Harmon Learning Center Lead Teacher

Summary

The Teacher is responsible for coordinating the curriculum and managing the day-to-day operational activities of the classroom. Teachers must understand children’s cognitive, social, emotional and physical development to ensure a safe and stimulating classroom environment where children are actively engaged and encouraged to succeed. The Teacher must be skilled in communicating with both children and adults to nurture children’s growth and development, effectively guide teacher assistants, and collaborate with families.

This position reports to the Harmon Learning Center Director.

Duties

• Ensure the safety and security of all children at all times.
• Ensure a positive and healthy classroom environment, maintain appropriate care and hygiene of children, and follow cleaning, sanitation, and disinfecting standards.
• Create and provide a classroom environment, experiences, and curriculum that is developmentally appropriate for the children participating and aligns with state and national early learning
• and development standards.
• Lead by example; encourage teaching team success through modeling and coaching.
• Plan individual and group activities and actively engage children and encourage physical, social, emotional, and cognitive development.
• Maintain frequent communications with families through informal discussions, progress reports, and family-teacher conferences.
• Ensure all center policies and state regulations are met.
• Supervise and mentor teacher assistants and classroom volunteers to ensure they provide for the safety and security of children, provide a positive and healthy classroom environment, maintain appropriate care and hygiene of children, and follow cleaning, sanitation, and disinfecting standards.
• Maintain accurate records, forms and files.
• Engage in individual and center professional development to ensure continuous quality improvement.

Requirements

• 1-2 years of professional childcare experience.
• Strong oral and written communication skills and basic computer skills.
• Ability to work well with others (children, families, and staff) and to foster a team environment.
• A strong understanding of child development.
• Excellent leadership, organizational, and interpersonal skills.
• Infant/child CPR and First Aid certification.
• Must clear full background check and pass health screening.
• Must be able to stand for long periods of time.
• Ability to lift at least 35lbs.
• Ability to work at the child’s level.

About Us

CalfeeCCC is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, founded in 2019, with a mission to revitalize the legacy of the historic Calfee Training School, which educated African Americans in Pulaski from 1894-1966. The school faced severe underfunding from Jim Crow segregation and was part of two lawsuits that led to the Brown v. Board of Education (1954) Supreme Court decision that eventually desegregated schools nationally. The CalfeeCCC is a multipurpose center that will include the CAC, an African American Heritage Center, the Harmon Early Learning Center for childcare, a commercial-grade community kitchen, an event center, and a digital lab that will serve the community's present needs in order to create a stronger future for the community. A 15-member Board of Directors, the majority of whom attended Calfee Training School or are their family members, oversees the work of the CalfeeCCC.