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,

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Hi, everyone, and welcome back to this week's episode.

Today, we get to know Lindsay, and Lindsay was a special education teacher who left teaching

to work in education through a different lens.

She is now a senior director at a foundation.

In this episode, we discuss her teaching experience, next steps after leaving the classroom,

and how her organization supports students and teachers. Hope you enjoy.

Hi, everyone, and welcome back to the Teacher Career Coach podcast. I'm very excited today for you

to get to know Lindsay DeHartzac. Welcome, Lindsay. Thanks for having me. Thank you for joining us.

And we're really excited for this episode. A lot of teachers in this audience are looking to leave the traditional classroom.

Either some are looking to go into higher education, some into nonprofits and foundations. So we thought you would

be a perfect guess for this. And we can't wait to learn about a little bit about your teaching

experience. So what got you into teaching in the first place? I do not have, I think,

like a very compelling story about why I got into teaching. I was certainly influenced by my mom. So my mom

was a career educator of many decades teaching middle school social studies. So the importance of

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