Classroom to Boardroom with Carrie Conover

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When I knew it was time to leave teaching, it was a tough decision. I wanted a career that would allow me to make a difference in the world and within education, but I also wanted growth, more money, and goals and aspirations. 10 years later, I’ve left teaching, worked for two different EdTech companies, and created two successful businesses. Here’s how I managed to network as a newly former teacher to land my first role outside of the classroom, use my transferable skills from teaching to excel in my customer success role, and turn those skills into the foundation of my career as an entrepreneur. Learn more at CarrieConover.com

Not everyone transitions directly from teaching full-time to EdTech. There are a ton of different ways in which those working in education find themselves looking for more. Even though you’re not in a teaching role, maybe you’ve found that the path to your ideal role isn’t as straightforward as you imagined. We’ll explore how Chelsea Moore landed her role with the Texas Education Agency, what that role looks like, self expression in the workplace, and Chelsea’s advice on networking. Having never taught in the classroom, here’s why Chelsea joined Classroom to Boardroom and how it helped her transition into her first role outside of education. www.carrieconover.com

Intimidated by the idea of leaving teaching after investing so much time in the profession? Here’s how Jennifer Moss left teaching after two amazing decades. In this episode of the Classroom to Boardroom Podcast, I sit down with Jennifer to discuss why she left teaching after 20 years and how she landed her role as a partnership manager with Discovery Education. We then explore what lead to her smoothe and quick transition from the classroom as well as how TikTok can help when leaving teaching. Finally, Jennifer and I delve into what her days look like in her EdTech role and how relationship building is a crucial part of her role. www.carrieconover.com

Looking to leave teaching but hesitant to commit because you still love it? Abby Prouty was in the same boat several years ago, until she took the Classroom to Boardroom Full Course and gained the momentum she needed to transition. In this episode of the Classroom to Boardroom Podcast, host Carrie Conover sits down with Abby to discuss why she left teaching and her journey to becoming a former teacher. They then walk through the hard and soft skills crucial to her role as well as the differences she sees since her latest promotion. Finally, Abby explores how the Course supported her through finally deciding to make the leap and land her first role as a Business Development Representative at Discovery Education. Learn more about our courses and community at www.carrieconover.com

So you didn’t get the job before back to school. Setting up your classroom is probably the last thing you want to do after you’ve invested so much time and money into perfecting your resume, interviewing, and networking. But you’re not done yet. In this episode of the Classroom to Boardroom podcast, host Carrie Conover discusses what you can do to help your transition while facing back to school. With Carrie, you’ll explore your personal finances, refresh your resume, find communities, reflect on your teaching career, and put together a plan for the coming months. Carrie even shares a story about her own transition from teaching to EdTech to keep you inspired in your job search. www.carrieconover.com

In this episode of the Classroom to Boardroom podcast, host Carrie Conover speaks with former teacher Dana Blumberg on her journey to working in sales for Amplify Learning. We discuss Dana’s career transition from School Counselor to sales at Amplify, and how her skills as an educator have translated to her current role. Dana shares her experience of leaving the school setting, including the toxic work situation that led to her transition. We also dive into the hard and soft skills that were crucial to Dana landing her first role outside of the classroom and seeing success on the job. After exploring the skills gained and other benefits of the Classroom to Boardroom Full Course, we conclude the episode with Dana’s final words of advice to transitioning educators facing rejection. www.carrieconover.com Coursework and Coaching: https://www.carrieconover.com/learnwithcarrie

How many EdTech tools do you really know? If the first things that come to mind are Google Classroom and Class Dojo… this episode of the educators 2 educators podcast is for you. Tune in for a quick quiz with host Carrie Conover to test your EdTech knowledge. In anticipation of the release of Carrie’s latest course, EdTech School, get a sneak peek into the new resource helping teachers help students with new tools they’ve never heard of. Can you answer all of the questions in the EdTech quiz correctly? Join EdTech School: https://www.carrieconover.com/learnwithcarrie educators 2 educators blog: https://www.educators2educators.com/

In this episode of the Classroom to Boardroom podcast, host Carrie Conover speaks with Evan Warnock, an academic success coach at Fev Tutor. We discuss Evan's career transition from teaching to customer success, and how his skills as a teacher have translated to his current role. Evan shares his experience of leaving teaching, including the personal reasons that led to his decision, and the guilt he felt about leaving his students. We also dive into the importance of soft skills such as empathy and the ability to take feedback in customer success roles. We also talk about the supportive community and valuable coursework offered by Classroom to Boardroom. The episode highlights the challenges and rewards of leaving the classroom and pursuing a career outside of education. Visit our website: www.carrieconover.com Blog: https://www.carrieconover.com/blog Learn with Carrie: https://www.carrieconover.com/learnwithcarrie

