Immediately Need Preschool Site Director in Thornton, CO

Job title: Preschool Site Director
Company: Adams County School District 12
Job description: Adams 12 Five Star Schools is deeply committed to a community of excellence, equity, and inclusion in everything we do. We commit to eliminate the predictability of who is included in excellence and who is not. Adams 12 Five Star Schools puts students first and supports our district's mission to elevate student success for every student every day in every classroom. Candidates who can contribute to our goal are encouraged to apply and to identify their strengths in this area.

SUMMARY: Successfully work with early childhood education administration and other early childhood (EC) education staff to coordinate and maintain a preschool program consisting of children with special needs, children at risk and tuition peers. Program must meet standards set forth by district, state and federal regulations.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Frequency and percentage of time may vary based on building assignment.

Job Tasks Descriptions
1. As part of a preschool teaching team, implement the district?s Board of Education approved curriculum that meets the needs of all children and monitor child progress. May facilitate, design and implement weekly team lesson planning and oversee classroom preparation. Implement results matter assessment; analyze data; drive data-based decisions around programming.
2. Be knowledgeable about each child?s Individual Education Plan (IEP) and help children to meet IEP goals. Work cooperatively with special education specialists and implement accommodations, modifications and interventions as needed. Assist in the implementation of each Special Education student?s IEP including monitoring of goals and benchmarks, implementation of accommodations and modifications and on-going assessment and testing to document progress. Attend IEP meetings.
3. Assist and maintain communication with families by helping to develop newsletters. Keep families informed on student progress; resolving concerns with families; scheduling and conducting family, child and staff conferences; and maintaining confidentiality. Complete attendance calls and assist with login for Infinite Campus.
4. Comply with laws and regulations by maintaining child and staff files; ensuring that classrooms and programs comply with district, state and federal policies and regulations.
5. Assists with all areas of physical needs for all students, including performing daily routines, toileting and/or diapering, specialized dietary requirements, and medical needs as delegated by the Preschool Registered Nurse.
6. Assist early childhood director with supervising preschool classroom staff including assisting with interviewing, hiring and training employees and providing input to performance evaluations. Prioritize, schedule and assign work. May be responsible for review, approval and verification of reported time in district time and labor system. May prepare and analyze time and labor reports and complete paperwork for payment of stipends and other pay.
7. Attend team meetings, as well as All Staff Meetings, to discuss programming and child progress. Disseminate information to all staff from all early childhood meetings.
8. Perform financial responsibilities by submitting required paperwork per Department practices.
9. Participate in required early childhood education professional development/training activities and maintain up-to-date certification in district and state required areas. Attend required continuing education classes complying with the Colorado Department of Human Services and the local health and fire agencies.
10. Perform tasks including enrolling CPP students, perform assigned duties pertaining to developmental screenings, adhere to guidelines set by Colorado Preschool Program (CPP.) Work with EC administration in overseeing licensing regulations.
11. May serve as a substitute or float, as needed, to ensure minimum staffing ratios as well as coverage for staff.
12. Perform other duties as assigned.

EDUCATION AND RELATED WORK EXPERIENCE:

• Must complete the district courses ?Progressive Discipline,? and ?Classified Evaluation System? within one year of entering position.
• Experience in an early childhood setting preferred.
• Candidates must be able to provide proof they are Director qualified consistent with Colorado Dept. of Human Services regulations.

LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS or CERTIFICATIONS:

• Criminal background check required for hire.
• Ability to successfully complete a pre-hire, post-offer physical examination.
• Additional successful completion of a post-hire physical examination required on a yearly basis.
• CPR and First Aid certifications and Universal precautions must be acquired within one month of entering position.
• Colorado Department of Human Services Director qualification required.

APPLICATION INFORMATION:
All applicants (current district employees and external applicants) should list any and all work experience, including current district experience, when completing the employment application. Please include job titles and duties that you held while doing that job. Since the Human Resource department uses the application to screen for minimum qualifications required for each job, it is important to have a complete application so you will be considered for the position you are applying for.

SALARY INFORMATION:
All Classified positions are paid on an hourly basis. All Newly hired classified employees are placed initially on Step 1 of the pay grade for their position. Classified employees can advance an additional 7 steps (maximum Step 8) based on their previous experience. Final hourly placement on the Classified Salary schedule is dependent on the Grade Level for the position being posted and employees? previous work experience. ?Grade? refers to position or job classification and ?Step? refers to the number of work experience credit or service years. See our for hourly rates. For additional compensation information, please refer to

BENEFITS INFORMATION:
Adams 12 Five Star Schools is committed to providing an environment that promotes a healthy employee population able to serve our students at the highest level. We offer a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, vision and life insurance as well as other programs for benefit eligible employees. The employee assistance program, voluntary life insurance through PERA, and 401(k), 403(b) & 457(b) plans are available to all employees regardless of hours worked and are available immediately (upon hire date).
To learn more about our benefits, please see our

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Expected salary: $24.62 - 30.35 per hour
Location: Thornton, CO

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