Pay more.

I did my my under grad and grad school in PA and got my licenses in PA. Because PA was also not paying teachers enough we were forced to follow my wife’s career and moved to Wisconsin while I still had my temps or whatever the probationary license was called, and WIDPI wouldn’t give me a general science license without going back to school even though my recent PRAXIS scores were in their exceptional range. So I stopped teaching without ever really getting started.

Now I work in a bicycle shop and make more than teachers in my area. That’s absolutely ridiculous.

Every now and the I think about going back to it, but I’m not willing to go back to the starting pay rate for a new teacher.