Hi, I’m Brenda.

I’m a teacher from Colorado with 21 years of experience, having also lived and taught in Atlanta, Prague, and Southern California. Each place has shaped who I am — but Prague changed everything.

After seven years teaching in the US and feeling the itch for a change of some sort, a chance conversation at a wedding sent me down a path I hadn’t expected. An old college acquaintance had just come back from teaching abroad and told me to try it. Within a week, I was signed up for a TEFL course in Prague — a city I honestly didn’t know anything about.

I spent a year living and teaching in Prague. I found my favorite pub, chose a football team, traveled to nearby towns on weekends, took four weeks of paid vacation, and taught children aged two to eleven at a language school. It was lighter, more joyful, and more alive than any teaching job I’d had in the US.

Coming home was harder than going.

I’ve been back in California since, but I never stopped thinking about what it felt like to live somewhere extraordinary and call it normal. Now I’m working on getting back to Europe — and in the meantime, I’m helping other teachers figure out how to do what I did.

If you’re a teacher who’s curious, burnt out, or just ready for something different, you’re in the right place. Teaching abroad doesn’t have to mean quitting your job, losing your career, or figuring it out alone.

I did it. I can help you do it too.