At Guidepost, we’re reinventing child care by creating a new care model that empowers experienced early childhood teachers to open their own small-ratio, well-supported, Montessori at-home care centers. By providing housing and supporting our teachers with the operational, talent, enrollment, and licensing pieces and access to a community of like-minded educators, this hybrid model promotes nurturing children, supporting families, and valuing educators.
Salary range is $40,000-48,000 per year
About the Role
We are looking for passionate, collaborative early childhood educators to join our founding team in the Marlborough, MA area as Lead Teachers. In this Lead Teacher role, you will lead your own classroom of mixed age infants, partnering with the support team to provide consistent, joyful care for up to 6 children and their families. You will also manage your assistant teacher(s) and foster a collaborative and respectful environment. Through your efforts, parents will see what’s possible for their child when authentic, high-quality Montessori is alive and well in the prepared environment. You will follow an authentic Montessori curriculum, build relationships with families, and manage your materials, space, and budget. You will be provided with Montessori training, a full set of high-quality materials, along with a classroom budget to make your classroom unique. This is an exciting opportunity to join our growing team focused on reinventing childcare for the modern world. Note: Montessori experience is not required for this role as we offer comprehensive Montessori training, including a 0-3 Montessori Diploma.
What are we looking for?
- Experience in center setting: 2+ years of experience as an early childhood classroom Lead Teacher
- Time Management: running a high-quality micro center can be very challenging. Being able to time manage and make space for all responsibilities is necessary.
- Mission-oriented: passionate about empowering children to be independent, competent, capable, action-oriented thinkers and change agents.
- High output: gets stuff done. Reliable. Strong decision-making. Doesn’t procrastinate.
- Detail orientation: extremely detail oriented, ensuring kids health and safety are always top priority.
- Communication skills: excellent communicator with children, families and support networks. Being able to express needs and manage conflict well are helpful traits.
- Collaboration skills: team player. Empathetic. Able to work well with others and accommodate different work styles. Are open to guiding your colleagues, and be guided by them in turn.
- Flexibility: willing to roll with the punches of an early stage startup environment. Constantly looking to take in feedback and improve.
- Leadership: ability to lead and take charge, especially as you are essentially running an independent program. Sometimes you need to make thoughtful decisions without looking for permission.
- Learn quickly: pick up new processes and tools quickly. You are always looking to improve and become more effective and efficient.
- Boosted Against COVID: keep health and safety top priority and is fully vaccinated against COVID.
Bonus Points +
- Being bilingual in a language other than English.
- ECE Units or Degree
- Montessori, Reggio or Waldorf Experience
What will you do?
- Program oversight: Oversee your program and make sure that it is a safe, fun and friendly environment for your & children and families.
- Management: You will be responsible for managing the Assistant Teacher(s) working in your classroom.
- Curriculum: Follow an authentic Montessori curriculum and create individualized learning opportunities that are developmentally appropriate to each child in your classroom.
- Budget tracking and ordering: As a Lead Teacher, you have the ability to order your own materials and supplies from our warehouse. You will need to make sure to be on top of your monthly budget as you receive a limited amount each month based on how many children are enrolled.
- Coaching and mentoring: As a Lead Teacher, you will be a resource for other teachers and their questions.
- Licensing compliance: You will be fully responsible for your classroom space and need to make sure you upkeep and are updated with all organizational requirements for visits, including printing out children’s forms, teacher forms, etc.
- Transparent Classroom: logging each child’s individual progress and day-to-day information to share with families.
- Communication across the network and families: You are responsible for providing excellent communication to families about their children, from the amazing to the not-so amazing. You are also responsible to communicate to leadership about any needs/ concerns that may arise during your day to day.
- Day-to-day child routines: Duties include but are not limited to: diaper changing, potty training, feeding, cooking, cleaning, logging information for parents on Transparent Classroom, etc.
- Maintaining cleanliness of space/ environment: Making sure your space is a suitable environment for the children and their families during business hours Monday through Friday.
Why consider this role?
- Impact: The opportunity to contribute to a high-quality Montessori program that serves the individual needs of each child.
- Growth Opportunities: Professional development, career growth, and promotion opportunities unparalleled in the field, including fully covered tuition to achieve your Montessori Teacher Certification from the accredited Prepared Montessorian Institute.
- Community: A nation-wide network of supportive peers and mentors who will be available to lead professional development, provide feedback, and help develop your skills even further.
- Subsidized Housing: We provide subsidized housing for Lead Teachers. You would live in a beautiful and modern Single Family Home in a highly desirable neighborhood that doubles as your work site.
- Subsidized Tuition: 75% tuition discount for two children at any school in our network
- Benefits: We offer health, dental and vision insurance, PTO, sick-leave and 401k benefits to all full-time employees.
Why this role may not be a good fit?
- Ready to Build?: We are still a fairly young company. Much like the children we serve, many of our processes and systems are still in their infancy stage. There are innumerable problems we’ll still need to solve as we scale, and infrastructure that’s yet to be built. If you like more established companies, this role probably isn’t for you.
- Resilient through Change?: Guidepost is a rocketship that’s about to take off. We’ll be growing really quickly! Our company culture and values will stay constant, but how we operate will likely look very different 6 months, and a year from now. Not everyone is comfortable with change and that’s ok! But pivots are inevitable during hyper growth. Projects and priorities are likely to shift.
- Comfortable in the Uncomfortable?: If you’re someone who needs structure or are looking for clearly defined day to day tasks, this may not be the right position. We strive for flexibility and independence in teachers, to allow a space where you can BE a teacher. This isn’t an environment where someone is going to tell you what to work on each day.
- Connected to the Mission?: Everyone on the team is extremely mission-driven, and works incredibly hard to push towards our lofty goal of dramatically increasing the accessibility of authentic Montessori education to children around the world! We’re looking for a team that will be all-in on achieving this goal.
Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion
We really value diversity & inclusion in our hiring and culture. We are proud that our team is majority female, strongly immigrant with many ethnicities represented, and many are parents. We encourage you to apply and share this with candidates from diverse backgrounds.
Higher Ground Education, Guidepost Montessori, and Academy of Thought and Industry are committed to a policy of Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO). We will not discriminate on the basis of age, sex, race, color, creed, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, alienage or citizenship, disability, marital status, military or veteran status, or any other legally recognized protected basis under applicable federal, state or local laws, regulations or ordinances. Our leadership is dedicated to ensuring the fulfillment of this policy. When requested, we are committed to reasonably accommodate employees and applicants with disabilities or special needs that may require an accommodation.
Higher Ground Education, Guidepost Montessori, and Academy of Thought and Industry are committed to a policy of Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO). We will not discriminate on the basis of age, sex, race, color, creed, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, alienage or citizenship, disability, marital status, military or veteran status, or any other legally recognized protected basis under applicable federal, state or local laws, regulations or ordinances. Our leadership is dedicated to ensuring the fulfillment of this policy. When requested, we are committed to reasonably accommodate employees and applicants with disabilities or special needs that may require an accommodation.
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Last updated on Jul 30, 2024