Lead Preschool Teacher - Ages 2-3
Austin
Lead Preschool Teacher - Ages 2-3
Full Time • Austin
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- 401(k) matching
- Bonus based on performance
- Competitive salary
- Dental insurance
- Employee discounts
- Flexible schedule
- Free food & snacks
- Health insurance
- Opportunity for advancement
- Paid time off
- Training & development
- Vision insurance
Lead Preschool Teacher – Ages 2–3
Lupine Lane | Lakeway, TX | Full-Time
Compensation: $22–$24/hour equivalent, salaried position
A place where children—and teachers—can grow and flourish.
At Lupine Lane, we believe children are naturally curious, capable, creative, and full of possibility. We're looking for an experienced, nurturing, and enthusiastic Lead Preschool Teacher to guide our classroom of 2–3-year-olds.
Located in the beautiful Rough Hollow community of Lakeway, Lupine Lane is an established, family-founded private preschool offering a thoughtful, project-based approach to early childhood education.
We believe that meaningful learning happens through relationships, exploration, creativity, play, and real-world experiences. We're seeking a teacher who shares these beliefs and finds joy in helping young children discover what they're capable of.
Why Teach at Lupine Lane?
We value our teachers as educators, creative thinkers, and essential members of our school community.
Our benefits include:
- Competitive salaried compensation
- 36 paid calendar days off throughout the school year, aligned with the Lake Travis ISD calendar
- Opportunity to accrue six additional PTO days
- Health, dental, and vision insurance
- 401(k) with employer matching
- Professional development and opportunities for growth
- Employee discounts and additional benefits
- A collaborative, supportive school community
- Opportunities to bring creativity, ideas, and meaningful projects into the classroom
About the Position
As a Lead Teacher in our 2–3-year-old classroom, you will create a warm, engaging, and developmentally appropriate learning environment where children feel safe, respected, capable, and excited to learn.
You will:
- Build trusting, responsive relationships with children and their families.
- Develop and lead engaging, project-based Topic Studies inspired by children's interests and developmental needs.
- Foster emerging independence, communication, creativity, problem-solving, and social-emotional development.
- Guide children through everyday challenges with patience, empathy, consistency, and developmentally appropriate expectations.
- Design a stimulating classroom environment that encourages exploration, discovery, and meaningful play.
- Collaborate with classroom colleagues and school leadership to support children's growth.
- Document children's learning, plan weekly experiences, and communicate thoughtfully with families.
- Observe and assess children's development to thoughtfully guide future learning experiences.
Who We're Looking For
Our ideal candidate:
- Has experience teaching children ages 2–3 in an early childhood setting.
- Has a strong understanding of child development and developmentally appropriate practice.
- Is warm, patient, dependable, creative, and enthusiastic.
- Understands the importance of connection, emotional regulation, and positive guidance.
- Can confidently lead a classroom while collaborating respectfully with colleagues.
- Enjoys planning engaging, hands-on learning experiences.
- Communicates professionally and warmly with children, families, and coworkers.
- Values reflection, professional growth, and continued learning.
Early childhood education credentials, a CDA, or a related degree are valued. Relevant experience and a strong alignment with our educational philosophy are also important considerations.
Come Grow With Us!
At Lupine Lane, we believe early childhood education is profoundly important work. Our teachers help shape the foundation for children's relationships, confidence, curiosity, and lifelong love of learning.
If you're an educator who believes young children deserve respect, meaningful experiences, thoughtful guidance, and the freedom to explore their world, we'd love to meet you.
Location: 1001 Highlands Boulevard, Lakeway (Austin), TX 78738
We are actively interviewing and look forward to finding the right person to join our team!
Compensation: $22.00 - $24.00 per hour
Our Philosophy
At Lupine Lane, we provide children with relevant, safe, natural, real world experiences in a developmentally appropriate manner. We believe in building a strong and caring foundation with each child and his or her family by taking a true interest in the intricacies and unique qualities of the individual child, providing a welcoming, comfortable environment and maintaining frequent and pertinent communication with each child and the people involved in the child’s life.
Furthermore, we believe that children are capable of extraordinary accomplishments, especially when they have a safe, loving environment, developmentally appropriate lessons, activities and materials, as well as guidance, support and encouragement. We provide children with lessons, activities and materials that foster a natural sense of curiosity, as well as cognitive, social/emotional, creative and physical development.
We believe that the process is equally important to the product. This equality is due to the fact that the product is a manifestation of the process, allowing for a deeper, clearer understanding of the process that occurred to achieve the end result. It is not the quality of the product that is of great importance, but rather its existence, which provides a sense of completion and reaching a goal, builds self-confidence and provides opportunity to reflect.
We believe that progressive projects provide an abundance of opportunities for goal setting, self-regulation, building attention span and work ethic, reflection of the learning and creative processes and provide a wonderful, rewarding sense of accomplishment.
We also feel that documenting the child’s day and processes are important, in order for the child and those in the child’s life to have a visual and written record of how the child learns. During early childhood, it is wonderful for parents, teachers and caretakers to understand and encourage the child’s learning style in order to best tailor a pathway for the child’s education. Visual and written records also help the child to recall processes and experiences from which they learned.
Moreover, we believe that experiences inside and outside of the classroom are equally important. We strive to provide children with knowledge, skills and confidence within the classroom as well as ample time outdoors, in nature and within the local community. Relevant experiences outside of the classroom enable the lessons, activities and materials within the classroom to come alive and achieve greater meaning and depth in a child’s mind.
At Lupine Lane, we believe children are first and foremost people with an insatiable curiosity of the world. The more fully their sense of wonder, thoughts and dreams are developed, the greater knowledge, skills and confidence they will have progress to larger concepts. Through guiding the whole child, cognitively, social/emotionally, creatively and physically, we provide the foundation for each child to grow and flourish brilliantly.
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