Kindergarten Teacher

Livewell is a private learning community in Pleasanton serving children from PreK through 12th grade across two studio locations. We are hiring a TK/Kinder Educator to lead our TK and Kindergarten group, about six children ages 4 to 6, inside our Cub Studio. This is a teaching role for an experienced TK or Kindergarten educator who knows how to help young children level up.

The person we are looking for brings infectious energy and warm patience into the room every day. They are positive and engaging, and they have a knack for connecting with young children that is hard to teach. Children warm up to them quickly. Parents notice it too.

This person also likes structure. Clear systems, consistent routines, and a well-run process help them do their best work.

Young children need to move. At Livewell, children have room to stay creative, get up, and use their hands and bodies as part of how they learn.

There is a time to sit and listen, and children here learn to do that well. Daily math and phonics are taught in short, focused, structured lessons at the table. Outside of those lessons, learning is active. Children build, explore, garden, care for animals, create, and move. We believe that is where children learn best, and a good day includes both kinds of time.

We replace worksheets with experiences.

We pay attention to detail and look for people who do too.

Qualified candidates will be invited to complete a written application before any conversation is scheduled.

You lead the TK and Kindergarten group through the full day, from arrival to close.

This role reports to our Cub Studio Director, who leads the studio and the full Cub program. You lead your group within it. The two of you share a space, a set of families, and a standard, so a strong working partnership is a big part of the job.

The day moves between focused, structured lessons and active, hands-on learning. Daily math and phonics are taught at the table. The rest of the day includes play-based learning, projects, movement, art, gardening, and weekly time at the horse farm next door. Each six-week session follows a theme. Planning is done with the Studio Director, and you lead your group's daily learning within that plan.

Livewell runs on systems. Lesson plans are written well in advance. Family updates go out on a set schedule. Routines stay consistent so children know what to expect. People who find that freeing do well here.

Your group should be a place where young children feel safe and known, and where they are clearly learning. Over the year, children who arrived unable to sound out a word begin reading to their friends. Math starts with things they can hold and count, and it builds from there.

Families at Livewell are partners and the primary authority in their child's life. At this age they want to know how their child's day really went, and you keep them informed clearly and often.

You also keep your part of the studio organized and ready, and you stay in close step with the Studio Director so the Cub Studio runs as one program.

High energy and positive, most days and on purpose. Children respond to the tone you set.

Naturally good with young children. You can get down on their level, read a hard moment quickly, and bring a group back together without raising your voice.

Comfortable teaching on your feet. You know how to turn a lesson into something children do, and you also know how to bring a busy group back to a quiet circle when it is time to listen.

Warm, with real expectations. Four and five year olds can do more than most people ask of them, and you ask.

Organized and comfortable with process. Written plans, set routines, and clear expectations make you better at your job.

Open to feedback. When your Studio Director suggests a change, you try it and tell her how it went.

Someone whose experience is only in preschool or childcare. This is a teaching role, and we need someone who has already moved children forward academically in a TK or Kindergarten classroom.

Someone who wants a studio of their own. You will lead your group, and you will do it inside a studio led by our Cub Studio Director.

Anyone who relies on worksheets to fill the day. Outside of focused math and phonics lessons, children here learn by moving, building, and doing.

Someone who plans the night before. Our lesson plans are written weeks in advance, and that planning is…