May 13, 2025 • 15 mins
The countdown to summer vacation has begun, with only two weeks of school remaining. As substitute teachers prepare to wrap up another academic year, the temptation to make certain end-of-year decisions looms large – but not all of these choices serve your long-term interests as an educator.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Greg Collins.
Substitute Teachers Lounge.
It is May 13th 2025.
The year is almost over andyou're considering doing some
things that you shouldn't be.
I want to tell you what thoseare right now.
Substitute Teachers Lounge.
All right, guys, we just gottwo more weeks to school.
(00:32):
In fact, if you want to see howcrazy I am, I just posted a
video to both Instagram, underSubstitute Teacher's Lounge
account, or YouTube, underSubstitute Teacher's Lounge
account.
It's called school is out in 10more sleep, so I would love for
you to watch that and see howcrazy I can be.
(00:52):
Maybe this is why the kids loveme, because I'm crazy around
them too.
But today, as we enter into thelast two weeks, I know that
you're thinking about doingcertain things, or maybe
discontinuing certain things,and I'm going to tell you today
what you shouldn't do.
Now I've got these in sort ofan order and I want to do, in my
(01:16):
opinion.
Some of you won't agree with me, but in my opinion, I'm going
to list the most important onefirst, because it affects your
pocketbook, so to speak.
List the most important onefirst because it affects your
pocketbook, so to speak, in goodand bad ways.
So I'm going to tell you this,as you know, as you've listened
to this podcast all along, I ama big believer in subalert.
(01:36):
I'm going to tell you what youshouldn't do about it here in
just a moment.
If you buy it for a year, itonly averages to $4.99 a month.
That's $5 a month, and if youthink about it, you're going to
make that back in what Ipersonally get $135 a day here.
So divide that out and you knowan hour maybe it's less than an
(02:00):
hour when you're already goingto make enough money to pay for
your monthly subscription.
Let me tell you what happenedthis week, and it's happened
before too.
There is a school that I like tosubstitute at a lot, and my
son-in-law works there, and oneof the teachers in fifth grade
posted an absence.
It was actually while I was atthe school, and I grabbed it
(02:22):
because SubAlert told me.
Now, subalert refreshes itsinformation every 60 seconds,
but what that means then is ifthe teacher entered an absent
right before SubAlert wasgetting ready to refresh.
Well, you see that practicallyimmediately I saw it, I accepted
it because I love thisteacher's class he immediately
(02:45):
went to my son-in-law's officeand say hey, I think I messed it
.
I accepted it because I lovethis teacher's class.
He immediately went to myson-in-law's office and say hey,
I think I messed up.
Your father-in-law acceptedthis job so quickly.
I'm not sure if I did somethingwrong or if I assigned it to
him without his permission, orwhatever it was Turns out it was
just because I accepted itwithin five seconds and I had
(03:05):
the job.
Now, here's what you shouldn'tdo.
And, by the way, I just wentand got myself a drink of water
because my throat was gettingdry and I calculated you
actually make enough money in 15minutes of a daily job to pay
for SubAlert for one month.
So to me that's a no-brainer.
But some of you are consideringcanceling your subalert
(03:28):
subscription for two to threemonths during the summer,
because you know what's thepoint.
Why should I pay $15 for thesummer when there's no school in
the summer?
Well, here's why you shouldn'tdo that.
Here's why I don't do thatBecause teachers will pick up on
various different assignmentsin which they have to go for
(03:53):
training, maybe in September,maybe in October, but they may
find out about it in June.
Well, guess what?
They may if the school allowsthem to go ahead and post an
absence in June, so that theyknow that it's covered.
So you're going to get aSeptember job, perhaps pop up in
(04:14):
June, and if you've canceledyour subscription for June, well
, you're not going to see it.
You're going to miss out on ajob that you never even knew
existed because it's not goingto show up for you.
So that's the first importantthing I want to tell you Do not
cancel that sub-alertsubscription.
If you use something else, don'tcancel it, even if you just use
(04:37):
Frontline, who also has alerts.
Don't turn it off.
Don't say, oh, I don't want toget notifications during the
summer.
