Aleta's substitute teacher business model was exactly what I needed, at exactly the right time! I've always been confident in hiring and staffing my 5 centers but the world of hiring continues to change, and I think it's important to try new things and change as the world does. For years, I have heard Aleta talk about how amazing her TFT was and it finally clicked with me. Aleta has been a mentor for me for so many years, and it was great to work with her to start my sub company. My goal was to help support staffing holes, call ins, but more importantly, to be able to take my enrollment to a new level without the added stress on my Directors and Teachers. My sub team only continues to grow each week, and my center's overall morale and teacher support is better than it has ever been!
Andrea Majewski
Regional Director, The Learning Tree
Childcare Owners and Directors are left to scramble to find a qualified substitute teacher. We’ve been there!
But, it doesn’t have to be that way!
Always having highly-qualified substitutes available when a teacher…
Calls out sick in the morning
Has an upcoming planned vacation
Begins family leave
Experiences a family emergency
Attends training for a day or two
Leaves unexpectedly
You had the processes and procedures in place to ensure that you always had top-quality substitute teachers who were always recruited, vetted, and trained especially for your center or school?
And we know it works because it’s the system we actually built and use!
Increase in student outcomes
Reduction in staff turnover
Compliance with staff-student ratios
Smooth-running classrooms
No administrators jumping into teaching positions
Consistence, Confidence, and Connection
Aleta Mechtel is the go-to resource for successfully starting a thriving childcare substitute teacher placement business. She utilized her deep understanding and experience in childcare to create an amazing substitute teacher company of her own, and the fact that she is willing to offer the Teachers for Tomorrow Operating System to others is simply incredible. However, that is just the beginning, as she and her team are constantly available to answer any question or guide you through the process to get your own substitute company going. Yes, it still takes commitment and hard work to make your own company successful, but having Aleta’s blueprint helps ensure that you have the foundation for an awesome organization.
Brian Sprafka
Owner, Sunflower Childcare Substitutes & Small Hands, Big Dreams Learning Centers
As an owner of your own substitute teacher placement company, you will provide THE SOLUTION. Recruit, train, and place top-quality substitute teachers to provide consistency and stability in every child’s classroom. Keep classrooms running smoothly and reduce the constant staffing burdens for childcare Owners and Directors.
After 13 years of owning and directing my childcare centers, I knew I had to find a way to make staffing far less stressful and much more efficient.
So, in 2013 I decided to proactively hire and train substitutes to fill spaces within my own centers. No longer did I have to scramble last minute to find someone to cover or jump into the classroom myself.
My stress levels went way down and my time was freed up to focus on running a healthy, growing business. The staffing demand not only existed in my centers but centers all across our region, so I expanded to support other local childcare centers by providing qualified and trained substitutes for their staffing needs.
This was THE STAFFING SOLUTION we had all been looking for and so it lead to a steady income stream for my company as we continued to grow.
Now I’ve made it my mission to provide the same system to others who want to take an intentional, strategic approach to solving their staffing challenges.
Aleta is my go-to problem solver! She is an early childhood industry leader with multiple strategies in her toolkit. She is an excellent communicator, first seeking to fully understand the problem or goal. She strives to look at the big picture while getting to the root issues to develop a comprehensive step-by-step plan for execution. She has the ability to work effectively with a variety of skill sets, personalities, and generations and is equally comfortable working with experienced professionals, colleagues new to the education sector as well as clients from other industries. Companies and leaders looking to grow quickly while maintaining quality and making bold moves to leverage team members would be well served to work with Aleta.
Kathe Petchel
Operations and Staffing Consultant, Hinge Brokers
Lifelong partnership
50 mile radius that is previously agreed upon
Full marketing plan (Valued at $25,000)
Full teacher training system (Valued at $25,000)
Full set of step-by-step instructions (Valued at $30,000)
An evergreen system. Your purchase entitles you to all the upgrades and enhancements we make - at no additional cost!
