Posted: 30-May-25
Location: Waltham, Massachusetts
Type: Full Time
Salary: $55,000 - $90,000 Salary/Year
ABOUT GANN
Gann Academy is a pluralistic Jewish high school that challenges students to cultivate their talents and interests in all areas of human potential, including intellectual, artistic, spiritual, and physical pursuits. Our faculty, comprising both Jewish and non-Jewish educators, facilitates the students' journey. We seek teachers who are committed to collaborating and growing in their teaching practice; supporting diverse learners in the classroom; and connecting with students outside the classroom, both formally and informally.
Gann Academy is committed to fostering an inclusive workplace culture that enables talented individuals from diverse backgrounds to thrive. We believe that the inclusion of diverse perspectives will enhance our work and yield better societal and learning outcomes for all. All employees participate in this commitment, whether internally by building a welcoming workplace culture or externally by ensuring inclusive engagement with families and other community members.
Perhaps most of all, Gann offers a community of innovative, collaborative, and compassionate professionals who care about their work, their school, and their colleagues. We help one another learn, solve problems, and have fun.
ABOUT OUR TEAM
Our Humanities team comprises talented professionals who demonstrate an exceptional commitment to instructing and engaging students in the study of the arts, English, history, and world languages. Gann’s outstanding faculty sharpens our students’ intellect, challenging them to become analytical, creative, empathetic, out-of-the-box thinkers.
Each art teacher at Gann is a professional artist in their respective discipline, committed to inspiring our students to self-actualize through artistic expression. We believe that the arts provide a unique framework for our students to develop essential skills for success in high school and beyond, including risk-taking, critical thinking, collaboration, and iteration. Our department's guiding mission is aligned with that of the school.
ABOUT THE POSITION
Gann Academy seeks an Arts Teacher to instruct students in Media Arts and Pottery. The ideal candidate will possess a strong foundation in graphic design, photography (both digital and film), video production, and emerging media tools, as well as in ceramics. We're seeking someone who combines artistic expertise with a passion for guiding young people as they discover their creative potential.
The ideal candidate is fluent in current design software and digital workflows, excited about the rapid evolution of visual media, and curious about how tools like AI are reshaping the creative process. This full-time teaching role includes course instruction, student advising, and active participation in community life.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
Gann Academy is committed to fostering an inclusive workplace culture where talented individuals from diverse backgrounds can thrive. We believe that the inclusion of diverse perspectives will enhance our work and yield better societal and learning outcomes for all. All employees participate in this commitment, whether internally by fostering a welcoming workplace culture or externally by ensuring inclusive engagement with families, donors, media, vendors, allies, and other stakeholders.
Teaching Duties
- Teach arts courses across multiple levels, including Media Arts Foundations, Graphic Design, and Pottery.
- Guide students in developing skills in design, photography, video, and media literacy.
- Integrate emerging technologies and AI tools in an age-appropriate and ethical manner.
- Foster a studio culture grounded in experimentation, critique, and collaboration.
- Maintain classroom materials, including digital equipment, darkroom tools, pottery wheels, and kiln.
- Contribute to interdisciplinary projects and student exhibitions.
- Serve as a student advisor and participate in school-wide programming.
Community Involvement & Engagement
- Serve as a student advisor or the equivalent.
- Serve as club advisor or the equivalent.
- Attend and participate in communal programs outside the classroom during school hours, modeling and encouraging appropriate behavior while monitoring students during events and programming.
- Attend and participate in open houses, graduation, and other special events, which may take place in the evenings and/or weekends.
Collaborative Responsibilities
- Work with students outside of the classroom as needed.
- Work collaboratively with colleagues across all departments.
- Attend and participate in department meetings; collaborate with department members and the instructional director on curriculum development, lesson planning, student issues, and department initiatives.
- Assist colleagues with substitution when able; arrange and communicate class coverage as needed.
Professional Development, Growth, and Training
- Attend and participate in all faculty/staff workday programs, in-service training (including both August and June in-service days), orientation programs, seminars, and safety training/drills.
- Pursue professional development opportunities in or out of school; display willingness and ability to grow, learn, and practice self-reflection; work with an instructional director and other members of the faculty and administration on educational and pedagogical growth and innovative tools and techniques in and out of the classroom.
QUALIFICATIONS AND EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS
- A bachelor’s degree is required; a master’s degree is preferred
- Strong organizational skills
- A commitment to student-centered, mastery-based teaching
- Strong portfolio in graphic design, photography, video, or multimedia
- Fluency with industry-standard tools such as Adobe Creative Suite
- Experience working with both digital and analog media, including DSLR cameras, editing software, and darkroom processes
- Understanding of current and emerging trends in media arts, including AI and generative tools
- Proficiency in ceramics techniques
- Ability to manage and maintain classroom technology and creative equipment
- Strong collaboration and communication skills
- Eagerness to stay current in a fast-evolving creative landscape
- Must be proficient in English to carry out work as assigned
EMPLOYEE BENEFITS
- Competitive salaries
- Professional development
- Comprehensive benefits package featuring generous paid time off policies -including sick time, paid vacation, personal days, and U.S. holidays, Gann employees get up to an additional 15 days off for Jewish Holidays, depending on the Jewish Calendar of the year
- Short Fridays
- Comprehensive Health Insurance
- Retirement Plan Match (403B) starting immediately!
- Hungry? Gann has a full-service kosher dairy dining hall complete with a fresh salad bar and multiple hot meal options
- Free parking!
- Fitness facilities for our faculty and staff
- Life Insurance
- Short - and Long-term disability
WORKING CONDITIONS/PHYSICAL DEMANDS
Physical demands include dexterity for operating office machines and supplies, such as computers, telephones, electronic calculators, copy machines, and printers. Stooping, bending, and reaching for files or supplies, as well as sitting or standing for extended periods, are common.
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY
Gann Academy is an equal opportunity employer. It is the policy of the school to prohibit discrimination and harassment of any type and to afford equal employment opportunities to employees and applicants, without regard to race, creed, color, religion, national origin, sex (including sexual orientation, gender identity or expression), and pregnancy, age, physical or mental disability, genetic information, or veteran status.
ACCOMMODATION
External and internal applicants, as well as position incumbents who become disabled as defined under the Americans with Disabilities Act, must be able to perform the essential job functions (as listed) either unaided or with the assistance of a reasonable accommodation to be determined by management on a case-by-case basis.
E-VERIFY
This employer participates in E-Verify and will provide the federal government with your Form I-9 information to confirm that you are authorized to work in the U.S. If E-Verify cannot confirm that you are authorized to work, this employer is required to give you written instructions and an opportunity to contact Department of Homeland Security (DHS) or Social Security Administration (SSA) so you can begin to resolve the issue before the employer can take any action against you, including terminating your employment. Employers can only use E-Verify once you have accepted a job offer and completed Form I-9.