ESA Educational Programs Instructor & Curriculum Coordinator
Flexible Weekday, Evening, Weekend, School-Break and Summer Programming
Build Educational Programs Families Intentionally Choose
Bright Beginnings is an approved Arizona Empowerment Scholarship Account service provider. We are developing a distinctive menu of structured tutoring, enrichment, and educational programs for ESA-eligible students.
We are seeking an organized, creative, collaborative, and highly accountable ESA Educational Programs Instructor and Curriculum Coordinator who can transform great ideas into legitimate educational programs with:
- Written curricula
- Clear learning objectives
- Planned instructional time
- Qualified instructors
- Accurate student enrollment and attendance
- Appropriate examples of student work
- Documented participation and progress
- Complete service records
- Professional invoice support
- Strong program-integrity controls
This is educational programming—not general daycare or ordinary childcare.
Programs may be offered:
- During weekday mornings
- During weekday early afternoons
- During late afternoons or evenings
- On Saturdays or other approved weekends
- During school holidays and breaks
- During summer sessions
- As individual tutoring appointments
- As small-group academies
- As short-term workshops
- As multiweek courses
You Will Have a Multidisciplinary Team
You will not be expected to teach every subject alone.
Bright Beginnings has an in-house and affiliated team that includes:
- Professional chef
- Photographer
- Engineer
- Business-trained professional
- Spanish-language teacher
- French-language teacher
Additional specialists may participate as programming expands.
The selected coordinator will work with these professionals to transform their expertise into organized, age-appropriate, curriculum-based courses.
Examples include:
- Work with our chef to develop culinary science, nutrition, food-safety, cultural-food, and cooking courses.
- Collaborate with our photographer on photography, videography, visual storytelling, graphic design, and student portfolios.
- Partner with our engineer to create robotics, coding, electronics, construction, design, and STEM challenges.
- Work with our business-trained professional on entrepreneurship, budgeting, financial literacy, marketing, leadership, and career readiness.
- Coordinate with our Spanish and French instructors to develop language, literacy, conversation, cultural-studies, and bilingual family programs.
- Develop multidisciplinary projects combining several areas of expertise.
For example, students might design a product, calculate its production cost, create its packaging, photograph it, develop a marketing plan, and present a business pitch in English, Spanish, or French.
We are not looking for one person who is already an expert in every field. We need an exceptional educator and coordinator who can organize people, curricula, schedules, materials, instruction, records, and outcomes.
Our Educational Vision
We want to create programs families intentionally select because they provide genuine educational value and experiences children will remember.
Potential program names include:
- Bright Builders STEM Lab
- Young Entrepreneurs Academy
- Creative Arts Studio
- Reading Explorers
- Math Through Games
- Junior Chefs: Culinary Science
- Digital Creators Lab
- Spanish Explorers: Language and Culture
- French Explorers: Language and Culture
- Bilingual Storytelling Studio
- Photography and Storytelling
- Garden-to-Classroom Science
- Young Leaders and Community Changemakers
- Theater and Public Speaking
- Robotics and Engineering
- Financial Literacy for Young Minds
Every course must have substance behind its name: a written curriculum, instructional plan, qualified personnel, accurate attendance, documented services, appropriate student work, and clear educational outcomes.
Potential Educational ProgramsAcademic Tutoring
Programs may include:
- Individual tutoring
- Small-group tutoring
- Phonics and foundational literacy
- Reading fluency and comprehension
- Grammar, vocabulary, and writing
- Mathematics
- Science
- Social studies and civics
- Study skills and academic organization
- Test preparation
- Academic intervention
- Academic enrichment
- Project-based learning connected to core academic subjects
Tutoring must involve actual instruction. General homework monitoring or merely providing a place for students to complete assignments is not automatically an ESA tutoring service.
