Process Automation in Child Care: How Much Time Can You Really Save?

With a whopping 63% of teachers reporting high levels of stress and anxiety, it’s clear teacher burnout is real.

Thanks to the extra workload, emotional stress and compassion-fatigue brought on by the recent pandemic, teachers are under more pressure than ever.

But despite nearly one in four teachers saying they plan to leave their job by the end of 2021, many employers are struggling to make changes fast enough to alleviate the situation.

Clearly, things need to change.

From offering extra support to using tech to support teacher roles, there’s a lot that ECE leaders can do to show employees they care. But with many ECE businesses still working hard to bounce back from the pandemic’s impact, it’s not always easy to make big changes behind the scenes.

So, how can ECE leaders make minimal effort changes to relieve teacher burnout, while dealing with the pandemic’s impact? How can admins and employees make time for more engagement with the kids? And what are the best tools to support teachers in their everyday tasks? 

In this guide, we’ll answer all these questions and dive into some of the key ways process automation can help alleviate teacher burnout (with a little support from MomentPath 😉).

Table of contents

• How can process automation alleviate preschool teacher burnout?

• Manage the classroom
• Automate your payments
• Communicate with parents

• How Lightbridge Academy saved 35+ monthly hours per center

Ready for smooth operations at your ECE center? Find out how MomentPath can help!

How can process automation alleviate preschool teacher burnout?

Between March and October 2020, satisfaction of K-12 employees fell from 69% to 44%, with 41% of teachers working more hours than before the pandemic.

Not what any business leader would want for their employees.

Thankfully, there’s a solution to alleviate employee burnout, reduce working hours and boost overall productivity: Process automation.

Here’s how automating your everyday tasks can help:

• Save teacher time: By getting those pesky admin tasks under control, you can save teachers the paperwork and give them more time to do what they do best — teach.

• Reduce operational costs: Less hours spent on repetitive tasks = less budget on overtime. Plus, process automation can help you collect enrollment fees faster and boost your brand to get more children enrolled.

• Increase performance: Happy employees are 13% more productive, so the more support you offer teachers, the better outcomes you get. Simple.

The outcomes are clearly worth it, but which core child care processes can benefit most from automation? Let’s break it down.

Manage the classroom

All great journeys begin in the classroom — and from using prebuilt lesson plans to scheduling recurring menus, managing the early learning classroom has never been easier.

Here’s how to use MomentPath to automate daily tasks and save your teachers precious time:

• Create lesson plans: If you’ve been in ECE for long, you know lesson plans often stay within one classroom, forcing teachers to reinvent the wheel every time. But with MomentPath, you can create lesson templates, pull in existing lesson plans, and share weekly plans with classrooms across your center.
• Track Moments: These days, parents expect to be kept up-to-date with classroom activity. MomentPath’s Moments allow teachers to bulk share daily insights at the click of a button. For example, if several children have been napping, you can track a Nap Moment and send it directly to each parent at the same time‍
• Plan mealtimes: Keeping children well-fed and energized is a huge part of the ECE everyday, which is why planning and sharing menus is key for teachers. With MomentPath, you can add a menu, select it to recur, and share to every relevant class at the click of a button.