Lead Teacher, LaPetite Academy of Mesquite
Mesquite, TXJob$14.3–14.86/hrSeen 4 days agoSeen in employer's feed 4 days ago
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La Petite Academy is hiring a Lead Teacher to support preschool children and their families. The role develops interactive learning experiences, promotes children’s social, physical, and intellectual growth, leads classroom management and curriculum implementation, and builds relationships with families. Candidates should be energetic, dependable, and passionate, with classroom leadership and lesson-planning experience and the ability to meet education and childcare-center requirements.
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Lead Teacher, LaPetite Academy of Mesquite
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Brand: La Petite Academy
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Location:
910 Clay-Mathis Rd
Mesquite,
TX
Join a strong community where all we do is care-for the children and families we serve every day, as well as for our dedicated team members. Our people are our best asset. We listen and we know what you're looking for:
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You want benefits. We support you with a minimum 50% childcare discount, immediate access to benefits, innovative health programs, 401(k) company match, and much more.
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You want balance. We offer flexible schedules that work for you, no nights or weekends, the ability to bring your children to work with you, and paid time off.
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You want opportunity. We invest in your future with ongoing training, tuition reimbursement, credential assistance, and our unique Master Teacher Program.
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You want recognition. We provide a positive, fun workplace where employees are appreciated.
This is more than just a daycare job. It’s a journey, where you learn, grow, thrive—and play—every day. Being a teacher at a child care center is something special. We’re hiring and we want difference makers who will inspire children to become lifelong learners.
As a Lead Teacher, you’ll:
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Create! Develop fun, interactive learning experiences while mentoring fellow Teachers.
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Care! Promote the social, physical, and intellectual growth of the preschool children in your class.
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Call the shots! Take the lead on classroom management and curriculum implementation, plus be an expert on all licensing guidelines and company standards.
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Communicate! Build sincere relationships with enrolled and prospective families to promote achievement for the child and to support your center’s success.
We want energetic, dependable, passionate individuals who are at least 18 and have:
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Experience leading a classroom and creating educational lesson plans.
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The ability to meet state requirements for education and our childcare center requirements.
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The ability to work indoors or outdoors and engage in physical activity with children.
Compensation and Benefits
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Compensation based on Position, Education and Experience. Bi-weekly and Daily Pay options
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Lead Teacher- $14.30-$14.86
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Health insurance (medical, dental, vision, and FSA) provided for full-time employees, Limited medical offered for part-time workers
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Education assistance including tuition reimbursement and certification, 401K (plus company match), life and disability insurance and child care discount available to all employees
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Monday through Friday work week.
Learning Care is an equal opportunity employer and will not discriminate against an employee or applicant based on race, color, religion, national origin or ancestry, sex, age, physical or mental disability, veteran or military status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, marital status or any other protected status under federal, state, or local law.
How this job compares
Set against the 1,167 open Lead Teacher jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 27, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$14.3–14.86/hr
- US median$19–20/hr547 hourly ranges
This range's midpoint, $14.58/hr, is 25% below the US median midpoint ($19/hr) — in the lowest quarter of Lead Teacher hourly ranges across the US.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 91 open Lead Teacher jobs in Texas and 1,167 across the US. None of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most across the US
- Learning Care Group (this employer)786 open
- BrightPath Early Learning & Child Care109 open
- Cadence Education102 open
- Experience
- Lead Teacher postings that state a minimum ask for 1 year of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 1 to 2 years (162 postings).
- Education
- 51 of the 1,167 open Lead Teacher jobs (4%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 27, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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