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Increase Your Qualified Substitute Pool

Offer districts in your state an alternative substitute teacher certification pathway.

Every district needs qualified, prepared substitutes to round out their teaching staff. With Frontline Education, you can reduce barriers to certification while ensuring substitute effectiveness.


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Success in Missouri: Higher Fill Rates and More Substitute Teachers

  • State of Missouri approved Frontline’s online program as an alternative certification pathway
  • Substitute pool grew by 6,700 individuals certified through the program
  • Increase in classroom fill rates at a rate of 61%
  • Confidence-rating of 92% that Frontline-trained substitutes performed as well as or better than traditionally trained substitutes


 

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Substitute Teacher Training Program

Improving substitute pools and fill rates can be challenging, but you can support your districts’ initiatives to have qualified, prepared substitute teachers ready to fill classrooms with Frontline’s Substitute Teacher Training Program. The substitute shortage hasn’t made it easy to manage vacancies and absences across districts, but by providing a program that’s a light-lift for districts to offer, but an in-depth training experience for prospective substitutes — you can get ahead.

Make It Easier to Fill Classrooms with Qualified Substitutes

 

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Support districts by reducing barriers to entry for prospective substitutes

Some states require college credits for substitute teacher certification, a barrier that many prospective substitutes don’t overcome. Providing districts with resources to create their own substitute pipeline can be a win-win.

 

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Expand the applicant pool while ensuring substitute effectiveness

When those prospective substitutes find a less time-consuming and more affordable pathway to certification, they might just realize that they can train for the job they really want, after all.

 

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Increase fill rates and substitute teacher retention

In a Frontline survey, over three-quarters of Missouri program graduates cited feeling “well prepared” or “extremely well prepared” to manage a classroom. When substitutes feel good about what they do, they accept jobs again (and again).

 

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Give teachers support and peace of mind

It’s no secret how much full-time teachers do for schools – and that sometimes, they need a day off. The peace of mind that students are in good hands can reduce teacher attrition and boost morale.

 

Get Into the Details: Accessible, Rigorous, and Purpose-Built for Substitutes

The Program 12 online courses, about 20 training hours total.

Course Components Each course includes an introduction, learning objectives, interactive lessons, assessment, and next steps.

InTASC Standards-Aligned Developed by the same team who co-authored the Common Core State Standards, but more widely applicable to different substitutes and states.

SCORM Protocol A technical term that’s essential to online learning; students won’t be able to just “click through” or “hit play and pretend” on this material.


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Are you helping districts in your state expand qualified substitute pools?

District leaders work tirelessly to bring education to every student and their family – when substitute applicant pools are on their plate, too, a few things can go wrong.

 

  1. Wasting Resources and Time

    Internal training programs at districts can eat up time and resources and reach fewer prospective substitutes in the end.

  2. Feeling Pressure from Staffing Agencies

    District leaders considering a training program through a staffing agency may feel pressured to contract with them for all district recruitment at a high cost.

  3. Watching the Sub Pool Shrink

    Prospective substitutes who are required to complete college courses may not have the time or financial ability to do so.

  4. Questioning Substitute Quality

    States who drop all requirements for substitute teacher training might run the risk of having unqualified people in their classrooms with students.

 

Help for districts in your state is here – just reach out

At Frontline Education, we’re proud to offer our Substitute Teacher Training Program. As a trusted partner to the K-12 education community for over 20 years, serving 60% of public school districts in the country across urban, suburban, and rural settings, every offering is purpose-built for schools and the people in them.

If you’re ready for actionable solutions to the substitute teacher shortage, get in touch to learn more about our Substitute Teacher Training Program.


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Absence Management Resources

 

  • Preparing Substitutes for the Classroom

    Blog Preparing Substitutes for the Classroom

  • The Substitute Teacher Shortage

    Guide The Substitute Teacher Shortage

  • Financial Flexibility

    Blog What is Financial Flexibility and Why Does it Matter to K-12?

  • Wagestream

    Announcement Frontline Education Partners with Wagestream to Bring Flexible Pay to Substitutes

Learn more about Frontline Education’s Substitute Teacher Training Program today.