With the way this first month of 2025 is going across the globe, more and more people are talking about their plans to escape their current realities. Preppers are beginning to stockpile, conspiracy theorists are starting to backup their digital files and to erase their online activity trackers, and regular citizens are researching immigration processes for other countries. Now is the perfect time for educators, already feeling the burn out from the covid scramble and post-pandemic malaise, to find their own break from the doldrums of their careers and discover a way to get paid to do what they love – travel and teach.

Perhaps, as an educator, you played with the idea of teaching English abroad, but that was way back when you had just graduated from college and you didn’t have so many other responsibilities or bills. But did you know that teachers are needed to teach their subject matter content, in English, all over the world at international schools? Not only can teachers continue to teach the content they know with standards they are accustomed to from their home countries, but international schools will even pay for their flights, their housing, their visas, their professional development, and even the tuition for their dependent children? Perhaps this sounds too good to be true, but I assure you, it is a thing.

Over the past twenty-seven years of teaching, I have taught in six countries abroad and each international school was very unique. There is a school abroad for you, no matter what your preference might be. You can approach the hunt for the perfect school, much like Goldilocks👱‍♀️, checking them each out to see whether or not the school has a student population that is too big or too small, a location too far or too close to home, a curriculum that is too rigorous or too relaxed, or a country that is too developed or too remote. In these modern times, it is possible to find online profiles for many of these international schools compiled on various search agencies’ websites which is a far quicker way to compare schools rather than locating each school’s information individually (though there isn’t any swipe right/left option, yet 😜).

To get you started, I have compiled a list of my favorite agencies below. If you are interested in hearing a more detailed synopsis about each of these resources, subscribe to my blog and I will send you a free downloadable document that includes my top recommendations to find immediate escape from your current version of 2025. For even more information about my personal experiences finding jobs and living abroad, keep an eye 👁️ open for my upcoming book 📕. You can subscribe to my website to get more information about that as well.

My Favorite Online International Teaching Agencies:

• International School Services at  ISS.edu
• Global Recruitement Collaborative at GRCFair.org
• Search Associates at SearchAssociates.com
• The International Educator at TIEonline.com
• Tes at Tes.com

⚠️ Reminder: Your escape plan doesn’t have to be permanent. You can always come back, even if it is just for a visit.