ABOUT WONDER STUDIO at Legacy Academy:
WONDER STUDIO is a play-based, educationally enriching co-op for children ages 3-6 years old, engaging the head, heart, and hands, while fostering healthy relationships and the joy of learning.
Legacy Academy is a non-profit Christ-centered learning academy equipping young leaders with confidence, character, and competence to engage their callings and joyfully impact the world.
Wonder Studio is inspired by Montessori and Reggio Emilia approaches.
Key Elements of our WONDER STUDIO program:
Play Based
Children learn best through play. By nurturing children's natural wonder, curiosity, and interests, we inspire a love for learning.
Multi Sensory
Joyful exploration and discovery is the work of our children. We facilitate multi-sensory, experiential learning that connects their hands, head and heart.
Whole Child
Social, emotional and spiritual development as well as practical life skills are woven into our daily rhythms, nurturing the mind, body, soul and spirit of our children.
Family Integrated
We strengthen our program and your home by involving family in the flow of learning. Continuity creates momentum and fosters consistent exchange of great ideas.
LITTLE WONDERS
(Designed for 3-5 year olds, just beginning their journey of learning and discovery).
Rooted in a play-based, Montessori and Reggio inspired approach, this program provides a rich environment where children can engage in hands-on learning, sensory exploration, and creative expression. With small class sizes and a nurturing, experienced Guide, Little Wonders fosters social-emotional growth, independence, and foundational skills through engaging learning materials, movement, art, outdoor play, and practical life activities. Our goal is to cultivate wonder and confidence as children take their first steps in education while still embracing the joy of childhood.
WONDER K
(Designed for children ages 5-6, ready for more structure and focus while still learning through play and exploration).
This program includes all the play-based, hands-on, enriching experiences and whole-child development that the Wonder Studio environment offers, with additional kindergarten level focus on early literacy and math from a Montessori and Reggio inspired approach. Our engaging Wonder K Guide nurtures children's minds, bodies, souls and spirits, joyfully preparing them for the next steps in their educational journey while cultivating their natural love of learning.
For more, visit the Wonder Studio page on the Legacy Academy website.
https://legacyacademy.org/wonder-studio
ABOUT LEGACY ACADEMY
Legacy Academy is a non-profit Christ-centered learning academy equipping young leaders with confidence, character, and competence to engage their callings and joyfully impact the world.
Currently enrolling 3-11 year olds for the Fall 2025 - 2026 program year (will grow to serve PK-12 in the future).
At Legacy Academy, our children learn in mixed-aged classrooms called studios with a flexible learning design that serves each child with their own differentiated learning plan as opposed to standardized, separated grade-levels. Inspired by Montessori and Reggio Emilia, and incorporating strengths from other educational approaches as well, our learning environment facilitates independent, focused and self-paced work as well as collaborative, exploratory learning. In place of letter grades, our learners will earn badges as they demonstrate mastery of core academic skills, character development, and other accomplishments. Throughout the year, our real-world project based learning will culminate in public exhibitions of learning as opposed to test scores and report cards.
In studios serving younger learners, there will be a focus on helping them build their basic literacy, math and other skills necessary to become an independent learner. We currently serve learners ages 5-11 years old with plans to expand to serve learners through age 18.
In all areas of Legacy life, our learners are empowered to take ownership of their education and growth. Our team works collaboratively to guide learners through a whole-child approach. We believe that to truly prepare our children to thrive in life, alongside academic excellence, their education must integrate social & emotional intelligence, character & leadership development, spiritual formation, real-world skills, physical health & nutrition, and guidance toward their unique purpose and contribution to the world.
To understand more fully about our Legacy Academy, read through our website at legacyacademy.com, and watch the Virtual Info Session video.
AS A WONDER STUDIO GUIDE YOU WILL:
- Build meaningful, supportive relationships with each child in the studio and provide guidance and encouragement toward their joyful development
- Plan and prepare engaging, meaningful learning experiences that inspire discovery, a love of learning, and engage children’s heads, hearts and hands
- Listen and ask good questions to empower children to grow in independence, problem-solving, collaboration, conflict resolution and leadership
- Schedule and lead parent volunteers in their role supporting the daily program activities
- Guide children and parent volunteers in whole-child development as you lead with passion, energy and curiosity, modeling life-long learning, relationship with Jesus, strong character, emotional and relational health, and servant leadership
- Develop systems of observation and documentation to facilitate portfolio creation for each individual child (that contains samples of their learning process, work and projects, notes about skills, strengths and interests, etc.)
- Help develop systems for effective communication, scheduling and feedback to promote excellence and creativity in our program
- Collaborate with Legacy Academy team to create a natural transition as children age into the - 5 program.
PREFERRED EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS:
- Education and/or experience working with young children (Experience in Montessori and Reggio-inspired / Project Based learning environments strongly preferred)
- Experience facilitating play based, child led learning
- Classroom management experience, ability to create cohesion among a diverse group of children, attune to childrens’ individual and collective needs, and adapt plans accordingly to facilitate a joyful, connected learning environment
- Proficiency in teaching fundamental concepts in engaging ways
- Experience working with children at various skill and age levels in a mixed - age learning environment (ideal 3yrs - 5yrs)
- A deep love and respect for all children – seeing them as valuable, rich in potential and capability, each designed with unique purpose, diverse expressions and gifts to be discovered, developed and contributed to the world around them
- Naturally sets a warm, open, and joyful tone
- Respectfully and enthusiastically collaborates with children and families
- Models healthy emotional skills and calmly and confidently helps children navigate social-emotional learning (E.g. self-regulation, conflict resolution, teamwork, problem solving, etc.)
- Experience practicing clear and compassionate limit setting
- A strong teamwork ethic, a genuine desire to collaborate with colleagues, and a commitment to professionalism
- A willingness to be coached and mentored
- A value for giving and receiving positive and constructive feedback
- Vulnerability and courage to try new things, make mistakes, and the ability to reflect
- An entrepreneurial mindset and desire to work hard, solve problems, and continually improve
POSITION DETAILS:
Schedule
M – Th
8:00am – 9:00am Morning Prep on campus
9:00am – 12:15pm Wonder Studio Assistant Instructor on campus
12:15pm – 12:45pm 30 min. unpaid lunch break
12:45pm – 3:15pm Wonder Studio Assistant Instructor on campus
Monday
3:15pm – 4:30pm Weekly Staff Meeting on campus
Tuesday – Thursday
3:15pm – 4:30pm Flexible prep, communication, collaboration time
Friday
2 Flexible hours for prep, communications, meetings as needed
Inservices (dates will be provided in advance)
34 Total Hours
Program year Sept 1st - June 3rd
6 “Sprints” = 6 weeks (avg.) on + 1 week off (2 weeks off for Christmas Break)
Position starting August 17th, 2026 (full time)
Pay
$20 - $27 /hr depending on training and experience
Benefits
Paid time off
401k plan
Job Types: Full-time, Part-time
Pay: $20.00 - $27.00 per hour
Benefits:
Experience:
- Teaching: 1 year (Required)
Ability to Commute:
- Folsom, CA 95630 (Required)
Ability to Relocate:
- Folsom, CA 95630: Relocate before starting work (Required)
Work Location: In person
