Early Learning Center Preschool Teacher

Early Learning Teacher

Are you looking for an opportunity to make a positive impact in the lives of children and families? This is an exciting opportunity to be part of our inaugural staff in our brand-new, beautifully designed early learning center with a focus on year-round, play-based education for infants through Pre-K children. The Hope House Colorado (HHC) Early Learning Center (ELC) is for children of Hope House teen moms and staff. As an early learning teacher at the ELC, you will be creating a safe, fun and engaging environment where children can learn, grow and thrive. You will create and maintain relationships with children and families to foster trust and work with other amazing staff to make HHC Early Learning Center a great place to work, have fun and make a positive impact.

A preschool teacher is responsible for the supervision, responsive care, education and classroom management of a group of young children enrolled in the ELC. The teacher develops and maintains respectful and nurturing relationships and works collaboratively with parents, staff, and volunteers. As a preschool teacher, you will work within a team to support children across all developmental domains by engaging in curriculum planning and implementation, and classroom management strategies, to meet each child's individual needs. The preschool teacher is knowledgeable about Colorado Child Care Licensing and health and safety rules and regulations. This position is responsible for maintaining complete and timely records and for maintaining the classroom and building safety and appearance. Teachers are responsible for continuing to develop professional techniques and skills that promote quality early childhood education.

What you will be doing:

• Build a positive, trusting and working relationship with each child and family through daily communication in a warm, approachable and supportive manner
• Provide consistent, nurturing and responsive interactions with each child using positive techniques
• Provide individualized care for children to ensure children's health and safety
• Provide daily activities based on a child's needs and interests that stimulate learning in all areas of child development to include physical, social, emotional and cognitive needs of children
• Plan and implement engaging, fun and developmentally appropriate daily lessons using the Creative Curriculum, providing individualized support for children to meet developmental milestones across all learning domains
• Plan, prepare and implement daily Orange Curriculum to foster the spiritual development of each child, including sending weekly parent cue cards home to support family engagement
• Assesses each child's developmental needs on an ongoing basis using the Teaching Strategies Gold Assessment tool, and share frequent updates with parents
• Works in collaboration with leadership team and early intervention professionals to provide parents with referrals to early intervention services for their child when necessary
• Positively interacts with classroom volunteers
• Participate in on site ongoing professional development to enhance individual skills as a learner to provide and ensure best practices and quality early childhood education
• Ensure compliance with Colorado Department of Human Services Licensing Regulations, and the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment Regulations that govern childcare facilities
• Promotes Careers - Hope House Colorado throughout the organization and external relationships

We want to hear from you if …

• Bachelor's degree in early childhood education, child development, elementary education or early childhood special education or a bachelor's degree in an unrelated field with at least 36 college credit hours in early childhood education or related field (preferred) OR…
• Meet Colorado State Child Care Licensing educational qualification standards (required)
• You have a PDIS Level 3 Credential (required)
• Experience working with children ages infancy through five, including lesson planning (required)
• Don't quite meet all the educational requirements? Consider applying anyway and we can discuss a professional development plan to get you there.

Who we are

Hope House Colorado is committed to empowering teen moms, changing the future for two generations! We are a future-thinking organization, striving to be experts in our field. We invest in each employee, providing opportunities to pursue individual passions, gifts and strengths. Our staff is a unified team, pursuing excellence in all we do. We serve with integrity, humility, and respect for one another, in an environment that combines professionalism with fun, humor, and even a little bit of silliness each day! We are proud to say our Early Learning Center is a CO Shines 5-star rated Program!

Hope House Colorado Early Learning Center Educational Philosophy

In support of our mission and vision, the Hope House Colorado Early Learning Center believes all children are a gift from God and are created in His image. This belief is at the heart of our philosophy and desire to nurture the whole child in a play-based learning environment that is a fun, engaging, and nurturing place of belonging for children of Hope House teen moms and staff, ranging in ages from 6 weeks to 5 years old. We believe that learning is best supported when built on a strong social-emotional foundation in an environment where children feel seen, heard, loved, and valued and ultimately free to be who God created them to be. We believe in a family centered approach, working in partnership with families to help children build a strong, secure, social-emotional foundation allowing them to realize their full potential.

Salary Range: $44,720-$51,688/year depending on education and experience

Hours: This role is expected to work 40 hours/week on the HHC campus, except when offsite for HHC work-related purposes. The existing schedule is eight hours per day between 7 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Benefits

• Health Benefits : Employees may elect medical, dental, vision & life insurance plans.
• Simple IRA : Employees may choose to make salary reduction contributions through HHC's Simple IRA plan and HHC will match the employee's contribution up to a maximum of 3% of the employee's annual salary.
• Vacation : Upon hire, employees earn 4.61 hours of vacation per paycheck up to 120 hours (3 weeks) in a year. Accruals are adjusted to increase vacation earned per hours worked based on length of employment with HHC.
• Holidays : HHC observes eleven (11) holidays throughout the year. Salaried employees are paid for these holidays according to the nationally recognized observation day for each holiday. In addition, salaried employees are currently gifted either the week of Christmas or the week of New Year's off, to be scheduled at the discretion of their supervisor.
• Sick Leave : HHC provides eligible employees with Paid Sick and Safe Leave (PSSL) and Public Health Emergency Leave (PHEL) in accordance with the requirements of Colorado's Healthy Families and Workplaces Act (HFWA).
• Employer Based Childcare : Employees receive a discount for their child(ren)'s child care tuition if they are enrolled in the Hope House Colorado Early Learning Center.
• Hope House Colorado is a qualifying employer for the federal Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program! HHC provides employees with free assistance navigating the PSLF program to submit their federal student loans for forgiveness

Job Application Deadline: Hope House Colorado is accepting applications on an ongoing basis.