Our mission is to offer a child-centered, learning environment providing developmentally appropriate care and education in a nurturing atmosphere designed to foster your child’s social, physical and cognitive growth.
Our program provides a loving, attentive environment in order to give each child an emotional base, while providing a varied, flexible curriculum with opportunities for large and small muscle development, open-ended art exploration, science, puzzles, blocks, dancing and music, pretend play, and lots of books. Children will be able to make choices, solve problems and learn to be responsible for their actions.
Our children stay together as a class, with their teachers, for the first three years before moving to preschool then Pre-K. Children are placed in their classes by their date of birth. We do not promote children upon their birthday but rather classes stay together for the full school year. Continuity of care is one of the cornerstones of our program. We use September 1st as our cut off date, just as Albuquerque Public Schools does. Classes are grouped as follows: Infants (at least 6 weeks of age); Young Toddlers (1 as of September 1st); Older Toddlers (2 as of September 1st; Preschool (3 as of September 1st); Pre-K (4 as of September 1st).
La Luz does not discriminate on the basis or religion, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, color, creed, disability, national origin, age or any other factor protected by law.
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Job Opportunities
Assistant Teachers
We are hiring!! If you have a passion to work with children, aged 6 weeks through age 5, have experience and/or have education/training in early childhood, we want to talk to you! We offer benefits such as paid time off, sick leave, paid holidays, paid training, vision and dental, a 401k plan with employer match, life, short & long term disability, AD&D, offer AFLAC and more. We are looking for individuals who are fully vaccinated against COVID (and do pay a vaccination bonus of up to $150 for those getting both doses of Pfizer or Moderna or one dose of the J&J as well a booster). We work in a drug free environment and do initial drug screening (along with background checks) as well as monthly random testing. Please call today for more information!
Substitute Teachers
We are always searching for teachers looking for work on an on-call basis. Would work well for someone not looking for an everyday job. Subs are used in every class, with every age level, so experience is a MUST. You must also have your 45 hour class taken at a minimum. Fully vaccinated against COVID is a requirement. Please call for more information.
We are currently accepting new enrollments for our 2021/2022 School Year (starting August 11, 2021 and extending to August 9, 2022). Please call for availability or to be placed on our wait list. You can also fill out an Inquiry Form on our Learn More tab and we will get back to you as soon as possible.