Early Learning Lead Educator (2.5 years-4 years)
BAMBINICREATIVI
400 EAST 135TH STREET KANSAS CITY, MO 64145 (816) 941.7529

FULL-TIME CONTRACTED POSITION

We are currently accepting resumes for a full-time early learning educator teaching position (for preschoolers) starting this fall 2023 to cover the contracted period (September- May) with the possibility of a full-time extended teaching contract pending on performance. We are seeking candidates who have a college degree in Early Child Development, Elementary Education, Special/Gifted Education, or Arts Education, and +2 years of experience working professionally with children, and who thrive best in an inquiry-based and collaborative classroom and work environment. You are encouraged to apply if you believe you would be an excellent fit for our educational experience!

OVERVIEW

Bambini Creativi, Reggio-Inspired Private Early Years & Elementary School, is looking for early childhood and elementary educators to join our educational team. Bambini Creativi is a privately-owned and operated school in south Kansas City, Missouri, blocks from the Kansas state line. Bambini Creativi’s educational program is dedicated to providing not only a quality educational experience but a quality life experience built on inquiry and compassion. Bambini Creativi currently serves preschool to elementary-aged students.

Bambini Creativi is looking for educators who are passionate about working with children, engage in reflective practice, are innovative thinkers, and who are eager to make a lasting contribution to the field of early childhood and elementary education. You will be part of a close-knit, collaborative team that value your voice, opinions, and ideas while challenging your thinking and expanding your skills and knowledge.
Educators with higher-education, leadership capability, and years of experience will have the opportunity to partake in pedagogical leadership roles that will impact the vitality of the school and the long-term development of Bambini Creativi.

DESCRIPTION, RESPONSIBILITIES & DUTIES

• This position is currently full-time (Monday-Friday from 8:00-4:00pm) working 40+ hours a week.
• This position is fully required to meet all Bambini Creativi and International Baccalaureate training while upholding our mission, vision, and goals.
• The Early Learning Lead Educator will collaborate with the teaching team, administrative staff, students, and parents to create and sustain a supportive learning community.
• Must be able to maintain a positive rapport and supportive role as the Lead educator working closely with the other teachers in the classroom. You must be able to navigate the challenges working every day near your other Co-teacher/ classroom partner. You must maintain open communication and respect for your fellow teacher.

• This position will require you to create authentic learning experiences based on children's interests and pedagogical documentation. Learning needs to support individuals, the learning group, as well as classroom curriculum goals.

• Positive collaboration and communication with educational team members are critical to your overall growth and success.

• This position will also require you to adhere to the practice of pedagogical documentation and curricular planning while capturing photo and video documentation to be reviewed for further analysis and curriculum development.

• This position reports directly to the Head of School.
• This position encourages the use of our school's ateliers, outdoor nature spaces (gardens), and classroom environment to design authentic learning experiences.

• All educator positions are expected to check-in for weekly planning team and whole team meetings with the Early Years Team Lead to partake in collaborative planning, share program goals and progress, or to seek general support and training.

• This position requires support with the planning, preparation, and clean-up of community events.
• You will be required to support all efforts to implement the International Baccalaureate Curriculum and documentation process, which may also require you to partake in additional training outside of the school's teacher in-service events.

• Educators are expected to attend ALL Teacher In-service meetings and our teams' Annual Teacher

Retreat in August.

• Educator positions must be trained and knowledgeable in implementing Conscious Discipline and the Reggio Emilia Approach to experience-based learning.

• Ensure a warm and welcoming experience for all prospective and current families.
• Create and foster a caring classroom community, build and maintain positive relationships, and provide superior customer service to children and families.
• Must attend a week-long Professional Development Retreat offsite, potentially out of town, for one week the third week of August before the start of the new school year.
• Must be able to work at least one summer. (This is hourly pay and outside of your teaching contract.)

