Benefits, but terrible hours, heavy work load and low pay - Art Teacher CalColor Academy Employee Review

Thank you for sharing your feedback and for your years of service to CalColor Academy. We appreciate your recognition that CalColor is one of the few art education organizations that offers full-time teaching positions with benefits. Providing stable career opportunities for art educators has been an important part of our mission from the beginning. We are sorry to hear that your experience regarding workload, management support, and compensation did not meet your expectations. Teaching is a demanding profession that requires dedication, creativity, and responsibility, and we recognize the importance of ensuring employees feel supported and valued. We would also like to provide additional context regarding compensation and career growth. CalColor's compensation philosophy is centered on pay for performance and long-term professional development. Rather than treating teaching as a static role, we encourage educators to continuously develop their skills, expand their impact, and take on greater responsibilities. Through our structured career framework, teachers have opportunities to advance into senior and leadership-level positions with increased responsibilities and compensation. Many of our long-tenured educators have successfully progressed through this system and built rewarding careers with CalColor. We also take concerns regarding workload seriously. Over the past several years, we have continued to improve scheduling, staffing support, benefits, and employee wellbeing initiatives. While weekend teaching remains an important part of serving students and families, we have introduced additional planning time, greater scheduling flexibility, improved leave support, and enhanced benefits to better support our team. Finally, we would like to clarify that CalColor expects teachers to complete their responsibilities within their scheduled working hours. We recognize that teaching requires planning, preparation, and classroom management, and we continuously work to improve staffing, scheduling, and operational support so employees can perform their work effectively and sustainably. We appreciate your contributions to our students and community and wish you success in your future endeavors.