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Tropic Teacher helps educators trade burnout for a passport, featuring the Course, the Tropic 1000 school index, and guidance to help you find your dream job at an outstanding international school.
Daily shorts and vlogs with Dr. H, from the summit, trail, fireside, and forest.
Weekly field notes about schools, cities, salaries, living, and myths that hold teachers back.
Founders get first access, locked pricing, and the Tropic Teacher Guidebook, free!
Comprehensive pathways to working, living, and thriving abroad for teachers, leaders, career changes.
You sign abroad. We stay in your corner with consulting and our Tropic community.
Our Course at the center, with a toolkit to support, all built from decades of experience.
Video lessons, researched data, and a comprehensive guide from working in U.S. classrooms to an exciting career abroad, including robust annotated lists of international schools, leading search agencies, and much more · plus a year of portal access for FREE. Founders also earn 50% off every future purchase, including courses and products .
Ethan's Field Guide in print, the stories, the numbers, and the honest case for teaching abroad.
Five questions about your experience, credentials, family, climate, and values, our Compass lights up global regions that might best suit you.
We organize and maintain the index of the world's best international schools, salaries, culture, curriculum, and hiring windows, updated every season.
Hiring strategies for international schools, thriving in the transition abroad, advancing in leadership roles and administration, CV or contract review, and topics of pressing need.
The whole world is hiring, colored by climate, warm to cool. Hover for the flag, click any country for its teaching profile.
You usually don’t need the local language, instruction at international schools is almost always in English.
New articles every week on Substack, practical, geographical, inspiring, and honest.
“Coming to you from the LZ, coffeeshop, summit, trail, forest, fireside, did you know…? Let’s talk about it.”
Dr. Ethan Hildreth spent a full career in American education, as teacher, high school principal, and ultimately Superintendent of one of the largest and fastest-growing school districts in the nation, before taking his own leap abroad. In the decade since, he has taught, mentored, and guided hundreds of international teachers as he designed, onboarded, opened, and led schools in Abu Dhabi, Bangalore, Beijing, Dubai, Mohali, Moscow, Rotterdam, and more.
Meet Dr. Hildreth, the full story →
Book an hour and bring anything, your CV, an offer letter or contract, cities you can’t decide on. Let’s talk, you’ll leave with a stronger plan and an elevated vision for what's truly possible.
First 25,000 Founders lock in $289, regularly a $329 value. Availability is limited against an 80+ million teacher market, act now! Founders earn 50% off every future course and purchase as well as a year of free portal access, normally $108. Act now to reserve your space.
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