STEM and Technology
Programs may include:
- Hands-on science laboratories
- Engineering-design challenges
- Robotics
- Coding and computer-science fundamentals
- Architecture and structural design
- Environmental science
- Gardening and plant science
- Astronomy and space science
- Applied mathematics
- Beginner electronics and circuits
- Digital literacy and online safety
- Photography, videography, and media production
Art and Creative Design
Programs may include:
- Drawing and painting
- Sculpture and mixed media
- Photography
- Graphic-design fundamentals
- Fiber arts and textiles
- Illustration and visual storytelling
- Cultural art studies
- Art history
- Creative writing and poetry
- Theater and stage production
Art supplies and other supplemental materials must be connected to and supported by the applicable curriculum. Supplies cannot be represented as reimbursable simply because they were used during an activity.
Music and Performing Arts
Programs may include:
- General music education
- Rhythm and percussion
- Vocal instruction
- Instrument instruction
- Music theory
- Dance and movement
- Theater and performance
- Public speaking
- Student productions
- Family performances and showcases
Applicable instructor qualifications, licenses, certificates, and subject-area credentials must remain current and available for verification.
Spanish, French and Other Language Programs
Programs may include:
- Spanish language and culture
- French language and culture
- Beginning, intermediate, and conversational instruction
- Spanish and French vocabulary development
- Reading and writing in Spanish or French
- Bilingual storytelling and literature
- Music, art, geography, history, and cultural traditions
- Spanish and French cooking and cultural-food experiences coordinated with our chef
- Language clubs and conversation groups
- Family language-learning events
- American Sign Language
- Other approved language courses
Spanish and French programs must be genuine educational courses with qualified instructors, written learning objectives, lesson plans, attendance records, and documented student participation and progress.
Physical Education and Wellness
Programs may include:
- Structured physical education
- Dance instruction
- Group fitness
- Sports fundamentals
- Yoga, mindfulness, and movement
- Health and wellness
- Nutrition education
- Personal safety
- Healthy-habit instruction
General recreation, playground supervision, gym memberships, and unstructured physical activity are not the same as structured educational instruction.
Career, Technical and Life-Skills Education
Programs may include:
- Entrepreneurship
- Financial literacy
- Budgeting and money management
- Career exploration
- Leadership development
- Public speaking and professional communication
- Introductory culinary education
- Sewing and textile skills
- Photography and media production
- Business and marketing
- Workplace readiness
- Approved technical or career-related courses
Vocational and life-skills programs may have additional eligibility or documentation requirements, particularly when offered to students with disabilities.
Curriculum-Based Educational Experiences
Courses may incorporate educational experiences connected to:
- Museums
- Zoos and wildlife programs
- Science centers
- Historical sites
- Cultural institutions
- Theatrical performances
- Art exhibits
- Nature centers
- Career-exploration locations
Admission or participation expenses may require a curriculum explaining what the student will learn.
Position ResponsibilitiesCurriculum and Course Development
The coordinator will:
- Develop clearly named educational courses.
- Write course descriptions and establish learning objectives.
- Identify the subject and educational purpose of each program.
- Prepare lesson plans, scopes and sequences, and instructional materials.
- Design age-appropriate individual and small-group instruction.
- Align instruction with the intended student population.
- Identify required and recommended curriculum materials.
- Establish methods for documenting student participation and progress.
- Develop student-work expectations.
- Prepare programs for leadership review and approval.
- Evaluate programs and make appropriate improvements.
Multidisciplinary Staff Coordination
The coordinator will:
- Coordinate participating subject-matter specialists.
- Schedule internal staff participation.
- Clearly define each contributor’s role.
- Ensure participating employees understand the course objectives and lesson plan.
- Coordinate planning meetings before courses begin.
- Help subject-matter specialists translate their expertise into age-appropriate instruction.
- Maintain communication among instructors, administrators, families, and participating staff.
- Avoid scheduling conflicts with childcare, facility, transportation, and operational responsibilities.
- Ensure appropriate instructor credentials are collected and maintained.
- Address gaps in staffing, supplies, preparation, or documentation before instruction begins.
Program Scheduling and Delivery
The coordinator will:
- Plan courses for weekday, afternoon, evening, weekend, school-break, and summer schedules.
