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The Perks of International Teacher Certification When we spoke with 20-year veteran teacher Adam Rugnetta, he was in the Austrian mountains with his family. It’s not uncommon for him to be traveling. In the 90’s as a recent college…

School is out for the summer and teachers across the country are taking time to share words of encouragement with their students. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2019-2020 school year has been unlike any other in our history.…

Career Changing In South Carolina Angela Adamian fell in love with teaching while her own children were in school. “Working with them on homework, inspiring in them a love for learning; I really enjoyed it.” Once Angela’s children were…

Desire to Do Good Kyle Smith studied communications and marketing in college. An athletic guy, he attended Northwestern University on a football scholarship. After college, Kyle entered the corporate world; first in marketing and then working for major tech…

Seeking More Involvement After a stable career as an optician, Robin Larrabee moved her family to south Florida and decided to pursue a teaching career. Her children were just about school-aged and she wanted to be more educated about,…

Wanting Something Stable Like many American Board graduates, Tia Hernandez did not always know she was meant to have a teaching career. After earning her bachelor’s degree in only three years, she moved from her home in Missouri to…

Transitioning from Stay-At-Home Mom to Teacher After 15 years of stay-at-home parenting, Malia decided to reenter the workforce. She knew she was good at working with children, so she took a job as a paraprofessional at a local school.…

Middle school science teacher Nick Haas had already enrolled in a cooperative education agency to pursue his Wisconsin teaching certificate when he heard about American Board’s online teacher certification program. His wife had encouraged him to leave his business…