How You Get Your Credential Can Cost You Tens of Thousands of Dollars

If you are new to teaching and even if you’ve never taught a single day of your life, there’s something every teacher should be explicitly told when they get hired by a district.  Here’s the issue, not every year you work will count if you move to another district.  Let me explain.

https://beforeteaching.com/ I think most teachers go into teaching wanting to change students’ lives. Why would this be a topic on this site? When I first considered teaching as a profession, I wanted to change lives through my lessons and example as a male hispanic making it in the world. What I w…

https://beforeteaching.com/index.php/2021/11/15/not-every-teacher-has-to-take-work-home/I used to be one of those teachers who would work late into the evening grading papers, creating stuff for the class and preparing lessons but something changed that made me realize not every teacher does these …

Loan forgiveness sounds like an awesome idea.  It is but just like any other idea, it's the execution of that idea that makes it great or just more bureaucracy.  First, most loans accumulate interest on the day the money is dispersed but some loan’s interest is covered by the government and th…