That's ridiculous, because youdon't want to miss out on an
opportunity, this next one.
I'm just going to use the oldcliche don't burn bridges.
You know right now that you'vebeen subbing an entire school
(05:02):
year and there's some thingsthat you didn't like.
There's a lot of things thatyou liked.
Probably.
There's some things you didn'tlike.
In fact, there's some thingsthat you didn't like so much
that it's just eating you upinside and you're thinking man,
I just want this school year tobe over.
And you may actually be temptedto go up to a teacher, to a
(05:24):
principal, and say, listen,mister, here's what's wrong with
this school right now and youthink in your mind you're doing
the right thing.
Well, you probably very likelyhave just gotten yourself
crossed off of their list fornext year.
So don't burn bridges.
(05:46):
Don't make people mad at theschool just because you didn't
get your way.
Don't make the people mad atthe school just because they
asked you to work during yourplanning period.
I mean, what does a substituteteacher need a planning period
for anyway?
Don't get mad at someonebecause they rolled their eyes
when you made a comment to astudent.
Don't get mad at someonebecause you're substituting,
(06:08):
often for a teacher that neverhas lesson plans or never has
them in the way you would liketo see them.
Everybody's different, in fact.
Do just the opposite before youwould like to see them.
Everybody's different, In fact.
Do just the opposite before youleave.
Build the bridges.
Don't be artificial about it.
Don't just walk into everyteacher in the school and say,
oh, I've had the best time thisyear.
(06:29):
Please look for me next year.
Well, you can do some of that,but kind of do it on the side,
do it as part of anotherconversation.
But don't burn those bridges,because those bridges go between
schools and if you make oneschool mad.
They're going to hear about youin the other schools.
They might find out that yousubbed a lot in one school and
(06:52):
you're not anymore and theymight ask why.
And the other school, if youhave put them in a bad light,
they will tell the truth aboutwhat you said and then you'll
have to rebuild that bridge.
So don't burn bridges.
I'll even share one relatedstory that just happened to pop
into my mind, because I've donea lot of fifth grade here lately
(07:15):
and and I know the school thatthey're going into and this, in
my opinion, is an absoluteexcellent bunch of fifth graders
, to the point that I think theywill help elevate the middle
school when they go into thesixth grade there.
And I'm going to tell themsince I do have a teaching job
(07:35):
arranged for another day at thatmiddle school, I'm going to
tell him when I walk in.
I'm friendly enough with theprincipal, I can tell him this.
I'm going to tell him you'vegot a great bunch of sixth
graders coming in here next yearand I look forward to subbing
that group a lot because I'verun into them in the fifth grade
and they are excellent.
(07:56):
I've run into them in the fifthgrade and they are excellent.
Now, with all that in mind,here's a story one of the fifth
graders told me, because thereare some, there's issues at
every school.
There's some things at theschool that make me
uncomfortable, and I had thathappened to come up in
conversation during recessbecause one fifth grade student,
I said are you excited to go tomiddle school next year?
(08:17):
And I told him flat out.
I said are you excited to go tomiddle school next year?
And I told him flat out.
I said you guys are a reallygreat group of students and I
actually think that when you getto middle school you're going
to improve them a little bit.
And one of them actually told methis story.
They said on their field tripday, when all the fifth graders
got to go to the middle schoolto see the sixth grade, that
(08:40):
they were going to be in thesixth grade rooms and the
teachers and all that good stuff.
And they walked in and thisstudent told me they said you
know, mr Collins, I bet you'reright, because one of the
classrooms they took us into,the teacher had to tell one
student to stop doing somethinghe was doing and he didn't.
And he said the teacher had totell one student to stop doing
something he was doing and hedidn't.
And he said the teacher.
And they told me the teachernever did follow up with him and
(09:03):
let him just keep on doing it.
And they said I was reallysurprised because I thought the
teachers would, you know,enforce the punishment with the
students more than they do.
Well, man, this fifth graderand you know it's so funny
because these group of fifthgraders rarely ever need to be
(09:24):
punished and they are used tobehaving the way they should.
You know, a lot of it sometimesends up being I was going to say
semantics, that's the wrongword Demographics.
There we go.
