Save Time, Stay Compliant, Support Teachers: The Workforce Management Solution Early Education Needs

Early childhood education providers face a unique balancing act: meeting strict teacher-to-child ratio requirements while creating engaging, supportive environments for both staff and families. With teacher retention, labor cost control, and compliance all top of mind, it’s no surprise that scheduling remains one of the biggest operational headaches.

That’s where Legion’s AI-powered Workforce Management comes in.

Built for the Classroom, Not Just the Back Office

Legion’s AI-powered Workforce Management Platform is designed to meet the unique needs of early childhood education (ECE) organizations. Unlike one-size-fits-all tools, Legion WFM evolves through close collaboration with leading providers to deliver a solution tailored to the complexities of early childcare education. It offers the agility, visibility, and compliance support leaders need to run high-quality programs at scale. Legion’s ECE-specific solution empowers your educators, supports your leaders, and simplifies the complexity of daily operations—all while helping you deliver the care and learning experience families expect.

Solve the Ratio Puzzle—Automatically

Maintaining student-to-teacher ratios isn’t optional—it’s a regulatory requirement. Legion automates this process with built-in compliance templates, ensuring every classroom meets requirements in real time while ensuring coverage ratios are met.

District managers get real-time insight into staffing levels, open shifts, and float availability across all locations. Float teachers are automatically scheduled and redeployed to meet coverage needs across multiple centers, reducing burnout and ensuring no classroom goes understaffed.

Legion also supports shared float pools across centers, enabling consistent coverage and resource optimization across sites. This centralized visibility and flexibility provide peace of mind and operational resilience across your entire organization.

Flexibility That Attracts and Retains Great Teachers

Rigid schedules are a leading cause of early educator turnover. And yet, engaged educators are the heart of every successful early childhood education center. Legion helps you create consistent yet flexible schedules that honor teacher preferences while still meeting critical compliance and ratio requirements. This balance leads to more satisfied families and more invested staff.

Through Legion’s top-rated mobile app, educators can easily view their schedules, update availability and preferences, and even swap shifts—empowering them with the autonomy they value. With a 4.9-star rating and 88% weekly usage, Legion’s self-service tools are loved by teachers and directors alike, making it the highest-rated workforce app in the industry.

Plus, built-in float staff management helps reduce burnout by automatically allocating support where it’s needed most across centers.

Less Time Scheduling, More Time Leading

Scheduling doesn’t have to be a manual time sink. Legion cuts scheduling time in half with AI-powered automation of tasks such as creating schedules that meet business and employee needs, managing call-offs, float assignments, and real-time attendance changes.

Legion’s scalable scheduling grid and employee-anchored views make adjustments fast and intuitive, while built-in compliance templates ensure schedules always meet staff-to-child ratios and labor laws—without manual oversight. By cutting scheduling time in half, Legion frees center leaders to focus on what matters—supporting families, nurturing staff, and delivering high-quality care.

“Providing our center staff with tools that make their daily work easier ensures they have more time to spend supporting families and children. Legion’s workforce management program helps our centers optimize schedules and provide a modern, digital experience for our staff.”

— Lindsay Sorhondo, Chief Innovation Officer, KinderCare Learning Companies

 

Budget Confidence Without the Guesswork

Legion AI does more than automate—it optimizes. Every schedule is intelligently built to balance budget constraints, enrollment demands, and staffing requirements while maintaining compliance. Real-time schedule scoring allows directors to assess and improve schedule quality instantly, and interactive dashboards offer clear visibility into key performance indicators. Legion equips leaders with the insights they need to make smarter labor decisions that elevate operational efficiency and staff satisfaction from the enterprise level to individual centers.

With Legion, labor budgets and staffing plans stay aligned in real time, helping you avoid overspend while maximizing every labor hour. Using historical trends and real-time attendance data to forecast staffing needs down to the classroom and hour, you’re always prepared when children check in and out. Legion empowers centers to operate efficiently while maintaining the highest standards of care.

The Smarter Way Forward for Early Childhood Education Workforce Management

In an industry where every moment and every interaction counts, early childhood education providers need more than just a scheduling tool—they need a partner that understands the unique demands of their environment. Legion WFM delivers exactly that. By combining intelligent automation with real-time visibility and educator-first design, Legion helps ECE centers move beyond reactive scheduling and into a future of strategic workforce management. The result? Happier classrooms, empowered educators, and operations that run as smoothly as the care you deliver. It’s time to turn scheduling from a burden into a competitive advantage—and with Legion, that transformation starts today.

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