Long-Term Substitute Teacher
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Company Summary
Learning Network is a growing, innovative, and customer-centric educational services company. We seek creative and tenacious individuals to help us drive success through service.
Service is very important to us. At Learning Network, you will be among people who care about their customers and colleagues. We prioritize service by ensuring the details are done and done well - every time. We make promises, and we keep those promises. We recognize that our customers and employees don’t have to choose us. As such, service is embedded deep within our culture - and providing white-glove service is an expectation of every employee.
At Learning Network, you’ll be a part of something special. You’ll sleep better knowing you make a difference by bringing the most innovative education to thousands of students. You’ll do this amongst a supportive community of people who care. In return, you’ll care. You’ll show you care by being teachable, doing your job well, and valuing the relationships with your colleagues. You’ll achieve your goals and play nicely in the sandbox with others while doing it. We don’t do drama, and neither should you.
Working at Learning Network isn’t for everyone. But for those who choose to commit to hard work, service, students, and colleagues, it’s an incredibly rewarding experience.
Impact & Why This Matters
In a world where too many students feel unseen, disconnected, or left behind—whether due to distance, circumstance, or doubt—you will be their consistent champion.
Every interaction is an opportunity to provide students with the consistency, encouragement, and high-quality instruction they need to keep moving forward. By stepping confidently into new classrooms, building relationships quickly, and maintaining strong engagement, you'll help ensure students continue making meaningful progress toward their goals throughout the school year.
This isn't traditional substitute teaching. It's serving as a dependable instructor who provides continuity during critical moments, ensuring students remain engaged, supported, and successful regardless of changing circumstances.
Purpose
You will ensure students experience consistent, high-quality instruction and support whenever coverage is needed. Through strong relationship-building, instructional excellence, and a commitment to student success, you will maintain continuity, preserve momentum, and help students stay connected to their learning journey.
Role Overview
This is a highly adaptable, student-centered teaching role that provides long-term instructional coverage for teacher absences, vacancies, leaves of absence, and other organizational needs throughout the school year.
You'll quickly step into established classrooms, build meaningful relationships with students and families, deliver engaging instruction, monitor progress, provide feedback, and maintain the high standards students expect from their educational experience.
Your success will be measured not only through engagement, responsiveness, and instructional excellence, but also by your ability to create stability, preserve learning momentum, and ensure students continue to make meaningful progress.
Being successful in this position requires flexibility, resilience, responsiveness, and a deep commitment to student success because students deserve exceptional support every day—not just when circumstances are ideal.
Core Responsibilities
- Provide seamless instructional continuity that keeps students engaged, progressing, and connected during teacher absences and organizational transitions.
- Build strong relationships with students and families, quickly creating trust, confidence, and a sense of stability during periods of change.
- Monitor engagement and progress with eagle-eyed attention; spot struggling or disengaged students early and launch timely, personalized interventions that reignite momentum.
- Deliver timely grading and powerful, meaningful feedback that reinforces learning, celebrates growth, builds self-efficacy, and equips students to conquer challenges with confidence.
Essential Duties
- Serve students, families, and colleagues with genuine professionalism, integrity, humility, and a white-glove mindset that makes every interaction feel personal and uplifting.
- Own daily monitoring of student engagement and academic progress; act swiftly and thoughtfully when support is needed most.
- Foster genuine relationships through consistent, reliable, multi-channel communication that makes students and families feel supported all day, every school day.
- Empower mastery of course material by guiding students with clarity, varied explanations, and encouragement that sparks deeper understanding.
- Provide prompt, high-quality grading and feedback that inspires forward movement and long-term growth.
- Keep precise, actionable records of progress and interventions to ensure nothing falls through the cracks.
- Collaborate enthusiastically with peers and leaders to amplify student success across the team.
- Engage fully in professional development, meetings, and training to continuously elevate your impact.
- Teach faithfully within the assigned curriculum, pacing, and resources only, channeling your creativity into masterful delivery rather than any creation from scratch or use of outside materials.
- Lead live sessions when called upon, bringing energy and connection using only provided content.
- Support proctoring during testing windows, including occasional travel, to ensure fair and secure assessments.
- Embrace other duties as needed to advance our mission.
Work Schedule and Availability
- Work a varying schedule based on organizational coverage needs, student support requirements, and testing schedules. Coverage periods may vary in duration and frequency throughout the school year.
- Remain actively available and immediately responsive throughout the workday via phone, chat, Zoom, email, and internal systems so students, parents, and colleagues can reach you in real time.
- Avoid all concurrent work during scheduled hours and maintain full professional focus; ensure any outside employment does not interfere with performance.
- Maintain a private, professional, distraction-free remote workspace with reliable high-speed internet that supports video and required tools.
- Maintain consistent daily availability; absences exceeding two consecutive instructional days materially disrupt student support, engagement, and progress monitoring and generally cannot be accommodated during the instructional term.
This Role Is Your Calling If:
- You thrive in dynamic environments and enjoy stepping into new situations with confidence and positivity.
- You find fulfillment in helping students remain successful during times of transition or uncertainty.
- You can quickly build relationships and establish trust with students, families, and colleagues.
- You're wired for excellence: self-driven, ultra-responsive, and proud to own every student's progress as if it were your own family member.
- You see online education as a superpower—one that reaches underserved students anywhere, personalizes learning at scale, and redefines access to transformative learning.
- You embrace clear structure, metrics, and accountability because they fuel your ability to deliver extraordinary results.
This Role May Not Align If:
- You prefer minimal direct interaction with students or parents.
- You dislike proactive outreach such as phone calls or frequent messaging.
- You expect primarily asynchronous teaching with limited real-time engagement.
- You struggle with tight responsiveness, follow-through, or time management under metrics.
- You want to balance this position with another job.
- You resist oversight, performance tracking, or structured expectations.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
- Strong interpersonal skills to communicate clearly, empathetically, and professionally.
- Ability to build rapport, gain commitment, and explain concepts using varied methods.
- Extreme ownership of outcomes with high self-motivation, discipline, and accountability to exceed expectations.
- Proven content knowledge and prior educational success with students from a variety of backgrounds.
- Strong organizational skills, time management, attention to detail, and the ability to handle competing priorities.
- Independent work capability paired with effective remote team collaboration.
- Proficiency with Mac OS, Google Workspace, learning management systems, and task tools (e.g., Asana); quick adaptation to new technologies.
- Willingness and ability to travel to assigned testing locations for proctoring.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Education or related field (required)
- Teacher certification and an approved teacher preparation program (required)
- Ability to obtain Substitute Teacher certifications in Arizona, Colorado, Washington, and other states as may be assigned (required)
- 3+ years teaching experience (preferred)
- 2+ years online teaching experience (preferred)
- Ability to pass required background checks (required)
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision employee coverage for as little as $1 each per month;
- Personal paid time off in addition to major holidays;
- Short-term disability insurance, long-term disability insurance, life insurance, and AD&D insurance are all 100% paid by the employer; and
- 401(k) with employer contributing a dollar-for-dollar match of employee contributions up to 6% of employee earnings.
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