Elementary Art Teacher

HOLLA School • Portland, OR

2d • Onsite

About The Position

HOLLA School is seeking a kind, innovative, passionate, and creative Elementary Art Teacher for its K-5 public charter school. The ideal candidate will share the school's philosophy that all children are abundant, brilliant, and creative. This role involves preparing robust lessons based on instructional frameworks like Gholdy Muhammad’s “Cultivating Genius” and Zaretta Hammond’s “Culturally Responsive Teaching & The Brain.” The Art Teacher will facilitate a learning environment that honors diverse cultural backgrounds and artistic identities, delivering a curriculum that integrates culturally specific art to enhance scholars' understanding of the classroom curriculum. Key priorities include artistic expression, community storytelling, and collaborative projects. HOLLA School teachers are lifelong learners who inspire a love for learning, embrace mistakes as opportunities, set learning goals for themselves, and embrace creativity and independence. They are sound practitioners with broad knowledge of elementary child learning, aware of current pedagogical shifts including bias unpacking and supporting neurodivergent children and those with ASD. Additionally, teachers are expected to be trained in or willing to learn the eight elements of SB-13, the Tribal History/Shared History curriculum.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in early childhood teaching, education, or related discipline.
• Valid Oregon Teaching License with at least Charter Art endorsement.
• Strong ability to work within a teaching team to integrate visual arts themes across other subject areas.
• All HOLLA School Staff are subject to a pre-employment background check as well as on an ongoing basis.
• Experience with children experiencing neurodivergence/ASD.
• Knowledgeable of current K-5 Standards based on National Core Arts Standards.
• Versed in how to create multiple opportunities for children to demonstrate what they know and to be given access to demonstrate artistic criteria in culturally responsive and sustaining alternative formats.
• Ability to teach groups of children of varying ages, needs, and abilities.
• Experience working with emerging bilinguals and their families.
• Patience and excellent observational, communication, and diagnostic skills.
• The ability to multitask, keep calm under pressure, and treat everyone with love and respect.
• Excellent planning and organizational skills.
• Demonstrated commitment to continuous growth, including reflection, curiosity, and the ability to give and receive feedback as a crucial element in the process of ongoing learning.
• Ability to perform physical requirements of extended standing, walking, lifting up to 50 lbs.

Nice To Haves

• Additional courses, training or endorsements in special education, early childhood, English Language Learners.
• Passionate about education as an ever-evolving practice.

Responsibilities

• Establish rapport and build relationships with scholars based on trust.
• Embody a teaching approach that is reflective, allowing for an ongoing learning and awareness of self, scholars, and teaching practice.
• Develop and implement a K-5 Art curriculum that explores and incorporates diverse media, techniques, and cultural art histories.
• Incorporate culturally specific views on art, such as community-based storytelling, traditional craft, and the role of art in social justice and community wellness.
• Provide an art room environment that honors all creative expressions and abilities, utilizing adaptive art techniques to ensure every scholar is a full participant.
• Observe, guide, supervise, and gauge scholars’ creative development and technical skill acquisition.
• Develop summative assessments identified in the HOLLA School charter contract based on performance rubrics, checklists, and criteria for projects, products, and portfolios.
• Participate in various meetings including professional development, conferences, IEP meetings, for the purpose of learning, collaborating, providing information, etc.
• Create and maintain a safe, clean, stimulating art studio environment where all children feel safe and valued.
• Set an excellent example for scholars while encouraging values like empathy, collectivism, community, understanding, respect, love, and kindness.
• Monitor and assess scholar progress and write up reports.
• Ensure art supplies and equipment are maintained, organized, and available for student use.
• Participate in school activities and supervise scholars on field trips.
• Understand exceptionalities that some scholars experience, the ability to develop and carry forth 504s and Individualized Education Plans, set assets-based goals and monitor individual scholar progress in the least restrictive environment.
• Other duties as assigned.

Benefits

• Full medical insurance
• Vision insurance
• Dental insurance
• PERS retirement benefit contributions
• Weekly professional development that can be counted towards licensure requirements for TSPC

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Part-time
• Career Level: Entry Level