Lead Teacher; Uncertified OR Certified

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Bedford Stuyvesant Early Childhood Development Center (BSECDC) has been Rooted in the Community since 1966. A federally funded Head Start program whose mission is to provide high quality, comprehensive early education and family engagement services to families and their children ages 2 to 5 years old.
BSECDC embraces a holistic strength‑based approach to meet the needs of our earliest learners and their families within the Bedford‑Stuyvesant community.

• Implement a well‑organized learning environment with developmentally appropriate schedules, lesson plans, and indoor and outdoor learning experiences that provide adequate opportunities for choice, play, exploration, and experimentation among a variety of learning, sensory, and motor experiences.
• Develop and implement weekly lesson plans, including plans for individualized instruction, in accordance with BSECDC's procedures and the research‑based curriculum, that include indoor and outdoor learning experiences to support physical health and development, social and emotional development, approaches to learning, language development and communication, and cognitive development.
• Recognize bilingualism and biliteracy as strengths and, for children who are dual language learners, plan and implement experiences to support English language development.
• Ensure the physical environment and lesson plans reflect the diversity of the children and families served.
• Implement nurturing, responsive, and effective teaching practices to ensure daily learning experiences promote critical thinking, inquiry‑based learning, STEM, and reading and writing readiness, as well as children's social‑emotional development and universal values of tolerance, compassion, and respect among children.
• Use positive guidance strategies to create a peaceful classroom environment where children resolve conflicts using language to express their feelings and opinion.
• Plan and communicate effectively with all other classroom staff, including the assistant teacher, exceptional education staff, volunteers, and interns, about weekly lessons, classroom activities, and additional pertinent information regarding children.
• Establish and maintain collaborative relationships with families while maintaining professional boundaries to encourage their input and support two‑way communication regarding the growth and development of their children.
• Conduct two home visits and two parent‑teacher conferences per child per year.
• Create and adhere to a posted classroom daily schedule that includes sufficient time for established routines such as nap/rest time, meal time, handwashing, toileting, and transition through activities.
• Ensure children are engaged in oral hygiene education through daily tooth brushing, stories, skits, and other activities.
• Facilitate, observe, and communicate the importance of healthy eating habits through family‑style meal time, including ensuring all adults eat with children during meal time.
• Conduct all screenings and ongoing assessments of the children in the class, as required, and use data gathered to inform instruction, including individualization, and measure progress towards School Readiness Goals.
• Monitor children's daily attendance and communicate with the assigned BSECDC staff member if a child needs additional support.
• Support tracking responsibilities of the daily meal count for the CACFP program, as requested.
• Maintain active supervision, group size, and ratios at all times indoors and outdoors.
• Maintain a safe and healthy environment in the classroom and on the playground, including following all health and safety rules about food allergies, universal precautions, and personal hygiene.
• Maintain consistent attendance to support continuity of care for children and families.
• Participate in staff meetings, in‑service training, coaching, workshops, and staff development programs, as requested.
• Follow all applicable BSECDC policies and procedures, including the Standards of Conduct, to safeguard…