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Kids Can Community Center

This job was enjoyable in regards to my coworkers and the beautiful children I had the privilege of serving. Unfortunately, the EC management was unkind, misunderstanding, and overall non inclusive, specifically to new employees. This really was letdown considering their high turnover. You'd think they would do everything they could to try and keep employees and treat everybody, specifically new employees, with basic human decency. EC director gave unfair bias towards his wife, the lead baby room teacher, and anyone they made personal friends with. 

ON TOP OF THIS, I and multiple other new employees experienced verbal mistreatment from the lead teacher in my classroom. The options I was given was given were to deal with it or move classrooms. I moved classrooms and the employees there were inclusive and positive. 

These directors gossip with their long time employees and one another about their subordinate's personal affairs and give little to no understanding. They never tried to understand the nuances of any situation and completely lacked communication with anyone but their favorites. There is a huge feeling of mistrust from the EC director, assistant director, and his wife. The baby room specifically is filled with toxicity.

The children are often moved to different classrooms due to low staffing and a lack of care from the directors. 

I will say that the School Age directors are amazing at their jobs. They were more inclusive to me as an EC employee than the EC directors ever did.

Upper management should really consider making a change in the EC directors, specifically the head EC director, if they want to keep employees. It also leaves a bad taste in my mouth that a branch of the company entirely made up of women is run by someone who is not one. Since my quitting in Summer of 2023, they have lost more than half of their staff, and still struggle to keep employees; Which is completely telling of the quality of this workspace. 

I wouldn’t recommend working here. The children are great. But it’s the adults that make it hard. If you’re not friends with everyone, then you get isolated and judged. say good morning to the passing teachers but most of them don’t acknowledge or even say good morning back just out of courtesy. 

There has been a big change in management, there’s a new director and the former director stepped down to become the Preschool Coordinator. They made it seem like this was going to be a positive change for everyone but with such a big change, you can really see some tension and teachers showing their true colors. 

And then there’s the group that hangs out at the front desk. Always up there chatting about non work related topics. The new director too. He would rather be friends with everyone and not hold anyone accountable for underperforming. There’s no professionalism anywhere in the building. The children are missing out on valuable learning because all the teachers will rather sit around and talk than actually interact with the children. 

Kids Can is a mission-driven organization with hard-working staff that care. There are great opportunities for growth and professional development. Leadership does have high expectations, as they should, because we are caring for children and want to deliver the BEST for our families. Managers are also fair and supportive of staff in their efforts to best serve the community. My children attended the summer program so I was able to experience the program from the parent side of the organization and found I would choose it again for childcare even if I did not work here! Organization has high standards for excellence in quality curriculum, safety, in addition to great communication all around!

Kids are amazing! Only reason this job is terrible is because of the management. It's a negative work place and the Early Childhood Director is terrible with the kids, has no patience and doesn't know how to work well with his employees and children. Hardest part of this job was dealing with the EC Director no support and will have favorites and his whole vibe doesn't make this job enjoyable. He's not sociable with parents, children or his employees. He doesn't care for the kids, he once throw away the lunch too early once and told his employees to figure it out even though there wasn't enough lunches for all the kids. 

I had a boss here that was terrible. As a site director instead of having a conversation with me when I started to perform poorly, she decided to keep writing me up behind my back and not informing me of my write ups. After checking the staff handbook, every time I should have been written up I should have received warnings I never got that. She just cut my hours, refused to be flexible, and disguised staff 1:1 meetings as a chance to fire me three days before my last day.

Would not recommend working here. Senor employees are all friends and treat the workplace like its highschool. They are  unsincire and not kind to new hires. They are unkind to anyone they dont like, bringing personal opinions into the workplace. There is a ridiculous amount of favortism due to the relations the director has with some employees and the ceo/coo are no help. Very unfortunate because the children and programs suffer due to the incompetence. Wish I could give 0 stars.
  

A typical day at work varies from lunch duty to coming up with lessons/ activities to do with classes. Varies from grades each day and there are opportunities to work with different groups of students every day. The hardest part of the job is to work with students with behavior. I think it sometimes gets hard because we have a bigger group which is hard to manage with the low on staff situation.

I worked for Kids Can for three years. I left due to graduating school but kids can supported me in my educational goals as well as helped me grow and provided opportunities for professional development/growth. The team is great and I loved that the quality of our care and curriculum was always emphasized. Majority of the people I know who have worked for this company have stayed with this company. Nothing but great things to say. 

I adore working here at Kids Can Community Center for many reasons! A few of them being, management is always respectful and approaches you in a professional manner even when giving feedback. Everyone is so supportive of eachother and seems to be like one big family! The early childhood director and assistant are so hands on throughout the day making sure that classrooms are okay and making sure teachers are okay as well! They may not feel seen but we see you! ♥️

I loved teaching here! I was a preschool teacher here for several years and I have nothing but good things to say. I felt like they wanted me to thrive. Management was great but did get discouraged when wanting to mingle with office staff. I love the CEO Robert, he stands by his staff and is a great role model for the kids. 

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Group leader 3 salaries reported	$16.17 per hour
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Site director 2 salaries reported	$17.25 per hour
Shift leader 4 salaries reported	$15.50 per hour
Front desk receptionist 1 salary reported	$16.50 per hour

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