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Your assigned Onboard Manager will reach out to you within 24 hours and schedule a phone interview to help you understand how Iducator works and the Teaching Requirements.

You will receive the Iducator Teacher Agreement in email after speaking with Iducator's Onboard Manager. It includes the “Iducator Teacher Application Form” and the “W-9 Form”. W-9 is needed for tax filing. Please check your email account, and make sure our email is not in spam folder.

Once you receive the email to sign the “Iducator Teacher Application Form” and the “W-9 Form”, please sign it online as soon as possible. This authorize Iducator to check and verify your background clearance and license Id with CDSS licensing office, which determines whether you need to do fingerprints again with us.

CDSS requires a list of documents before you can work in a Child Care Facility. Go to the Teaching Requirements page to complete all items, then click Submit for verification. Our onboard will help you complete the tasks if you have questions. You need to be verified and approved by Iducator before receiving Substitute jobs. Refer to Teacher Job Instructions to learn how to take Substitute jobs and start working. You DO NOT need to be verifed for applying Long Term / Fulltime jobs.

California Law (California Child Day Care Facilities Act – Cal. Health & Safety Code, Div. 2, Chaps. 3.4-3.6, §§ 1596.70 – 1597.621) requires fingerprinting and background check for all those who will be working with children in daycare and preschool. This requirement is listed on Department of Social Services website.

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If you have been fingerprinted (live scan) by another daycare / preschool, you will not need to retake it as long as you remain in the Department of Social Service record. Your background clearance can be transferred to facility you are going to work with or us. Please bring your Live Scan receipt so we have it on file. Below is a sample live scan applicant copy/receipt:

To verify your background clearance. Iducator needs to do an inquiry to California Department of Social Service (CDSS) Community Licensing Or to TrustLine. We need provide either California Driver License Number or your State ID number for this inquiry.

If you have never been fingerprinted (live scan) before, you will need to take it before we can approve your application. Your Onboard Manager will give you a Livescan package with detailed instructions.

Live scan costs around $90. If we sent you to do it, we will reimburse this cost when you worked 100 hours for Iducator or beind placed into a school with us. Please keep your receipt.

Substitute teachers are paid by Iducator weekly on school approved hours. Substitute teachers earn money by working on school requests. By the end of the week, substitutes are required to submit timesheet. For jobs that are longer than a week, substitute teacher are required to submit timesheet every week. School director has up to one week to approve submitted timesheets.

Substitute Teachers can also earn extra money without even working in the classrooms. If they invite a friend to work with Iducator, we’ll say thanks with a cash bonus to both the referrer and referee. Currently there’s no limit on referral bonus(Terms and conditions apply).

Your payment will be directly deposited to your bank account. Please bring a void check when you meet our representative so we can set up direct deposit for you.

Iducator starts the weekly payment process on Saturday. All school approved hours before processing time will be included in the payment calculation. Each job's payment includes hourly rate payment and additional bonuses. Hourly rate is based on requested teacher level, your level and location of the school. For example, if your level is Assitant Teacher, for a job request 4 hours of Teacher Aide, you will be paid at the rate of Teacher Aide, plus level bonus hourly rate (if avaiable). If another job requested 8 hours of Teacher, you will be paid at the rate of Assitant Teacher. Hourly Rate from a school in Financial District in SF is a few dollars more than the hourly rate for Fremont. If that job provides $10/day commute bonus, then you will earn additional $10 per day you worked at that job. Additionally, there may be extra bonus available such as New School Bonus or Emergency Request Bonus. The hourly rate for you is showing on top of each request, along with the additional bonus available. Below is an example:

This job's final hourly rate for you is $17/hr. This is based on a $15/hr base rate for Aide + $2/hr level bonus. Additionally, this job provides $10/day commute bonus and a $30 New School Bonus. Since the job is 1 day, the total potential earning for this job is $17/hr x 9 hours + $10 (commute for 1 day) + $30 (new school bonus) = $193.00

Your zip code's hourly rates is available in your Profile menu after completion of sign up. However, this rate is for reference only. Each job's hourly rate is on the request itself because it is based on school's zip code and other factors.