Today, we are joined by Alyssa, a former fourth-grade teacher who has become a sales expert for an Ed Tech company. Alyssa shared her journey from teaching to sales, including the steps she took to make the transition. She also discussed the guilt she felt about leaving teaching but knew it was for the best. In her interview, Alyssa stressed the importance of finding a supportive community during the career transition. She also emphasized the significance of being prepared for interviews and thoroughly understanding the product. Alyssa shared the soft and hard skills that have helped her excel in her new role, including being an effective communicator, being organized, and having a comprehensive knowledge of the product. Learn more about Carrie's courses, community and coaching at CarrieConover.com Connect with Alyssa: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alyssakovatchis/ Connect with Carrie: https://www.linkedin.com/in/carrieconover/

From the Classroom to the internet's largest and most heavily trafficked business-for-sale marketplace. Donald Benson decided to leave teaching after 10 years, leading him to join the Classroom to Board Course and land a role as a customer success representative at Biz Buy Sell. If you’re searching for a new career outside of the classroom, come join the Classroom to Boardroom Community of transitioning educators! https://www.classroomtoboardroom.net/community Want to learn more about transitioning into EdTech? https://www.carrieconover.com/

In a recent podcast episode, Natalie Cataldo, a former teacher who is now a professional learning specialist with Paper, discussed her transition from the classroom to her current role in EdTech. Natalie completed the Classroom to Boardroom course in 2022, which prepared her for the next step in her career. Learn more at www.carrieconover.com

Do you know the difference between customer support and customer success jobs? To transitioning teachers and educators, these positions might sound similar, but the truth is that they have completely different functions, responsibilities, and departments. In this week’s episode, learn the key differences between these two crucial roles in any EdTech company. If you’re searching for a new career outside of the classroom, join the Classroom to Boardroom Community of transitioning educators! https://www.classroomtoboardroom.net/community Want to learn more about transitioning into EdTech? https://www.carrieconover.com/

Description: From teaching sciences and technology to landing a job in instructional design, Cynthia Baldacchini walks through her experience transitioning out of teaching and provides her unique insights on the journey. As one of the first success stories of the Classroom to Boardroom Course, Cynthia holds a wealth of knowledge in what it takes to answer a new calling and securing a job in EdTech. If you’re searching for a new career outside of the classroom, come join the Classroom to Boardroom Community of transitioning educators! https://www.classroomtoboardroom.net/community Want to learn more about transitioning into EdTech? https://www.carrieconover.com/

Join Carrie Conover and Jessica Seiler as they discuss the top 5 resume mistakes they see in Teacher Transition resumes. Carrie has interviewed hundreds of ed-tech candidates, and Jessica coaches teachers in transition on their resumes weekly, so we've seen everything you can imagine regarding resume writing. We know what works and what gets interviews! Join the Classroom to Boardroom community at https://www.classroomtoboardroom.net/community Sign Up for a Coaching Call at CarrieConover.com Follow Carrie on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/carrie-conover/

Yinka Boudreaux went from high school English Teacher to Client Success Partner at Otus. Learn how this Yinka used her teaching skills, an improved resume, and the Classroom to Boardroom course and community to transition out of teaching. www.carrieconover.com Join the Classroom to Boardroom community at https://www.carrieconover.com/classroomtoboardroom

I left my teaching position with Chicago Public Schools after giving a decade of my life to the profession. I departed for multiple reasons, including a family move, the need for a challenge in my career, and the desire to escape the grind and stress. Back then, I didn’t know many teachers who wanted to leave teaching. I was the outlier, and people were shocked when I made my departure. I was a standout educator with strong student and parent relationships, and my test scores and student growth were always through the roof. Wind the clock ahead; I’ve been out of the classroom almost longer than I was in it. I’ve spent the second decade of my career working in edtech (eSpark Learning and Discovery Education) and in the last five years building educators 2 educators. Back when I left the classroom, we were all stressed. Yes, parents were demanding. Yes, we had a few students who made our classroom hard to manage. But we faced nothing like what teachers are facing today. Covid, plus social media, plus technology, plus a mental health crisis, plus a downward economy… I’ve spent the last ten years traveling the nation, visiting school districts of all sizes, and building an educator network of over 70,000 educators. I talk to teachers, coaches, and administrators every day. And today I’m going to tell you WHY teachers and administrators are leaving education in a steady stream. Important Websites: www.carrieconover.com www.educators2educators.com

