How to Use substitute teacher in a Sentence

substitute teacher

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  • Lee’s wife, Maria, was friends with the head of the school and a substitute teacher who were among those killed.
    — Kimberlee Kruesi and Jonathan Mattise, Anchorage Daily News, 2 June 2023
  • Adams’s mom, a former substitute teacher, comes over twice a week to tidy up the house and fix up the flower beds for $25 an hour.
    — Drew Harwell, Washington Post, 9 Nov. 2023
  • Three 9-year-old students were killed, as well as the head of the grade school, a custodian and a substitute teacher.
    — Jonathan Mattise, Chicago Tribune, 28 Mar. 2023
  • For more than four decades, the grandmother of three taught second grade and was a substitute teacher.
    — Rikki Klaus, CNN, 26 June 2024
  • The three children killed in the attack were 9-year-old students, and the adults killed were a custodian, a substitute teacher and the head of school.
    — Phil Helsel, NBC News, 7 Nov. 2023
  • Sha-Ri is now a substitute teacher and track coach, per TV Insider.
    — Olivia Evans, Women's Health, 30 June 2023
  • Take the pending federal case brought by a substitute teacher who claims he was let go by a Catholic high school for being gay.
    — Kevin Rector, Los Angeles Times, 29 July 2023
  • Criss Smith worked in financial services for 30 years and now works as a substitute teacher.
    — Jo Yurcaba, NBC News, 31 Mar. 2024
  • Among the murdered were three nine-year-old third graders, a 61-year-old substitute teacher, the school’s janitor and the head administrator of the school.
    — Glenn Rowley, Billboard, 28 Mar. 2023
  • Dewey has spent years crashing with his former bandmate Ned, a pushover who strayed from the divine light of rock and roll to become a substitute teacher.
    — Chris Stanton, Vulture, 25 Sep. 2023
  • The substitute teacher, who was not identified, had been working for the district since March 6 and was fired Thursday, the district said.
    — Raja Razek, CNN, 16 Apr. 2023
  • His mother worked as a substitute teacher for the Birdville school district, and his father is a mechanic for Tyson Foods.
    — Noah Alcala Bach, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 23 July 2024
  • On March 27, a former student at the private school entered its building and shot and killed three 9-year-olds, a custodian, a substitute teacher and the head of the school.
    — Annie Gowen, Washington Post, 23 Aug. 2023
  • He was also known — even as a schools leader — to sometimes serve as a substitute teacher in Stafford classrooms and shadow students for a day.
    — Nicole Asbury, Washington Post, 17 June 2024
  • There, Denogean was a substitute teacher who taught English as a second language.
    — Elena Santa Cruz, The Arizona Republic, 20 Feb. 2023
  • Hill worked as a custodian, and Peak was a substitute teacher.
    — David Begnaud, CBS News, 29 Mar. 2023
  • Henson, a former substitute teacher, wants kids to know how important their own voice is.
    — Anna Halkidis, Parents, 18 June 2024
  • His father was a railroad brakeman who died when Billy was about 10; his mother was a substitute teacher.
    — Richard Sandomir, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2023
  • The Screenplay White used Fenger’s story as the inspiration for a screenplay about a down-on-his-luck rock singer who poses as a substitute teacher at a prep school — and forms a rock band with his students.
    — Angie Martoccio, Rolling Stone, 28 Sep. 2023
  • Livingston has worked as a swimming instructor in the Bay Area over the past several years and may have spent some time as a substitute teacher, according to police.
    — Harry Harris, The Mercury News, 12 July 2024
  • Cynthia Peak Cynthia Peak Peak, 61, was a substitute teacher at the school, according to police and officials.
    — Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN, 28 Mar. 2023
  • Joyce Blankenship, a former substitute teacher, was found dead in her home, family members said.
    — Nigel Chiwaya, NBC News, 29 Feb. 2024
  • The Peterson case has been the subject of endless fascination since the substitute teacher with a bright smile disappeared from their Modesto home sometime the morning of Christmas Eve 2002.
    — Julia Prodis Sulek, The Mercury News, 15 July 2024
  • Frock was a long-term substitute teacher and head varsity volleyball coach at Westminster High School.
    — Tony Roberts, Baltimore Sun, 13 Feb. 2024
  • Frock was a long-term substitute teacher and head varsity volleyball coach at Westminster High School.
    — Sherry Greenfield, Baltimore Sun, 18 Apr. 2024
  • According to her grandson, Lee Quesada, deputies told his uncle that the former substitute teacher's remains were found Wednesday in her home, which was burned.
    — USA TODAY, 4 Mar. 2024
  • Rogers already has two jobs as a substitute teacher and DoorDash delivery person, and no interest in taking on a third.
    — Danielle Douglas-Gabriel, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Aug. 2023
  • Another serendipitous moment led him to conduct in eighth grade, when a substitute teacher decided to select a student’s name out of a hat to lead the class orchestra.
    — Sydney Haywood, NBC News, 18 Nov. 2023
  • School Of Rock follows Dewey, who became a substitute teacher at an uptight elementary private school after being kicked out of his rock band.
    — Carly Thomas, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Mar. 2024
  • Mariana Griggs, a substitute teacher and also a community activist, has lived in Oak Cliff for 20 years.
    — Everton Bailey Jr., Dallas News, 15 Mar. 2023

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