Music Teacher; Middle School

Join a team of master teachers and earn a $140,000 salary at The Equity Project (TEP) Charter School, featured in the New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and on 60 Minutes for its revolutionary teacher salaries and its outstanding results. TEP aims to achieve educational equity for students from traditionally underserved communities by utilizing world-class teachers, while re-imagining the teaching profession as a place in which teachers prioritize their own growth—as pedagogical experts, intellectual seekers, and community leaders.

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TEP is deeply committed to music instruction, as evidenced by the fact that TEP students learn music every day, across every grade level. As one of the three pillars of our program (Academics, Arts, and Athletics), TEP treats Music as a full-fledged academic subject, and not as an elective meant to supplement. TEP's Middle School Music Teachers collaborate with other grade-level Middle School teachers to integrate music education into the broader educational experience, ensuring that students develop deep music appreciation.

TEP Middle School Music Teachers specialize in specific music content areas. TEP's 5th Grade Music Teacher teaches general music, facilitating 5th grade student progress across music theory, singing instruction, basic instrumental instruction, rhythm and musical notation, and music history. TEP's Middle School Music team also includes one teacher for the following tracks:
Vocal Arts, Band, or Modern Ensembles, who teaches across the 6th, 7th, and 8th graders who have chosen their track. Students spend their daily music period engaging in formal voice or instrumental instruction and practicing in their ensemble, while also continuing to develop their music literacy skills. TEP’s gold-rated music program emphasizes performance through regular ensemble concerts for the TEP community.

Join our team as a Middle School Music Teacher, and create a harmonious learning environment where music is celebrated and cherished as a fundamental element of our educational program.

Middle School teachers will work in a state-of-the-art learning environment carefully designed, built, and crafted to spark joy and instill a love of learning for TEP students. Our school building in the Washington Heights/Inwood community, provides a perfect learning environment for developing students by providing innovative classroom settings, a full gymnasium, a high-quality performing arts space and fully-equipped music classrooms, and an indoor/outdoor café where meals are prepared fresh on a daily basis for students and staff.

• Deeply aligned to TEP’s mission of providing a world-class education to historically under-resourced student communities (90% of TEP students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, 22% of TEP students receive Special Education services, and 25% of TEP students are Multi-Lingual Learners).
• Classroom experience: Minimum of 3 years of lead teaching experience, at least 2 of which must have been in classrooms that support Special Education students from 4th through 9th grade classrooms in a public charter school, traditional public school, or private school setting.
• The ability to design and implement an engaging music education curriculum that aligns with state standards and encourages a lifelong commitment to music.
• Outstanding verbal ability and strong communication skills.
• Certification requirements: Music Teachers do not need to possess a New York State Teacher Certification to be hired at TEP Charter School. However, prospective Music Teachers that do not yet have New York State teaching certification must identify…