Early Childhood Educators
Do you want a job where you can truly make a difference in your community? Sarpy County Head Start is seeking quality Early Childhood Educators to work with infants, toddlers, and preschoolers for the 2019-2020 School Year. Candidates should have a current Nebraska Teaching Certificate (Provisional Certificates may be considered) and must have a degree or endorsement in Early Childhood.
Benefits include:
- Employer paid single health, dental, vision, LTD, life insurance
- NPERS retirement match
- Paid time off during Summers/Holidays
- Monthly professional development
- On site Instructional Coach
- Small class sizes
If you are looking for a family-friendly and highly flexible job, Sarpy County Head Start has immediate openings for Substitutes. Minimum qualifications include a High School Diploma or CDA. Hourly pay based on educational credentials.
Eligible candidates are invited to go to https://sarpyheadstart.tedK12.com/hire to submit an application.
In January of 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson declared �The War on Poverty� in his State of the Union speech. As a result, sociologists, psychologists, and pediatricians began discussions to design a program to assist children to overcome set backs or obstacles caused by poverty. The name chosen for this program was Project Head Start.
Head Start began as an eight-week summer program for children in low-income communities going into school in the fall. It served over 560,000 children across the United States of America in the first summer and provided preschool classes, medical care, dental care, and mental health services. Today Head Start and Early Head Start continue to deliver comprehensive and high quality services to children birth to five years of age, and pregnant women.
In 1992, the four school districts in Sarpy County; Bellevue, Gretna, Papillion/La Vista, and South Sarpy District #46, applied for a Head Start Grant to serve sixty children. The grant was awarded in 1992 to serve fifty-seven children.
Starting in 1993, Sarpy County Head Start continued expansion to its current enrollment of 221 children. The Head Start program serves one hundred twenty-five children and Early Head Start serves fifty-six children in a center-based option and thirty-six children in a home-based option and four pregnant women.