Congratulations, or belated congratulations, on starting your new (still relatively new) career! While teaching could certainly be a more lucrative profession, it offers a variety of rewarding experiences you can’t find in any other work. The relationships we build with students, families, and communities can be powerful, even transformative. Knowing the work our fellow teachers are doing, we also have the opportunity to make contributions to our profession, and indirectly affect the learning and the lives of even more students.

If your teaching preparation was like mine, and like that of most teachers I know, you may have focused so much on students, classroom, and curriculum, that you have not yet given much thought to other ways to grow in your profession. So, here are seven recommendations for experiences you can seek out in order to enhance and extend your career.

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