Lead Teacher

Job Description

Job Description

About This Role

The classroom Teacher oversees curriculum coordination and day-to-day classroom operations, fostering a stimulating environment where children can engage and thrive. They must be adept at nurturing children’s growth and development while guiding teacher assistants and collaborating with families. Understanding children’s cognitive, social, emotional, and physical development is crucial to ensuring a safe and healthy learning environment. The position reports to the Harmon Learning Center Director.

What You'll Do

• Ensure the safety and security of all children at all times.
• Maintain appropriate care and hygiene of children, and follow cleaning, sanitation, and disinfecting standards to ensure a positive and healthy classroom environment.
• Supervise and mentor teacher assistants and classroom volunteers to ensure they provide for the safety and security of children, provide a positive and healthy classroom environment, and follow cleaning, sanitation, and disinfecting standards.
• Create and provide a classroom environment, experiences, and curriculum that is developmentally appropriate for the children participating and aligns with state and national early learning and development standards.
• Plan individual and group activities and actively engage children to encourage physical, social, emotional, and cognitive development.
• Lead by example; encourage teaching team success through modeling and coaching, and ensure all center policies and state regulations are met.
• Maintain frequent communications with families through informal discussions, progress reports, and family-teacher conferences.
• Ensure all center policies and state regulations are met, and engage in individual and center professional development to ensure continuous quality improvement.
• Maintain accurate records, forms and files.
• Engage in individual and center professional development to ensure continuous quality improvement, and be able to work at the child’s level.

Requirements

• Must clear full background check and pass health screening.
• Ability to work at the child’s level.
• Ability to lift at least 35lbs.
• Must be able to stand for long periods of time.
• Infant/child CPR and First Aid certification.
• Excellent leadership, organizational, and interpersonal skills.
• A strong understanding of child development.
• Ability to work well with others (children, families, and staff) and to foster a team environment.
• Strong oral and written communication skills and basic computer skills.
• 1-2 years of professional childcare experience.

Benefits

• Paid time off

  Employer paid supplemental insurance

  Potential for short term disability

About Us

CalfeeCCC is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, founded in 2019, with a mission to revitalize the legacy of the historic Calfee Training School, which educated African Americans in Pulaski from 1894-1966. The school faced severe underfunding from Jim Crow segregation and was part of two lawsuits that led to the Brown v. Board of Education (1954) Supreme Court decision that eventually desegregated schools nationally. The CalfeeCCC is a multipurpose center that will include the CAC, an African American Heritage Center, the Harmon Early Learning Center for childcare, a commercial-grade community kitchen, an event center, and a digital lab that will serve the community's present needs in order to create a stronger future for the community. A 15-member Board of Directors, the majority of whom attended Calfee Training School or are their family members, oversees the work of the CalfeeCCC.