Central Texas pilot now forming
Reliable childcare coverage starts with the right connection.
EarlyEd Reserve connects licensed childcare centers with early-childhood educators seeking substitute, temporary, part-time, and permanent opportunities.
Built by a Texas childcare operator who understands staffing, safety, ratios, reliability, and the realities of running a childcare center.
EarlyEd Reserve is an independent marketplace. Participating childcare operations make their own hiring decisions and remain responsible for all eligibility, qualification, orientation, supervision, payroll, and regulatory requirements.
Urgent coverage
It's 6:12 a.m. A teacher just called out.
Every director knows the feeling. Ratios still apply, families still arrive, and the classroom still needs an educator. EarlyEd Reserve lets your center post a same-day opening in minutes — with compensation visible up front — and reach participating educators whose availability, credentials, and travel radius match your classroom.
- Post same-day, scheduled, or recurring coverage
- Search by availability, distance, age-group experience, and credentials
- Invite dependable educators back with preferred lists
Same-day postings
Mark an opening urgent and reach educators who set same-day availability.
Minutes, not mornings
A complete posting with compensation, duties, and arrival details takes minutes.
Center-controlled
You review applicants, select the educator, and complete your verification process.
Verification first
Assignments confirm only after your center attests its required steps are complete.
For childcare centers
Spend less time searching and more time leading your center.
Create and verify your center
Register your organization, add each licensed location with its Texas operation number, and complete center verification.
Post an opening in minutes
Describe the role, schedule, duties, and required qualifications — with compensation visible before educators respond.
Review, invite, and select
Search by availability, distance, age-group experience, credentials, and reliability. Build preferred educator lists and invite dependable educators back.
Verify, attest, and welcome
Complete your operation's required eligibility and qualification process, attest to it, then confirm the assignment.
For educators
Your childcare experience deserves more opportunities.
Build one professional profile
Showcase your experience, age groups, languages, credentials, and resume — with your private contact details protected.
Set your availability
Choose when and where you work: opening or closing shifts, weekends, travel radius, and minimum compensation.
Apply with full information
See compensation, duties, dress code, and arrival instructions before you accept anything.
Grow a verified reputation
Complete assignments, earn verified reviews and repeat invitations, and build your EarlyEd Reliability Score.
Types of opportunities
One marketplace, every kind of coverage.
From a single urgent morning to a permanent leadership role, centers post the arrangement that fits — and educators choose what fits their lives.
Same-Day Substitute
Urgent coverage when a teacher calls out and ratios must be maintained today.
Scheduled One-Day
Planned single-day coverage for appointments, training, or PTO.
Multi-Day Assignment
Coverage spanning several days, such as a teacher's vacation week.
Weekly Assignment
A defined week or set of weeks with a consistent schedule.
Recurring Assignment
A standing schedule — for example, every Monday and Wednesday morning.
Part-Time Opening
Ongoing part-time employment with the center.
Full-Time Opening
Ongoing full-time employment with the center.
Permanent Position
Long-term roles — lead teachers, assistant teachers, directors, and support staff.
Trust and safety
Verification that respects how childcare actually works.
EarlyEd Reserve never claims an educator is universally “state approved.” Each operation completes its own required eligibility and qualification process — and an assignment is confirmed only after an authorized center representative attests that every applicable step is complete.
Center-confirmed verification
The platform records that a center confirmed its required process — never the underlying criminal-history details.
Honest badges
Every badge — from Email Verified to Center-Confirmed Verified — states exactly what it does and does not mean.
Credential review
CPR, first aid, CDA, safe-sleep, and other credentials are reviewed with expiration tracking and reminders.
Transparent reliability
The EarlyEd Reliability Score publishes its weights, waits for at least three completed assignments, and can never be bought.
New educator on-ramp
Educators with fewer than three assignments appear as “Building a Track Record” in a New and Ready section.
Center accountability
Centers are verified against their licensing information and remain responsible for ratios, supervision, and compliance.
Verified reviews
Reviews tied to real, completed assignments.
Two-way reviews unlock only after a confirmed, completed assignment — never before. Structured categories come first, written feedback is moderated, and reviews under active dispute don't decide an educator's placement.
- Centers rate punctuality, professionalism, classroom engagement, and more
- Educators rate listing accuracy, staff support, break compliance, and more
- No anonymous reviews, no paying to remove authentic feedback
- Aggregate ratings appear only after a minimum number of reviews
What centers review
What educators review
Reviews never include names or information about children, medical or family details, or unsupported allegations.
Founding Central Texas pilot
Free during the pilot. Built with the communities it serves.
EarlyEd Reserve launches as a controlled Central Texas pilot. Founding centers receive free platform access with a clear end date, advance notice before any paid option, and no automatic conversion — ever.
Join the founding pilotPilot communities
- Killeen
- Harker Heights
- Copperas Cove
- Temple
- Belton
- Nolanville
- Salado
- + surrounding areas
Additional jurisdictions activate only after their legal, regulatory, background-check, and privacy requirements are configured and approved.
Our foundation
Built by an operator, not an outsider.
Built by a Texas childcare operator who understands staffing, safety, ratios, reliability, and the realities of running a childcare center. EarlyEd Reserve was designed around the realities of ratio math at 6 a.m., licensing visits, and the difference a dependable educator makes for children, families, and teams.
About the founderReady for reliable coverage?
Join the founding Central Texas pilot — free for centers during the pilot, and always free for educators.