Sometimes it's justdemographics, because you just
get a bumper crop some yearswhere students are.
They're so patient, they listento you all the time, they do
(09:48):
typical things that you wouldexpect out of an 11-year-old,
but they're really good kids andI'm glad I was associated with
them.
So think about that.
Pump them up.
Don't just leave them, don'teven say goodbye, say I'll look
forward to seeing you guys nextyear.
Don't think you have to makethe rounds and make everybody
(10:10):
sad.
Tell them about how much you'relooking forward to them having
a good summer and you seeingthem next year.
The next thing and you're goingto think this is the craziest
thing ever Well, in my opinion,especially in elementary school,
but it happened in middleschool and high school too.
You've got some artistic kids inthe class and sometimes they
(10:35):
will want to draw a picture ofyou.
Well, I never throw away any ofthat stuff.
I'll organize it, I'll clip it,I'll put the teacher's name on
it, I'll put down there whatgrade it was and what year,
because you know another fewyears and I'll forget about it.
And it is amazing how muchthose kids love to look at that
(11:00):
in future years.
I probably made a mistake,because I have one kid that drew
a picture of me.
That's in the third grade.
Their sibling was in the fifthgrade and I showed the picture
to their sibling because I likedit, but they laughed about it
and you never know how siblingsare going to give each other a
hard time.
So I probably shouldn't haveshown them that picture.
Keep your pictures.
(11:22):
There was one that a really,really good artistic student
drew for me in the sixth gradesix years ago.
That student's graduating thisyear.
That student has had some toughtimes and one day when I was in
(11:43):
there I said you know I want toshow you something.
And I sat down next to thestudent and I said look at this.
And it was that picture that itembarrassed a bit first, but
said you drew this for me sixyears ago.
Look how good that is.
And it brought a smile to theirface and you never know how
keeping things like that canlift them up a little bit and
(12:05):
motivate them.
So I would encourage you, don'tthrow away that stuff, man.
Hang on to it.
You might want to show themthat in the future.
You might want to show themthat I don't know just when
they're feeling down the sameyear.
Just hang on to it.
They were proud of it,especially the elementary school
students.
(12:25):
They were proud of drawing thatpicture when they drew it.
I love the ones I've gotten Oneof them, you know one of them I
actually did as an assignmentbecause I had the same class
four days in a row and we alwayshad a little 10 to 15 minute
get acquainted session at thebeginning of class.
So I just said draw something.
Draw me if you want to.
You can make me a villain or asuperhero.
(12:46):
And one of them drew a picturethat said Mr Collins, super sub,
and had me dressed up asSuperman with a cape in the back
.
I can't wait till that.
What was that?
Third grade?
I can't wait till they get tobe like a freshman and I can
show it to them.
I said I hung on to thatpicture all the time.
Now I joke around with themthat I blew it up and put it on
(13:09):
my mantle.
They know I'm just joking aboutthat, but that's what I really
love to do.
The last thing I would tell younot to do and I guess this is a
biggie, this might actually bethe biggest one Don't forget to
fill out your paperwork for nextyear.
We've already gotten ours andturned it in and have been given
(13:31):
our emergency certification.
That's what they call it inthis area, when you're not
actively teaching anymore, whenyou're retired.
We got our emergencycertification.
We are already ready for Augustof 2025, another new school
year.
I can't wait.
I told one of the kids this yearyou know I'm 67.
You all know that.
(13:51):
And I said man, you know you'regetting ready to go into the
sixth grade.
Do you realize, when you're afreshman, that I'm going to be
70?
And I hope I'm still subbingyour class and they said 70?
Ew.
And I'm thinking, man, is thatthe way they look at that age?
(14:12):
I hope I'm not in for a rudeawakening when I get to that
part.
But make sure you fill out yourpaperwork.
With ours it was as simple assigning our name and they will
do a background check and allthat kind of thing.
We have to pay for thebackground check.
You got to do that every year.
The sad thing is, I'm in threeor four different organizations
and they all need a backgroundcheck and they seem like they
all have a different companydoing it.
(14:33):
So why they think they need todo that, I don't know.
But all right, so you've heardall my reasons.
