Substantial Classrooms Redesigning the Substitute Teaching Experience

Transform Your School’s Substitute Teaching Experience

Just like everything else, substitute teaching is about to undergo a big change. In Substantial Classrooms: Redesigning the Substitute Teaching Experience, authors Jill Vialet and Amanda von Moos usher in a new era of innovation in substitute teaching. Threaded with concrete and actionable ways to improve the experience of substitute teaching for administrators, students, and the teachers themselves, Substantial Classrooms is a leading voice for innovation and renewal in substitute teaching. Instead of viewing substitute teachers as a placeholder in an educator’s absence, this book encourages readers to view substitute teachers as vital resources that diversify the typical classroom learning experience.  While other books look only at making a bad situation bearable, this book re-examines substitute teaching with an eye towards reinventing it as a unique and valuable part of students’ educational experience.

Key themes of Substantial Classrooms include:

• How substitute teaching works today
• Applying human-centered design to create change in legacy systems like substitute teaching
• Concrete and inspiring examples of different models for substitute teaching, for example, reimagining it as paid fieldwork for aspiring teachers.
• In addition to these key themes, every chapter includes stories and techniques from dynamic and innovative educational practitioners.

This must-have guide to substitute teaching can improve schools everywhere and revolutionize the way educators, school and district leaders, colleges, and community partners view the experience of substitute teaching as a lever to positively impact schools.

JILL VIALET and AMANDA VON MOOS are the Co-founders of Substantial, a nonprofit organization focused on redesigning the way schools and districts recruit, train, and support substitute teachers.

Foreword by Dr. Susie Wise

Introduction

How We Got Here

What's Ahead   

Building Empathy: Parallel Journeys

How Substitute Teaching Works Today

Surprising Stats

Who Are Substitute Teachers?

The Need for Subs

Substitute Teaching as a System

The Impact of Uneven Coverage

What Happens in the Classroom

Why Isn't Substitute Teaching Receiving More Attention?

Takeaways

Start Where Your Are

What Matters: Subs Coming Back

Building Relationships at the School Level

Building Relationships at the District Level

Takeaways

Design Lab

What is Design Thinking?

Doing Design Work - Our Basic Cycle

Key Mindsets

Design Principles

Developing an Idea: Steps Along the Way

SubPlans

Takeaways

Opportunities

The Heart of the Opportunity: Underutilized Student Time

Why These Ideas

Meet the Innovators

The Art of the Hack

Go Forth and Innovate!

Opportunity: Reimagine Substitute Teaching as a Full-Time Fellowship

Opportunity: Part-Time Jobs for College Students

Opportunity:  Community Talent

Opportunity: Teacher Pre-Service

Opportunity: District Teacher Pipeline

Opportunity: After-School Staff

Emerging Opportunities

Takeaways

The Commencement Chapter

Resources

Design Moves Playbook

Getting Ready for a Substitute Teacher - Sample Lesson Plan

Resource Guide: Learning About Design Thinking

Resource Guide: Research on Substitute Teaching

Books Referenced

Acknowledgments

About the Authors

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