Music and Theatre Department Chair - New Trier Township High School District 203
This is a Permanent, Full-time position.
Category: High School
State/Province: Winnetka, IL
Deadline: March 25, 2021
Job Description / Duties
New Trier is seeking a dynamic, progressive leader to chair our Music and Theatre Department, staffed by 11 Music and Theatre Department teachers (including the Chair) and additional support staff members, including accompanists. The chair supervises teachers with leadership release time, who oversee their respective strands within the music and theatre program. This position also requires additional collaboration with 20 private music instructors that provide music instruction on site and serves as the liaison with New Trier Fine Arts Association. Department leadership is shared with the Department Coordinator who is located on the Northfield Campus.
Reply Like so many aspects of our lives, the performing arts at New Trier High School have been turned upside down by the Covid-19 pandemic.
According to Emily Marshall, President of the New Trier Fine Arts Association (NTFAA), The New Trier Fine Arts Association has been supporting Fine Arts teachers and students at New Trier as they adapt to this new environment and continue to create art, despite the pandemic restrictions.
Subscribe One way in which the NTFAA has supported the arts at New Trier during this year of remote and hybrid learning is through grants that fund visiting professional artists to work with students remotely by videoconferencing. New Trier performing arts teachers have identified artists from around the country and the world to enhance their students experience in the arts, not only to promote their growth as artists, but also to address the feelings of isolation that so many students are experiencing, she continued.