Head Teacher

What You'll Do

Key Responsibilities:

Teaching: 

• In collaboration with colleagues, plans, supervises, and implements a curriculum that reflects Quaker values and best practices, tailoring activities to children’s interests and developmental needs.
• Ensures the physical, social-emotional, and cognitive needs of all children are met.
• Provides children with center materials that align with our philosophy.
• Maintains organized, clean, and engaging classrooms, updating materials and displays bi-monthly to meet children’s needs.

Modeling:

• Maintains a positive attitude and demeanor with the Executive Director, School Director, families, and other teachers.
• Mentors teaching staff and models best practices for parent-cooperative volunteers.
• Models child guidelines for teachers, assistant teachers, aides, and parents.
• Fosters positive relationships among staff, parents, guardians, and volunteers.

Supervision:

• Communicates daily with families and other teachers, documenting children’s progress.
• Conducts weekly meetings with teachers to discuss curriculum planning, student observations, and communication.
• Supervises teachers, assistant teachers, parents, guardians, and volunteers during group activities.
• Meets weekly to discuss children, families, and teaching teams.
• Provides feedback to the Executive Director and School Director for formal observations of teachers.

Assessment:

• Participates in ongoing evaluations of children through daily observations, weekly work samples, and written assessments.
• Conferences biannually with families, developing goals for each child.
• Provides ongoing evaluations as needed to assess children’s developmental levels.
• Collaborates with the School Director and Emotional Well-Being Coordinator to support referrals for families as needed.

Professional Development:

• Attends all staff meetings.
• Maintains required continuing education hours, staying current with best practices and theory.
• Participates in required early childhood meetings, conferences, and events.
• Incorporates all continuing education certificates into the personnel file.

Requirements

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Early Childhood Development and/or Education.
• CPR certified or ability to complete training.
• Ability to communicate fluently in written and spoken English.
• Excellent organizational skills.
• Computer literacy.
• Two years of Early Childhood Education experience.
• Cultural sensitivity and proven ability to work with a diverse population.
• Experience working in a cooperative model a plus.
• Fluency in Spanish or other second language preferred.

Physical Requirements:

•  Vision and hearing must be within normal range so as to be able to provide sight and sound supervision.
•  Ability to lift and carry 40 lbs.
• Ability to bend, sit on the floor for prolonged periods and get up again is required.

Nice to Have

Fluency in Spanish

Benefits