Hourly Salary: $21.04/hour - $24.70/hour

Position Summary

The Home-Based Teacher partners with families to promote children's healthy development, school readiness, and long-term success through the delivery of high-quality, evidence-based home visiting services. This role implements developmentally appropriate curriculum, provides individualized support to children and caregivers, and fosters positive parent-child relationships while ensuring a safe, nurturing, and engaging learning experience within the home environment. The Home-Based Teacher maintains compliance with Head Start Performance Standards, applicable funding requirements, and Children’s Aid policies, while building strong partnerships with families to support each child's cognitive, social-emotional, physical, and language development. Reporting to the Education Director, this role is accountable for delivering high-quality home-based services, maintaining accurate documentation, ensuring regulatory compliance, and advancing the mission and values of Children’s Aid.

Children’s Aid Mission

To help children in poverty to succeed and thrive. We do this by providing comprehensive support to children and their families in targeted high-needs New York City neighborhoods. Children’s Aid annually serves children and their families at over forty sites in New York, as well as through three national program models. Children’s Aid is concentrating its efforts on creating cradle-through-college pathways in high-need neighborhoods, with a focus on children’s health, family stability, education, and social and emotional development.

Culture and Values

We put children, youth, and families first: We listen to and incorporate the voices of children, youth, and families in all that we do.

We seek equity and transformation in our communities: We courageously work within and outside systems to create opportunities for children, youth, and families.

We strive for excellence: We hold ourselves to the highest standards and are committed to continuous learning and improvement.

We are powered by collaboration: Our work is stronger when we trust, partner, and respect each other and the communities we serve.

We are driven by compassion: We lead with kindness, care, and empathy and believe in the endless potential of the people we serve and our team.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Strategic Oversight

Understand and promote the organization’s Mission, Vision, and Core Values to ensure alignment with organizational policies and procedures.
Support the family in implementing strategies that align with educational goals and organizational standards.

Curriculum Implementation

Promote high-quality teaching and learning in the home setting that leads to optimal development and children’s school readiness.
Implement individualized learning experiences for children and families utilizing evidence-based curricula and the Early Learning Outcomes Framework.
Design and arrange group socialization space, allowing for various learning opportunities and engagement, with assistance from the Education Director.
Observe, collect data, assess, and provide strengths-based feedback on the caregiver’s parental interactions and child’s developmental skills to support positive parenting practices that support their child’s learning and development.
Educate caregivers on positive parenting interactions through curriculum implementation to fidelity and parent coaching tools during home visits and socialization groups.

Home Visiting

Plan and establish a relationship with children and parents that fosters acceptance, trust, and a space that promotes interaction for growth and development.
Conduct three or four home visits a month for the duration of an hour and a half for each family on the caseload.
Collaborate with families to design a developmentally sound and individualized (tailored to the specific needs and interests of their child) plan to enhance the social-emotional, cognitive, mathematics, language/literacy, and physical development of their child.
Conduct home visits with expectant parents, utilizing a maternal health curriculum to support prenatal and postpartum health, mental health, family engagement, newborn development, and caregiving practices.
Write lesson plans for group socialization classes and conduct bi-weekly group socializations with parents and children.

Record Maintenance, Screening and Assessment

Maintain accurate educational records and portfolios on each child by documenting home visits, child observations, screenings, and assessments.
Ensure children receive a developmental and behavioral screen according to program timelines and assess child development at three different points over the course of the year (November, February, and May).
Conduct internal referral process in collaboration with the Education Director by observing and documenting students’ development for children who need additional support.

Family Engagement

Facilitate parent involvement and communication through home visits, group socializations, program events, and an “open-door” policy.
Facilitate meetings with families when there are outstanding developmental or behavioral issues with children.
Prepare, coordinate, and implement additional home visits, parent/teacher conferences, open houses, and/or family events.
Collaborate with parents to develop weekly home visit and educational activities based on each child’s assessment and family needs.
Connect with community partners from which families can benefit, looping in the Communication & Partnership Mgr. for documentation purposes.
Share highlights of families, kids, staff, and community partners; Educate and engage our online social media community with the EC Instagram committee.
Recruit new families for our program through tabling, advertising in the school community, and hosting recruitment events.

Data Analysis

Collect, analyze, and report on data related to student progress and classroom activities to inform continuous improvement efforts.
Utilize data to identify trends, gaps, and areas for improvement in instructional practices and student support.

Professional Development

Participate and attend all agency offered trainings, workshops, in-service days, and/or all-staff conferences.
Maintain certification requirements and proof of attendance for professional activities.
Support the growth of the center including participating in program-wide goal setting and individual and program self-assessment.
Complete all Early Childhood required trainings.
Maintain active membership with Aspire and or “Registered” TEACH Account linked to CA (upon hire)
Engage in self-assessment and reflective supervision experiences such as completing self-assessment surveys, video recording, coaching, and collaboration sessions from site supervisor and Home-Based Education Coordinator.
Actively participate in monthly site meetings, teacher planning, case conferences, individual supervision, and Home-Based Educator Meetings (3x per year).

Minimum Qualifications

The Home-Based Educator must have qualifications that satisfy Federal Head Start requirements, the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene Article 47 regulations, and Universal Preschool Guidelines.

Federal Head Start Requirement: 45 CFR §1302.91(e)(6)(i) “A program must ensure home visitors providing home-based education services have a minimum of:

A home-based [home visitor] Child Development Associate (CDA) credential or a comparable credential or
Equivalent coursework as part of an associate or bachelor's degree”

Depending on one’s education and certification, a Home-Based Educator may fall into one of the following categories:

Home Based Teacher I: Must possess a High School Diploma/GED and hold a Child Development Associate (CDA) Credential in early childhood development at the time of hire.
Home Based Teacher II: Must possess an associate’s degree or equivalent credits (in any area). Depending on the nature of the degree and relevant years of experience, it may be required to have a child development associate (CDA) credential or be enrolled in a CDA credential program that will be completed within two years, a condition of employment that cannot be extended.
Home Based Teacher III: Must possess a bachelor’s degree (in any area). Depending on the nature of the degree and relevant years of experience, it may be required to have a child development associate (CDA) credential or be enrolled in a CDA credential program that will be completed within two years, a condition of employment that cannot be extended.
Home Based Teacher IV: Must possess a master’s degree (in any area). Depending on the nature of the degree and relevant years of experience, it may be required to have a child development associate (CDA) credential or be enrolled in a CDA credential program that will be completed within two years, a condition of employment that cannot be extended.

Two years’ experience working with infants and toddlers and children with Special Needs
Active Mental Health First Aid Certificate
Bilingual in English and Spanish or French
Two years' experience working with infants and toddlers, and children with special needs.
Dedicated, excited, and passionate about teaching and learning with young children and their caregivers.
Effective written and communication skills
Professional approach with effective communication skills
Reflective on own teaching practices and willing to develop new skills and increase capacity.