Careers at CCS

Current Openings

• Substitute Teachers Applications accepted on a rolling basis Part time; $16-19/hour, flexible scheduling. See our subs page to learn more.
• Lead Teacher

Children’s Community School is hiring preschool teachers to start working August 18! Come join our amazing community of educators! We are seeking:

• A full-time head teacher in a PreK classroom (8am–3:45 pm daily, end at 5:00 pm Wednesdays)—CERTIFICATION or 30 ECE credits required

Detailed job descriptions, including hiring criteria, benefits details, and more available at http://www.childrenscommunityschool.org/careers/

TO APPLY, please attach your résumé with a cover letter and send to Hiring@childrenscommunityschool.org. Your cover letter should include

• what you view as the role of the early childhood educator
• something specific from this ad or our website that makes you think you would be a good fit for our school

Responsibilities

• Ensure health and safety
• Relationships with children
• Assess children
• Work collaboratively with colleagues
• Continually improve practice
• Care for the school
• Communicate
• Demonstrate good work habits, including reliability, flexibility, and communication
• Other duties as assigned

Job Types: Full-time, salary

Salary $42,768-$50,486/yr

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Employee discount
• Health insurance
• Paid time off
• Professional development assistance
• Retirement plan
• Tuition reimbursement

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday 8am-3:45pm
• No weekends

Experience:

• Early Childhood classroom experience: 4 years (At least one as a lead teacher)
• Early childhood education: 1 year (Preferred)

Work Location: In person

Position Summary

Lead teachers are committed educators and lifelong learners who work as a team to support children, families, colleagues, and the school. Lead teachers hold primary responsibility for care of children in the mornings and early afternoons; creating and implementing high-quality curriculum; assessing and communicating about the needs of children; and communicating with families. They share responsibility for building relationships with and teaching children, as well as guiding their behavior.

Responsibilities

1. Ensure health and safety—ensure that children are physically cared for and safe, including supervision, feeding, bathrooming, and ensuring a safe environment
2. Relationships with children—build trusting, communicative, supportive relationships with children; actively engage children in learning and school activities
3. Guide behavior—support children in learning to behave in self-controlled, socially-appropriate ways, using methods in line with the school’s teaching philosophy
4. Create positive environments—create classroom routines and culture that support a learning community; create physical environments (materials, layouts) that support a learning community
5. Create and implement curriculum—plan and implement developmentally appropriate, play-based, emergent, project-based curriculum that continually supports children’s growth in all learning areas; create documentation of learning. Teachers are responsible for creating, documenting, and implementing regular lesson plans, as guided by the curriculum coordinator.
6. Assess children—observe and document children’s strengths and needs; communicate with families about their children’s development, both in planned formal contexts (conferences, written narratives) and unplanned or informal contexts (phone calls and meetings as needed); integrate plans to meet children’s needs through curriculum
7. Build relationships with families—serve as the primary point of contact between the family and the school; communicate with families as a group (e.g. writing daily emails, school events) and as individuals (e.g. assessment and other communication as needed); work to build relationships between families and the school, and between families and each other
8. Work collaboratively with colleagues—cooperate with other teachers (both on the teaching team and throughout the program) and administrators in implementing all aspects of the job responsibilities; collaborate with non-staff adults (e.g. subs, student teachers, service providers, etc.) to meet the needs of children and colleagues
9. Supervise junior teaching staff—In classrooms with associate/assistant/subs/student teachers, head teachers serve as mentors, supports, and direct supervisors
10. Demonstrate leadership—Work toward the best interests of the school; model professionalism; actively seek opportunities for individual and collective growth
11. Continually improve practice—In an ongoing manner, evaluate and improve existing teaching practices, and seek and implement new practices; learn collaboratively with colleagues and children
12. Care for the school—Ensure that the school and its spaces stay clean, organized, safe, and prepared for children’s use
13. Communicate—Participate in frequent, regular, prompt, and respectful communication with colleagues and families, including in-person, phone, and email communications
14. Teachers are responsible for tracking and managing Brightwheel attendance and parent communication throughout the day. 
15. Demonstrate good work habits—including punctuality, reliability, flexibility, and communication
16. Distance education—During periods of closure due to unplanned, extended school closure, participate in delivering developmentally appropriate learning experiences to children at a distance, including creation and distribution of videos and written activity plans, synchronous video and audio communication with children and families, increased collaboration with other staff members via computer, and a variety of other adaptations.

