A school superintendent suggested to a Kelly branch manager that the company should expand its services to include substitute teachers. According to Leslie Oliver, product manager at Kelly Educational Services, the program was an immediate hit. It went national this past November and is now operating in all 50 states. Response has been awesome, and it's great because it's a way to help communities. Substitutes are happy because they get paid weekly, earn paid vacation, can receive alternative work in the summer, and receive free software training and direct deposit.
Regular teachers are thrilled because they can take vacation.
Schools are thrilled because staffing is someone else's headache. Theresa Setting, director of Kelly Services Product Management, explains that with Kelly, parents and schools can be assured of a background screen, education verification and reference check. Additionally, every Kelly substitute teacher receives a handbook and completes the Kelly Educational Staffing orientation process, thus paving the way to increasing on-task behavior in the classroom, says Setting. Our orientation process and quality control measures, developed with schools, ensure that only the most qualified substitute teachers end up in front of children. Kelly works with schools at the branch level, reports Oliver, and partners with the schools, following their criteria.