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Applicant with ESS experience highlights substitute staffing and career-technical ideas
Summary
An applicant who has worked through ESS, the district's substitute services provider, told the board he increased substitute staffing and advocated for more career-technical options and practical classes to better prepare students for life beyond high school.
One applicant said he began working with ESS at the elementary school and described hands-on experience in special-education classrooms and building substitute staffing by hiring some of his employees as subs. He emphasized bringing a practical, fresh perspective and helping recruit substitutes and aides where shortages exist.
He also urged expanding access to vocational and real-world classes — auto, shop, computer repair and other curricular options — and praised a freshman class that teaches personal finance. "I started working with ESS down at the elementary school," the applicant said, summarizing his route into district involvement. The board discussed ESS's role as the district substitute-services contractor and clarified that employees placed through ESS remain ESS employees.