- Prepare students, materials, and instructional spaces before each session.
- Begin and end courses on time.
- Confirm instructor and student attendance.
- Ensure instruction follows the approved plan.
- Maintain a welcoming, organized, and safe educational environment.
- Support individual and small-group instruction.
- Adapt lessons appropriately without abandoning the course objectives.
- Coordinate family exhibitions, presentations, demonstrations, and showcases.
- Clean, reset, and reorganize instructional areas after each session.
Family Communication
The coordinator will:
- Explain course objectives, schedules, requirements, and expectations to families.
- Communicate educational outcomes and appropriate student-progress information.
- Share calendars, program updates, and special-event information.
- Respond to questions within the scope of the position.
- Refer billing, eligibility, and approval questions to authorized administrative personnel.
- Protect student and family confidentiality.
- Respect different cultures, languages, structures, and communication preferences.
- Never guarantee that a course or expense will be approved by the Arizona Department of Education.
The coordinator must also:
- Maintain accurate enrollment rosters.
- Reconcile planned sessions with actual attendance.
- Collect required documents from participating instructors.
- Ensure missing or incomplete records are corrected promptly.
- Preserve records according to center, ClassWallet, and applicable program requirements.
- Never estimate, recreate, inflate, or backdate records improperly.
When working directly with students, the employee must:
- Maintain active supervision at all times.
- Know which students are present, where they are, and what they are doing.
- Complete accurate attendance and name-to-face accountability.
- Maintain required staff-to-child ratios.
- Follow authorized pickup and release procedures.
- Inspect instructional areas and equipment before use.
- Keep exits, walkways, classrooms, and outdoor areas clear and safe.
- Follow emergency, illness, injury, allergy, medication, sanitation, and mandated-reporting procedures.
- Report missing students, injuries, incidents, supervision concerns, and hazards immediately.
- Use positive, respectful, and developmentally appropriate guidance.
- Protect student and family confidentiality.
- Avoid personal-device use while supervising students except as specifically authorized.
No-Screen Approach
Bright Beginnings does not use television, videos, tablets, personal phones, or passive screen time as a substitute for teaching, relationships, movement, creativity, or hands-on learning.
Technology may be used when specifically approved as part of an intentional and supervised educational experience, such as coding, digital photography, media production, research, or graphic design.
Our Five Pillars
Our culture is built on:
Integrity Respect Communication Accountability Teamwork
Every employee is expected to demonstrate these values through dependable attendance, professional communication, accurate documentation, ethical conduct, collaboration, and consistent follow-through.
Who We Hope to Meet
You may be an excellent fit if you:
- Are creative, energetic, curious, and highly organized.
- Enjoy working with children and families.
- Can turn an idea into a structured educational course.
- Can coordinate multiple people, schedules, materials, and deadlines.
- Communicate professionally with instructors, families, and administrators.
- Are comfortable requesting missing information and correcting documentation problems.
- Can balance creativity with compliance, budgets, structure, and accountability.
- Accept coaching and want to grow professionally.
- Understand that public education funds require exceptional accuracy and integrity.
- Take pride in creating programs that are both exciting and properly managed.
- Believe educational experiences can change the direction of a child’s life.
Minimum QualificationsRequired
- High school diploma or GED
- Strong written and verbal communication
- Strong organization, scheduling, and time-management skills
- Ability to develop—or learn to develop—curricula and lesson plans
- Ability to coordinate multiple employees, instructors, and projects
- Ability to maintain accurate attendance and service records
- Basic computer, email, spreadsheet, and documentation skills
- Dependable attendance and punctuality
- Ability to work independently and collaboratively
- Willingness to work a flexible schedule that may include weekdays, afternoons, evenings, weekends, school breaks, and summer sessions
- Ability to meet applicable requirements for working with children in a licensed Arizona program
Strongly Preferred
- Teaching, tutoring, curriculum-development, youth-program, enrichment-program, or project-management experience
- Experience developing courses, workshops, clubs, or academies
- Experience coordinating instructors or subject-matter specialists
- Experience with ESA, ClassWallet, education billing, public funds, grants, or regulated documentation
- Experience creating attendance, progress, and service records
- A degree, coursework, certification, or demonstrated expertise in education, STEM, art, photography, music, culinary arts, business, fitness, languages, or another teachable subject
- Spanish or French language ability
Instructor Qualifications and Credentials
Assignment to a specific course will depend on whether the employee’s education, experience, and credentials are appropriate for that subject.