You're tempted to do somethings.
Don't do them.
Keep things going, keep thingspositive, and we've got two
weeks to go.
No-transcript.
Greg Collins.
Substitute Teachers Lounge.
It is May 13th 2025.
The year is almost over andyou're considering doing some
things that you shouldn't be.
I want to tell you what thoseare right now.
Substitute Teachers Lounge.
All right, guys, we just gottwo more weeks to school.
(00:32):
In fact, if you want to see howcrazy I am, I just posted a
video to both Instagram, underSubstitute Teacher's Lounge
account, or YouTube, underSubstitute Teacher's Lounge
account.
It's called school is out in 10more sleep, so I would love for
you to watch that and see howcrazy I can be.
(00:52):
Maybe this is why the kids loveme, because I'm crazy around
them too.
But today, as we enter into thelast two weeks, I know that
you're thinking about doingcertain things, or maybe
discontinuing certain things,and I'm going to tell you today
what you shouldn't do.
Now I've got these in sort ofan order and I want to do, in my
(01:16):
opinion.
Some of you won't agree with me, but in my opinion, I'm going
to list the most important onefirst, because it affects your
pocketbook, so to speak.
List the most important onefirst because it affects your
pocketbook, so to speak, in goodand bad ways.
So I'm going to tell you this,as you know, as you've listened
to this podcast all along, I ama big believer in subalert.
(01:36):
I'm going to tell you what youshouldn't do about it here in
just a moment.
If you buy it for a year, itonly averages to $4.99 a month.
That's $5 a month, and if youthink about it, you're going to
make that back in what Ipersonally get $135 a day here.
So divide that out and you knowan hour maybe it's less than an
(02:00):
hour when you're already goingto make enough money to pay for
your monthly subscription.
Let me tell you what happenedthis week, and it's happened
before too.
There is a school that I like tosubstitute at a lot, and my
son-in-law works there, and oneof the teachers in fifth grade
posted an absence.
It was actually while I was atthe school, and I grabbed it
(02:22):
because SubAlert told me.
Now, subalert refreshes itsinformation every 60 seconds,
but what that means then is ifthe teacher entered an absent
right before SubAlert wasgetting ready to refresh.
Well, you see that practicallyimmediately I saw it, I accepted
it because I love thisteacher's class he immediately
(02:45):
went to my son-in-law's officeand say hey, I think I messed it
.
I accepted it because I lovethis teacher's class.
He immediately went to myson-in-law's office and say hey,
I think I messed up.
Your father-in-law acceptedthis job so quickly.
I'm not sure if I did somethingwrong or if I assigned it to
him without his permission, orwhatever it was Turns out it was
just because I accepted itwithin five seconds and I had
(03:05):
the job.
Now, here's what you shouldn'tdo.
And, by the way, I just wentand got myself a drink of water
because my throat was gettingdry and I calculated you
actually make enough money in 15minutes of a daily job to pay
for SubAlert for one month.
So to me that's a no-brainer.
But some of you are consideringcanceling your subalert
(03:28):
subscription for two to threemonths during the summer,
because you know what's thepoint.
Why should I pay $15 for thesummer when there's no school in
the summer?
Well, here's why you shouldn'tdo that.
Here's why I don't do thatBecause teachers will pick up on
various different assignmentsin which they have to go for
(03:53):
training, maybe in September,maybe in October, but they may
find out about it in June.
Well, guess what?
They may if the school allowsthem to go ahead and post an
absence in June, so that theyknow that it's covered.
So you're going to get aSeptember job, perhaps pop up in
(04:14):
June, and if you've canceledyour subscription for June, well
, you're not going to see it.
You're going to miss out on ajob that you never even knew
existed because it's not goingto show up for you.
So that's the first importantthing I want to tell you Do not
cancel that sub-alertsubscription.
If you use something else, don'tcancel it, even if you just use
(04:37):
Frontline, who also has alerts.
Don't turn it off.
Don't say, oh, I don't want toget notifications during the
summer.
That's ridiculous, because youdon't want to miss out on an
opportunity, this next one.
I'm just going to use the oldcliche don't burn bridges.
