Pedagogical Leader

**Pedagogical Leader - Maple Tree Preschool Non-Profit**

**Job Title**: Pedagogical Leader/Member of the MTP Pedagogical Leadership Committee

**Reports To**:Team Leader and Early Learning and Leadership Mentor

**Job Summary**

The Pedagogical Leader is responsible for supporting Educators and programs within their specific site at Maple Tree Preschool Non-Profit, focusing on pedagogy, curriculum, and early intervention. They will use positive mentoring and coaching strategies to support the growth of their team members, striving to offer enriching and intentional early learning programming. This role will work in close collaboration with the Team Leader as they create a shared vision of how to best support their Educator teams. As the role will take place outside of ratio, the Pedagogical Leader will commit their schedule to spending quality time in each of their site’s programs, being a collaborator, thinking partner, coach, and mentor to Educators.

Through this journey, the Pedagogical Leader will strengthen their own knowledge and understanding of pedagogical best practices in the Early Years, early intervention strategies, leadership, coaching and mentoring; Maintaining a growth mindset and ongoing commitment to professional learning and growth will be essential.

**Duties and Responsibilities - The Pedagogical Leader Will**:

- Support all programs with a focus on pedagogy, curriculum, and professional learning.
- Support all Educators with a focus on educator well-being and growth.
- Collaborate with the Team Leader to create and maintain an ongoing shared vision of support for the team and their programs.
- Contribute feedback and perspectives to Team Leader coaching sessions for Educators.
- Reflect on the ways in which all elements of _How Does Learning Happen_ and the _Code of Ethics and Standards of Practice_ live and breathe in all programs.
- Complete weekly _Pedagogical Leadership Support Overviews_.
- Collaborate with Educators to ensure ASQ’s are completed, scored, and intervention overviews are completed _(administration will take place in monthly working meetings)._
- Will support educators in ensuring ASQ content and early intervention strategies are being organically embedded in program.
- Track and document their hours of support to submit to the Early Learning and Leadership Mentor on a weekly basis.
- Openly collaborate with other members of the MTP-NP Pedagogical Leadership Committee.
- Take the lead in ensuring the monthly _Pedagogical Leadership Administrative Duties_ are being completed in collaboration with Educators.
- Take part in monthly coaching sessions and connections with the Team Leader and Early Learning and Leadership Mentor.

**Supporting others through coaching and mentoring - the Pedagogical Leader will**:

- Focus on building positive, trusting, professional relationships and leading with care and compassion for all.
- Lead by example - living agency vision/mission/values, policies/procedures, Code of Ethics and Standards of Practice.
- Value empowering the leadership in others and aim to build up those around them.
- Offer positive recognition and highlight the strengths of others.
- Offer constructive feedback as it is essential for growth.
- Work through a strength-based lens, understanding that everyone is doing the best they can with the skills and capacity that they currently have.
- Feel confident in starting courageous conversations.
- Lean into curiosity and wondering as opposed to judgement and assumptions of others.
- Ask questions and take part in collaborative reflection with others.
- Clearly and openly communicate with others.
- Advocate for the approaches and practices that children deserve.
- Hold Educators accountable to the significant and complex work that they are trusted and privileged to take part in.
- Challenge the status quo and not be afraid to push others out of their comfort zone.
- Follow the lead of others - seeking to understand prior to being understood.
- Be open to the ideas, opinions, perspectives of others.
- Gathering insights into what Educators are curious about, what their goals are and what they would like to have support with.

**Collaboration with the Team Leader - the Pedagogical Leader and Team Leader will**:

- Work together to create a shared vision of support for their team.
- Work together to create, invest in, and maintain a positive work culture for their team.
- Work together to create, invest in, and maintain a culture of reflective practice throughout their team.
- Take part in clear, open, and honest communication with each other.
- Have professional, strength-based, and constructive conversations about their team that pertains to professional goals and growth moving forward.
- Maintain confidentiality and create safe and trusting spaces to share perspectives, insights, opinions, and ideas.
- Collaborate to bring new initiatives, projects, and ideas forward to their team.

**Administrative Time Overview