Iducator starts the weekly payment process on Saturday. The first five payment may take 4-5 days before it shows on your account. After that it usually took two days. You will receive an email by Tuesday from QuickBook Online Billpay that tells you when it will be deposited.

No. You are an Independent Contractor. Iducator DOES NOT take tax out of your payment.You will receive a 1099 form early next year and file income tax yourself.

Iducator use address information to match you up with school that are near you. Up to date experience information help you being selected by school directors. Also, make sure phone number are correct and able to receive text messages.

Iducator’s platform will text you when your location and background meet school’s criteria for school’s request. Click the link in the text message to view the job details.

After review the job, click Accept to accept the job, or click decline to decline it if it doesn’t work for your schedule. Once accepted, the job will appear in your employment calendar but grayed, for pending school confirmation.

Level Bonus

Most schools agreed to pay a Level Bonus to teachers overqualified for the requested job in addition to its normal hourly rate. For example, if you are a Master Teacher but accepting an Aide job request, you will have a per hour level bonus. The higher level you are, the higher the bonus will be. Please note NOT ALL SCHOOLS PAY THIS BONUS.

If available, the request will show the amount of bonus per hour on top of the request. And your estimated earning includes that.

Commute Bonus

Most schools agreed to pay a Commute Bonus to teachers driving exceed a certain distance based on their statistics of request matching. If you qualify for that school's Commute Bonus (based one your driving distance to that school), the request will show the commute bonus rate per day on top of the request. And your estimated earning includes that. Please note NOT ALL SCHOOLS PAY THIS BONUS. AND EACH SCHOOL MAY HAVE DIFFERENT RATE AND DISTANCE STANDARD.

Most jobs are Flexible. This means school director will confirm with you even you are available for only part of the requested hours. When click Accept, you will specify your available time windows.

For Flexible jobs, you need to specify your proposed Start and End time window. If school director confirmed it, this will be your assignment's new Start and End time.

You can also Pick Your Acceptted Days/Half Days with the Custom button. Click on the day to toggle between whole day / morning / afternoon. However, if school originally only requested half a day, you would only be able to toggle between requested portion.

If a request says Custom Selection, if means school only request some days / half days between the start and end rang. You need click the Custom button to view and selction your acceptance.

If the school director selects you, you will receive a text message for confirmation. If you are not selected by school for a job, you will also receive a text message about the cancellation. This means the job is already fulfilled. That job will be removed from your calendar.

Once confirmed, your employment calendar will be updated. In rare cases that school director didn’t confirm any teachers in ONE hour, that job will be canceled and removed from your calendar.

Please arrive 5-10 minute before the job starts. This gives school directors some time to verify and process your paper work.

Schools require you to keep track of work/lunch time. Different schools may have different instructions for break/lunch. Always check with school director or lead teacher about when it would be a good time for break/lunch time.

Our time entries are for billing purpose. California Labour Law requires you to take a 10 minute break every 4 hours. Those breaks are paid time. Please include them in your time entries. For example, if you started working at 8:00 am. Then you took a 10 minutes break. After the break you worked 2 more hours before leaving at 12:10 pm. You only need to input ONE entry 8:00am - 12:10pm as the 10 minutes break are also paid time.

Please be aware no single work entry can be more than 12 hours according to the Law. This will cause timesheet to be returned and could affect payment for that week.

Tracking time accurately and timely is very important. You are paid for the hours, after school director approves the timesheet.

Some jobs are only a few hours or a few days. You need to submit the timesheet when the job is done. The submit button will be enabled at that time. Some jobs take more than one week, you need to submit a timesheet every week in order to be paid weekly. The submit button will be enabled after Friday in that case. Once a timesheet is submitted, school director will review and approve it. And that’s how we can process your payment. In case your timesheet are rejected, please try reach out to school manager through phone or email first and resubmit your updated timesheet. School directors have up to one week to approve or reject your timesheet. Iducator will auto-approve timesheet after that.

Congratulations! Your payment is on the way. Now it’s time to do it again and earn more money!