The employee must provide and maintain:
- High school diploma or qualifying higher-education documentation
- Relevant degrees and transcripts
- Applicable teaching, tutoring, technical, trade, language, or subject-specific certificates
- Professional licenses when required
- Résumé documenting relevant experience
- Evidence of subject-area competency
- Any additional documentation requested by Bright Beginnings, ClassWallet, or the Arizona Department of Education
Clearances and Required Training
When working directly with children, the employee must meet all applicable Bright Beginnings, AZDHS, DES, and program requirements, including:
- Current Arizona Fingerprint Clearance Card
- Required background and Central Registry clearances
- Required documentation of freedom from infectious tuberculosis
- Current pediatric First Aid and CPR certification, or completion within the established timeframe
- Eligibility to work in a licensed Arizona childcare program
- Continued compliance with applicable licensing, health, safety, and employment requirements
Arizona Early Childhood Workforce Registry
The employee must create and maintain an active Arizona Early Childhood Workforce Registry profile when required. Training and professional-development records must remain complete and verifiable.
Arizona Early Childhood Workforce Registry
Required Orientation and Professional Development
Employees working with children must:
- Complete required new-staff orientation within the applicable licensing timeframe.
- Complete assigned training in active supervision, emergency procedures, mandated reporting, positive guidance, health and safety, sanitation, and applicable program procedures.
- Complete at least 24 clock hours of professional development every 12 months under the Bright Beginnings center standard.
- Complete all additional training required by AZDHS, DES, and applicable programs.
- Participate in coaching, competency demonstrations, follow-up observations, and corrective training.
- Maintain complete and verifiable training records.
DES Pre-Service Health and Safety Training
Bright Beginnings requires the applicable DES Pre-Service Health and Safety Training series to be completed and verifiable in the Arizona Registry before the employee’s first scheduled day working with children.
Candidates may interview and continue through the hiring process while completing the training. Previously completed courses do not need to be repeated when they can be verified.
The required series currently includes:
- AZ_CCEI059T — Principles from the NAEYC Code of Ethical Conduct
- CHD110 — Birth to Five: Child Development in Young Children
- PROF111 — Establishing Family Partnerships Through Communication and Engagement
- HLTH107 — CCDBG Health and Safety Basics
- AZ_SOC112 — Reducing Exclusionary Discipline in Early Childhood Education
- HLTH112 — Recognizing and Reporting Child Abuse
- SPN108 — Inclusion and Children With Special Needs
Courses are available free through the Arizona Registry in English and Spanish.
Physical Responsibilities
With or without reasonable accommodation, the employee must be able to:
- Stand, walk, bend, kneel, and sit at floor level.
- Move throughout classrooms and indoor or outdoor instructional areas.
- Lift, carry, push, or pull instructional materials and equipment within established limits.
- Participate in demonstrations, activities, and student projects.
- Respond promptly to emergencies, injuries, conflicts, and safety concerns.
- Set up and restore instructional spaces.
Apply Today
We are looking for an educator, curriculum designer, organizer, collaborator, and program builder who can bring people and ideas together while maintaining the documentation and integrity these programs require.
Please submit your résumé and be prepared to share examples of courses, lessons, workshops, clubs, or educational programs you would be excited to develop.
If you are ready to help Bright Beginnings build educational experiences that families intentionally choose and children will remember, we would love to meet you.
Pay: From $18.00 per hour
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- Dental insurance
- Employee discount
- Flexible spending account
- Health insurance
- Health savings account
- Life insurance
- Retirement plan
- Vision insurance
Work Location: In person