Start Up Strategy Call
Quarterly Planning Sessions
$550.00/Month gets you:
Online monthly Mastermind Calls with Aleta (Valued at $6,000)
Weekly Q&A Calls with the team (Valued at $12,000)
2-Day Vision Retreat in Arizona to set your annual goals. 2 Meals, snacks and a ton of training included.
Four (4) core modules in the system will cover Business Set-up and Operations, Marketing, Partner Schools and Teacher Management. All program materials including videos, workbooks, forms, resources and more are all within your online student hub that you can access anytime.
All your business set-up and back office operations including website, surveys, general marketing, social media marketing, day-to-day operations, scheduling, and hiring.
Gain all the knowledge and confidence in teacher recruiting, training, onboarding, daily management, retaining and releasing.
Everything you need to work with partner schools including marketing, contracting, measuring and releasing schools.
Have all the business forms, resources, systems and links in one place for easy access when you need them.
Aleta and her team have been so helpful to me. I feel like they are personal cheerleaders. Anytime I need inspiration or need that kick in the butt to keep going and know I can do this, they do that. That is the biggest attribute I've noticed from Aleta and her team. They can always give me a direction and a focus to keep going.
Jen Gelhar
Co-Owner & Operator, Just in Time Teachers
Teacher shortages?
Filling in to maintain ratios?
Not enough income to accomplish what you want?
Setting up your substitute teacher placement company, including what kind of structure works best
Finding great teachers, retaining and placing them
Back-office forms, templates, and "how-to" guides
Support throughout so you can bring in income
The fact that Aleta had already thought through all the details. It was just so complete. From the contracts to the trainings to the how-tos, how to set it up, how to set up your own company, how to hire, how to interview, how to train, how to market. It was a complete package and it's really a no-brainer if you follow all the steps they tell you to do.
Karen Brown
Master Consultant at Childcare Business Professionals and Chief Program Officer at EnCourage Preschools
It’s understandable to question how you’ll be able to hire substitute teachers when you can’t even find enough regular staff for your center. However, many people actually prefer being a substitute teacher to a regular teaching position because it offers a flexible schedule, experience, and the opportunity to find the perfect fit!
Regular Teacher:
-Commitment to a regular full or part time schedule
-Full-time teacher responsibilities
-Day-to-day consistency preferred
-Paid time off
-Hoping the company they chose to work for is the right fit.
Substitute Teacher:
-Likes flexibility
-Done for you! No planning required.
-Create own hours with freedom of a flexible full or part time position.
-Unlimited and guaranteed time off without having to request it.
-Opportunity to find the perfect fit! Experience a variety of teaching environments, as well as obtain valuable work history.
The added revenue you can generate for this low overhead business is so exciting!
With No Overhead:
Ten Full time subs x $6 profit per hour
Book: 20,800 (10x 2080) hours per year
X $6 per hour profit = $124,000 in your pocket
If You Pay a Manager to Run It:
(pay equivalent to a director salary) – are they working 20 or 40 hours depending on how you want to scale your business
~$40,000 still earn $84,000
With the help of the TFTOS Quickstart Guide, your substitute teacher business will be up and running fast.
- The well-organized plan allows you to be open for business within five weeks.
- The system includes a week by week checklist to make this happen.
- Childcare facility makes for an excellent interview spot
- Utilize center for a substitute teacher training site
- Onboarding- Feedback from expert teachers in the field
- Ability to utilize your own sub pool
We want to set all our new partners up for success!
- Private masterminds Facebook page for all placement company owners.
- Monthly webinars to hold you accountable, lead you to success, provide new innovative ideas to help make all our owners successful.
- Access to all resources digitally including forms.
- Additional strategy one-on-one calls with a member from our current sub placement team for an additional price.
- We only place in Early Childhood programs.
- Only trained in Early Childhood education.
- Hands-on orientation training in a partner child care center.
- We have a whole system just on teacher training.
We have mastered a system where our results keep getting better! This system will completely change your life. Why wait? Stop your staffing shortages immediately and double your current revenue. This system is a done-for-you “lesson plan” type that you can start placing subs in within 30 days!