Recovering Educator – Retired Homeschool Mom – Trainer – Homesteader

– Janet , Founder of Educatorpreneur

In 1992, when I began teaching, all I could think was it was going to get better. I was teaching for the kids, and I needed an income. I knew the system was broken, before I ever started teaching. However, like most teachers I believed I could make a difference from the inside. My student teacher mentor told me to “keep my mouth shut until I had tenure. Then I’d make a huge difference in the system.” She meant well, but was wrong. I was able to make a difference in individual student’s lives, which was enough for me for a period of time.

Finishing my MEd. didn’t change anything, except I could now teach at the college too.

The system was too broken for all my own kids to thrive and for me to teach, so we all came home. Of course there’s more to the story.

Over my 20 plus years of officially teaching I’d taught in private, public, and public charter schools in Pre-K through high school. I taught pre-k, 7th and 8th grade, and was a special education job trainer. Plus, I’d taught at the college level for high school completion, Adult Education, industry training, and community courses. I’d been a substitute teacher, long term sub, part-time, full time, and per-diem. My kids had been homeschooled or in school depending on the year and situation. I think we did the full gamut of crazy.

In 2014, I left all forms of education and training or at least I thought I had. I began working with different businesses mainly in the homesteading and farming industry helping them promote their business. I spend a great deal of my time in training others how to do something. So once an educator always an educator.

In 2020, when the world went mad and I saw many teachers leave education my heart went out to them. Why? Because we started in education to help, but we needed to eat and be able to look in the mirror at ourselves every day. It was apparent that I was not the only one who drew a line in the sand when it was time to exit and rebuild.

Teachers weren’t the only one’s leaving, so were students. Lots of curriculum companies and websites popped up to help serve the influx of kids. How many were truly created from the heart of an educator? I do not know.

In early 2024, a conversation with a friend lit a fire under my wanting to help teachers truly educate students who were homeschooled. Not that parent’s couldn’t do the job. For many of them could and much better than the system they had left. Even if they had no education classes or degree. How many of these parents didn’t have time to homeschool their high school students? If it was because of a job or they just didn’t feel comfortable to homeschool? I have no idea.

What would happen if educators could learn how to leave the system they were ingrained into and survive? What would happen if they could gain the needed skills to attract students, create their own curriculum, and create an income that gave them freedom?

Welcome to Educatorpreneur where educators are taught how to be efficient and effective educatorpreneurs. You know how to teach. You know how to choose curriculum. You probably even know how to write your own curriculum.

How about learning how to make money without being in the system and educating young minds like you thought you were going to in the first place?

Join our wait list above. We will let you know when we publish usable information and launch free and paid courses.