Welcome to the Teacher Career Coach podcast with your new host, Elizabeth Sudo.

She started her teaching career in 2014. She found she needed a career change after all the changes that pandemic brought to the teaching world.

So she transitioned outside of the classroom into an administrative assistant role and now works as an operations manager for a tech startup.

Get ready for discussions on all things related to teacher transitions, interview prep,

addressing burnout in the classroom, and so much more.

Here's your host, Elizabeth Sudo.

Hi, I'm Elizabeth, and I wanted to start my first episode ever with my story.

I'll talk about my decision to leave teaching, my personal connection with this podcast, my

role at Aspireship and now teacher career coach, and what you can expect from future episodes

of the podcast.

I taught for eight years in public and private schools, and I started getting my credential early on after auditing a college class.

And my mother was a teacher.

I liked working with kids and was really excited and did think this would be my lifetime

career.

And throughout the eight years,

I had my ups and downs with teaching. It's an extremely exhausting career, as you know. At all times,

you are on. You can have anywhere from 20 to 36 kids. At least that's how it was in my district.

I know class size differs everywhere. And once COVID hit and everything shut down, I started remote teaching.

At that time, I actually enjoyed it.

I liked being remote, and I also liked playing around with all the different technology

and figuring out how to integrate it into the lessons with the kids.

I did see that not all of my colleagues enjoyed the remote teaching.

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