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Monday, September 21, 2026 · Updated as listings and source records change
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Long-Term Middle/High School Substitute Band Teacher

Kent City Community Schools

Kent City, MI, USA · Full Time · Music Education

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Long-Term Middle/High School Substitute Band Teacher

Who We Are:

Kent City Community Schools is a public school district in Kent County dedicated to providing a nurturing environment and to educate all of our 1,200 students to be lifelong learners.

What We Need:

We are looking for a compassionate and collaborative team member to work with our staff so that they can empower students to reach their full potential through a rigorous curriculum and instructional excellence!

What We Value:

Collaboration, Compassion, Honest Communication, Growth Mindset, and a Culture of Opportunity

What You Need:

• Ability to work successfully with students, staff, administrators and community members

• Daily, In-person attendance and ability to be organized and work collaboratively with students, staff and families

• Must be flexible

• Ability to maintain confidentiality

• Valid Michigan Teaching Certificate

• Ability to relate well with students

• Ability to collaborate with building staff and parents

• Strong organizational, communication, and interpersonal skills

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement lesson plans that fulfill requirements of the district's curriculum and reflect accommodations for differences in student learning styles

• Establish a system of student evaluation within the guidelines prescribed in state law or adopted by the district; continually evaluate and record various aspects of students' progress and report to parents as needed

• Provide a variety of planned learning experiences using a variety of media and methods in order to motivate students and best utilize available time for instruction

• Understand diversity of student needs and provide supplemental programming or instruction

• Communicate effectively with parents as needed

• Provide a structured, orderly, safe, and respectful environment for students

• Perform other reasonably related duties

Preferred Skills/Certification

• Certified as a teacher

• Music (JX or JQ) endorsement preferred

• Show passion about the teaching/learning process for every child

• Build relationships with students and adults in a team environment

• Provide customer service atmosphere for students and parents

• Engagement in the process of continual improvement

What We Provide:

• Collaborative working environment

• A focus on students and staff

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Kent City, MI, USA Location Report

By SBO+ Staff · Effective 2026-09-21

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Opportunity and Market

Kent City, MI, USA is evaluated with current MI labor-market evidence because a validated city profile was unavailable. The Census API city profile could not be acquired in this run; the report uses current state labor-market observations and labels their scope explicitly. [2] [3]

Career Outlook

The statewide unemployment rate supplies current labor-market context, but it does not prove demand for this occupation or employer. Occupation-specific scores are omitted. [1]

Compensation

No salary-equivalency or take-home-pay figure is asserted without listing pay and defensible local cost inputs. Federal tax brackets must be applied to the candidate’s actual filing circumstances. [4]

Housing and Cost of Living

HUD Fair Market Rent resources are provided for a housing comparison using the verified worksite or its county. No city rent is asserted when it was not acquired. [5]

Commute

A validated city commute value was unavailable. Confirm the exact worksite, schedule, transit coverage, parking and fuel costs before accepting relocation expenses.

Community Snapshot

State labor-force scale is not evidence of neighborhood safety, culture or community fit; no such inference is made. [3]

Local Economy

Current statewide employment, labor-force and unemployment observations describe the broader labor environment, not a guaranteed city or occupation outcome. [2] [3] [1]

Relocation Considerations

Verify worksite-level housing, commute, taxes, utilities, benefits, contract length and any remote-work restrictions before relocating. [5] [4]

What I Wish I'd Known Before Taking the Job

A healthy statewide labor market does not guarantee that a specialized music education role is easy to replace. Confirm contract stability, nearby housing and the real commute before paying relocation costs. [2] [1]

Methodology

This report uses the latest retrievable BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics for the listing’s state. It explicitly withholds city, occupation and affordability scores when those inputs were not acquired.

Sources and freshness

  1. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics — effective August 2026; retrieved 2026-09-21.
  2. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics — effective August 2026; retrieved 2026-09-21.
  3. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics — effective August 2026; retrieved 2026-09-21.
  4. Internal Revenue Service — effective 2026-09-21; retrieved 2026-09-21.
  5. U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development — effective 2026-09-21; retrieved 2026-09-21.
  6. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics — effective 2026-09-21; retrieved 2026-09-21.