About Next Period

Hi, I'm Ashlyn.

I taught elementary school for four years. I loved my kids and I loved what I did. But teaching was taking everything I had. The stress came home with me, ate my weekends, and slowly drained the joy out of the parts of my life that had nothing to do with school.

The tipping point came during a really hard time in my personal life, when I needed support from my school and didn't get it. That's when I knew I wanted more: more flexibility, more room to be creative, and a workday that didn't leave me with nothing left.

So I turned the page. Today I work in social media and event coordination and run a couple of small businesses of my own, and I honestly feel like a different person.

I built Next Period because I still see it on teachers' faces, the exhaustion you can't hide. Education is broken right now, and we still need educators, maybe just in a new way. Everything you do every day, like managing 25 little personalities, planning, explaining hard things simply and keeping parents in the loop, is exactly what companies hire for in customer success, instructional design, training, project management and more.

Next Period puts those jobs in one place, with free tools and guides to help you make the jump. If you're thinking about leaving, you're not giving up on kids. You're choosing yourself, and your skills are coming with you.

Ashlyn, former elementary school teacher