How it works
A clear path from opening to confirmed coverage.
EarlyEd Reserve is the technology bridge between centers and educators. Centers select, verify, and hire; educators choose when and where they work. The platform coordinates the connection — and records every step.
For childcare centers
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
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.
The Texas verification workflow
An accepted offer is not automatically a confirmed assignment. EarlyEd Reserve follows an eight-step process designed around Texas Child Care Regulation requirements:
The educator may report an existing Texas childcare eligibility determination. Self-reported status alone never authorizes work.
A verified, licensed childcare operation independently selects the educator.
The center is directed to the official Texas Child Care Regulation process.
The center verifies current eligibility and completes any required request, association, affiliation, or submission for its operation.
An authorized center representative attests that the required official steps were completed.
EarlyEd Reserve stores only the platform verification status, confirming operation, dates, and audit history — never criminal-history details.
The assignment is not marked confirmed until the center attests that all applicable requirements are complete.
If eligibility changes, expires, or can no longer be confirmed, the educator's status becomes Verification Required and affected centers are alerted confidentially.
The center attestation
“I confirm that this operation has completed the eligibility verification, qualification review, personnel-record, orientation, supervision, and other requirements applicable to this individual and this operation before the individual provides care.”
Each attestation records the center, location, authorized representative, date, time, assignment, educator, and attestation version, with a complete audit history.
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.