Olivia went from Kindergarten teacher to Sales at Scholastic. Hear her story and how Classroom to Boardroom helped her land her first position at an education company. Learn more about Classroom to Boardroom at www.carrieconover.com. Transcript: Introduction (00:00): Welcome to the Classroom to Boardroom podcast. If you are a teacher or administrator looking to change careers, you are in the right place. There can be many reasons an educator is ready to leave the classroom, boredom, burnout, pressure from parents and administrators. The list goes on and on. If you are ready to move on from teaching, there are many roles in which you can use your teacher skillset to have a positive social impact and set yourself up for a fulfilling and rewarding career. Now, let's meet your host, Carrie Conover. Carrie is a veteran educator and ed tech, corporate leader, turn founder, and c. So grab your notepad because your new journey outside the classroom starts right now. Carrie Conover (00:47): Hey there, friends. Welcome back to the Classroom to Boardroom podcast. Today I have a success story that you are going to love. The best way I can summarize it is the person I'm about to interview now works in sales for an education company. You definitely know, and when this person came to Classroom to Boardroom, I never would've guessed sales for them, and they would've never kept, guessed sales for themselves. But guess what? Sales was a match made in heaven with my guest, Olivia, today. We'll get to that in one second, but I just wanna let you know that if you have not listened to the first episode of this new season of the Classroom to Boardroom podcast, our third season, I'm gonna ask you to pause this podcast and go back and start there. This year I am focusing classroom to boardroom everything we do around these seven stages that I believe a teacher or educator goes through when they are transitioning out of the classroom quickly. Carrie Conover (01:52): I'll just share those with you. They are contemplation, decision making, exploration, fear, action, belief and results. And I am basing everything we do on classroom to wardroom this year around those kind of seven pillars. So if you haven't listened to the episode that came out on January 10th, please go listen to that episode now and then come back to this success story within these pillars. The, the first stage that I think most teachers go through is a stage I call contemplation. And when it's when an educator realizes, Hey, I'm not totally satisfied or totally happy or totally fulfilled in the role that I'm currently in, and they first recognize that unsettling feeling, that unhappiness, and then they start wondering about other options that are out there for them and are dreaming of what that change could look like. And so I want you to really pay attention in this Success story interview with Olivia about at the beginning of her journey, this contemplation stage where she recognizes she wasn't totally unhappy, but she knew it was time to think about more in her career. Carrie Conover (03:05): So today in this interview, I not only want you to hear the success story, I want you to really hone in on that first stage that I think teachers go through, which is what I call the conation stage. Today I have a very, very special guest, one of my first classroom boardroom students, Olivia Luwak. She is a former teacher that now works as an education specialist at a company. You all know Scholastic Learning? She is a passionate educator. She's passionate about reading, she loves talking about education, and now she has gone from teacher to working at an education company. Thank you so much, Olivia, for being here today. Olivia L. (03:54): Carrie, thank you so much for having me. It's so great to connect with you. I feel like it's been a little while since we've had a chance to speak. So it is so, so great to be able to to catch up with you tonight and to be able to talk about...

Are you thinking of leaving teaching? Teachers looking for a job outside the classroom go through many ups and downs. The good news is that many teachers end with the happy result of finding a new career that makes them happy. I'm sharing my observation of the 7 Stages of Teacher Transition from my many years of helping teacher transition from the Classroom to EdTech companies such as Discovery Education, School Speciality, EdPuzzle, Amplify Education, and many more. Click to download your free PDF copy of the 7 Stages of Teacher Transition from my free resource library: www.classroomtoboardroom.net/resources ARE YOU INTERESTED IN WORKING WITH ME? LEARN MORE HERE: www.carrieconover.com

Today, we are celebrating another Classroom to Boardroom graduate, Jessica Seiler, and her success story transitioning from teaching to a Client Experience Partner at Otus. Jessica shares her journey and the responsibilities of different roles in her Client Success team at Otus In her position, she really loves the creativity, problem-solving with team members, and building new relationships with clients every day. I look forward to continuing to watch her grow in Client Success at Otus.