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Title: Assistant Preschool Teacher – 3-5 year olds

Dept: Childhood Services (ELC)

Reports to: Early Learning Program Supervisor

Wage: $22.78 – $24.78 per hour*

Type: Full-Time/40 hours per week

Location: 1900 Rainier Ave S, Seattle (on-site)

To Apply: Go to: https://wellspringfs.org/about/careers and click on “Career Center”.

Who We Are:

Our Mission: To end the cycle of family homelessness in our community.

Our Vision: A community in which every child has a safe and stable home.

For 130 years, Wellspring Family Services has worked to end family homelessness by making it easy for families and employees in crisis to access the services they need to regain stability. A non-profit, multi-service agency, Wellspring serves children, youth, and families primarily in King, Pierce and Snohomish Counties.

Wellspring has five primary programs. The Housing Services division provides eviction prevention and rehousing services to vulnerable populations in three counties. The Early Learning Center delivers trauma-informed early childhood education to children, ages 1 to 5, who have experienced homelessness. The Family Store supplies clothing, toiletries, toys, diapers, and baby equipment to low-income families so they can better afford rent and other basic needs. Our Counseling program delivers mental health services to insured individuals through three offices in King County. Our Employee Assistance Program connects employees with the resources they need to address crises, retain housing, and remain employed

Wellspring Family Services is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to a diverse and accessible workplace. Everyone is welcome. Those who are BIPOC, all genders, immigrants, former clients, veterans, and persons with disabilities are strongly encouraged to apply. To request disability accommodation in the application process, please contact us.

Purpose:

The Assistant Preschool Teacher, under the guidance of the Lead Preschool Teacher, assists the Lead Preschool Teacher in delivering specialized early learning services through a trauma-informed care approach and providing parent support and advocacy to children and families experiencing challenges in their lives.

Essential Functions:

· Curriculum Implementation: Assists with planning developmentally appropriate curriculum that is responsive to individual children that fosters their emotional, physical, cognitive, language, and social development. Prepares materials needed daily for the curriculum. Schedules field trips as necessary to support the curriculum.

· Classroom Management: Assists with setting standards of conduct and organization for the classroom. Assists Lead Preschool Teacher in classroom management and preparation. Conducts teacher team meetings and guides volunteers. Uses time effectively to complete tasks. Organizes and sets up classroom environment. Monitors condition of classroom and playground materials. Ensures that children are always supervised.

· Parental Support: Assists with maintaining open lines of communication with parents. Develops and implements parent/child events. Respects cultural differences in child rearing practices. Recognizes individual needs of parents and works cooperatively with parents to try to meet those needs. Consults with parents regarding issues related to health, development, safety, nutrition, and education in collaboration with ELC team. Plans and conducts parent-teacher conferences.

· Effective Discipline and Guidance: Assists with providing and explaining consistent and clear rules to children, redirects inappropriate behavior through positive reinforcement, helps children to deal with anger and frustration, conducts smooth transitions, sets realistic limits, and plans ahead to prevent behavioral issues. Uses Trauma-informed Care approach to guide children’s behaviors.

· Administrative: Assists with conducting child assessments, written observations of children and determines progress of each child. Prepares monthly classroom newsletter, notes and other written documents to parents as needed. Submits required documents to supervisor in a timely manner.

· Child Health Care Needs: Assists with observing children for indication of neglect, abuse, illness, or developmental delays and collaborates with ELC team during case consultations to develop a plan to meet children’s needs. Actively supports nutritional needs of children during mealtimes.

· Collaboration: Works effectively with supervisor and other team members to deliver the best possible education and care to the children. Willingly shares ideas and opinions and encourages other team members to do the same. Listens and communicates with others in a respectful way, avoiding listening blocks and contaminated messages. Does not allow conflict with another team member to interfere with the responsibility to the children, meeting the needs of the children first and dealing with the conflict separately and in private as soon as feasible.

Additional Responsibilities:

· Compliance: Adheres to licensing requirements as well as agency and program policies. Displays consistency and reliability with attendance

· ELC Representation: Welcomes and assists children, visitors, and staff in a helpful and professional manner. Act in a manner consistent with Wellspring’s values at all times.

· Professional Development: Demonstrates a commitment to continuous learning by seeking out professional development and ongoing training opportunities. Demonstrates a commitment to self-reflection and the ongoing development of diversity, equity, and inclusion. Works closely with Early Childhood Mental Health Clinical Supervisor and Early Learning Program Supervisor to build one’s reflective capacity.

· Advocacy: Advocates for children to receive additional services related to behavioral or developmental concerns.

· Additional tasks and projects may be assigned as needed.

Minimum Requirements:

Candidates must meet all of the following qualifications to be considered for this position:

· Education: Washington State ECE Initial Certificate or current CDA or 12 ECE (Early Childhood Education) credits.

