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Early Childhood Teacher – toddler and preschool
Location:
The Aspen Center for Child Development | Longmont, CO
Start Date: April 1, 2026
Description, Responsibilities, & Duties
- Provides a warm, welcoming, nurturing, and responsive environment for children and their families.
- Collaborates with their co-teacher in planning and guiding an emergent, constructivist pedagogy.
- Collaborates with families to ensure open communication and involvement in their child’s development and care.
- Documents children’s learning and makes it visible in the classroom.
- Collects objective observations to use with the Teaching Strategies Gold software for authentic assessment of children’s learning.
- Facilitates parent teacher dialogues twice a year.
- Maintains appropriate records related to children.
- Attends program-specific meetings, making presentations when necessary and represents OUR Center/Aspen Center in the community with the highest of standards.
- Models best practices in early childhood education.
- Stays current on best practices in early childhood education and preschooler development, incorporating new research and methodologies into program planning.
- Mentors university and college students as they fulfill their fieldwork experience in classrooms
Minimum Qualifications/Requirements
- Meets Colorado licensing requirements for early childhood teacher
- CDA, Degree in Early Childhood Education, Education, Human Development, or related field preferred; OR
- PDIS Early Childhood Professional Credential Level II or higher in Version 3.0.
- Classroom teaching experience in a constructivist or Reggio Emilia-Inspired learning environment.
Salary & Benefits
- $19.00 – $22.00 an hour
- 75% employee child care tuition discount
- Partner site for Boulder Journey School’s Teacher Education Program
- Health, dental, & vision insurance
- Competetive salary & retirement contribution
- Paid time off and sick leave
- 10 paid holidays
- Paid spring & winter break
- Paid planning time & professional development
- Access to OUR Center resources
Application Procedures
Please send resumes and cover letters to elizabeth@ourcenter.org
Program Description
A program of the OUR Center, The Aspen Center for Child Development is a non-profit early care and education setting in Longmont, Colorado working with a diverse population of children and families. Inspired by the Reggio Emilia Approach, we focus on developmentally appropriate, creative experiences with children. We’re located in the heart of downtown Longmont, which offers many wonderful opportunities for our emergent and contextual approach to learning.
The Aspen Center has recently partnered with the City of Longmont and Longmont Housing Authority to open a second early childhood center, focused on serving both children from low-income households and the general public.
The Ascent at Hover Crossing is the first of its kind in Longmont: a thoughtfully designed community that directly addresses two of the biggest barriers facing low- and moderate-income families, affordable housing and affordable childcare.
By co-locating high-quality early childhood education services right within the residential site, this innovative model removes multiple barriers at once. It eliminates long commutes between home, childcare, and work; promotes family stability; supports children’s healthy development; and enables parents to participate more fully in the workforce.
Aspen Center’s approach is rooted in the Reggio Emilia philosophy, which honors children as capable, curious, and full of potential. We believe learning happens through relationships, exploration, and meaningful experiences — not rigid routines. Teachers partner with children in their learning, listening closely to their ideas and guiding project work that grows from their curiosities. We focus on nurturing the whole child through:
- Strong, trusting relationships between children, teachers, and families
- Classrooms intentionally designed as learning environments
- Exploration, creativity, and hands-on discovery
- Observation and documentation to understand each child’s development
- Play as the primary avenue for learning
Whole-child development: social-emotional growth, motor skills, language, literacy, math, science, art, and music
Contact Info
Elizabeth Fannon, MA
Director of Early Childhood Programming
elizabeth@ourcenter.org
1-303-772-4320