Broadcast & Video Production Instructor- Canyons Innovation Center

Somebody taught you this. Your turn.

Canyons School District is hiring someone to lead the Digital Media Production pathway at the new Innovation Center — a working production house where students pitch, produce, and deliver real work for real clients across broadcast, video, and social. You'd start a full year before they do.

Why this role

The studio opens in 2027. You start in 2026.

A full year before a single student walks in — and not as a holding pattern. You'd spend it embedded inside CSDtv on live productions, teaching the weekly student evening class, and helping plan the studio you're going to run, building the pathway around what you learn.

You're a creative director, not a lecturer.

Students pitch, produce, and deliver for real clients. You run pitch sessions, review cuts, direct on set, and make the final approval call before handoff. Lesson design starts with a deliverable, not a worksheet. Class time is production time, and capstones end in public screenings and broadcast premieres.

You're teaching content as a business, not a hobby.

The pathway includes content creation and social media production coursework — taught the way it actually works for a client. Brief, strategy, production, delivery, performance. Students learn to make content that has to do a job for someone paying attention to whether it did. Staying current on platforms, algorithms, trends, and creator culture is a listed duty, because a curriculum for this industry goes stale in a quarter.

A degree is preferred. Experience is considered.

The posting reads: "Bachelor's Degree preferred, industry experience will be considered." Years in broadcast, video, film, or a related creative field are weighed alongside credentials. And Utah's Associate Educator License lets qualified professionals teach while completing licensure.

The program you're joining

Real deadlines. Real audiences. Real careers.

CSDtv is one of the few student broadcast operations in Utah recognized at the regional Emmy level. Broadcast journalism, district communications, athletic coverage, documentary, live events — made by high schoolers.

CSDtv keeps doing what it does. You'd take the classroom and student side of the pathway — their bar becomes the one your students get held to.

What the work actually looks like.

01 — Creative direction

Running the client work

• Coach students through the full client cycle — intake, production, revision, delivery, debrief
• Run pitch sessions and review scripts, treatments, and edits
• Direct on set and make the final call before handoff
• Facilitate capstones with public exhibitions and broadcast premieres

02 — Content & craft

Building the bench

• Teach content creation and social media production as client work, not as a hobby
• Coach students on brief, strategy, delivery, and what performance actually means
• Stay current on platforms, algorithms, trends, and creator culture so the curriculum keeps up
• Teach the craft — camera, lighting, audio, editing, color, mix

03 — Studio & partners

Running the shop

• Operate broadcast gear, livestream infrastructure, and industry-standard software
• Work with social and AI-assisted production tools
• Own responsible inventory management
• Support partnerships with production companies, broadcast outlets, and agencies

No surprises later

It is still, legally and actually, a teaching job. Alongside the production work there are parent conferences, PLCs, standardized testing, attendance policy, and CTESS evaluation. We'd rather you know that now than find out in October. The full posting lists every essential function.

Two years. Three phases.

Fall 2026 → Spring 2027

The design year

Build curriculum and frameworks. Help plan the studio and production spaces. Embed with CSDtv, teach the weekly student evening class, and support district events and livestreams.

Fall 2027

Doors open

The Innovation Center opens in the former eBay headquarters in Draper. The studio you helped spec goes live, and the first cohort walks in ready to work.

Ongoing

You run the pathway

Real clients, real deadlines, real deliverables, across broadcast, video, and social. You direct. Students crew.

Silicon Slopes

A former eBay headquarters.

The Canyons Innovation Center is a retrofit of the old eBay regional HQ in Draper, backed by a state Catalyst Center Implementation Grant. Built around profession-based learning, where students work with industry partners on real projects.

The broadcast studio is being built to professional specs — and you'll be in those equipment and workflow conversations during your design year.

The questions people ask first.

"I don't have a teaching license."

Then start here, not with the application. Apply for an Associate Educator License on the USBE licensing page. Proof of an AEL — or proof you submitted the documentation to USBE — is required before you're added to the candidate pool. Licensing questions go to shawnda.moss@canyonsdistrict.org.

"How much of this is social vs. broadcast?"

Both, and the social side is taught as a profession. Students deliver across broadcast, video, and social for real clients — learning how content gets briefed, made, and judged in a business, not how to go viral. If you think of social as beneath the craft, this isn't the role. If you've made a living at it, you already know what to teach.

"I've never taught teenagers."

That's the part everyone worries about, and it's the part we know how to support — the design year, the CSDtv team, and coaching through the licensure pathway. What can't be trained is knowing how a production actually runs. That's what we're hiring for.