Substitute teaching in Long Beach Unified School District: how the Frontline job board works

Long Beach Unified School District, in California, posts its substitute jobs through Frontline Absence Management (the system many subs still call Aesop). If you're on the sub list here, everything below is about that board: what shows up on it, how it's written, and what it takes to get the jobs you actually want.

Schools that post substitute jobs

We've seen postings from 51 sites in Long Beach Unified School District (the first 40 are listed here). Exactly as they appear on the board, which matters if you filter by school name:

• ADDAMS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
• BANCROFT MIDDLE SCHOOL
• BARTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
• BIRNEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
• BURBANK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
• BURCHAM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
• CABRILLO HIGH SCHOOL
• CHAVEZ ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
• DOOLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
• EDISON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
• GANT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
• GARFIELD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
• GOMPERS ELEMENTARY
• GRANT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
• HAMILTON MIDDLE SCHOOL
• HARTE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
• HENRY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
• HUGHES MIDDLE SCHOOL
• JEFFERSON MIDDLE SCHOOL
• JORDAN HIGH SCHOOL
• KING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
• LAFAYETTE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
• LAKEWOOD HIGH SCHOOL
• LINDSEY ACADEMY
• LONGFELLOW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
• LOS CERRITOS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
• LOWELL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
• MACARTHUR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
• MADISON ELEMENTARY
• MARSHALL MIDDLE SCHOOL
• MCKINLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
• MILLIKAN HIGH SCHOOL
• MUIR K-8 SCHOOL
• NELSON ACADEMY
• NIETO HERRERA (FORMERLY LEE) ELEM SCHOOL
• OROPEZA (FORMERLY INTERNATIONAL) ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
• POLYTECHNIC HIGH SCHOOL
• POWELL K-8 SCHOOL
• PRISK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
• ROBINSON K-8 ACADEMY

Spelling on the board is what counts. A district that writes “ELEM” instead of “Elementary”, or lists a campus under a classified-staff name, will trip up any filter that expects the official name. Copy the names above when you set preferences anywhere.

How Long Beach Unified School District writes its postings

Postings here look like this (real titles from the board, teacher names removed):

• ADV PLACEMENT
• ART
• AUTISM
• BUS EDUC
• DEPT HD LANGUAGE ARTS
• ENGLISH
• FOR LANG SPANISH
• GRADE 1
• GRADE 2
• GRADE 3
• GRADE 4
• GRADE 4, DUAL IMMERSION

Grade levels are written into the title, so you can tell a kindergarten day from a fifth-grade day before you open it.

When jobs post in Long Beach Unified School District

A large share of postings here appear the evening before. Of the 40 postings we've tracked in Long Beach Unified School District, about 5% first appeared between 4 and 8 AM local time, 53% during the school day, and 43% in the evening or overnight. The single busiest hour was around 1 PM.

83% of those postings were full-day jobs (six hours or more). 40% started by 8 AM. 5% were multi-day assignments. When one of our members tried to take a matching job here, 41% of the time another sub had already taken it, which tells you how fast this board moves.

These numbers come from postings Sub Concierge watched for its members in this district. They describe what we saw, not every job the district ever posted, and they shift with the season.

How to get the jobs you want here

• Get on the preferred lists. Teachers in Long Beach Unified School District can name preferred subs, and preferred subs see a posting before the rest of the list does. A short note to a teacher after a good day is the highest-return thing you can do.
• Know the board's spelling. School names and titles above are how the district actually writes them. Filters and alerts that don't match the spelling silently miss jobs.
• Decide your rules once. Which schools, which grades, full-day only or not, how much notice you need. Subs who decide in advance say yes in seconds; subs who decide per posting lose the race.
• Cancel cleanly. Frontline tracks cancellations, and districts notice. Take fewer jobs and keep them.

For the mechanics of the board itself, read how the Frontline job board works and why jobs disappear in seconds.