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5 Steps to Get Your Master's and Launch Your Overseas Teaching Career

Education matters for a teacher in any situation, but it's an especially interesting story for native speakers teaching... Read More

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Bridging the Gap Back to Your Passport Country

Imagine the feeling of moving out for the first time. You’ve lived in this family's culture your whole life, and now... Read More

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How Extroverts Use Their Gifts Overseas

Our teams need all kinds of people who function in different ways to be effective. We’re taking a couple of blog posts... Read More

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How Teaching In Vietnam Shaped this Family's Life

What has happened in your life in the last 20 years? Maybe you’ve raised your kids, or maybe you've been the kid... Read More

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Why Introverts are Indispensable as Teachers Overseas

Overseas teaching teams need all kinds of different people functioning in different ways to be effective. We’re taking... Read More

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5 Lessons from 40+ Years Overseas

We are grateful for the gift of over four decades of teaching overseas! Remembering what we’ve learned in our past is... Read More

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How Being Late Can Grow Your Cultural Fluency

Most of us probably come from a Western culture that highly values time. It’s a commodity—a limited resource. It is one... Read More

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You Can Do Hard Things With Confidence — Here's How

Moving overseas is challenging. Read More

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Interview with a Grown-Up TCK

Abbie is about to move overseas to live and teach in Asia. But it won’t be her first time living overseas. She grew up... Read More

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7 Things Younger than ELIC

We’ve seen a lot in the decades since ELIC’s founding in 1981. But “More than forty years” is just a number. So let’s... Read More

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Why YOU Should Lead an Impact Team

Impact teams are a truly special way to experience a new culture and make a difference overseas with your community... Read More

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3 Paths to Educating Your Kids Overseas

ELIC teachers get a front-row seat to the difference that a quality education makes in their students’ lives, so it’s... Read More

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