You know right now that you'vebeen subbing an entire school
(05:02):
year and there's some thingsthat you didn't like.
There's a lot of things thatyou liked.
Probably.
There's some things you didn'tlike.
In fact, there's some thingsthat you didn't like so much
that it's just eating you upinside and you're thinking man,
I just want this school year tobe over.
And you may actually be temptedto go up to a teacher, to a
(05:24):
principal, and say, listen,mister, here's what's wrong with
this school right now and youthink in your mind you're doing
the right thing.
Well, you probably very likelyhave just gotten yourself
crossed off of their list fornext year.
So don't burn bridges.
(05:46):
Don't make people mad at theschool just because you didn't
get your way.
Don't make the people mad atthe school just because they
asked you to work during yourplanning period.
I mean, what does a substituteteacher need a planning period
for anyway?
Don't get mad at someonebecause they rolled their eyes
when you made a comment to astudent.
Don't get mad at someonebecause you're substituting,
(06:08):
often for a teacher that neverhas lesson plans or never has
them in the way you would liketo see them.
Everybody's different, in fact.
Do just the opposite before youwould like to see them.
Everybody's different, In fact.
Do just the opposite before youleave.
Build the bridges.
Don't be artificial about it.
Don't just walk into everyteacher in the school and say,
oh, I've had the best time thisyear.
(06:29):
Please look for me next year.
Well, you can do some of that,but kind of do it on the side,
do it as part of anotherconversation.
But don't burn those bridges,because those bridges go between
schools and if you make oneschool mad.
They're going to hear about youin the other schools.
They might find out that yousubbed a lot in one school and
(06:52):
you're not anymore and theymight ask why.
And the other school, if youhave put them in a bad light,
they will tell the truth aboutwhat you said and then you'll
have to rebuild that bridge.
So don't burn bridges.
I'll even share one relatedstory that just happened to pop
into my mind, because I've donea lot of fifth grade here lately
(07:15):
and and I know the school thatthey're going into and this, in
my opinion, is an absoluteexcellent bunch of fifth graders
, to the point that I think theywill help elevate the middle
school when they go into thesixth grade there.
And I'm going to tell themsince I do have a teaching job
(07:35):
arranged for another day at thatmiddle school, I'm going to
tell him when I walk in.
I'm friendly enough with theprincipal, I can tell him this.
I'm going to tell him you'vegot a great bunch of sixth
graders coming in here next yearand I look forward to subbing
that group a lot because I'verun into them in the fifth grade
and they are excellent.
(07:56):
I've run into them in the fifthgrade and they are excellent.
Now, with all that in mind,here's a story one of the fifth
graders told me, because thereare some, there's issues at
every school.
There's some things at theschool that make me
uncomfortable, and I had thathappened to come up in
conversation during recessbecause one fifth grade student,
I said are you excited to go tomiddle school next year?
(08:17):
And I told him flat out.
I said are you excited to go tomiddle school next year?
And I told him flat out.
I said you guys are a reallygreat group of students and I
actually think that when you getto middle school you're going
to improve them a little bit.
And one of them actually told methis story.
They said on their field tripday, when all the fifth graders
got to go to the middle schoolto see the sixth grade, that
(08:40):
they were going to be in thesixth grade rooms and the
teachers and all that good stuff.
And they walked in and thisstudent told me they said you
know, mr Collins, I bet you'reright, because one of the
classrooms they took us into,the teacher had to tell one
student to stop doing somethinghe was doing and he didn't.
And he said the teacher had totell one student to stop doing
something he was doing and hedidn't.
And he said the teacher.
And they told me the teachernever did follow up with him and
(09:03):
let him just keep on doing it.
And they said I was reallysurprised because I thought the
teachers would, you know,enforce the punishment with the
students more than they do.
Well, man, this fifth graderand you know it's so funny
because these group of fifthgraders rarely ever need to be
(09:24):
punished and they are used tobehaving the way they should.
You know, a lot of it sometimesends up being I was going to say
semantics, that's the wrongword Demographics.
There we go.
Sometimes it's justdemographics, because you just
get a bumper crop some yearswhere students are.
