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‘Fun’ was the buzzword throughout our chat and you can tell how much Anna relishes the business she has created. What’s special about a Kidslingo franchise is that it’s so much more than teaching languages, music, drama, signing, PHSE working in harmony with language education.

After a decade of wrangling tiny humans in primary schools, and after a lot of soul searching, I decided to take the leap and swapped my teacher’s planner for a to-do list with satisfying checkboxes of my own making. I abandoned the reliable monthly wage slip and instead embraced the exhilarating unknown of self-employment. Here’s why.

The Data School’s webinar was a treasure trove of knowledge for beginners, by focusing on the fundamentals, choosing the right tools, adhering to best practices, and learning from real-world examples, anyone can enhance their data visualisation skills.

Making the jump from a guaranteed wage in teaching to working for yourself is scary and you do need to have a bit of a financial safety net to help you through the first months of building your business up but teaching has prepared you with so many skills. 

Lisa made a decision to leave teaching and start her own business. Read about her journey from the classroom here. Lisa kindly offers tips and advice for any teacher wanting to follow the path to become a Virtual Assistant.

A recent report showed that one of the biggest trends for career changers in the last year or so is teachers retraining in tech. Jess shares her story from primary teacher to Software Engineer.

Teachers deserve support and celebration no matter what stage they are at in their career. They also deserve options. 
If you’re a teacher and you’re reading this: you are amazing, your potential is as limitless as that of your students, and you deserve to be happy. 

I passionately believe that teachers make AMAZING virtual assistants, whether or not they choose to niche into education businesses as I have.  We are confident communicators, able to work with loads of different stakeholders, brilliant at juggling many, many balls without ever dropping them, and uber-organised.

In my business journey, I came to realise that teachers really do have vital key skills and attributes which are readily transferable to other sectors – especially when it comes to running your own business.

The first thing to say is that if you leap, it’s guaranteed to be a journey that you can’t see today.  No matter what you choose to do, no matter how much you plan, surprising challenges will crop up along the way.

Leaving my job as a Headteacher of a Special School was an emotional journey. I had very mixed feelings and a sense of letting people down with a mix of fear.

If you wish to become a Learning Designer then you will need a background in education, an interest in technology, particularly audio/visual.

After my first year as a teacher, I quit. I knew that I wanted to work with students but working in a class of 30 wasn’t the way that I enjoyed.

New Career = New Ewe! 16 years, 5 schools, 3 counties; private, mainstream, primary, secondary, preparatory and SEND.  PE specialist, Director of Sport, SLD class teacher and Assistant Head.  In a nutshell, I feel like I’ve experienced a wide-ranging amount in Education.  I have had the pleasure of working with some amazing children and the […]

Harry Stachini launches ‘The Staff Room’ podcast  The Manchester comic shares lighthearted tales from inside the classroom, provided by anonymous teachers Featuring special guests including Jack Carrol, Josh Jones, Jack Gleadow and many more  Listen Now  New Episodes Every Friday!  “Harry is fabulous, naturally funny… a pleasure to be on the podcast.. It’s unbelievable what […]

As a mainstream Head of Geography, I loved the craft of communicating ideas, designing the curriculum and creating learning. After 7 years I began to take a greater interest in the students who struggled to succeed.

I am at the start of a new adventure; I do not know what will happen but what I do know is this: Teaching is a wonderful profession.

When I was looking to leave my role in teaching, I felt pretty much out on my own, muddling through a professional landscape that was incredibly intimidating and alien to me. Read Joel’s journey from teaching to Head of Complaints & Member Liaison at British Medical Association.

I absolutely loved my job as a teacher, but I increasingly felt that, for me, the work-life balance was not sustainable. Disillusioned with the politically changes and a lot of my morals and beliefs just didn’t align any longer.

Since this was originally posted on October 31st, I put a little Halloween slant on it.  And yes, I did just spend five minutes debating whether or not to use an apostrophe in ‘hallowe’en’.  I went with not. See, I can roll with the times. Anyway, workin’ hard is hardly workin’ for most of us.  […]

My career as a teacher was actually pretty short. I’m sure my experience isn’t unique – a tricky PGCE mentor and the overwhelming feeling of never being able to do enough in the classroom – and as I’ve never been one to suffer through, I left the year after I finished being an NQT. I […]