A new substitute management system for staff members was recently implemented at Culver Community Schools.
Superintendent Karen Shuman told school board members Monday that the automated program has been in use for about two weeks with good results so far.
“The lesson plans can be uploaded right into the system,” Shuman said, “if a teacher woke up and put in at six o’clock that the needed a sick day, it would start calling all the substitutes that are within our system.”
Substitutes are able to sign up for alerts as well. Teachers can even enter in a preferred sub if they wish to have an instructor who has worked with their class in the past.
Shuman said they are asking teachers to enter in their sick-day requests by 6:45 a.m. at the latest. The automated system will continue making calls until 7:15 a.m. or until someone indicates that they’re interested in substitute teaching for the class.
Shuman said that the cost for the purchase and installation of the program plus the subsequent training was a total of $5,000. The money for the automated Frontline Absence Management System came out of the general fund.
