Educator FI
Financial Independence For Educators
Your career is a valuable resource. Understanding your career parameters, anticipating opportunities, and preparing for your future empowers you to make incredible progress - professionally AND financially.
Read about education jobs, career benefits, and mastering the job hunt.
I've spent 20 years in public education, in multiple districts, and at all levels. I want my experience to inform your pursuits.
You've been asked to write another letter of recommendation for a teacher colleague. You want to be supportive but are already behind on so many other things. Fortunately, you can write a great …
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The new year school year is approaching fast and you don’t have a teaching job yet. You’re starting to get nervous. You really want a stable long-term position, but it may not be in the cards this …
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Recently, I wrote about an incredibly important group of educators working in our schools: paraeducators. Unfortunately, this group is paid at a lower rate than teachers and school …
When most people think about school staff, they think first of teachers and maybe about the school principal. They rarely think about a group that our schools depend on: …
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From the misadventures of Ferris Bueller’s principal Mr. Rooney, children’s books (Ramona) discussing how to spell principal vs. principle, and the hapless principal archetype in most teen sitcoms, …
Those early falls as a teacher were tough. We barely hung on waiting for the first paycheck of each year. We cleaned out our pantry of anything edible and lived on credit cards. July and August flew …
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