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If you are an aspiring teacher, young, and or college student, this may be the job for you. You can easily make $300 a week working a few days and have a great balance between work, school, and life. However, if you are 3-5 or 5-8 years in to your teaching career, have tons of bills, student loans, or simply adulting, I would not recommend working here. The pay is unacceptably too low ($110 for a 9 hour work day, $90 for 7hrs). I left one teaching job to pursue a substitute position at School Professionals to try to maintain a semi-decent work, school, and life balance and went from $1300 biweekly to $400-600 biweekly, thats more than half of a pay cut.  Also if you found yourself accepting a position through this agency during the months of April/May, you will be out of work the ENTIRE summer - lots of emphasis on ENITRE. I accepted this position in the month of April, didn't start until the last week of May and suddenly stopped working after the first week in June - due to the SCR company that does your background check being closed for the duration of the summer :)...... right. I was completely unaware of this and livid! I had to apply to various schools hoping I could find something before the school year started-  thanks be to God, I did - but if I were completely broke, I probably would have suffered over the summer. To not be working so suddenly and not given this information was super unprofessional and wrong on their end. They sell a GREAT game during the interview process but it is not all it seems. The schools that I worked for in that short period of time were absolutely horrible. Very unprofessional and uninformative. I simply did not have the best experience working here.

I have been with school Professionals for approximately a year. I must honestly say this is by far the worst company. The personal Reps are extremely rude and inconsiderate. School Professionals exploit their clients, clients are paid very low wages and are unable to cancel an assignment if a family emergency arises. If you are considering a long term position as a substitute teacher for School Professionals, don't even waste your time; you will have all the responsibilities as a full time teacher, with the same low wages as a sub. Long-term subs have to attend meetings, meet with parents, create lesson plans, grade papers, and other responsibilities; you earn the same wages. Most of the schools you will be sent, are horrible. You are mistreated by School Professionals and also by the students at those high need schools with horrible kids. I would not recommend School Professionals to anyone. Working for School Professionals almost feel like you are being sucked by leeches. No benefits for you tireless work. The personal Reps are disheartening and ridiculous; They are trained to be cold hearted and horrible towards substitute teachers. The Reps constantly threaten the subs. 
If you enjoy being exploited and treated like poorly, please work for Schools Professionals; you will not be disappointed because they will exploit you to pieces and treat you worst than roaches. If you are scheduled to work at 7:30 and your child, mother, father, or any of your family members is in serious need, you better not call an hour before you are scheduled to work. forget your love ones or you will be terminated.

I’ve worked with them for about a year. They’re a very strict company which is understandable but prepare to feel like a work robot. 
They call you multiple times a day for assignments even if you’ve denied them. 
They call you during assignments… when don’t they have your schedule??
I’ve gotten chastised for not answering and chastised for answering during an assignment. (Sometimes they call you with urgent info) 
They can call and text and email you as they please. But they only accept communication via phone calls. 

Sometime schools will cancel assignments last minute (not school professionals fault,) but if god forbid you get sick or have an emergency. They’re condemning and condescending and will cut off your access to assignments which helps no one… not you… not the schools…. Not them? It’s silly. 
0 sympathy as to why you maybe been late or absent 
And if you call them to let them know you’re running late… you’re chastised. No one wants to be late. No one wants to miss a check. 
They treat you like a teenager who’s just worked their first job. 
I had a family emergency and didn’t have access to my phone. Their response?
Call your employer in the event of an emergency. Umm… how? No questions no sympathy. They don’t care about their subs at all, just about how we can serve them.  

Great place to work with awesome  recruiters only need to work two days per month to stay active but there is work every day if you want it. 
Super flexible and there bonuses if you work every day. Two downsides one is the app sometimes is fussy but calling or texting your recruiter will always get you placed.Other down side is on the school side not the recruiting side. You never know what school admin. are trying to get away with, sometimes they will send you home and not tell you why, if sent home reimbursement does happen on some level just make sure any tattoos are covered some schools are strict about that, most are not. 

Just a suggestion but some companies are now paying by degree, as in 137 for associates 150 with bachelors 175 with masters and 200 with a teaching cert tract. Look out for those providers they are out there.

I loved working there because it have me access to different types if teaching environments u til i found my ideal school. You are given a great opportunity to introduce yourself to both the student body and admin, and if its a good fit then go for it. Its a great temp to perm organization.

