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Do you love creating joyful learning experiences that spark curiosity in young children? Are you excited to bring creativity and enthusiasm to our toddler and preschool classrooms and help our little ones grow and explore?  If so, we want to meet you! Aspen Academy is seeking exceptional Early Childhood Teachers to join our Early Childhood Division for the 26-27 school year!

Full Time | Onsite | Academic Year Position

Start Date: Approximately August 3, 2026

Starting Salary: $34,720 - $43,400  (based on experience and education) 

Why Aspen Academy?

Located in the southern metro area of beautiful Denver, Colorado, at Aspen Academy, we're not just a school; we're a community committed to shaping the leaders of tomorrow. Our dedication to Next Generation education sets us apart, as we equip students with the enduring life skills they need for future success. We look at learning as a way to ignite the personal passions and interests of each and every student. Our unique leadership, finance, and entrepreneurial development (LiFE) program prepares students for life. Students thrive as they build lasting relationships with peers and teachers through small class sizes and a community focus. 

We embody and promote the community's values in our thoughts, words, and actions, serving as committed and supportive co-leaders in realizing Aspen Academy's vision and mission:

• Our values: Be Kind. Do Good. Work Hard. Make the World Better.
• Our mission: We edify and inspire students and educators to grow, learn and lead.
• Our vision: We are a national leader in innovative and transformative education.

About Your Role

• You foster young children's natural curiosity, engagement, growth, and development in all areas: physical, cognitive, social, and emotional.
• You set gentle and consistent boundaries, encourage learning through play and exploration, and create a safe and nurturing environment for young children to make choices.
• You are a warm, caring, creative, patient, and enthusiastic professional who loves working with young children - toddlers and/or preschoolers. You are always looking for ways to learn and grow as an educator.
• You understand and implement developmentally appropriate practices and create engaging learning experiences through play and exploration.
• You communicate clearly and kindly with children, families, and colleagues.
• You are organized, manage your time well, and are sensitive to the social and emotional needs of young children and their families.

What You’ll Do

• Classroom Strategies and Behaviors: Communicating learning goals and feedback, establishing rules and procedures; helping students interact, practice and deepen new knowledge, and generate and test hypotheses; engaging students; recognizing adherence to norms and procedures; establishing and maintaining effective relationships with students; communicating high expectations for all students. Creating and maintaining a classroom environment aligned with “Love and Logic” Principles.
• Planning and Preparing: Planning and preparing for lessons and units, resources and technology, needs of neurodiverse learners and differentiated learning styles, implementation of culturally responsive classrooms.
• Developing and Maintaining Strong, Positive and Productive Partnerships: Communicating proactively, positively and consistently with students, parents, teammates, and our community, fostering a collaborative and supportive community.  
• Reflecting on Teaching: Evaluating personal performance as well as developing and implementing a professional growth plan.
• Collegiality and Professionalism: Champion a positive environment; promoting an exchange of ideas and strategies; promoting our school and its community’s development. 

What You’ll Love About Us

Be Kind. Do Good. Work Hard. Make the World Better. These are the values our team embodies day to day. Below are some of the ways in which we’ll promise to value you in your time here: 

• Retirement: 403(b) plan with employer matching

• Healthcare: Medical, dental and vision plans with various options to support your unique needs. Free telehealth.

• Wellness: Holistic employee assistance program (EAP) including mental health support.  Fitness challenges, gym & yoga discounts, health education, and fun team activities.

• Life Insurance & Voluntary Benefits: Group life insurance and option to enroll in additional voluntary life insurance and other supplemental coverages 

• Time-off: Flexible PTO policy 

• Career development: Professional development reimbursement program and monthly onsite professional development

• Family Care: Tuition assistance and potential financial aid

• Community: A sense of belonging

Further details about our total compensation package can be found here. 

Salary Range: Starting annual salary  $34,720 - $43,400 (based on experience and education) 

More about Aspen Academy

Aspen Academy is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace committed to providing an environment of mutual respect, where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants and teammates without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, national origin, age, physical and mental disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, and military and veteran status. 

Apply Today!

To join us in our mission to provide an unparalleled education that equips students with the knowledge and skills to excel in a changing world, apply here.

What You’ll Need to Get the Job Done

• Required: Lead ECT qualified through education or PDIS Early Childhood Professional Credential Version 3.0 Colorado Shines Credential Level 2 or higher.
• Preferred: Bachelor’s Degree or some college level coursework, preferably in education, early childhood education, child development, etc.
• 1-2+ years classroom lead experience
• Minimum: high energy, passion for teaching great kids
• Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills
• A commitment and ability to cultivate students’ curiosity, engagement, growth, and performance in academic, intellectual, social and emotional domains
• Strong time, organization and project management skills
• Managing multiple priorities in a fast-paced, dynamic environment
• Proficient use of computer software, Google and learning management systems (Blackbaud preferred).
• Grant permission for a background check upon hire.
• Meet physical demands to perform essential functions of the role.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions:Ability to work full-time; work in person/in the school building, including occasional evenings and weekends.  Regularly required to speak for long periods of time; stand; walk, use hands; reach with hands and arms and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl and lift and/or move up to 10 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.

About Aspen Academy

Aspen Academy – Be Kind. Do Good. Make the world a better place. This is the only rule at our national model school and the focus of the work that we do every day. We prepare students to enter, succeed in, and graduate from outstanding high schools. We are committed to providing an intentionally diverse student body with an outstanding liberal arts education within the framework of an individualized education; character, leadership and entrepreneurial development; and service learning. Students thrive as they build lasting relationships with peers and teachers through small class sizes and a community focus. Justice, equity, diversity and inclusion are core to Aspen Academy. We are passionate about building and sustaining an inclusive and equitable working and learning environment for all students, staff, and faculty. We believe every member on our team enriches our community by exposing us to a broad range of ways to understand and engage with the world, identify challenges, and to discover, design and deliver solutions. If this inspires you, please apply to join our team.

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