Full-Time Position Beginning August 2023

Mark Day School seeks a collaborative, innovative educator with a passion for teaching drama to students in grades K-8. Join us and teach in a community characterized by academic excellence, student-centered teaching methods, close collaboration between colleagues, a block schedule, a 1:1 laptop program, and a commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, and anti-racist education. The successful applicant for this position will help advance the school’s mission with positive energy, creativity, dedication to a diverse and equitable community, love for children, a strong work ethic, and a willingness to collaborate in partnership with the wider school community.

The Drama Department teaches through various performing activities, including weekly classes, assemblies, K-3rd presentations, and two annual productions for 4th-8th Grade.  Through storytelling projects, creative dramatics, and improvisation, students learn the value of collaboration and performance. The focus is on creative movement and expression, and the goal is for all students to be exposed to dramatic arts.

Opportunities and Responsibilities

• Teach weekly drama classes in grades K-6.
• Teach a weekly drama-related arts elective for grades 7-8.
• Direct one of the annual drama productions, either the fall play or the spring musical.
• Support and maintain the love of drama at Mark Day School.
• Collaborate with the arts faculty to advance the arts and highlight the importance of the arts as part of a balanced curriculum.
• Model personal standards of excellence: warmth, clarity of expectations, consistency, and accountability.
• Demonstrate equitable and culturally responsive teaching practices.
• Apply a wide range of highly effective approaches to teaching, balancing enduring and innovative best practices.
• Engage in ongoing professional development.
• Form supportive and responsive relationships with students and families.
• Differentiate instruction to challenge every learner.
• Build a robust and positive classroom environment in which students advocate for themselves and others.
• Provide constructive, timely, specific feedback that fosters a growth mindset.
• Use available technology to enhance student learning, faculty collaboration, and responsive communication.
• Collaborate with the broader community to enhance the students’ experience, including specialists in technology, information literacy, drama, art, music, P.E., world language, Social Emotional Learning (SEL) and counseling, global education, sustainability, service-learning, and diversity.

Additional Responsibilities Include:

• Helping plan and run student performances
• Back to School Night
• Parent information evenings
• Committee work
• Weekly faculty meetings
• Recess supervision
• Outdoor Education Chaperone

Education, Experience, and Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or higher from an accredited institution
• Relevant teaching experience with a minimum of two years preferred
• Relevant subject area knowledge in drama
• Proven track record of working effectively to advance diversity, equity, inclusion, and anti-racist education
• Strong skills in initiative, follow-through, organization, collaboration, and communication

Compensation and Salary Range

Mark Day School places faculty on a published internal salary scale with steps based on years of experience in education. Full-time employees also receive individual benefits through the school as well as generous professional development support. The Mark Day faculty salary range for full-time faculty positions is $68,000-139,000, depending on experience.

More About Mark Day School

Mark Day School is a vibrant and diverse community, and all community members continue to work towards the furthering of an inclusive and supportive school.  The school is an equal-opportunity employer committed to excellence through diversity and multiculturalism.  Mark Day School’s compensation and benefits are very competitive by both NAIS and regional standards.  For more information about Mark Day School, please visit our website (www.markdayschool.org).

Interested candidates should visit our website and send a letter of interest and resume via email to lsresumes@markdayschool.org

About Mark Day School

Founded in 1980, Mark Day School is an independent, all-gender, K-8 school located in the Bay Area in San Rafael, CA, with an enrollment of 380 students. Innovative, inclusive, and full of heart, Mark Day School unites an enriched, challenging academic program with a kind and inclusive community. The school nurtures a love of learning, engagement in the community, and development of compassion and an ethical framework. Students learn and practice the intellectual, social, and emotional skills they will apply to the unique challenges and opportunities of their time; graduates stand out not only for their intellectual curiosity and pursuit of ideas but also for their joy of learning and a deep sense of responsibility to be active, engaged citizens. Mark Day School has established a consistent practice of thoughtful innovation in its curricular program, focusing on school-wide structural approaches to develop current century skills and concepts including four cross-disciplinary literacies: cross-cultural literacy, media and information literacy, eco-literacy, and social and emotional literacy. Highlights include the award-winning Media Literacy program; well-established local and ...global partnerships with the Hamilton School, Marin Head Start, eSibonisweni School and Kliptown Youth Program in South Africa, Beijing Experimental Primary School #2 in China, and Pan American School in Costa Rica, among others; Boxlight and FrontRow technology in every classroom, with a one-to-one laptop program beginning in sixth grade; Mandarin and Spanish language beginning in kindergarten; an integrated Social and Emotional Learning program; a commitment to differentiation across the school; and more. Mark Day School is a vibrant and diverse community, and all community members continue to work towards the furthering of an inclusive and supportive school. Mark Day School is an equal opportunity employer committed to excellence through diversity, inclusion, and social justice. Mark Day School salary and benefits are very competitive by both NAIS and regional standards. For more information about Mark Day School, please visit our website (www.markdayschool.org), where you may also find the 2022 Strategic Plan.

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