The clock is ticking on Patrice Thompson’s tenure as a full-time classroom teacher. As she prepares for her next professional chapter after the current academic year, she admits the transition comes with a […] Read more: Patrice Thompson’s Journey to Education Entrepreneurship
Osamuede “Ede” Osagiede is a changemaker. As a lifelong learner, he is consistently determined to help motivate and upscale his students, his schools, and his fellow teachers. Transitioning across countries […] Read more: How Ede Osagiede is Driving Change in his School
“When I was in fifth grade, my language arts teacher would take us down to the kindergarten class with books and…she would set us up with 5 kindergarten students, so it was […] Read more: ‘Patience is the Key’: Maya Azar’s Approach to Career Growth and Teaching Children
Sometimes, in Sheila Durk’s childhood home, the electric company would cut the power. Sometimes, there was no food in the fridge. Durk and her siblings made sure they always ate the […] Read more: Missouri Teacher Finds New Adventure in Africa
As a child, Chad Stephens had his heart set on joining the United States Marine Corps. His dad was a Marine, and Stephens spent his childhood living in Egypt, Japan, […] Read more: When Teaching ‘Doesn’t Feel Like Work’
Taylor Armijo’s resume doesn’t follow a straight line. Her first job out of college was teaching 9th and 11th grade English for a huge high school in North Carolina. After that, she wanted a […] Read more: The ‘Core’ of Teaching for Taylor Armijo? Relationship Building and Long-Term Impact
Gigi Zahir had already invested months of her time and hard-earned money into a teacher certification program. She’d done all the coursework online while living in Saudi Arabia, only needing […] Read more: How Gigi Zahir Rebounded from a Setback in Her Teaching Career
With two parents who were teachers, I have been in classrooms my whole life. I had been teaching in classrooms across Asia and Europe for more than 10 years by the time I started to consider a professional license. I had a bachelor’s […] Read more: Why I Didn’t Want to Go to Moreland
When Molly La Pan was in kindergarten, she would come home from school every day and play — more school. She labeled all her books with sequential numbers and “Ms. Anderson” (her maiden name). Then she’d grab her little brother, […] Read more: From Playing School to Certified Teacher with an M.Ed.