Career Opportunities

At The Way Preschool our mission is to develop a community of confident students who love to learn and enjoy every moment at school. We are passionate about creating a nurturing, professional and caring environment where all children can thrive. We want every child that graduates from our center to have a realistic and obtainable trajectory towards health in all aspects of their life!

POSITION

We are looking to hire a seasoned lead preschool teacher, with at least 3-5 years of experience to join our growing school and its mission to kids and their families.

We want candidates to apply who desire to grow alongside our preschool, and as we grow together share in many rewards of this work to serve, love change the lives of the next generation while doing our best as caretakers to support their families.

REQUIREMENTS

The ideal candidate will possess the following qualities:

Loves teaching and understands the importance, nuance, difficulty but also beauty of early childhood education and care.
Instructs empathetically: Possesses a genuine heart to serve, and love, with patient and proactive care.
Is a hard worker, who knows how to manage a classroom with care, attention and love but also knows how to hold the line with boundary and rules so that the educational setting is conducive to learning.
Is attentive to detail, is professional, is a self starter, takes initiative and has extremely good organizational skills.
Possesses an entrepreneurial spirit with a strong “team mentality" who wants to play a major part in growing The Way Preschool and its mission.
Has experience teaching the Reggio Emilia teaching philosophy.
Possesses high levels of character which means they are trustworthy and honest while aspiring towards the highest level of professionalism, ethics and practices in early childhood education, and care.
Has an understanding of preschool management software like Pro Care or Bright-wheel to communicate with parents.
Possesses a willingness to learn, is teachable, values excellence and is authentic.
Understands the values the importance of systems, policies and procedures to run a successful school, and classroom. One who works diligently remembering our systems, culture and ethos while helping provide constructive input to improve them.
A person who follows and aspires to grow in following Way of Jesus, The Way of Love.
Fits in with our staff culture. Our team is comprised of young married professionals who have families. We love the arts, the beach, farming, health, crafts, and simple country life.
As a culture and staff we want make it the best work environment (drama free) zone.
Possesses an understanding of trauma informed care.
Remembers their “why.” Is resilient and perseveres in hard and difficult seasons realizing it is within this posture of endurance that enables one to celebrate with joy the seasons of breakthrough, expansion, growth and renewal.
Meets all the educational and professional requirements required to teach preschool age children, according to Title 22.

What makes us the perfect place to work and grow as an essential Early Childhood Teaching Professional? What makes us unique as a school?

We believe early childhood educators are under appreciated, undervalued, and underpaid. We are striving to change this because we believe, along with studies and research, that children most formative years of life are from birth until seven years old. Therefore, early, trauma informed childhood education and care that is holistic and balanced is important work, for the health of our society.
We are nestled in the beautiful and safe countryside of San Marcos, providing an ideal canvas and background for teachers to instruct, teach and inspire curious wonder in their students.
Say goodbye to small concrete jungle playgrounds filled with plastics and rubber: We are proud to have one of the largest outdoor play spaces, in San Diego!
Our outdoor center is filled with life and greenery like roses, jasmine, olive trees, fruit trees, veggie patches, willow huts, palm trees. We have much more room to form outdoor classroom teaching environments and have access to clean well water for summer play. We have a nature preserve behind our school and its very common to see so many different forms of animal life like: Coyotes, eagles, owls, bunnies, groundhogs, foxes, lizards, frogs, wild butterflies, caterpillars, ladybugs and the many insects that visit our center.
Say goodbye to dirty, cramped and suffocating class rooms filled with cheap toys and bright overstimulating primary colors: We are proud to have curated beautiful classrooms that not only reflect the Reggio Philosophy, but also excellence which is a core value of ours at The Way. We believe children deserve to be surrounded by quality and therefore have invested in nice furniture from restoration hardware, pottery barn, community playthings. We also have purchased aged antiques and have gathered unique handmade Etsy products.
Opportunity to grow together: We are a newly licensed school with just a few years of service so this teaching opportunity is a unique opportunity to play a big part growing our brand, school, mission while leaving your mark and imprint.
Say goodbye to drama and staff politics: We value and embody as a staff culture excellence, authenticity, love, and teamwork following the Way of Jesus. We regularly meet as a staff for dinner, quarterly strategic planning, get lunch and we provide staff development days. We prioritize and value the holistic health of our, students, volunteers, staff and their families. When everyone is healthy, and happy everyone wins together.
Despite being a small and new school, we offer a competitive salary and benefits package. We have a generous first year vacation accrual for full time staff. We offer reduced and /or free tuition for our staff children. Bonus’ are based on performance and the success of our preschool each year. Our board of directors desires that you to feel valued, appreciated and treated fairly.
We promote from within. We are poised for growth we expect to reach capacity this year (30 kids). If our board decides to expand centers, develop earlier infant care, or if we need to replace a teacher, director or assistant director those on staff will get priority in applying.
Our school is overseen by a healthy, seasoned and mature board of Directors. Our school board has over one hundred plus years of combined experience leading in business, education, publishing, coaching, and teaching.
As a teacher at the Way Preschool, please understand our CEO, Director and school board are committed to your professional growth, training and most importantly to your flourishing.

If this interest you, please apply ASAP as our window for applications ends soon as we are looking to hire mid to late June.

We welcome you to apply and send your resume, cover letter, and references to: info@thewaypreschool.com.

Additionally, before applying please make sure you visit, read, and explore our website and our instagram page for more details, and to get a knowledge of our school’s culture, mission and purpose.