Your Next Mission Could Be in the Classroom.
Military service requires leadership, resilience, problem-solving, teamwork, and a commitment to something larger than yourself. Those same qualities can make an extraordinary teacher.
Golden Apple’s Veterans into Teaching initiative helps veterans translate the skills and experiences gained through military service into a new form of service: preparing and inspiring the next generation.
Whether you are considering teaching for the first time, working toward a degree or teaching license, or preparing to enter the classroom, Golden Apple can help you find a pathway forward.
Find Your Pathway
There is no single route from military service into teaching. Your pathway will depend on your education, experience, licensure status, location, and career goals.
Tell us a little about yourself, and Golden Apple will help you explore which opportunity may be the best fit.
Ready to continue your service?
Your Service Prepared You to Lead. Now Bring That Leadership to the Classroom.
Veterans enter the teaching profession with valuable experience that cannot be taught in a textbook. You know how to lead, work as part of a team, adapt when circumstances change, communicate across differences, and persevere through challenging situations.
Golden Apple builds on those strengths while helping you develop the knowledge, experience, and professional network needed to become an effective educator.
More Than a Pathway to Licensure
Becoming a teacher is about more than completing coursework or earning a credential. The Veterans into Teaching initiative is designed to provide a community and professional support system throughout your transition into education.
Participants may receive:
A Community of Veterans: Connect with other veterans who are making the transition from military service to teaching. Build relationships with people who understand both where you have been and where you are headed.
Paid Professional Development: Participate in professional learning designed to build practical teaching skills and prepare you for the realities of the classroom.
Support Earning Your Teaching License: Teacher licensure requirements can be complicated. Golden Apple helps participants understand their pathway and navigate the steps required to become licensed educators.
Placement Support: Receive support preparing for and navigating the teaching job search, including opportunities to connect with schools and communities seeking talented educators.
Early Career Mentoring: The transition does not end when you enter your first classroom. Golden Apple provides mentoring and professional support designed to help new teachers grow, persist, and thrive early in their careers.
From One Form of Service to Another
Teaching offers veterans an opportunity to continue making an impact every day.
The mission changes, but many of the qualities that mattered during military service remain the same: leadership, preparation, responsibility, teamwork, and a commitment to the people around you.
Your experience can become an asset to students, schools, and communities.
