preschool teacher

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child development specialist

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Working for Plaza community services was a learning experience, but not always a positive one.  At the beginning, I learned a lot because I was new to the field of early education 0-3, but by year 3, as an individual, I felt there was no way to move up, unless you left the job. Contribution and collaboration was not encouraged. I had a very supportive supervisor , but there were others in charge that micro-mangaged the team, but failed to provide wraparounds for our families. There was a failure to partner with wraparounds that could have provided necessities such as diapers, wipes and resources that incentivized their participation in our programs. Even though our programs had a lot room for potential and parent educators that really cared for their caseload, there was lack of flexibility to work with outside organizations that could have really benefited the families in the programs . 

Parent Educator program is really bad. Program Manager is passive aggressive and does not empathize with home visitors. My supervisor was very understanding, but our program manager made it stressful and hostile. Talking amongst the team seemed like a bad thing, she wanted the office quiet. Coworkers were great, but unfortunately it felt like we couldn’t even talk when the program manager was there. Expect to work weekends or late afternoons without OT paid. There is a lot of paperwork and a lot of families that need support and we don’t have resources. Training was very limited and I had to learn on my own, but  was expected to know what to do. There is no room for growth and even though we shared our struggles and suggestions for a better program, nothing changed. We had a great team of Parent Educators and most have all left. Program Manager resists to our suggestions and seems to be indifferent to our struggles. Avoid working here if you like to be happy. 

The hours were ok and the rate of pay was great. The only problems I had personally were the costly commute, which it totally not the fault in the company. However I was made aware that the janitor was verry passive aggressive toward some of the new cooks at theication that I was at. Along with the fact that when I was hired the company was going through implementing new sanitation/cooking policies and procedures that were not being followed by long time employees ot was a little frustrating to be in between the new and the old employees. 

Very toxic environment. Everyone leaves because of the lack of support to teachers, company is very short staffed. Conflict between staff due to favoritism. Lack of good communication and willingness to help.  Supervisor likes to watch staff through cameras even though they are only meant to be monitored in case of emergency. Not well organized program, needs a lot of work. Lack of resources, they need to work on grants. There is no time for teachers to work on their paperwork or classrooms. Materials aren’t accessible to teachers unless requested. Management needs training on how to be on the same page. 

No room for growth
No support from site supervisor who is also a micromanager
Teaching staff complain about others and try to outdo one another
Upper management did not provide appropriate training for teachers or did so after the fact
Upper management would provide training and had no idea what they were talking about...they would answer “that’s a good question...” or “I’m not sure...”

While working at Plaza Community Services I would get to help the families in need of child care services.  Lower Income and single parent homes where our main target, mainly in the East Los Angeles and Boyle Heights area.  My main job was to enroll families in the program and maintain files up to date, and verify information.

Upper management is horrible we have no help or guidance from the supervisors, they give us packets of information instead of having trainings. Constantly negative feed back but not guidance I quit after a month the one preschool I’ve worked at with no support or structure 

It was okay to start with for having no experience but company starting falling apart, negative work environment (employee attitudes), not fairly compensated for amount of work load given, poor communication between the higher ups and staff, very little resources to use with children, rarely any fun events for children, some teachers under qualified for job.

tutored children in the afternoon and took care of children in the evenings
filed away papers
great people in the office to assist you
hardest part of the job would be dealing with difficult clients and knowing too little about the job at hand

My over all experience with Plaza gave me the opportunity to learn and grow while I was there in the Human Resources department. I was also given the opportunity to get to know around anywhere from 110-135 employees that were on board with the company.

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Preschool teacher 2 salaries reported	$26.44 per hour
Parent educator 3 salaries reported	$27.53 per hour
Enrollment specialist 2 salaries reported	$26.25 per hour
Child development specialist 1 salary reported	$29.40 per hour
Enrollment manager 2 salaries reported	$85,000 per year

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