Position Overview:

The Central Falls School District seeks to hire a talented, knowledgeable, and highly innovative certified educator to fill the Districtwide Music teacher for the 2024-2025 school year. All CFSD educators are expected to carry out the District’s core values of EQUITY, EMPOWERMENT, and EXCELLENCE as they work towards building relationships with students/colleagues, delivering personalized, high-quality instruction, cultivating strong partnerships with our families and community, and meeting all position expectations and District policies. Certified staff is expected to abide by the Rhode Island Professional Teaching Standards and the CFSD/CFTU collective bargaining agreement policies and procedures. Guided by the District’s Strategic Plan, we strive to prepare all students for success!

Position Requirements/Qualifications:

• Valid Rhode Island Department of Education Certification: All Grades Music Teacher, Grades Pk-12
• Valid Rhode Island Department of Education Certification in Endorsement- Multilingual Learners All Grades is required. If the applicant does not currently hold this certification, they are required to obtain an emergency certification and complete it within three (3) years.
• Bilingual preferred
• Demonstrated interest in innovative instructional programming with a focus on individualization, technology integration, and blended learning.
• Experience with successfully teaching students who are differently-abled and/or multilingual learners is greatly preferred.
• Strong commitment to the District’s core values of Equity, Empowerment, and Excellence
• Commitment to abiding by all professional teaching standards and policies as outlined by the Rhode Island Department of Education, the District’s policies and procedures, and the CFTU collective bargaining agreement.
• Under Rhode Island General Law 16-2-18.1, all newly hired employees are required to obtain a State and National background check (BCI) from the Rhode Island Attorney General's Office prior to their employment start date.

Position Responsibilities and Expectations:

• Implementing and delivering a music curriculum, teaching and learning standards and practices that are aligned with Common Core Standards, and embedding strategies to support and engage ELL and SwD.
• Design creative activities to allow students to experience different musical styles, interpret musical scores, and compose their own music.
• Introduce individual students to particular instruments and assess students’ needs regarding instrumental training.
• Incorporates students’ backgrounds and experiences to improve performance and enhance instruction. Uses a variety of techniques to ensure content concepts are comprehensible and advance students’ music skills and understanding.
• Develop and implement classroom and curricular accommodations and modifications for all students, including language development adaptations for ELLs.
• Ability to identify new approaches and strategies to learning and teaching that stimulate critical thinking and problem-solving techniques.
• Provides instructional support to help scaffold language and content domains to deliver rich, authentic music instructions for all students.
• Uses various assessment information to plan instruction and set all academic goals, plans, activities, and actions on what is in the best interest of each student.
• Cultivates a stewardship of collaborative learning and leadership in and out of the classroom, distributing knowledge and expertise in a skillful way that empowers and supports others.
• Consistently practice a growth mindset, demonstrating a strong class culture and using feedback to reflect and set goals.
• Fulfills high academic standards and shares expertise constantly with support personnel, colleagues, and staff to ensure that all student academic and social/emotional needs are met and regularly provided; specifically, collaborating with special education and ELL colleagues to provide accommodations outlined in a student’s IEP when needed and collaborating with staff to align curriculum with Common Core and Wida Standards.
• Ability to understand, analyze, and evaluate information and make connections among multiple factors, data points, ideas, learning styles, personalities, and potential solutions to make the best decision possible.
• Incorporate a student's background in the lesson plan and understand how to make connections with prior native language development linguistically.
• Sets and pursues meaningful goals based on educational best practices, always focused on improving student/stakeholder outcomes.
• Consistently demonstrates a belief that the individual can learn and grow; learns from reflection and feedback; actively assesses knowledge, skills, and talent deficits; and makes a concerted effort to close gaps.
• Empower students to become self-motivated, responsible, and resilient learners.
• Maintains a positive and engaging learning environment that promotes all students' academic, social, and personal well-being.
• Ensure that practices enable students, staff, and parents to interact effectively in a culturally diverse environment in which ALL backgrounds, identities, customs, and traits are respected and built into the learning process.
• Demonstrates ethical behavior, expectations, and a genuine concern for others under all circumstances; models what is expected of others.
• Completes all tasks, reports, and all necessary requirements associated with teaching a class in a timely manner.
• Effectively communicates with families regularly via phone calls, emails, and written correspondence to discuss student performance, attendance, progress, etc.
• Other duties are deemed necessary by the building administrator.