In addition to teaching the class, all Lead and CoLead Educators will also be responsible for:

• Developing Units of Inquiry and Curriculum Mapping
• Maintaining the daily upkeep, cleanliness, and sanitation of classroom
• Meeting the individual needs of each child and the learning group
• Creating a rich learning environment, and making intentional arrangements of the design, layout, and materials used in the classroom
• Positively interacting with the children to support play, exploration, and learning
• Integrating expectations that are age and developmentally appropriate
• Planning and implementing activities build and develop self-esteem, social skills, and self-awareness
• Communicating appropriately and professionally with parents and colleagues
• Using assessment tools assigned and approved by the Head of School
• Building teamwork
• Commitment to self-study and lifelong learning
• Proficient in writing for daily blogging and other published works
• Preparing student portfolios and individual learning assessments to be presented at Parent-Teacher

Conferences

• Attending or Presenting Presentations for Information Nights, Open Houses, and Community Events.
• Maintains quality on-going communication with parents via email, phone, or face-to-face

International Baccalaureate Roles and responsibilities of Teachers:
Teachers at Bambini Creativi have the primary responsibility to promote student learning and to ensure that students have the opportunities to develop a well-rounded personality and reach their full potential.

By joining Bambini Creativi, teachers commit themselves to support and promoting the philosophy and mission of the school, as well as the IB. They have a responsibility to work in the school’s best interests, to promote its good name, support its members, and act in a collegiate manner.
Teachers have a responsibility to strive to achieve the highest professional standards in all they do at and for the school.

A. Philosophy

• Respects and practices the content of the school mission statement and its ‘core values’
• Strives to promote international--mindedness and live the learner profile attributes
• Promotes responsible action within and beyond the school community

• Engages in open communication with all stakeholders based on understanding and respect
• Participates in collaborative planning and reflection regularly and systematically
• Instills in students a love of learning, and the value of learning for its own sake
• Respects, practices, and teaches students the philosophical and pedagogical benefits of the IB
• Strikes an appropriate balance between promoting one’s interests, the students’ and the school’s
• Shows commitment to the interdisciplinary nature of the PYP

B. Preparation and planning

• Submits all PYP planners at the beginning of each term prior to the start date and implementation
• Digitally organizes, stores, and back-up PYP unit planners and documentation at the end of every unit
• Prepares a unit planner that builds on students’ previous learning experiences; Includes the prescribed key concepts and related concepts in each subject group
• Allows for meaningful student action in response to students’ own needs and the needs of others; promotes students’ awareness of the individual, local, national and world issues, and;
• Provides opportunities for reflection on human commonality, diversity and multiple

Perspectives

C. Teaching and learning

• Places appropriate emphasis on concept-driven and inquiry-based learning
• Promotes the understanding and practice of academic honesty
• Supports students to become actively responsible for their learning
• Addresses human commonality, diversity and multiple perspectives
• Addresses the diversity of student language needs, including those for students learning in a language(s) other than mother tongue
• Demonstrates that all teachers are responsible for the language development of students
• Uses a range and variety of strategies and incorporates a range of resources, including information technologies
• Differentiates instruction to meet students’ learning needs and styles
• Develops student attitudes and skills that allow for meaningful student action in response to students’ own needs and the needs of others
• Engages students in reflecting on how, what, and why they are learning
• Fosters a stimulating learning environment based on understanding and respect
• Encourages students to demonstrate their learning in a variety of ways
• Develops the IB learner profile attributes
• Creates opportunities for Extended Study to reinforce, as well as extend, knowledge and understanding of the material covered in the UOI

D. Classroom management

• Adopts appropriate professional relations with students (e.g., language use)
• Expects high standards of behavior and consistently enforce them (e.g., punctuality to lessons)
• Generates a studious, productive and purposeful working atmosphere
• Celebrates students for their endeavor and achievement
• Ensures personal and school property is respected

E. Assessment

• Ensures marking is based on IB criteria, and is transparent, detailed, informative, and constructively critical so that the students may be able to reflect on and learn from their performance

• Uses a range of strategies and tools to assess student learning
• Keeps a full and accurate record of each student’s performance using digital tools selected by the school
• Sets and marks written work on a regular basis and returns it as soon as possible
• Provides students with timely feedback to inform and improve their learning
• Ensures the writing of reports and entering of grades conform to the school policy

F. Professional development

• For the benefit of the school and their own professional development, all teachers are is appraised twice a year and is expected to engage fully with, and derive as much possible benefit from, the appraisal procedure

• Welcomes the IB Consultant and Coordinator during informal, unannounced classroom visits

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS & REQUIREMENTS
Applicant must:

