Nature Preschool Teacher

Title: Preschool Lead Teacher

Reports to: Preschool Director and Assistant Preschool Director

Status: Full-time, 40 hours/week

Classification: Non-exempt

Start-date: As soon as possible

Term: Staff in-service in August and Sept-May school year - with opportunities for summer and school break employment

Position Summary: 

Hartley Nature Preschool seeks a lead teacher who is passionate about getting children outdoors to build relationships with nature to join the Hartley team as an Monday-Thursday full day teacher. The ideal candidate will have experience working with preschool children, communicating with families, and managing classroom routines and behaviors. Teachers are caring, compassionate educators who work as a team to fulfill the nature center’s mission of inspiring life-long connections with nature through education, play, and exploration while supporting the whole child’s development. Teaching teams are crafted so that staff members provide a balance of early childhood and environmental education and complement each other in their abilities.

Hours and Benefits:

• Term: Start date as soon as possible, 2024-25 preschool year dates: September 3, 2024-May 30, 2025
• Title and Compensation: Lead Preschool Teacher, $17.51/hour 
• Hours: 
  • Full-time, 40 hours/week
  • Monday-Thursday full day class, approximate hours Monday-Thursday, 8am-4:45pm
  • Additional time for weekly prep, planning, and meetings
  • Required staff meetings/training/planning/prep time approximately every other Friday from 1:30-3:30pm
• Additional hours may be available at the same pay rate for substitute teaching, teaching school field trips, site visits,after school nature club, and camps at the discretion of the Preschool Director and/or Education Director
• Benefits: Paid vacation, sick time, and holidays; 3% IRA retirement match, flexible summer and school break work opportunities; priority registration and discounts for preschool and camp programs

Application procedure:

• Deadline: Friday, August 23, 2024
• Position open until filled. 

Submit the following:

• Cover letter
• Resume
• Unofficial transcript(s) from all higher education institutions 
• Names and contact information for three references

Email your application to:

Kaitlin Erpestad, Preschool Director

preschool@hartleynature.org

Pronouns: she/her/hers

Hartley Nature Center

3001 Woodland Ave

Duluth, MN 55803

Hartley is an Equal Opportunity Employer.  We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, age, national origin, creed, sexual orientation/identity/expression, marital status or familial status.