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Renbrook School (West Hartford, CT), an independent day school for children age three to grade eight, currently seeks a full-time, experienced early childhood director to lead this foundational division of the school for the 2023-2024 school year. The Director will be responsible for the planning, organizing, directing, managing, and supervising of programs for three grade levels - preschool, junior kindergarten, and kindergarten. This is a 12-month position that reports to the Head of School and requires strong supervisory and communication skills with a warm, positive, and nurturing disposition.

Learning Philosophy
Renbrook’s Beginning School helps children build a foundation focused on emotional strength and the development of foundational skills to foster a love of learning. Through a play-based curriculum using the school’s extensive outdoor learning spaces, teachers cultivate students’ intrinsic motivation and creativity with emergent curriculum design. By cultivating a child’s imagination through play, we set the foundation for students to be strong writers, mathematicians, builders, and artists.

Personal Qualities:

• Empathy and the ability to team with parents to serve children
• Sense of humor
• The ability to work well with others – a team player
• Passionate, especially focused on early childhood education
• A “can-do” attitude
• Excellent communication skills (speaking, writing, listening)
• A love of learning
• Strong organizational and time management skills

Key Responsibilities:

Program Development

• Maintain, develop, or modify curriculum to meet the needs of children enrolled in the Beginning School
• Remain current with developments in early childhood education.

Staff Supervision and Support

• Oversee and support teachers in administering, planning, and assessing developmentally appropriate learning
• Train and supervise teachers by holding regular meetings and assisting in the classroom when necessary
• Regularly monitor teacher performance and provide coaching or mentoring for improvement and development
• Support teachers’ professional growth using Renbrook’s Professional Growth Plan

Administrative Responsibilities

• With the Head of the Lower School, create annual class/teacher schedules
• Assign teachers to grade levels and classrooms
• Work collaboratively with the Admissions Department during preschool, junior kindergarten and kindergarten Parent Meet & Greets, when reviewing applications, and at events

Fiscal Responsibilities:

• Work with the CFO to prepare an annual budget for approval by the Board
• Order new materials and supplies for each new school year
• Review classroom budgets monthly in order to ensure prudent spending

Communication and Leadership:

• Develop strong rapport with colleagues, students, and parents
• Communicate effectively with Renbrook parents, employees, and prospective families in support of Renbrook's Mission

Please submit cover letter with resume, early childhood education philosophy, and three letters of reference included together in one PDF document, to employment@renbrook.org with Beginning School Director in the subject line.

Qualifications:

• Minimum degree requirements: bachelor's in early childhood education, three years early childhood classroom teaching experience, and one year as an early childhood assistant director or director. Master’s degree in early childhood education preferred.

About Renbrook School

Founded in 1935, Renbrook School is a pre-eminent preschool through ninth grade co-educational independent day school located in West Hartford, Connecticut. The school enrolls 330 students from 30 cities and towns in Connecticut and Massachusetts. The Renbrook experience is defined by a high degree of academic rigor, personalized attention as a result of small class sizes, a nurturing environment, and an emphasis on values and respect among members of a tight-knit community. Renbrook School is an affirmative action - equal opportunity employer, and does not discriminate in employment on the basis of race, color, religious creed, age, gender identity or expression, marital status, national origin, ancestry, present or past history of mental disability, intellectual disability, learning disability or physical disability, including but not limited to blindness, veteran status, sexual orientation, and other protected classes. Renbrook School will make a reasonable accommodation to known disabilities of a qualified applicant or employee, unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship on its operation.

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