Staff schedules at First Circle must be coordinated carefully to account for our long operating hours. There will likely be a different staff member on duty when you drop off and when you pick up your child, but morning and afternoon educators work together to seamlessly implement the curriculum and track each child’s daily needs. Quality care depends on the consistency of caregivers, so we strive as much as possible for day-to-day consistency in the scheduling of classroom staff.
We are not a traditional work environment, where employees who are out sick have the option of working from home while their office stays dark—when we have a staff member out, we must ensure that an equally qualified educator is in the classroom to maintain continuity of care as well as the state-regulated ratios. To be vigilant against the spread of infectious diseases, we exclude our staff from First Circle for the same symptoms as we do the children. We employ floating teachers who are available to help out in any classroom to accommodate staff illnesses, vacations, and emergency absences.