Organization Overview

Mission

To prepare Spanish-speaking children for success in school and life by providing superior dual language, multi-cultural early childhood education.

Enduring Vision

Charlotte-Mecklenburg is a place where differences in language and culture are mutually enriching, and all children have greater access to advantage and opportunity.

Overview

Charlotte Bilingual Preschool (CltBP) is developing the model of culturally appropriate, dual language early childhood education for Latinx children and their families in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, and our nation. We bring our many programs into the service of meeting our mission. Our two-generation model:

• Provides 3- and 4-year-old Spanish-speaking children with superior dual language, multi-cultural preschool instruction in the only 5-star licensed dual language preschool program in North Carolina
• Helps families build literacy and kindergarten-readiness skills for their children from infancy to 5-years-old
• Offers family members the resources they want to become active participants in their children?s early childhood development
• Trains the next generation of professionally certified dual-language early childhood educators
• Expands our reach by building a decentralized dual language early education delivery system to replicate with partner sites and maximize our impact
• Advocates state- and nationwide for our early-childhood education model, our children, and their families. We provide family members and supporters the tools they want to voice their views to policymakers and remove the systemic barriers that have historically prevented them from thriving.

Opportunity

Building on this momentum, CltBP?s board of directors approved a game-changing strategic plan in early 2020 that includes dramatic expansion over the next ten years, growing its impact to meet the needs of ten times as many children and their families annually. This plan calls for expanding reach through partnerships with other preschools, evolving the current preschool into a full-day early learning center, and developing a dual language early learning workforce

The Role

Reporting to the Expansion Director, the Home Based Child Care Coordinator builds an Early Childhood Education Workforce Development model that recruits, develops, supervises, evaluates, and graduates future dual language early educators for the Charlotte Bilingual Preschool teaching team and the wider community.

Essential Duties

• Designs Home Based Child Care Network, based on participant perspectives, needs and preferences, as well as CltBP?s long- and short-term strategic plan to ensure CltBP can meet our goal of serving 1,500 Latinx children by 2030. Creates an actionable plan for the Home Based Child Care Network program implementation based on best practices, incorporating regular evaluation and to ensure program effectiveness using the structure of planning with the Home Based Child Care Network participants.
• Partners with institutions of higher learning and other educational opportunities as appropriate to ensure training is offered as needed and reduce barriers to educational success for current and future participants
• Implements CltBP?s ECE Bilingual educational model to train new home based early educators on best practices for dual language learners
• Recruits, trains, and supervises the Home Based Child Care Network participants, ensuring professional development and small business opportunities are provided
• Ensures compliance with program grant funding and associated reporting requirements
• Ensures program data is collected and analyzed for continuous program improvement
• Creates, promotes, and manages partnerships with external agencies, positively representing CltBP in the community
• Manages and meets program budget
• Advocates with partners to reduce barriers to educational success for current and future program participants
• Ensure all Home Based Child Care Network participants meet licensing requirements as defined by NCDHHS.