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. Hi, everyone, and

welcome back. Thanks for listening to today's episode. We have two guests on today.

Both are the co-authors of their book, Spark Brilliance for Educators, and I'm excited for you to get to know Monica

White and Jackie Inkinger. Monica is the co-founder of Elevate Academy, and Jackie is a leadership coach utilizing her neuroscience

background to work with education leaders. Today we discuss their book, the school network they've

created, and how we can support educators to prevent burn. Hope you enjoy. Well, welcome back, everyone.

Today we're very excited to have Monica White and Jackie Insinger with us. Welcome both. Thank you for

having us. Well, I'm excited. I love that we have two people on the podcast, you know,

and so we'd love to kick it off by hearing a bit about your roots in education. So, Monica, if you'd like to start, can you tell us a little bit about your background? Absolutely. I'd love to start. So I've been in education. I think we're pushing 25 years now, so don't let that date me. I'm still pretty young at heart. And I've done everything from the classroom to

the boardroom to assistant superintendent at a large district, principal, vice principal. So I've worn a

lot of hats through my years. And about seven years ago in 2017, I had the opportunity to leave the

traditional district and build what they might call your dream school. So I had the opportunity to leave the traditional district and build what they might call your dream

school. So I had the opportunity to dream in detail and built a charter school that serves predominantly

at-risk kids. That's a trade school. Since then, it kind of took off. And now I'm just getting

ready to break around on our fifth school and just love the work and love the

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