· Experience: One year of experience working in a licensed early learning center with children ages one to five. Experience working with diverse staff, clients, and vulnerable populations (e.g., children who have experienced trauma, homelessness, or other significant adversity). Experience with anti-bias teaching practices.

· Upon Employment: Fully vaccinated against COVID-19, TB test results, proof of MMR vaccine, successful completion of WA State/DCYF Background Check in MERIT.

· Within 30 Days of Hire: Food Handler’s Card, First Aid Certification, Infant/Child CPR Certification, AIDS/HIV Training, Bloodborne Pathogens Training.

· Highly developed awareness of diversity, equity and inclusion, with evolved ability to practice appropriate, relevant and thoughtful strategies for working with diverse populations.

Preferred Qualifications:

The following qualifications have been identified as particularly beneficial and candidates who have attained them will be preferred in the hiring process. The successful candidate who meets one or more of these qualifications will be eligible for starting pay rate premium:

· A.A. in ECE or A.A. in any field and 20 ECE credits MERIT verified: $24.78/hr starting pay

* Wellspring does not engage in pay negotiation as this practice contributes to pay inequity. Salary for the successful candidate is calculated by Wellspring. Premiums may be applied for candidates that are able to verify their achievement of preferred qualifications.

Physical and Mental Requirements:

· Proof of COVID-19 vaccination

· Washington State resident at start date

· This position requires regular and predictable attendance.

· This position involves occasionally ascending/descending a ladder or stepstool to hang classroom materials or access supplies.

· This position requires focused mental activity over a significant portion of the workday.

· This position involves contact with children who are ill and/or contagious and the person in this position must take precautions to ensure the health and safety of all children, parents and staff, as well as him/herself/themselves.

· This position involves manual dexterity and motor coordination to serve food and handle dishes/trays with agility and speed. Serving may involve repetitive wrist motion.

· This position involves expressing or exchanging ideas through verbal means (oral or electronic) to convey detailed or important information to clients and co-workers, in person or over the telephone. Must be able to exchange accurate information in high-stress situations.

· This position requires a person who can reason and apply logic and knowledge of various options in an environment requiring speedy, high-quality decisions.

· This position requires a person capable of responding promptly to accidents and emergencies in an effective manner.

· This position requires the ability to lift, carry or move children or equipment up to 40 pounds.

· This position requires working in a noisy environment with many separate activities happening all at once.

· This position involves occasional work in outdoor weather conditions.

· This position involves substantial movements of the wrists, hands and/or fingers, as in keyboard use or other means of silently recording information on computers.

· This position involves experiencing smells associated with toileting and ill children.

· This position requires spending time sitting on the floor or on child-sized furniture.

· This position requires responding in a high-demand environment with people in varying degrees of distress.

Employees should expect to perform some tasks that are outside the scope of the job description.

Employee Benefits:

Choice of 3 Medical Plans • 30 Days PTO • Dental • Life • Long-Term Disability • 403b Retirement Plan • Flexible Spending Accounts • Health Savings Account • Employee Assistance Program • Counseling Session Reimbursement • Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI) Training

As a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, Wellspring employees may use their time with us toward their eligibility for student loan forgiveness under the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program (PSLF).

Assistant Preschool Teacher

Pay Premiums

Standard Hourly Pay: $22.78 per hour

The successful candidate must demonstrate to Wellspring’s satisfaction that they meet one or more of the preferred qualifications before a premium can be added to the standard salary. Final salary is defined by Wellspring based on verifiable information and documentation provided by the candidate during the recruitment process.

Wellspring does not engage in wage negotiation as it contributes to pay inequity.

Education Premiums (all certifications which expire must be current)

· A.A. in ECE or A.A. in any field and 20 ECE credits MERIT verified: $24.78/hr starting pa

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Long-Term Substitute Lead Early Childhood Teacher
Sandbox Playschool is a small community of children, families, and educators on the Westside of Olympia. We are a licensed family child care home. We serve children ages 3-5, with a ratio of 2 teachers:7 children. Our program is mostly outdoors, including covered spaces and large areas for play. We go inside for bathroom use, rest time, and/or extreme weather.
We are currently seeking a long-term substitute Lead Teacher who is creative, intentional, passionate, and reflective in their work with children and families. The ideal candidate would be committed to reflective work with children, and excited to collaborate with co-teachers and engage in ongoing professional development and growth. Familiarity with emergent curriculum, Reggio practice, and anti-bias education approaches valued.

