Teachers On Call

What Teachers On Call does

Teachers On Call is a K-12 education staffing firm that supplies substitute teachers and education professionals to public and private school districts. Founded in 1999 and headquartered originally in Bloomington, Minnesota, the company has historically served a three-state Midwest footprint — Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Iowa — connecting qualified educators with districts needing temporary classroom coverage. Since 2017, Teachers On Call has operated as part of Kelly Services (NASDAQ: KELYA), and effective August 2025 the entity was fully absorbed into the Kelly Education brand, with job seekers routed to myKelly.com and school partners served via kellyeducation.com. Corporate functions (headquarters, contact number, governance, and compliance disclosures) now flow through Kelly's World Headquarters in Troy, Michigan.

The business model is straightforward professional-services staffing: Teachers On Call / Kelly Education earns placement-related revenue from school district clients, who contract for substitute teacher coverage on an as-needed basis. Distribution is direct enterprise field sales to K-12 school districts, supported by an applicant talent portal (Avionte-based) and the Kelly Education web platform for existing partners. The company maintains a single core product — education workforce staffing — with no disclosed technology platform, no proprietary software product, no mobile app, and no API or integration surface. Pricing is negotiated per district and is not publicly disclosed. There is no disclosed AI, data, or analytics capability associated with the business unit.

Strategically, the rebrand consolidates Teachers On Call into Kelly Education to enable national expansion of education staffing services under a unified brand. The Midwest districts remain the operational base, but the brand transition signals Kelly's intent to scale the education vertical across additional geographies using Teachers On Call's regional relationships as a beachhead. As a subsidiary rather than a standalone operating company, Teachers On Call does not independently disclose revenue, headcount trends, or product roadmap; strategic and financial visibility is subsumed within the parent's Kelly Education segment reporting.

Name

Teachers On Call

Legal name

Teachers On Call

Website

https://teachersoncall.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1999

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

Teachers On Call is a Midwest-based K-12 substitute teacher staffing firm serving school districts in Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Iowa. Acquired by Kelly in 2017, it fully rebranded to Kelly Education in August 2025 to support nationwide education workforce expansion.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Education Staffing Services

NAICS

Educational Support Services (611710), Educational Services (61)

SIC

Services-Educational Services (8200), Services-Employment Agencies (7361)

akta.pro primary industry

Teacher Professional Development & In-Service Training Institutes (EDAHAFAM)

akta.pro secondary industry

Instructional Delivery & Pedagogy (School-Led) (EDAJAFAB)

Keywords

• Education staffing services
• Substitute teacher placement
• K-12 workforce solutions
• Education talent acquisition
• School district staffing

Headquarters

HQ city

Bloomington

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Education Staffing Services: Provides substitute teachers and educators to school districts. Revenue is generated through staffing placement fees, likely based on placements made or hourly/daily rates for substitute teachers placed with school district clients.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels2 records

Core offering

Teachers On Call (now Kelly Education) provides K-12 education workforce staffing, connecting qualified substitute teachers and education professionals with public and private school districts in Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Iowa. The firm delivers both temporary substitute coverage and broader education talent placement, sourcing candidates through an online Talent Portal and engaging school district clients via direct enterprise relationships under the Kelly Education brand.

Product overview

Teachers On Call (now operating as Kelly Education) is a single, unified education staffing service. The company provides staffing solutions to K-12 school districts, connecting qualified educators, substitutes, and other education professionals with schools in Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Iowa. The core offering is the staffing placement service itself, supported by a Talent Portal for candidates to manage applications and logins. Teachers On Call became part of Kelly in 2017 and fully rebranded to Kelly Education in August 2025.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Education Staffing Services (Teachers On Call / Kelly Education) Workforce staffing service that connects qualified substitute teachers, educators, and education professionals with K-12 public and private school districts in Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Iowa. Provides temporary and permanent substitute coverage to address teacher shortages, unexpected absences, and ongoing school staffing needs.

Named customers3 records

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• KellyflagshipStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2017Teachers On Call was acquired by Kelly in 2017 and has been operating as part of the Kelly organization. Effective August 2025, Teachers On Call officially transitioned to the Kelly Education brand, combining the strengths of both organizations to better serve school districts and educators nationwide.

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves2 records

Emerging players

• Frontline Education: Frontline Education is a leading K-12 administration and workforce-management software provider (including absence management). It is an adjacent competitor in the substitute-ecosystem, increasingly bundling staffing with software in districts that overlap with Teachers On Call's customers.

Broad incumbents

• Robert Half: Robert Half is a major U.S. staffing firm with a professional staffing practice that overlaps with the broader staffing category Teachers On Call operates in. It is a broad incumbent peer rather than a direct K-12 substitute competitor.
• ManpowerGroup: ManpowerGroup is a global publicly traded staffing company with education-sector placement services. It competes for the same enterprise school-district contracts but operates as a broad staffing incumbent rather than a K-12 specialist.
• Randstad: Randstad is a major global staffing firm with a dedicated education staffing practice in the U.S. Its enterprise school-district placement services compete for the same K-12 substitute and support-staff contracts that Teachers On Call / Kelly Education targets.
• Insight Global: Insight Global is a large U.S. staffing and talent solutions firm that places workers across multiple verticals and competes for K-12 district workforce contracts alongside dedicated education-staffing firms like Teachers On Call.
• Adecco (Adecco Group): Adecco is a global staffing leader with a U.S. education staffing practice that competes for large K-12 district contracts. It is a comparable peer in staffing model, though it operates across many verticals rather than specializing in education.

Direct peers

• Parallel Employment Group: Parallel Employment Group operates a dedicated education staffing division placing substitute teachers, paraprofessionals, and support staff into K-12 districts — closely comparable in service line and target customer.
• Edustaff: Edustaff is a K-12 substitute teacher and support-staff staffing provider serving school districts with a similar enterprise sales model and focus on substitute and paraprofessional placement.
• ESS (Kokua Education): ESS, now operating as Kokua Education, is one of the largest dedicated K-12 substitute teacher and education staffing agencies in the U.S. — the most direct head-to-head competitor to Teachers On Call / Kelly Education in school-district substitute placement.
• Source4Teachers: Source4Teachers is a direct competitor specializing in substitute teacher staffing and related education workforce services for K-12 districts, particularly in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast U.S.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/TeachersOnCall

Revenue estimate

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Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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