They're so patient, they listento you all the time, they do
(09:48):
typical things that you wouldexpect out of an 11-year-old,
but they're really good kids andI'm glad I was associated with
them.
So think about that.
Pump them up.
Don't just leave them, don'teven say goodbye, say I'll look
forward to seeing you guys nextyear.
Don't think you have to makethe rounds and make everybody
(10:10):
sad.
Tell them about how much you'relooking forward to them having
a good summer and you seeingthem next year.
The next thing and you're goingto think this is the craziest
thing ever Well, in my opinion,especially in elementary school,
but it happened in middleschool and high school too.
You've got some artistic kids inthe class and sometimes they
(10:35):
will want to draw a picture ofyou.
Well, I never throw away any ofthat stuff.
I'll organize it, I'll clip it,I'll put the teacher's name on
it, I'll put down there whatgrade it was and what year,
because you know another fewyears and I'll forget about it.
And it is amazing how muchthose kids love to look at that
(11:00):
in future years.
I probably made a mistake,because I have one kid that drew
a picture of me.
That's in the third grade.
Their sibling was in the fifthgrade and I showed the picture
to their sibling because I likedit, but they laughed about it
and you never know how siblingsare going to give each other a
hard time.
So I probably shouldn't haveshown them that picture.
Keep your pictures.
(11:22):
There was one that a really,really good artistic student
drew for me in the sixth gradesix years ago.
That student's graduating thisyear.
That student has had some toughtimes and one day when I was in
(11:43):
there I said you know I want toshow you something.
And I sat down next to thestudent and I said look at this.
And it was that picture that itembarrassed a bit first, but
said you drew this for me sixyears ago.
Look how good that is.
And it brought a smile to theirface and you never know how
keeping things like that canlift them up a little bit and
(12:05):
motivate them.
So I would encourage you, don'tthrow away that stuff, man.
Hang on to it.
You might want to show themthat in the future.
You might want to show themthat I don't know just when
they're feeling down the sameyear.
Just hang on to it.
They were proud of it,especially the elementary school
students.
(12:25):
They were proud of drawing thatpicture when they drew it.
I love the ones I've gotten Oneof them, you know one of them I
actually did as an assignmentbecause I had the same class
four days in a row and we alwayshad a little 10 to 15 minute
get acquainted session at thebeginning of class.
So I just said draw something.
Draw me if you want to.
You can make me a villain or asuperhero.
(12:46):
And one of them drew a picturethat said Mr Collins, super sub,
and had me dressed up asSuperman with a cape in the back
.
I can't wait till that.
What was that?
Third grade?
I can't wait till they get tobe like a freshman and I can
show it to them.
I said I hung on to thatpicture all the time.
Now I joke around with themthat I blew it up and put it on
(13:09):
my mantle.
They know I'm just joking aboutthat, but that's what I really
love to do.
The last thing I would tell younot to do and I guess this is a
biggie, this might actually bethe biggest one Don't forget to
fill out your paperwork for nextyear.
We've already gotten ours andturned it in and have been given
(13:31):
our emergency certification.
That's what they call it inthis area, when you're not
actively teaching anymore, whenyou're retired.
We got our emergencycertification.
We are already ready for Augustof 2025, another new school
year.
I can't wait.
I told one of the kids this yearyou know I'm 67.
You all know that.
(13:51):
And I said man, you know you'regetting ready to go into the
sixth grade.
Do you realize, when you're afreshman, that I'm going to be
70?
And I hope I'm still subbingyour class and they said 70?
Ew.
And I'm thinking, man, is thatthe way they look at that age?
(14:12):
I hope I'm not in for a rudeawakening when I get to that
part.
But make sure you fill out yourpaperwork.
With ours it was as simple assigning our name and they will
do a background check and allthat kind of thing.
We have to pay for thebackground check.
You got to do that every year.
The sad thing is, I'm in threeor four different organizations
and they all need a backgroundcheck and they seem like they
all have a different companydoing it.
(14:33):
So why they think they need todo that, I don't know.
But all right, so you've heardall my reasons.
You're tempted to do somethings.
Don't do them.
Keep things going, keep thingspositive, and we've got two
weeks to go.
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