Multidisciplinary Storytelling Instructor

Position: 2025-2026 Multidisciplinary Storytelling Instructor
The Chicago High School for the Arts seeks a part-time Creative Writing instructor for the 2025-26 school year.

Job Identification:

Title:

Multidisciplinary Storytelling Instructor

Department:
Creative Writing Conservatory

Classification:
Part-time instructor

General

Summary:

The Chicago High School for the Arts (Chi Arts ) develops the next generation of artistically gifted, diverse scholar artists through intensive pre-professional training in the arts, combined with a comprehensive college preparatory curriculum. The school approaches the development of students through a whole-student approach and through a continuous learning environment for all staff to continuously develop their understanding of our scholar-artists.

We strive to build upon and improve our practices to make sure we are always serving all of our students to the best of our abilities.

Position Summary:

The ideal candidate for this position is a versatile and experienced artistic writer with the passion and skills to create a learning environment that will offer a rigorous pre-professional arts training. Candidates should have previous experience working with and instructing high school-age students. The instructor of this course will center the curriculum on developing critical thinking, production, and presentation skills.

Instructors at Chi Arts are committed to upholding antiracism, restorative practices, and community values. Instructors will be required to differentiate instruction when designing lesson and unit plans that assess student achievement, and encourage skill development and critical thinking.

Multidisciplinary Storytelling is a dynamic, creative writing course that combines art media with writing forms to produce a collection of varying stories. This is an evolving course that will allow students to explore the elements of storytelling using different media, technology, and art disciplines. Areas of focus throughout the year can be but are not limited to: storyboards, graphic novels, zines, chapbooks, collages, vignettes, photo essays, memoirs, found poetry, and incorporating social media.

This class is intended to collaborate across conservatories. A culminating project at the end of the year should either be a community art project/installation at the school or with a community partner.

Multidisciplinary Storytelling: A three-hour class takes place on Monday afternoons. This is a year-long course.