Job Summary:
Cultivate supportive, empowering relationships with children and families in a high quality program to help young children learn and grow to their fullest potential.
Mission: To educate, support and connect the children, families and communities of Cass County.
Qualifications:
Minimum of a Bachelor’s Degree in Early Childhood Education or Child Development; or a Bachelor’s Degree in Elementary Education with a ZA or ZS endorsement. Demonstrated commitment toward continuing education. If the bachelor’s degree has not been obtained, a compliance plan using Project TEACH is required along with significant experience in high quality early childhood classrooms.
Essential Duties:
● Demonstrated leadership and knowledge of high quality, early childhood educational programs
● Ability to develop effective, nurturing relationships with children, staff and the school community
● Demonstrated knowledge of: child development, early childhood education and special education
● Demonstrated knowledge of: family systems, trauma and poverty issues
● Understanding of and ability to lead developmentally appropriate practice in the classroom
● Well-developed observation, screening, and assessment techniques
● Demonstrated leadership in the classroom communicating both orally and in writing
● Demonstrated professionalism and strong, ethical decision-making while leading others
● Demonstrated organizational, technological and data-keeping abilities
Ability to create nurturing classroom environments that promote play and inquiry as the “third teacher” both
inside and outside the classroom
● History of continuous learning and development as a professional educator
● Ability to develop children’s emerging interests and document the learning in the classroom through visual
representation with project based learning
● Knowledge of and experience with brain-based systems that build children’s skills through relationships as
a classroom family and community of learners, reducing challenging behaviors
● Demonstrated technical skills with use of online assessment platforms and effective engagement of families
through a variety of media
● Exemplary record of dependable and responsible leadership in the classroom
● Ability to teach and support Associate Staff in their own emerging practices
● Ability to read and comprehend simple instructions, short correspondence, and memos
● Attendance and participation in all mandatory staff meetings, in-service, training sessions, and family
events
● Other duties as assigned
● Regular and predictable in-person attendance is required for this position
Working Conditions: (include physical demands and work environment)
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand, walk, sit, talk, see, and hear. The employee is frequently required to stoop, kneel, crouch, crawl, and reach with hands and arms. The employee may occasionally lift and/or move 40 pounds or more. The employee may have to engage in the physical management of students in order to maintain a safe environment. Noise levels are typically moderate.
Pay: $37,867.00 - $55,664.00 per year
Benefits:
- Dental insurance
- Flexible spending account
- Health insurance
- Health savings account
- Life insurance
- Paid time off
- Retirement plan
- Vision insurance
Work Location: In person
