Learn about schools
Access practical information about schools before you arrive, including facilities, policies, classroom support, and insights from other verified substitutes.
Get assignments that fit you. Help schools find you.
SubNotes is made by substitute teachers for substitute teachers to learn about schools, highlight their strengths, and create better matches between school assignments and substitutes.
Most substitute jobs are filled based on timing, now schools and substitute teachers find each other based on experience, interests, and classroom fit.
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Subs and schools are often matched with too little information. SubNotes helps close that gap by bringing together school insights, substitute strengths, and real classroom experience.
Share your strengths
Highlight your subjects, grade levels, classroom strengths, education experience, and assignment preferences.
Find better matches
Help schools and teachers understand what makes you a good fit for specific assignments, classrooms, and long-term opportunities.
Show real experience
Contributions show the schools you've worked in, the environments you understand, and the experience you bring.
Connect with opportunities
Become discoverable to teachers and schools looking for specific experience, subject knowledge, and classroom strengths.
Display your unique background
Most substitute teachers are represented by little more than a name and availability. SubNotes helps schools understand your experience, strengths, interests, and classroom preferences.
Better information creates better matches
A school looking for a long-term Algebra substitute has different needs than a school looking for elementary coverage. SubNotes helps schools and substitutes find each other based on fit — not simply who clicked first.
Long-term Algebra coverage
Emergency medical leave
SPED classroom support
PE and coaching coverage
Bilingual classroom support
Device-heavy classrooms
Learn the skills that make subs successful
SubNotes will grow into a place where substitutes can build confidence and practical classroom skills.
- Google Classroom basics
- Classroom management
- Phone and device-heavy classrooms
- SPED foundations
- Long-term assignment preparation
- Working with teachers and department leads
Only Subs Can Contribute
SubNotes is built by substitute teachers. Verified substitutes can contribute factual information about schools they visit. Those contributions help other substitutes prepare for assignments and build a stronger understanding of school environments across the district.
Contributions also strengthen profile credibility by demonstrating real classroom experience and engagement with the substitute community.
Help each other navigate schools
Show that you know your stuff
Build your Sub reputation
Become known to teachers
Verified, professional, and moderated
SubNotes is designed to be professional. Verified substitutes can build profiles and contribute facts-first school information. Public content is reviewed by community managers before publication.
- Verified subs only
- Community moderated
- No naming students, teachers, or staff
- No gossip or venting
- Not a place for mandatory reporting
- Designed to help schools and subs work better together
Join the SFUSD pilot
Help build a better way for schools and substitute teachers to find each other. Create a verified profile, contribute school insights, and help shape the future of SubNotes.
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