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.

Welcome back to the Teacher Career Coach podcast.

You can find us on all your social channels at

Teacher Career Coach or on our website, teachercareercoach.com. Today we're very excited to get to speak

with Megan Steinbacher. Megan is a scrum master at a major textbook publishing company. She taught high

school English at a public school before realizing that she needed a change. Today, we learn

about what a scrum master and delivery lead actually does how to get into the field and what

her day-to-day job looks like. Hope you enjoy.

Welcome, Megan. Thank you. Thank you. I'm excited to be here and talk about my experience.

Well, we're super happy to have you, and we would love to learn a little bit about your background.

What got you into education in the first place?

My background, I grew up with two parents who were teachers. My mom taught middle school and then

eventually switched to elementary school and then my dad taught middle school. Just seeing how

they made differences in students' lives, like when we would be out around the town, because I grew up in a pretty small town, students would recognize them all the time and just come up and you could tell that they really made a difference in these students' lives.

So I originally went to undergrad for graphic communications, totally not teaching. My mom actually told me not to be a

teacher. 15 years ago, she was talking about how much teaching had changed and it just wasn't the

same anymore because of all the just politics and rules and everything. So I went into a totally

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