You’ve heard of a midlife crisis or a quarterlife crisis. Now introducing the after-a-pandemic life crisis. As of March 31st the country with the highest Covid-19 cases worldwide was the USA. The country with the highest number of deaths due to Covid-19 was the USA. This all means that 1 of every 17 people in … More Post-Covid-Life Crisis
Oh boy. So we talked about how you need a full time teaching job to get an alternative license. You can’t get the alternative license by observing or just taking classes. You must be in the classroom working. And you must be working in your endorsement. So if I wanted to get licensed in English … More The Long Long Journey to a Job
In the last blog we talked about why alternative programs exist and how they work. Now we’ll talk about what we are doing. We are obviously getting our licenses through the alternative route. We would be thrilled to get masters degrees but with the debt and extra time need it’s not a good time. Where … More How We’re Getting Teacher Licenses
Some people seem confused on what exactly we’ll be doing this upcoming year to become licensed teachers. To be fair we were looking at a lot of different options so some folks may have mixed up everything we said. How to become a licensed teacher generally It depends on the state but generally you can either … More How to become a teacher in the USA
I’m sure it comes as a huge surprise to everyone that we have just quit our jobs in Japan and canceled the flight. We’ve tried to keep people updated on the application, our process and everything. But deep down, this whole time, we’ve felt like something wasn’t quite right. We kept justifying things to ourselves … More Pulling the Plug on Japan
We applied to Japan very suddenly. We had talked all summer (nearly everyday with 400+ hours of research) about what to do next. When we found the Japan program we talked for a long time, but then decided that we could only talk in circles for so long. Let’s just apply. We had 3 weeks … More Our Application to Japan
