development: Support early literacy, numeracy, and social-emotional growth through interactive arts activities, including storytelling, character exploration, and cultural studies to encourage students to make connections between academic concepts, artistic expression, problem-solving, critical thinking, and communication skills.
• Cultural Awareness and Global Connections: Promote global awareness and empathy by exploring theatre, music, dance, and art from various cultures, encouraging respect for diversity.
• Technological Integration: Introduce basic digital tools to students as a medium for creative expression and storytelling, supporting their development of digital literacy.
• Portfolio Development: Guide students in creating portfolios showcasing personal growth, goal setting, and social responsibility through arts integration, reflective journaling, and project documentation.
• Assessment and Reflection: Develop assessments that evaluate students' understanding of academic and artistic concepts. Guide students in analyzing their projects through self-reflection and peer critiques.

• Language Arts: Develop early literacy skills through storytelling, vocabulary building, and creative expression.
• Mathematics: Introduce foundational math concepts like counting, shapes, and patterns.
• Social Studies: Cultivate cultural awareness by exploring global traditions.
• Science: Introduce basic scientific principles through artistic exploration.
• Technology: Engage students with digital tools to document and share their creative work.

• Classroom Management: Establish a supportive, inclusive, and well-organized studio-like classroom where students feel safe to express themselves and actively engage in hands-on learning experiences.
• Safe and Inclusive Space: Create and provide an inclusive and safe space where students feel empowered to take ownership…