About Sandbox:
At Sandbox, young children are respected as full participants in their own lives. We build deep relationships as we joyfully explore our community and world through play, and express our ideas through many media. Our curriculum is emergent and intentional, based on reflection and observation of the children’s work and experiences. We often work with Loose Parts – open-ended materials that can be used and manipulated in unlimited ways.
Each day we set up invitations to play for the children. These are intentional changes to our environment or arrangements of materials that are open-ended, which means that we do not have a specific goal in mind for the children’s learning. Instead, we observe and document how the children interact with the materials, the environment, and each other. Later, we can reflect on the children’s experiences to inform us as we plan for future play and exploration.
We view young children as competent explorers, capable of communicating their needs and expressing themselves in many ways. We believe children have the right to an engaging and beautiful environment full of materials and experiences that inspire wonder and exploration. We see families as our partners and the most important relationships in each child’s life. As educators, we act as facilitators and lifelong learners, engaging with and observing children to document their learning and reflect on our work together.
Our program is child-centered, and our curriculum is play-based and emerges from the children’s current explorations and interests. We are inspired by the Early Childhood Centers of Reggio Emilia, Italy.

Responsibilities:
Work as a team with the Assistant Teacher to create and maintain a responsive and caring school community.
Document children’s play and work.
Collaborate with Assistant Teacher to develop curriculum & activities.
Maintain frequent and open communication with families, including informal discussions and family conferences.
Ensure policies and regulations are met.
Actively engage respectfully with children, and manage cleanliness, maintenance, and availability of materials.
Caregiving activities such as hand washing, toileting, or changing clothes.
Prepare healthy snacks using safe food handling practices.

Qualifications:
2-3 years of professional child care experience.
Ability to work well with others including staff, children, and families.
Strong oral and written communication skills and basic computer skills.
An understanding of child development.
Excellent leadership, organizational, and interpersonal skills.
Infant/child CPR and First Aid certification.
Must clear full background check.
Must be fully COVID vaccinated.
30 hours Basic STARS.

Term, Hours & Compensation:
We are looking for a substitute for our Lead Teacher as she takes maternity leave for the full months of January-April 2023. Ideally, this person would also be able to serve as an on-call substitute for our Lead Teacher and Assistant Teacher from now until January, and after she returns from maternity leave.
The schedule would be 36 hours/wk. 8.5 hours a day M-Th with a 30 minute lunch and 4 hours of planning time on Friday. Planning time is used for team meeting, family conferences, curriculum development, and maintaining the school environment.
The pay rate is $20/hr in 2022. In 2023 the rate will get a COL adjustment.
To Apply:
Please email a cover letter, resume, and references outlining your experience and education.
Sandbox Playschool is an equal opportunity employer, valuing what diversity brings to the workplace. Teachers of color, LGBTQ and others are encouraged to apply. Fascists need not.

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As early education leaders, we’re making a strong, lasting, positive impact on children every day. The Country Playhouse Academy in Maple Valley is looking for a dynamic, positive, energetic and knowledgeable Lead Infant 2 Teacher to join our amazing team of early education professionals. The Lead Infant 2 Teacher implements the daily program for children, supervises the class at all times, promotes safety in the classroom, and maintains a clean and orderly classroom at all time. The children in this class are 12-18 months old.

Responsibilities and requirements include, but are not limited to:
1. Experience in a child care setting working with all age groups.
2. Knowledge of child development, curriculum implementation and assessments is required, and a knowledge of Creative Curriculum and Teaching Strategies GOLD is a bonus. Observing each child to help them improve their social competencies and build self-esteem. Encourage children to interact with each other and resolve occasional arguments.
3. Have experience with classroom management, and the ability to maintain control and stability within the classroom in a positive and nurturing manner.
4. Communicate with parents in a professional and respectful manner, creating a positive rapport.
5. An ECE degree or certification is helpful, but not required right away, however all teachers are required to obtain a minimum of an Initial Certification within 5 years of hire date.

This is a full time position, working 7:00AM to 4:00PM, Monday through Friday. Must be easy going, silly, caring, organized, exceptional at multi tasking and be able to build a positive rapport with our families. There are state-wide requirements that every teacher must have or get to be able to work in a licensed facility, and assistance is available to those who need help acquiring these certifications.

***Must 18 years of age or older, have at least a high school diploma and provide verification of COVD-19 vaccination, or medical/religious exemption.***

What we offer…
1. Company Paid Medical, Dental and Vision Benefits
2. 50% off child care tuition
3. Paid Vacation
4. Paid Sick Leave
5. Education Assistance-FREE Education through Early Achievers Program
6. Paid Professional Development Days
7. Free Meals with the students.
8. Professional Development Support
9. Retirement Account

