Middle School Visual Arts Teacher & Advisor (2025-2026)

Are you a passionate, innovative educator eager to make a lasting impact on students' lives? St. Stephen's and St. Agnes School (SSSAS) Middle School, a school grounded in Episcopal values, is looking for an inspiring visual arts teacher who is ready to engage, challenge, and support middle school learners during one of the most transformative periods in their development.

SSSAS provides a comprehensive visual arts education program. Our Middle School Arts faculty stress the importance of developing technical skill and personal voice through in-depth study of a variety of media. We welcome a diversity of experiences in our arts faculty so that our students encounter many avenues for thinking, revising, constructing, negotiating, developing, and symbolically expressing themselves through meaningful artmaking.

Position Description:

This position is for art instruction in Studio Art and Design. This includes the specializations of Drawing, Painting, Printmaking, Ceramics, and Sculpture.

Responsibilities

• Encourage the exploration of materials and media as languages for personal expression.

• Work in partnership with the other Middle School arts faculty members to maintain and refine an intellectually challenging and creative art program with developmentally appropriate research-based practices.
• Develop lesson plans and supplementary materials compatible with the Middle School Visual Art curriculum.
• Work closely with the chair of the art department and ES-12 art department faculty.
• Provide a safe and stimulating environment that facilitates learning.
• Maintain a palpably strong commitment to educating a diverse student body within a caring and creative environment through equitable and inclusive teaching practices, curricula, and programming.
• Develop, plan, and implement the curriculum through daily lessons.
• Differentiate for individual students based on their unique learning needs.
• Ensure all students are appropriately engaged and challenged.
• Manage classroom behavior.
• Respond promptly to communication from colleagues and parents.
• Maintain records of each student's progress.
• Report student progress to parents through a trimester-based report card.
• Collaborate with grade-level teams to enhance teaching and learning.
• Attend and participate in meetings of all committees joined.
• Attend and participate in regular faculty meetings and interdisciplinary collaborations.

Qualifications:

The ideal candidate will hold a Bachelor's degree in Fine Arts (BFA), have significant teaching experience at the middle school level, provide a portfolio of personal art practice, exhibit enthusiasm and skill for serving as a Middle School advisor, and demonstrate a record of innovation and professional growth in a school setting. Advanced degrees are strongly encouraged; state certification is not required.

Beyond these qualifications, we will give special consideration to forward-thinking applicants who possess a high level of professionalism, a commitment to a learner-centered environment, and collaboration with peers.

Overview

St. Stephen's and St. Agnes School is an affirming and collegial community committed to our mission to "pursue goodness as well as knowledge and to honor the unique value of each of our members as a child of God in a caring community." SSSAS is an age 3 to Grade 12 Episcopal day school located on three campuses six miles from Washington, D.C., in beautiful and historic Alexandria, Va. We believe that educating the whole child by tending to their individual academic, social/emotional, cultural, and physical needs, prepares them to be knowledgeable, kind, and empathetic citizens in a complex world. Combining a rigorous academic program with outstanding opportunities in the arts, athletics, and service learning for our students, SSSAS is a community that values diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging, and we seek candidates who share these same values.

Our culture promotes lifelong learning, and employees have a wealth of opportunities available to them to continue expanding their knowledge of both their disciplines and in their field of education. Cultural competency workshops for all faculty and staff, regular, small-group DEIB exploration/workshops, support for graduate studies, summer study grants, and conferences (e.g., People of Color Conference, the National Association of of Independent School Annual Conference, and CASE-NAIS) are just a few of the ways in which we support and encourage our Saints faculty and staff to continue to develop and learn in their field and as part of our community.

READY TO JOIN OUR COMMUNITY?

We understand your time is valuable, and that is why we have a very quick and easy application process. If you feel that you would be right for this teaching job, please fill out our initial 3-minute, mobile-friendly application. We look forward to meeting you!

Interested applicants should apply through the SSSAS website at https://www.sssas.org/about-us/employment

For more information about St. Stephen's and St. Agnes School, we invite you to visit our website at www.sssas.org