Hiring Criteria

Note: Additional criteria may be required for head teachers in classrooms that use PHLpreK or PreK Counts funding; those criteria will be noted at the time of posting positions.

1. REQUIRED CRITERIA—We will only consider candidates who meet all of the following criteria.
   1. Demonstrated ability to form strong relationships with children and their families
   2. Experience working to meet the emotional, social, and cognitive needs of young children, preferably in a school setting
   3. Demonstrated ability to be reflective, adaptive, flexible, and resilient in work situations
   4. Demonstrated view of children as active, powerful learners
   5. Demonstrated ability to work closely and collaboratively with colleagues
   6. View of teaching as a lifelong craft and ongoing learning experience
   7. Clear written and verbal communication skills
   8. Minimum of CDA or 12 college credits in early childhood education and meet the physical and licensing requirements of a preschool teacher:
      1. Ability to lift, move, and hold children and objects up to 40 pounds. Ability to engage in full range of motion to lift, reach, squat, climb, sit, and otherwise fully participate in classroom activities. Ability to supervise and interact with children in all learning spaces for extended periods, including outdoors in a variety of weather conditions. 
      2. Will pass and provide mandated background checks before beginning employment.
2. DESIRED CRITERIA—The ideal candidate will possess most of the following qualities.
   1. AA or higher in early childhood education or a related field; Certification preferred
   2. Demonstrated commitment to social justice
   3. An approach to teaching that centers on children as active, powerful, collaborative learners who can drive curriculum and learning (for instance, a constructivist or social-constructivist philosophy, experience with Waldorf or Reggio-inspired pedagogy, etc.)
   4. A demonstrated belief in the importance of children’s social and emotional development
   5. Demonstrated ability to guide children’s behaviors, as individuals and as a group, using positive approaches to communication, boundaries, and routines
   6. Experience working with children with disabilities and other needs, especially young children, in inclusive environments
   7. Knowledge of child development (for instance, developmentally appropriate expectations)
   8. Skill in observing children and interpreting their behavior, and using observations to show children’s learning and thinking
   9. Experience implementing emergent or project-based curriculum (i.e., curriculum based on developing children’s interests, Reggio-inspired curriculum, etc.)
   10. Experience working with communities of color, multicultural communities, or diverse groups
   11. Experience working with families 
   12. Strong skills and experience in communicating through writing
   13. Experience with reflective practices (for instance, mindfulness, yoga, teacher research, etc.)
   14. Ability to speak more than one language

Schedule and calendar

• This is a salaried, full-time (40hr/wk) position.
• Weekly Hours
  • Daily 8:00–8:15am—prep
  • Daily 8:15am–3:00pm—“on the floor” (includes 30min paid break)
  • Daily 3:00–3:45pm—team meeting and prep
  • Wednesdays 3:45–5:00pm—staff meeting
• Other Hours
  • “Teacher Preparation”—The last two weeks in August, 8:30am–4:30pm daily
  • 6 professional development days throughout the year, 8:30am–4:30pm
  • Refer to the Academic Calendar 2025-26 for these dates 
  • ~10hr/year attending school events. Presence (in person or online, TBD) is required at Back to School Night, and at least one other school event outside regular hours (see school calendar for dates)
• Total: ~1900  hours per year

Pay and Benefits

• Includes health and dental insurance, paid time off, family and disability leave, reduced tuition, and more; 

To apply for any position, please read the entire job description, then email your résumé and cover letter to hiring@childrenscommunityschool.org with the position title you are seeking in the subject line. Your cover letter should include:

• what you view as the role of the early childhood educator, and
• something specific from this ad or our website that makes you think you would be a good fit for our school.

We look forward to hearing from you!