Opportunities

If you are personally and professionally driven to achieve goals that infuse the arts in our community, strive for excellence, display leadership qualities, and possess the ability to work in a team environment, please apply for an opportunity to join our team.

Call for Poetry Teaching Artist

Scottsdale Arts’ Learning & Innovation department seeks teaching artists specializing in poetry to join its arts integration, in-classroom residency program, SmART Integration.

What is SmART Integration? 

SmART Integration is a classroom-based, curriculum-focused residency program that targets learning academic standards through the arts. Hands-on experiences allow students to creatively explore their world, collaboratively ideate, and imagine solutions to current and future problems. The results are enduring understanding and increased student engagement. 

Each residency is an independently contracted service. Residencies are typically formatted five days (one week), one hour per day, per class. The number of classrooms served will vary by school. Residency service dates can be flexible based on the availability of the teaching artist and classroom teacher(s). The teaching artist should be prepared to provide a structured lesson plan for each date of service.

Poetry: Personal to Performance

Professional poetry and spoken word artists engage English Language Arts students, grades 6-10, in writing that supports positive self-image and builds strong classroom communities. The program goals are to inspire students to write, encourage an understanding of and appreciation for poetry’s usages, and cultivate trust, understanding, and confidence in the classroom through sharing.

Call for Arizona Wolf Trap Teaching Artist

Scottsdale Arts’ Learning & Innovation department seeks teaching artists specializing in the performing arts, e.g., dance, drama, music, puppetry, storytelling, etc., to join its regional arts integration, in-classroom residency program, Arizona Wolf Trap.  

By working with educators to integrate the arts into content areas like language arts, math, and science, Arizona Wolf Trap teaching artists help young learners stimulate their imaginations and develop academic, social, and physical skills that are the foundation for future learning and healthy lifestyles. 

Arizona Wolf Trap teaching artists participate in ongoing professional development to work with and support early childhood educators, caregivers, and families as they incorporate arts-integrated experiences into classrooms, early childhood environments, and home and community settings.