Temporary Team Leader; ECEAP

Job Location:

RI
- Rock Island
- East Wenatchee, WA 98802, Position Type:
Full Time, Salary Range: $23.93 - $27.52 Hourly, The Team Leader is responsible for teaching a preschool classroom and will provide day-to-day oversight to one Family Service Teacher and other classroom staff. The person will ensure that the classroom provides an educational environment that is developmentally and linguistically appropriate and accommodates children’s individual rates of development as well as individual interests, temperaments, cultural backgrounds, and learning styles.

The person will ensure that the team’s work is done in accordance with the service delivery plan, ECEAP Performance Standards, USDA requirements, state licensing requirements and agency policies and procedures.

• Provide instructional leadership to support school readiness by implementing developmentally appropriate early childhood education practices that promote children’s social, emotional, physical, and cognitive development.
• Teach in assigned classroom everyday.
• Build and maintain positive, trusting, and engaging relationships with children to support individual learning and development.
• Create and sustain a nurturing, academically rich, and developmentally appropriate classroom environment.
• Design and implement effective lesson plans aligned with early learning standards and best instructional practices.
• Use formative and summative assessments to monitor child progress and guide instructional planning.
• Engage families in school readiness activities and maintain ongoing communication to support positive child outcomes.
• Collaborate with parents, school districts, and community partners to support smooth and successful kindergarten transitions.
• Participate in coaching, professional learning communities, and reflective practice to improve instructional effectiveness.
• Plan, implement, document, and individualize instruction and services in accordance with ECEAP Performance Standards and agency policies.
• Conduct child observations, developmental screenings, and maintain accurate and timely documentation, including assessments, reports, and required records.
• Coordinate and participate in parent-teacher conferences, home visits, and family engagement activities in collaboration with the Family Service Teacher
• Support intervention planning and cross-disciplinary coordination for children and families, including IEP-related activities when applicable.
• Implement policies and procedures related to child guidance, mandated reporting (CA/N), training requirements, and active supervision practices.
• Maintain a safe, healthy, and sanitary classroom environment with constant supervision of children; respond appropriately to emergencies and provide first aid/CPR as needed.
• Uphold agency core values by demonstrating professionalism, accountability, and compliance with program standards, including reporting concerns through appropriate channels.
• Actively participate in center family nights, parent meetings, staff meetings, professional development, and other center-wide activities.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential job functions. Work requires daily standing, sitting, walking, stooping, kneeling, lifting, twisting, turning, pushing, pulling, speaking, hearing, seeing and the ability to articulate clearly; use of hands to finger, bending and reaching. Ability to feel or operate objects and equipment; reach with hands and arms. Ability to work with personal computer for long periods of time.

Some travel to and from main office and training sites

• Sick Leave (1 hour of sick leave for every 40 hours…