Key Questions: Subbing During the Pandemic
What questions should current and potential subs ask themselves and their employer before they enter the classroom during a pandemic?
What Schools Need Now: A Reimagined Role for Substitute Teachers
The bright spots that exist in current substitute teaching systems offer a clear path for creating a new role for substitute teachers, and one that matches the needs and challenges of schools in a post-quarantine world.
Arlington’s Sub to Teacher Pipeline
Two-thirds of our substitutes aspire to be full time teachers.
Building a Sub-to-Teacher Pipeline
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.
Five Reasons Why Every College Student Should Try Substitute Teaching
This spring, the Substantial team had the privilege of supporting 12 UC Berkeley students to become substitute teachers. At the end of the semester, we sat them down and asked them about the experience, and overwhelmingly they said that every college student should be a substitute teacher, here’s why…
What We Learned Helping College Students Become Substitute Teachers
In December 2016, we initiated a program to recruit, train, and support UC Berkeley students to become substitute teachers, it was a truly amazing experience for us, the students and the school district. Here’s what we learned…