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F/T position, 30 hours per week
This position will be responsible for managing all aspects of food preparation and kitchen maintenance following proper health standards. This person must have a warm and friendly personality, be able to relate well to young children, and be willing to fulfill responsibilities by our philosophy, goals, mission statement, and job description. They must also be prepared to meet all professional licensing requirements. We are a nut-free facility.
JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:
Responsible for planning promptly; breakfast, snack, and lunch menus, by the USDA nutritional guidelines of the center.
Prepare and distribute food
Contribute to creative menu planning, while keeping children in mind
Responsible for preparing a shopping list and securing the necessary food and/or equipment items. Budget in place.
Establishing a routine for daily, weekly, and monthly cleaning of the kitchen.
Keeping accurate records of menus and inventory
Maintain a clean kitchen including dishes
Ability to navigate allergies and food sensitivities in a consistently safe manner
POSITION REQUIREMENTS:
Possession of a Washington State “Food Handler” certification
1 year of managing a kitchen and preschool menu preparation preferred
Ability to lift 35 lbs., manual dexterity and mobility, ability to reach, stoop, bend, kneel, crouch, and stand or sit for prolonged periods.
Ability to work independently with a strong level of organizational skills.
Must possess excellent interpersonal communication skills.
Is conscientious in follow-through on job requirements and can multitask and be a self-starter.
Proof of Covid-19 Vaccination
Must pass a criminal background fingerprint check and pre-employment negative TB test. Vaccinations must also be up-to-date and certifications provided.
Send resumes to Catherine, Center Director
Job Types: Full-time, Part-time
Salary: From $21.00 per hour
Benefits:
Dental insurance
Paid time off
Tuition reimbursement
Vision insurance
Schedule:
8 hour shift
Monday to Friday
Ability to commute/relocate:
Bainbridge Island, WA 98110: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (Required)
Experience:
Culinary experience: 1 year (Preferred)
Cooking: 1 year (Preferred)
Work Location: One location

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Competitive Salary
Consistent Schedule
Paid Vacation and Holidays
Medical Insurance Reimbursement
Tuition Assistance for enrolled students
Professional Development
We are currently hiring for a Co Lead Pre-K Teacher.
Please have direct experience in design and implementation of Pre-Kindergarten learning environment, including evaluations for Kindergarten placement when needed. The Pre-K classroom will integrate older preschoolers who will complete two years in the Pre-K classroom.
In addition to maintaining high quality interactions with the children and their parents, the Pre-K Lead position requires that the individual have the knowledge and experience in Early Childhood development and education that is necessary to support the direction of the curriculum and lesson planning in accordance with the organization’s policies and procedures, WAC requirements, and Early Achievers expectations.
Supervised by Center Director. Peacock Family Services is fast-growing center and hourly rate increases with this growth. Excellent benefits and welcoming community!
Responsibilities:
Professionalism , dependably available for the daily operation of the classroom, actively participate in staff meetings and trainings. ability to communicate well with other teachers, and train them as needed while an exemplifying best practices.
Promote an educational, nurturing, and safe indoor and outdoor learning environment that meets enrolled children’s developmental need, and regulations set forth by WAC and Early Achievers, plan, evaluate, and improve the physical environment in the classroom on an on-going basis to create opportunities to meet the changing needs of the developing child.
Develop weekly plans, and implement age appropriate curriculum (lesson plan) to nurture and cultivate all areas of children’s development, provide responsive care for all children by adapting as needed to the interests and needs of the individual child and the group, engage with the children to support play, exploration, and learning, along with cultivating all Areas of Development, demonstrate cultural awareness and respect for each child’s background by incorporating the cultural, linguistic, and familial values and beliefs into the educational program and lesson plans.
Maintain ongoing, open communication with Families, Parents and Care providers
Complete assessments and on-going developmental evaluations and observations of children, as required by Early Achievers and NAEYC, develop lesson plans and follow curriculum implementation that addresses the individual needs of each child, prepare for and complete bi-annual parent conferences to discuss children’s developmental progress, needs,
and interests, prepare and complete developmental progress reports as needed, including requests from parents and the school district.
Be able to discern, integrate and cultivate Individual Education Plan (IEP) plans as needed.
Staff and Center Communication:
Maintain accurate, complete and timely emergency forms, curriculum plans, individual child development profile and other records as needed, report all staffing and classroom concerns to Co-Lead/Teaching team and Center Director in a timely manner, report family schedule change requests and absences to administration in a timely manner.
Complete daily health checks regarding hygiene, safety, and overall well-being of the children, and reports any concerns of abuse or neglect to Director and/or child abuse hotline, supervise Associate Teacher and volunteers when applicable, ensure that the Associate Teacher and Support Staff are kept updated in all matters concerning the classroom and program, i.e. Lead Teacher Meetings, lesson plans, policies & procedures, training received, provide functional training and guidance to staff, interns, substitutes and volunteers assigned to the classroom, contribute to yearly performance evaluation.
Please email a resume and cover letter.
Thank you

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We are a very energetic boutique company. Low drama, happy staff and great giving parents.

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