I want to help teachers, admin, and students all interact together in the best way. Career advice?

I love education and its potential to better the lives of students by empowering them. Ive worked at some HORRENDOUS schools (legally and morally speaking) that were run by either people that meant well but didn’t know well, or people that for the paycheck and not much else. I’ve developed a talent for communicating issues with administration, explaining best practices to teachers, and understanding the plight of students.

In American public schools I was tormented by my bosses. I was threatened behind closed doors for not cheating for students on state tests, labeled insubordinate for following best practices in regards to SpEd when my principal asked me to blatantly do some bad stuff. That said, parents and students loved me and were all very broken up when I left each school I worked at, I felt confident in my abilities although they weren’t recognized.

I taught abroad for a year. I was quickly recognized by administrators and offered a good job that I turned down to come back home (a year straight across the world was too much for me). My students learned a lot, my class was managed so well that I helped other teachers be the great teachers everyone knew they could be, but it wasn’t home and never would be, so I moved back.

Here’s where I ask for advice/insight/someone to shake some sense into me... I would love to work at struggling schools for a couple of weeks at a time, help them figure out their shortfalls and make the schooling experience better for all involved. This seems like a consultant job, but many consultants I’ve worked with only did paperwork that looked good and made lives more difficult for both teachers and students. Is there a career where I could travel to a school for a couple of weeks to help them out? What qualifications would I need to meet?

Submitted September 15, 2019 at 04:21PM by spykids420 https://ift.tt/2I7zIZG