Early Education Infant​/Toddler Teacher

Early Childhood Infant/Toddler Teacher

Salary Range: $81,561-$140,579/annually

Length of Appointment:  School Year

Calendar: Full Time / Full Year

The San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) is the seventh largest school district in California, serving more than 50,000 students who speak more than 44 documented languages across 121 schools in the city of San Francisco every year. We aim for every student who attends SFUSD schools to discover his or her spark, along with a strong sense of self and purpose, and that all students graduate from high school ready for college and career, and equipped with the skills, capacities and dispositions outlined in SFUSD’s Graduate Profile.

Every day in our quest to achieve this mission we provide each and every student the quality instruction and equitable support required to thrive in the 21st century.

The SFUSD community is unified by our Core Values:

• Student-centered:
  We put students’ needs first
• Fearless:
  We persist through challenges
• United:
  We celebrate and build on each other’s strengths
• Social Justice:
  We stand with those most vulnerable in our community
• Diversity-driven:
  We respect and seek to understand each person

We are also inspired by Vision, Values and Guardrails which captures our aspirations and vision for the future of public education in San Francisco. Alongside the District’s strategic plan. SFUSD is reimagining how public education will change over the next decade to meet the dynamic future of San Francisco. As a CORE district, SFUSD is also a leader in critical systems change for more comprehensive school accountability and innovations that help strengthen the instructional core, which is the foundation of our strategic plan and Vision 2025.

We want talented people from diverse backgrounds and experiences, who are inspired by our mission, steeped in equity, and who are motivated to unleash our children’s potential. We want people who are strong collaborators, skilled communicators, and problem solvers who are comfortable in a community of continuous learning.

Under the supervision of the site administrator or designee, the Infant/Toddler Teacher provides high-quality early childhood instruction in alignment with SFUSD Early Education Department guidelines. The Infant/Toddler Teacher implements a play-based, developmentally appropriate program that supports the academic, social-emotional, and physical development of Infant and Toddler-aged children and reflects the district’s commitment to equity, inclusion, and culturally responsive practices.

Duties may include, but are not limited to the following:

• Plan and implement developmentally appropriate, play-based instruction aligned with California Infant/Toddler Learning & Development Foundations (ITLDF) and SFUSD EED curriculum frameworks
• Provide instruction that supports language development, early literacy, foundational mathematics, and social-emotional learning
• Create a safe, nurturing, and inclusive classroom that promotes exploration, independence, and positive behavior
• Maintain a warm, inviting, and intentionally designed classroom environment that serves as a “third teacher,” with organized indoor and outdoor learning areas aligned to the Creative Curriculum, accessible and regularly rotated materials, opportunities for choice and ongoing projects, spaces for independent and collaborative work, meaningful documentation of children’s learning, integration of natural elements, and clean, well-organized spaces that support engagement and exploration.
• This also includes maintaining a clean, orderly, and well-stocked learning environment for infants and toddlers, including…