u/Brilliant_Read_523

Hi, my two kiddos and I are headed to El Salitre in Guerrero to stay with my mother in law’s family on their ranch for the summer . It’s a tiny Pueblo and will be the most rural place I’ve ever long stayed. My Spanish is intermediate at best so I look forward to improving it and my babies being immersed in a beautiful culture.

Coming from a city(Atlanta) I’m anticipating the change in pace to be a challenge at first but I really need to unplug. I could use some advice on how “to move” out there. What to watch out for , what I can do to pass the time . I thought of doing a free or low cost little English camp for schoolchildren but don’t want to overwhelm myself . I’ve lived abroad when I was single (Turkey, Vietnam , Thailand) so teaching was always my go to. What do ppl do out there ? How should I pass the time? I want to plan a couple trips to a surrounding bigger city but thinking it might be best to lay low for awhile .🌵

I’ll start with the positive. I got my elem

Ed Bach from WGU and it was super ideal for my lifestyle as a mom of littles. I went back for my masters with licensure pending a job offer at an international school overseas.

From the very beginning I told my mentor my goal: I have a job offer and I wanted to get my early/advanced clinicals handled so that by this upcoming fall all I’d have left is student teaching. Getting coursework done has never been my issue — I’ve always accelerated. My concern was all the hoops: background checks, state certification stuff (GaPSC in Georgia), Compile, etc. I even did my GACE/Praxis early in 2026 so tests wouldn’t hold anything up.

The problem is, every “step” seems to have 10–15 sub‑steps, each with its own long page to read, and any time I ask a specific question, I just get sent another link or routed to a different person. I’ve talked to my mentor, a local placement specialist, someone named Jordan, and random support folks. Everyone keeps pointing me to “the steps,” but my questions are about what to do when I’ve done the step and things still aren’t populating correctly, or what I could have been doing earlier.

I also feel like my mentor never really helped me plan backwards from my goal. It was always, ‘What can you get done by next week?’ instead of, ‘Here’s what needs to be in place months ahead so your early clinicals and student teaching line up.’ Now it’s basically May, there are only about 20–25 days left in the K–12 school year, my early clinicals application is just now getting submitted, and it looks like I may miss this window and end up pushed to fall. That probably means I’ll have to turn down the job that starts in October.

I’m just confused why this process is so convoluted for teaching. I understand requirements and background checks, but the lack of clear, proactive guidance has me feeling like I did everything I was supposed to do and still might be off track.

Has anyone else dealt with this? Did you manage to get your clinicals lined up in time, and how did you get straight answers?”