Music Teacher K-6

Title:

Music Teacher K-6

Location:

CICS Lloyd Bond- 13300 S Langley Ave, Chicago, IL 60827

Reports To:

Principal

Salary:
Starting salary for certified teachers starts at $70,000

Employee Type:
Regular Full Time

Start Date:

August 2026

Distinctive Schools creates diverse, joyful, welcoming communities rooted in social justice and rigorous learning. We support all learners to be engaged, curious, and to achieve their full potential. Our students become confident advocates, creative problem-solvers, and collaborative leaders.

Position Overview

Distinctive teachers cultivate a love for learning in every student through strong relationships, high expectations, and a belief that all students can achieve great things in school and beyond. Teachers have a laser focus on instruction that engages learners and provides multiple opportunities for application of learned content. All teachers engage in individual and team deep intellectual preparation and lesson plans aligned to grade-level standards that use the core curriculum.

Checks for understanding, student work, and assessments are used to make real-time and planned adjustments and deep review of student work to address gaps in instruction. Teachers have strong content knowledge in the subject-matter they teach in order to recognize, understand and respond to the content problems.

At Distinctive, teachers grow through cycles of practice, feedback, practice, and feedback. Teachers build classroom communities with strong routines, rituals, and management practices that maximize time for instruction. Teachers maintain effective and ongoing communication on progress with students and families.

Responsibilities

Culture

* Maintain a student-centered perspective in decision making

* Believe that all students can learn and can achieve great things

* Contribute to the equity work of the campus and network and engage in culturally responsive decision making

* Build and foster a culture of belonging through positive and strong relationships with students, families, and staff

* Cultivate a strengths-based, equity focused mindset

* Foster positive climate and culture

* Serve as a positive role model

Preparation, Instruction and Assessment

* Create curriculum that is backwards planned from college enrollment timeline and school goals

* Design and implement assessments and benchmarks that measure progress towards goal

* Use data to refine curriculum and inform instructional practices

* Support students in creating ambitious college lists, writing personal essays, and submitting thorough applications before early action due dates

* Complete FAFSA, Alternate Financial Aid Application, CSS Profile, and other financial verification forms with students and parents by due dates

* Review financial aid letters with students and caretakers

* Manage a caseload of students in addition to being a teacher of record for college seminar class

* Participates in quarterly family nights to communicate critical info regarding the college process to families

* Support coordination of college visits for all grade-levels

* Host college representatives for informational sessions

* Implement the DS Model

* Provide consistent opportunities for all students to to work on grade-appropriate

* assignments using the core curriculum, resources, and strategies with frequent checks for understanding

* Deliver strong Instruction that requires that students hold the cognitive lift and are deeply engaged in the learning

* Use core instructional tools to design, prepare and deliver dynamic lesson aligned to grade-level standards that engage students in rigorous learning experiences

* Commit to student-centered, personalized learning that puts the student in the drivers seat and integrates their needs, strengths and interests into the learning

* Maintain inventory of all instructional materials

* Maintain accurate and complete records of students' progress and development

* Analyze and use assessments that monitor progress to inform and design appropriate response/strategies, making adjustments as needed to support students in mastering grade level standards

* Assess students daily, weekly, and at the ends of units and analyze assessment…