Confirmed job are agreed-on contracts. However, there are times something urgent or unexpected comes up. To cancel a confirmed job or be out for a day, you need to get school director's consent. You can find the school director's contact info on the employment. Once you get the consent from the director, you can inform us at admin@iductor.com and we'll cancel the job for you.

Without notification and consent, school director will report your absence as "No-Show" to us. If we determined your are at fault for "No-Show" , you will receive a warning for the first offense. Your account will be suspended for up to 6 months and/or subject to a penalty for second offsense. And we'll terminate your account for third offense.

• * Notify School Director as soon as possible. The minimum is 72 hours (if the job starts more than 72 hours in the future), unless it's emergency cases such as sudden illness, accidents, jury summon etc.
• * Always call to get school director's consent. The school number listed in the employment page is a mobile number. You may text if school director doesn't answer or it's weekend. If the school didn't respond within 24 hours of your calling / text, send an email to admin@iducator.com for record.
• * Iducate treats No-Show very seriously and will investigate all No-Show reporting.

Iducator use address information to match you up with school that are near you. Up to date experience information help you being selected by school directors. Also, make sure phone number are correct and able to receive text messages.

Iducator’s platform will email you daily around 5 pm for un-fullfilled long term job when your location meets school’s criteria. Click the link in the email to view the job details.

After review the job, click Apply to apply for the job. This will enable this school director to view your profile.

Unlike subsitute job, which requires Iducator to pre-verify all the required documents, You ONLY need to complete your profile page to Apply for Long Term Jobs. You can submit required documents while you are being scheduled for interview. HOWEVER, THE SAME TEACHING REQUIRMENTS applies. Your job offer will be delayed or recinded if not all documents are completed and received by school before your start day.

Even if you only intend to apply for fulltime jobs, completing all the requirment documents will give you an EXTRA EDGE. Not only will school director be more confident with your background, a lot of times, they can (and will) schedule sub-jobs for you to do "try outs" to see if you are a fit. Some schools will not hire fulltime without "try out" first. And those "try outs" are your paid interview.

Unlike subsitute jobs, which school directors have to respond within 24 hours, school directors may not contact you until days or weeks later based your ranking among candidates. Iducator can help you contact shcools, but we do not have control over that process.

Unlike subsitute jobs, while Iducator helps you coordinate interview, provide feedback and bridge communication, Iducator does not set rate or negotiate compensation for you for long term jobs. You will be negotiating directly with school directors.

Substitute teachers/aides will be give a Overall Rating (1-5 star)from the school director for the time of employment. Additionally, school director can rate teachers on the following four sub-areas:

• * Safety and Compliance
• * Classroom Management
• * Record Keeping
• * Punctual On Time

School director can also write additional comments on the feedback.

Once an employment is completed, school director will receive a review invitation through email by Iducator to rate the substitute. Teachers/Aides will be rated for each employment.

Your feedback is an criteria school directors use to select substitutes. You can ask school to give you a good feedback. Being punctual on time and keeping good communication with the school will help you get good ratings from school.

When schools make a substitute request, the request is broadcasted to registered teachers based on the distance of your address and the school location. Erroneous or outdated address will may cause missed request

Our data shows school directors are more like to select teachers/aides have “Teacher Experience” filled out.

Some jobs are more popular than others. Now you can see how many teachers already accepted a certain job. Accept jobs that haven't been accepted by other teachers to avoid competition:

Refer your friends is the easiest way to make more cash without even work in the classroom. When a teacher signed up with your refer code, both you and the joining teacher will be eligible for extra $100 bonus. Keep in mind that the joining teacher will have to meet all the terms (including the amount of hours worked for Iducator) before you can get paid.

Since school directors have up to one week to approve your timesheet, submitting timesheet sooner will get you paid sooner. If your employment is short than one week, you should submit the timesheet as soon as the employment is completed. If you have a employment spanning multiple weeks, you should submit one timesheet at the end of each week. And you should submit your last timesheet as soon as you completed your employment. It is ok to submit empty timesheet.