Join Our Team
We strive to create an encouraging, positive, and collaborative environment where we can all grow!
Each teacher at the ELC starts on the same level. LaFontaine will always build up our leaders and hire from within our family of schools.
We do our very best to invest in every employee in hopes that we can provide value to them while they are with us. Whether an employee is passing through as they obtain their degree in an unrelated field or they are seeking a career in Early Childhood Education, we want to help them succeed.
We host an annual leadership development course that aligns very closely to our core values as a company: compassion, courage, flexibility, growth mindset. This course teaches the skills needed to get started in leadership at our schools. We will continue to invest in each employee's growth for the entirety of their employment with us.
Each employee starts at $13 per hour. Once on the leadership track, employees are paid $15-$19 an hour until moving to a salary position as a director.
We'd love to help you grow with us!
Substitutes
Each employee at the ELC is able to take time off work whenever they want or need. All that we ask is that you have a substitute to cover your classroom during your scheduled hours. To assist with this, we employ substitute teachers.
We do our very best to have substitutes scheduled each day to ensure you can have a teacher cover last minute shifts and provide all the information you need for days off in advance.
Scheduling
At the ELC we want to protect the time that you have outside of work. We work to give full time employees a four day work week, and we do our best to maintain the integrity of our program and accommodate college student hours.
For an example of what each day’s schedule would look like click here.
For an example of the lessons you would be asked to teach, click the "Week at a Glance" button on each program's page.
Holidays & Paid Time Off
The ELC follows pretty closely with Madison County Public Schools. The list of closings can be found on the Schedule and Calendar page.
Each day that we are closed, teachers are paid half of their regular hours for the time scheduled. Once teachers begin the leadership track, they receive full pay on all dates that we are closed.