Build a Positive Culture Around Substitute Teaching at Your School
You can start to shift the culture around substitute teaching at your school and, because so few leaders focus on this, small changes can have a big impact.
You can start to shift the culture around substitute teaching at your school and, because so few leaders focus on this, small changes can have a big impact.
Two-thirds of our substitutes aspire to be full time teachers.
A week of orientation and training to prepare subs for the new school year.
We’ve found it’s usually not a question of “enough,” but rather, “engagement.”
Through our data analysis work with Substantial, we learned that one of our most important teacher pipelines is right under our noses—our substitute teacher pool.
This spring my district, West Contra Costa Unified, partnered with Substantial to recruit college seniors to serve as substitute teachers in our schools. Here are three reasons why hiring college students as substitute teachers makes sense for my district, and why I think you should try it in yours…