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Employment Opportunities

Seeking Full-Time and Part-Time Teachers

WPCS is hiring FULL-TIME and PART-TIME preschool teachers!

WPCS is a play-based, child-centered, mixed age cooperative preschool which is currently implementing a vision to become an environment which consciously centers Black and Brown children within a neighborhood currently being gentrified. 

Black applicants are strongly encouraged to apply. 
Below are qualities we believe reside at the center of excellent candidates:

  • Genuinely loving and honoring young children.
  • Seeing yourself as a facilitator of children’s growth and learning.
  • Managing one’s words and emotions responsibly.
  • Feeling excited about collaborating with others in a teaching team.
  • Getting your hands dirty every day.
  • Demonstrating a desire to grow as a teacher.
  • Decentering “whiteness” in the ways you think, speak, and act.
  • Bringing humor and honesty to your teaching journey.
Required:
  • 2+ years experience with children ages 2-5 in a group educational setting.
  • Clearances:
    • PA Child Abuse clearance
    • PA Criminal Background Check
    • FBI Fingerprinting
    • Mandated Reporter training
    • National Sex Offender Registry Verification
    • Recent physical including TB test (within 30 days of hire)
Details:
  • 2 positions available Monday to Friday: 
    • 7:30am-2:30pm (35 hours per week)
    • 1:00pm-6:00pm (25 hours per week)
  • Flexible start date.
  • Starting salary is $16-18 hour with PTO, optional health and dental insurance.

WPCS is an equal opportunity employer dedicated to equity and diversity. We enthusiastically encourage applicants who are underrepresented in early childhood education, and welcome people of every race, religion, creed, color, national origin, age, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status, or physical ability.

how to apply

Please send resume and cover letter to: wpcs.director@gmail.com

In your cover letter please specify your earliest availability and if you have your current clearances.
260 S. 51st Street, PhIladelphia, PA  19139
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