Dance Instructor - Part Time

• Location 1055 Ellis St,San Francisco, CA, ,United States

FLSA STATUS:
Part-time 20% FTE, non-exempt; this position may be combined with others to create a benefit eligible role.

EFFECTIVE DATE:
August 1, 2026

Inspired by the Daughters of Charity and the De La Salle Christian Brothers, in partnership with families, Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory’s mission is to provide the finest education in an inclusive Catholic community of faith. We prepare our students to be service-oriented leaders with a commitment to living the Gospel.

Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory (SHC) is a Lasallian Vincentian Catholic, co-educational college preparatory secondary school located in the heart of San Francisco, California. We provide academically rigorous, vibrant learning grounded in social justice and student-centered pedagogy. Our community is committed to cultivating each student’s unique abilities and passions, and to facilitating opportunities for students to discern and realize their individual intellectual, artistic, athletic, social, and spiritual potential.

SHC is a San Francisco Archdiocesan High School that is cosponsored by the De La Salle Christian Brothers of the District of San Francisco and the Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul of the Province of the West.

As an inclusive Catholic community of faith, we respect and support our students, faculty, and staff and their sense of belonging in an increasingly diverse world. At SHC, such respect is grounded by our mission and carried out through our Lasallian Vincentian Catholic educational traditions. In these efforts, we prepare our students as future leaders to model our credo, "Enter to Learn, Leave to Serve."

This is a 20% FTE (or 1/5th) position, teaching a ninth-grade dance class introducing students to the fundamentals of contemporary dance and ballet techniques, to various genres of dance and their cultural contexts, and to how the body moves in space. This class meets twice a week, from 8:00 to 9:15am. This role may be combined with other duties at the school to become a benefit-eligible at 60% FTE (3/5ths) or more.

Design and implement lessons to facilitate physical expression, embodied creativity, and essential skills and understandings to develop as a dancer;

Provide regular and varied formative and summative assessments to demonstrate achievement and to facilitate students’ ability to understand their progress toward learning targets;

Maintain an interactive and timely learning environment, in both physical and virtual learning spaces;

Communicate consistently with students, parents, and school personnel;

Keep current and complete electronic grading and attendance records;

Support the school’s Advisory program and co-curricular activities;

Engage in professional learning as an essential part of being a reflective practitioner and as part of the school’s ongoing commitment to excellence;

Actively participate in SHC’s strategic initiatives to strengthen meaningful diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging practices, especially strategies to support equitable learning, culturally responsive teaching, social emotional learning, and universal design for learning (as stipulated by the DEIB strategic plan adopted by SHC Board of Regents in 2021);

Engage in the mission of SHC and the charisms of the Daughters of Charity and De La Salle Christian Brothers and Department of Catholic Schools through their formational programs.

• Undergraduate degree in Dance, Fine Arts, or related field; or comparable professional training and experience.
• Experience working with students (preferably middle school and/or high school aged students).
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively to promote student learning.
• Ability to teach beginning and intermediate dance class levels.

• Teaching Credential;
• Experience teaching in a Catholic high school setting;

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