Teaching Artist

Teaching Artist | Community-Word Project

CWP Teaching Artists (TAs) bring high quality arts programming to young people in NYC public schools, libraries, and other community organizations. CWP TAs’ primary work includes co-facilitating multi-session, multi-disciplinary arts residencies in NYC public schools during school hours and in after-school programs, and leading workshops in NYC and Brooklyn public library branches. TAs co-develop curricula with a focus on integrating school curriculum (as applicable), a multidisciplinary approach based on artists’ practice, and culturally responsive pedagogy.

Teaching artists available to facilitate in the Bronx and/or who can facilitate in Spanish are especially encouraged to apply.

Position Start Date: October 1 2026

Rates: $65/hr for facilitation plus add-on fees for specific roles, $25/hr for meetings & professional development, including orientation & annual retreat. Teaching Artists are eligible for published pay raises after two years of active employment with Community-Word Project.

Benefits: Health Reimbursement Arrangement (HRA), paid sick and bereavement leave, access to paid professional development opportunities.

Workplace Type: In person at DOE Schools, Hybrid for staff meetings and professional development

Job Responsibilities:

• Co-develop an arts-integrated teaching path (curriculum guide)
• Meet weekly to co-plan lessons in a multi-disciplinary residency
• Co-teach arts-integrated lessons with a collaborating CWP Teaching Artist and meet with Classroom Teachers in weekly planning meetings
• Ongoing thoughtful reading, review, and organizing of student writing/artwork for class and for residency anthologies/final products
• Co-plan culminating events/projects
• Attend required professional development workshops, including an orientation and annual staff retreat
• Submit and organize residency materials on Google Drive (ie: updated teaching path, lesson plans, documentation, student work samples, etc.)
• Communicate efficiently and professionally with CWP Administrative Staff, other Teaching Artists, and school staff.
• Submit biweekly timesheets by the due dates listed in the pay period schedule
• Commute to schools in all of the five boroughs of NYC, often via multiple modes of transportation

Qualifications:

• Strong content knowledge as an artist in your discipline
• Minimum of 3 years teaching artist experience or equivalent training
• Commitment to serving and learning from young people in the New York City area
• Available for at least one weekday in a four hour block from 8:00am-4:30pm for in-person work in any of the five boroughs of NYC. Applicants who are willing or able to travel to the Bronx and Queens are especially encouraged to apply
• Commitment to incorporating anti-racist and social justice practices into your teaching, collaboration, and communication
• Investment in collaboration and experimentation with other artists and art forms, as our residencies are multi-disciplinary and designed and implemented by two TAs (e.g. writer and visual artist) working in collaboration with Classroom Teachers
• Strong oral and written communication skills
• Strong organization and co-planning skills
• Knowledge of Google Suite products (such as Google Drive, Docs, and Sheets) and Zoom.
• Applicants with the ability to teach in Spanish, Mandarin, and/or Arabic are strongly encouraged to apply.

Physical Demands include:

• Move up and down stairs at our partner schools, some of which are not yet wheelchair accessible (or may have a chair lift, but not an elevator)
• Move around NYC classrooms which include desks, carpets, fluorescent lighting, etc.
• Operate a computer and other office productivity machinery to collaborate, organize, communicate, and submit employee materials, such as lesson plans, reflection forms, student work, and timesheets.
• Bring/return residency supplies for in-person workshops

Important Dates:

• Application due by EOD May 15th, 2026
• First round individual interviews will be held virtually June 8th - 10th with in-person group teaching auditions to follow June 24th - 25th TIMES TBD
• Training and Orientation will be held Orientation: Oct 1-2 TIMES TBD
• Virtual/in-person hybrid TA Staff retreat will be held Oct 7-9 TIMES TBD

Notes:

• Teaching Artists will be required to be fingerprinted by the NYC Department of Education, which is required by NYC Public Schools.

Seeking the following art forms:

• Creative Writing/Poetry
• Visual Art
• Digital Media
• Music
• Dance
• Theater
• Muralist

Benefits: Health Reimbursement Arrangement (HRA), paid sick and bereavement leave, access to paid professional development opportunities

Applicants with the ability to teach in Spanish, Mandarin, and/or Arabic are strongly encouraged to apply.