Teacher Training and Supervision for a New Hybrid School Rebecca Foley hosts the Hybrid School Builders Podcast and shares an overview of how to train and supervise teachers, especially in the months before opening a new hybrid school. She emphasizes hiring for mission fit, energy with kids, and increasing subject-matter expertise for older grades, rather than relying only on paper qualifications. For established programs, she recommends budgeting to pay new hires to shadow experienced teachers and optionally creating a paid mentor-teacher system over the summer. For a first-year launch without existing classes to observe, she suggests planning 10–15 hours of training per teacher covering logistics and safety (building walkthroughs, doors/bathrooms, cleanup, restricted areas), curriculum training, and classroom management aligned with the school’ ...