On arrival, I would first conduct basic administrative work. Answering phone calls, making copies, answering emails in timely fashion. Then I would contact superintendents and principals of the many Title 1 school districts in the city to see if they were inline with the grant protocol set by the chancellor.

Management was very supportive as well as instructive. they were concise in what the asked for which made my job a lot easier to manage myself. 

The hardest part of the job was juggling the info and analytics of many schools from all 32 districts within the city at once. There was a lot of moving pieces to the different tasks I conducted like progress reports and analysis of finances within there respective schools. As time progressed, I became more acclimated to the process and the confidence in my work showed.

The most enjoyable part of the job was knowing that because of our analysis and careful considerations in school reports, underprivileged students in poverty stricken communities were getting the best materials and grants they needed in order to progress and succeed with there studies.

As part of my present position I daily travel to various schools to provide coverage to absent teachers.  In order to be an effective substitute teacher,  I usually introduce myself then restate the school’s expectation and mine.  Any student who fails to adhere to the desired expectation is given the school recommended opportunities to make the necessary correction.  Pupils that fail to make the necessary changes experience the immediate consequences. The most challenging aspect of this position is not being at the same school more than twice in the same week or even month; the result is that when I return the process of restating the expectations starts once again.   The most appealing aspect about this type of position is that students are often inquisitive about my personal life.  I really don’t get offended. In fact, I often use it to my advantage.  I would say that if you want to know the answer to that question you and your class must complete all your work.  And you would be surprised as to how effective this has proven to be!  

Your typical day starts at 5;30 when the rep's beginning to call call and see if you're available for a job that morning. While that good, many times some of us live several buroughs away from the way this making it difficult to make it from Brooklyn to Queens or Bronx, or even Staten Island.
Once you reach your assignment, should you decide to take one, you will generally end up in a troubled, struggling Charter schools you are generally assigned to a class of "struggling scholars".  In reality these were the most disruptive, unbehaved students. The students behavior is abominable and the administration isn't helpful. You can call the office but they would instead tell you to speak with the administration.
What I've learned is that if I were teaching I would need to be more picky about the positions that I chose. I also learned that I would need to document more the teaching situations that I found myself in. 
The hardest part of the job was getting through the or revised lunch scheduled, where you were assigned 30 minutes but in practice was given 15 minutes

Not a particularly great place to work. The only good thing is that you get to pick when you work. Some places are okay however others have horrible working conditions and staff. If a place gives you a bad review the company doesn't have you back and instead grills you in a rude and condescending fashion. Their no touch policy makes working there hard especially with small children, i find myself pulling away from them when they're attempting to hold my hand or give me a high five. The pay is also lack luster and isn't enough to make ends meet especially in NYC. Most of your assignments will involve you teaching students with no permanent teacher so you have to take up the helm and have to fill the role of lead teacher without lead teacher pay. My suggestion is that one should only take this job if you are in between jobs or are desperate for money qnd even if you are I'd look for a permanent job with protections and a union ASAP

Being a substitute with this agency has been a mostly good experience with the pay being good and the availability of long term positions being pretty good. It's definitely hard to find same day positions at the beginning of the semester and during the summer, but a lot more jobs pop up during the middle of the school year. The pay is pretty good, but some of the schools that they send you to have unrealistic expectations for how much work substitutes should be doing. I was in a situation where I was basically acting as a full time teacher (the school openly admitted that substitutes had the same responsibilities as full-time teachers) in a long term position. When me and the other subs brought this to school professionals attention, we really didn't receive much support. Just do your research about the schools they want to send you to and talk to some other subs about how they treat guest teachers if you can. Overall, it's a good way to make some extra money if you are at the right schools or doing same day jobs.   

I have had mostly positive experiences in the dozen or so schools I have subbed at.  While the schools vary widely in quality, one should not judge them by neighborhood. I have been willing to travel far for schools where my interaction with students and other staff was best. The commutes can be challenging and often by the time a job appears in the messages and the app, it has been taken by someone else so you really have to stay on top of things. 

Overall, though,I have been able to work five days a week when I want to. If you want more choices, take the time to qualify for UPK because about half the jobs listed are for these. 

I would caution about pay. The top rates are good. However, jobs that are described in the $175 to $200 per day range sometimes wind up less because the student didn’t show (as for a tutoring  job) or the school lets out earlier than advertised. As a result, I have frequently been paid $175 for a job listed as $200 or $85 for a tutoring job listed as $175. 

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