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Every other Friday, Marci Cox, transportation director at Hopkins County Schools, KY, had to conduct a field trip driver bidding and trip selection meeting. These meetings lasted for two to three hours on average and were dreadful to sit through,

Being a substitute teacher is not easy. Dealing with an unfamiliar environment difficult students are some of the common challenges for substitute teachers. Try these tips to enhance your substitute teaching experience.

School trips can be a valuable part of the curriculum for K-12 students. Whether they visit a zoo, a museum, an historic site, or a local business, these trips can allow students to experience first-hand what they might be studying in the

Transportation directors tell us that paper field trip requests cause them to spend a lot of extra time and energy processing these requests. Watch this short video to understand why.

We hear many times that a district thinks they are too small to benefit from an automated field trip solution. Our experience, however, has been that even small districts find the Travel Tracker to be a great fit. Smaller districts also have fewer

Our staff features multiple former teachers that help us fix real-time problems school districts face! At the App-Garden our staff is made up of a number of former school district employees ranging from Assistant Superintendents of Human Resources

Funding Approval Can Make or Break a Field-Trip, Here’s How The Travel Tracker Can Help! Keeping track of who is paying for various field trips can be time consuming for transportation and sometimes leads to trips that nobody wants to claim when the

This blog post was published in 2017 but was updated on May 9th, 2023. Anyone that works in or with school systems today already knows how important volunteers are to their school's success! With all the budget cuts today, it would be almost

Every day, teachers struggle with the thought of being out of the classroom due to sickness or other reasons for fear that the substitute teacher won’t be prepared to handle all aspects of the classroom including emergency procedures. Teachers often

When large groups of students are out on field trips the cafeteria staff may be making more food than is needed on that particular day if they are not being notified that students are out for the day. You may also find that sometimes students get

This blog post was published in 2017 but was updated on May 9th, 2023. Shirley Kirsten, president of the year-old National Substitute Teachers Alliance (NSTA), tells Education World that although the demand for substitute teachers is increasing,