Growing up, my peers and I always associated substitute teachers with having a laid-back and easy day. Having an alternative teacher was an opportunity to act as if we didn’t have any “home training,” ...

Substitute teachers keep schools running. By the time they graduate high school, students will have spent 8 percent of their K-12 schooling—an average of one school year—with a substitute, according ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — A now-former substitute teacher was arrested Tuesday after he was found to have several weapons in his vehicle on a Duval County Public Schools campus. Abdiel Alexander ...

While a Fellow at Stanford's d.school, Jill Vialet drew design inspiration from students charting their experience in the classroom and how it could be better. Marc Freedman: Jill, I’ve watched your ...

LANSING — Lansing School District isn’t immune to a nationwide substitute teacher shortage, but you can help. A short supply of substitutes has left Lansing administrators trying inventive new ways to ...

Pasco School District is bumping the pay for its most tenured substitute teachers in an effort to consistently fill teacher absences and to woo over fill-ins from neighboring districts. Back in May, ...

[image_credit]MinnPost file photo by Bill Kelley[/image_credit][image_caption]Until the state Department of Education delivers final back-to-school guidance later this month, schools won’t be able to ...

The Palm Beach County School District is just about at its target of having 3,500 substitute teachers for the 2025-2026 ...

Carren Smrstik is never quite sure what to expect when she pulls up to Briarhill Middle School each day. She might be teaching a math class or helping out with special education students. Or she could ...

December 4, 2025 - A new literacy intervention program is being rolled out in San Diego, Alameda, San Mateo and Riverside counties, to help teenagers in juvenile detention grasp the basics of reading.