In 2016, a small children’s drawing studio called Shapes & Shadows opened its doors in Tokyo. A few years later, it closed when the founder’s family moved abroad. Now, the studio is being rebuilt from the ground up—and it’s looking for someone to help bring it back to life. For TEFL teachers and creative travelers in Japan, this story is more t...[Read More]

Teaching English online is one of the most flexible careers to grow into, but it also comes with a steep learning curve. A recent conversation among online ESL teachers highlighted the wins, the struggles, and the surprising lessons that only experience can teach. Whether you’re just starting out or you’ve been teaching for years, these insights wi...[Read More]

Every language teacher knows the feeling: another lesson to plan, another set of grammar exercises to create, another quiz to build. It eats up evenings and weekends. But what if a good chunk of that prep work could be handled by an AI assistant—right inside PowerPoint? That’s the idea behind a new AI-powered tool designed specifically for language...[Read More]

If you’ve ever taught English online, you know it’s a world unlike any other. One minute you’re singing phonics songs with a four-year-old in Beijing; the next, you’re explaining phrasal verbs to a busy professional in São Paulo. It’s flexible, rewarding, and sometimes chaotic. But behind the bright backgrounds and digital stickers lies a professio...[Read More]