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OUR CULTURE

Growing Hearts and Minds is a family owned Early Childhood Center that cares about you, your professional development, and your HAPPINESS! At Growing Hearts and Minds, we support and encourage each other. We up lift each other up when needed, contribute to the mission, work hard, don't complain, and have fun.

Our Mission is to provide a safe and welcoming place for children to play, engage with their friends, and explore the world around them. YOU are the one who carries out this mission each and every day, therefore we seek to hire only the very best teachers, and then we treat them like members of our family.

Team Values

Every member of the Growing Hearts and Minds family is an integral and valuable part of our mission. We carry out this mission together, and we have 4 values we can look to in remembering why our work is so important.

We Support Each Other

  • Show up on time and work your entire shift.
  • Schedule your absences appropriately with the impact of the center in mind.
  • Limit unexpected absences to when they are needed.
  • Take vitamin C, get good sleep, eat reasonably, wash your hand, and don’t take advantage of the flexibility you are offered.
  • Be aware of how your mood, demeanor, and affect influence those around you.
  • Offer compassionate! Others are likely struggling with something you know nothing about.

We Engage with Children Wholeheartedly

  • We are able to have the deepest impact on the heart of a child through engaged personal interaction.
  • Lower yourself to the level of each child.
  • Allow what matters to each child to matter to you.
  • Be congruent with who you are and what you have to offer them.
  • Develop an empathic understanding of other people’s feelings.
  • Affirm to each child that who they are is beautiful and worth of love.

We Develop Meaningful Relationships with Parents

  • Get to know every parents name of the children in your primary classroom.
  • Seek to make one meaningful connection with every parent, every day.
  • Develop an understanding of each parents concern or primary desires regarding the development of their child.
  • Seek commonality and connection with parents.
  • Enter a parents world, and offer compassion for what matters to them outside of childcare.

We have Fun!!

  • The foundation of having fun is working hard and knowing that the work you do matters to children, their families, your fellow teachers, and to yourself and the ones you love.
  • We operate from a posture of gratitude.
  • We celebrate our wins with one another.
  • We maintain as positive demeanor as much as possible.
  • We laugh, play, and enjoy the little things!!.

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Description

Responsibilities

  • Love and accept every child just the way they are.
  • Celebrate each child's unique personality, demeanor, and characteristics.
  • Willingness to work with children from the infant through 6 years old, having the flexibility to move between classrooms and assist co-teachers as needed.
  • Create a fun and safe learning environment.
  • Develop schedules and routines to ensure adequate physical activity, rest, and playtime.
  • Establish and maintain positive relationships with students, parents, and peers.
  • Communicate with parents on students' growth and progress.
  • Serving meals, cleaning up, mop the floors, sanitizing the toys, helping out where needed!.
  • Maintain all licensing rules and regulations for the State of Colorado.

Qualifications

  • ECE Lead Teacher Certified in Colorado or the willingness to obtain it (preferred).
  • Passionate about making a difference in the lives of the most precious children in the world.
  • Ability to build rapport with children, colleagues, and parents.
  • Positive, patient, and caring demeanor - you have to be nice!.
  • Flexibility and a willingness to contribute to the team.

Description

Responsibilities

  • Love and accept every child just the way they are.
  • Celebrate each child's unique personality, demeanor, and characteristics.
  • Instruct preschool-aged children in activities designed to promote intellectual and creative growth (could include children age 2.5 to 6 years old).
  • Create a fun and safe learning environment.
  • Develop schedules and routines to ensure adequate physical activity, rest, and playtime.
  • Establish and maintain positive relationships with students, parents, and peers.
  • Communicate with parents on students' growth and progress.
  • Serving meals, cleaning up, mop the floors, sanitizing the toys, helping out where needed!.
  • Maintain all licensing rules and regulations for the State of Colorado.

Qualifications

  • ECE Lead Teacher Certified in Colorado or the willingness to obtain it (preferred).
  • Passionate about making a difference in the lives of the most precious children in the world.
  • Ability to build rapport with children, colleagues, and parents.
  • Positive, patient, and caring demeanor - you have to be nice!.
  • Flexibility and a willingness to contribute to the team.

Benefits

  • 2 weeks of Paid Time Off in your first year, 3 weeks of PTO after that.
  • Paid Holidays.
  • 70% off childcare costs.
  • Free soda in the breakroom.
  • Working for an Owner and Director who really care about you. Really!.
  • Knowing, every day, that you are doing work that makes a difference in the life of a child.
  • If you want some other benefits than come ask, maybe we can make it work.

Description

Responsibilities

  • Hold Babies!.
  • Love and accept every child just the way they are.
  • Celebrate each child's unique personality, demeanor, and characteristics.
  • Play with young children in a positive and engaging way.
  • Feed them / Give them bottles / Change their diapers.
  • Lay them down for naps safely (in accordance with Colorado's safe sleep policies for child care centers).
  • Create a fun and safe learning environment.
  • Communicate with parents on the growth and progress of their most precious treasure.
  • Establish and maintain positive relationships with your colleagues.
  • Support your colleagues; be easy to get along with.
  • Clean up, mop the floors, vacuum, sanitizing the toys, and help out where needed!.
  • Maintain all licensing rules and regulations for the State of Colorado.

Qualifications

  • Infant Nursery Supervisor Qualified or the willingness to obtain it (preferred).
  • ECE Lead Teacher Certified in Colorado or the willingness to obtain it (preferred).
  • Passionate about making a difference in the lives of the most precious children in the world.
  • Ability to build rapport with children, colleagues, and parents.
  • Positive, patient, and caring demeanor - you have to be nice!.
  • Flexibility and a willingness to contribute to the team.
  • Currently considering candidates for both full time and part time positions.

Benefits

  • 2 weeks of Paid Time Off in your first year, 3 weeks of PTO after that.
  • Paid Holidays.
  • 70% off childcare costs.
  • Free soda in the breakroom.
  • Working for an Owner and Director who really care about you. Really!.
  • Knowing, every day, that you are doing work that makes a difference in the life of a child.
  • If you want some other benefits than come ask, maybe we can make it work.

8851 Field Street
Westminster, CO 80021
303-432-2468
info@growingheartsandminds.net

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