• a minimum of two years of experience working with children in early years and/or elementary
• have a deep interest in students as learners
• have a strong understanding of child development
• be able to communicate clearly – both verbally and in writing
• be able to collaborate with others in an open and positive way
• upon employment, be able to pass criminal background checks
• Four-year degree in Early Childhood or Elementary Ed., Bachelors + CDA or Human Development preferred, or MA in a related field
• Minimum of 2 years teaching in a school environment, or working with children in a professional capacity
• Strong knowledge of Reggio Emilia philosophy & Conscious Discipline
• Proficient in Apple Mac-based platforms
• Excellent communication skills
• A positive attitude, and nurturing and loving teaching style
• Dependability and a commitment to employee expectations

SALARY & BENEFITS

• Compensation will be commensurate with experience.
• Paid Time Off (Sick, Holidays, Breaks, and Personal Days)
• Internal Professional Development & on-going training
• Attractive Tuition Discount Program for your child/ren
• 2 Year Teaching Contract renewable upon performance

APPLICATION PROCEDURE
Candidates should submit a letter of interest, vitae, references, and a statement of educational philosophy.
Address your letter to Brianne Teevan-Bongiovanni, Head of School, but submit all materials through the Main Office.

Main Office, Bambini Creativi
400 East 135th Street
Kansas City, MO 64145

PROGRAM DESCRIPTION
Bambini Creativi, founded as a Reggio-Inspired preschool in 2011, launched its early year's program fall of 2012. One of the first schools in the U.S. to be built, designed, and fully implement the Reggio Emilia Approach to early years learning. Bambini Creativi employs this social constructivist approach throughout the school.

In 2017, Bambini Creativi made the conscious decision to build on their founding values to extend inquiry- based learning experiences into the elementary program, and thus decided to pursue the International Baccalaureate's Primary Year's Program and authorization process. In 2018, Bambini Creativi became an IB Candidate school and is currently scheduled to apply for Authorization in the spring of 2019.

We have small classes (16 children) in many of our classrooms, including an assistant teacher, when we exceed 16 students. Our Reggio-inspired, social-constructivist curriculum is inquiry-based and driven mostly by honoring the children's interests and curiosities. We emphasize collaboration and recognize the gifts that each child brings to the group. Our math and literacy curriculum is integrated and applied to everyday experiences. Our Elementary classrooms do however have Integrated Math and Literacy focused times built into their daily schedule. Academic goals in these areas and many other parts of our program derived from a compilation of developmentally appropriate expectations and standards that are based on the International
Baccalaureate standards and model, Teaching Strategies GOLD, and Work Sampling. All other core learning domains focus on the process of learning that naturally emerges or has been influenced by provocations in our curriculum framework. The arts and the "Hundred Languages" are incorporated into all areas of the curriculum, and children learn to represent their thinking in many forms of media and through many different modes of expression. Our approach is one that recognizes the whole child and focuses first and foremost on social and emotional learning and relationships as the necessary foundations for learning. To further support the development of the whole child, the educational team employs Dr. Beck Bailey's Conscious Discipline- to empathy and character building.

Bambini Creativi's Annual Research Project and Professional Development/ Conference have opened our doors to over 275 participants in the past four years. Also, Bambini Creativi has had numerous educators observe and learn from our educational experience from all over the United States and countries around the world. Bambini Creativi has forged strong bonds with local universities and learning institutions. As a result, we have co-created an in-depth learning experience for student teachers to learn how to work in the "Reggio way." Bambini Creativi also opens its doors to parents and businesses who want to collaborate to bring innovation to education and uphold the rights of the child.

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Benefit Conditions:

• Waiting period may apply
• Only full-time employees eligible

Contract Length:

• 5 months, with possibility of a part or full-time contract for the 2022-2023
• Varies

Contract Renewal:

• Likely

COVID-19 Precaution(s):

• Personal protective equipment provided or required
• Temperature screenings
• Social distancing guidelines in place
• Virtual meetings
• Sanitizing, disinfecting, or cleaning procedures in place

Work Remotely

• No

Job Types: Part-time, Contract

Pay: $18.00 - $20.00 per hour

Benefits:

• Employee discount
• Paid time off
• Parental leave
• Professional development assistance

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift

Supplemental pay types:

• Bonus pay

COVID-19 considerations:
UV Light system integrated into our HVAC system

Education:

• Bachelor's (Preferred)

Experience:

• Teaching: 2 years (Preferred)

Work Location: One location

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