Long-Term Residencies · Statewide Minnesota
A maternity or medical leave shouldn't mean a lost semester. A rotating cast of daily subs turns a classroom into a holding pattern. MNEDU places one dedicated, high-level educator for the full duration of the leave — so students get a stable, familiar face and instruction never stops.
For assignments of 10+ days, your MNEDU resident handles everything your regular teacher would:
Original, standards-aligned lessons — or a seamless continuation of your teacher's existing units. Art, STEM, and Spanish classrooms keep producing real work, not packet days.
Assignments graded, gradebooks current, students getting genuine feedback. Your returning teacher comes back to an up-to-date record — not a stack of ungraded work.
Conferences, emails, progress updates — the resident maintains the family relationship so parents never feel the classroom went dark.
We hand-select a single specialist for each residency and commit them for the full term. No rotation, no re-introductions, no "who's here today?" Students with a consistent adult perform better and behave better — every principal knows it, and we staff for it.
Before day one, we align instruction with your district's scope and sequence. When your regular teacher returns, students are exactly where the curriculum map says they should be.
As fellow teachers, we know how leave budgets work. Instead of inflated daily agency rates stacked end to end, MNEDU offers a flat weekly residency rate for extended placements. For most leaves of 4+ weeks it comes in meaningfully below standard agency pricing — and your business office gets one predictable line item.
Districts contract with us as a Contracted Service Vendor (Object Code 300) — no absence-management software, no per-day processing. One vendor, one invoice.
Ask us for a side-by-side cost comparison against your current agency's daily rate. Need single-day coverage instead? See Daily Coverage.
Long-term residencies are available statewide across Minnesota, with the deepest bench in the Twin Cities metro. Know a leave is coming? The earlier we talk, the better the match — we'll propose a specialist and a weekly rate within two business days.
Tell us your school or district, the subject, and the dates you need covered. For same-day emergencies, call — a teacher answers, not a portal.
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