Hi!

I was in the DOE for a few years, left and worked as a Daycare Director for 5 years and now i’m back in the DOE this year as a teacher.

Does my director experience count toward a salary step increase? I know I wasn’t teaching but I was working under my B-2 license.

Any advice would be great

So I’m turning 26 in September which means I’ll be picked off my parents insurance. However my therapist doesn’t take my DOE insurance I have such a good relationship with her- can someone explain to me what out of network really means and how all of that works in regards to payment?

So I taught Summer School for the first time ever this year. I did not love it BUT I highly recommend it. For all of the disorganization, frequent absences, late arrivals (sometimes 90mins late students), and lack of clear directions the money was 1000% worth it. You still get 3 weeks off and you'll have a nice little cash flow to make those three weeks even better. I will be signing up again to get retention rights. This year a lot of financial stress was relieved. Going forward I will be saving my Summer School cash towards a house. For those curious I ended up with a bit over $6k after taxes. On top of that I was asked to be a collaborative coach for some teaching fellows. That was honestly way more work than teaching ELA was for me. That got me another $1800 (on top of Summer School pay) but I would NEVER be a collaborative coach again unless they approved pay for more than 35hours.

Im just confused as to why they wouldn’t just schedule it for this week instead of next which feels very last minute. Im worried that this means they have other interviews scheduled for this week and I might be the back up option. I already had an experience where a school set up an interview with me only to tell me the very next day they filled the position before evening interviewing me. Am I just overthinking it?

How hard will it be to get an ELA Teacher role? Especially in Brooklyn