u/Infamous-Egg3425

Hi everyone,
I am a first year teacher, and I was asked to apply for a position via peers in a district that is significantly closer to my home (30-40 minutes less of a commute), and I have an interview for it Tuesday morning. I want to inform my current principal, since I am generally supported by admin and I still like my current job here. Any recommendations on how to best tell my principal? I was gonna tell her before the interview but my mentor said after, so assistance in that and how to say it? Thank you!

Hi. I am a first year music teacher, and I ended up in a really good starting district. I teach only elementary general music while helping with 4th grade band and my music program is starting to flourish. There have been lots of talks about long-term goals with me included in the district. However, I’ve been recently approached by some colleagues and other district that a new position is opened up that would be both band and elementary general music. The pay would be less but the commute would go down from 45 to 5minutes. I also really want to teach band and the opportunity may happen in my current school that would be guaranteed in the new school if I were to get the job. My current job pays more than the new one pays less.
If I put in for an application, I would need new letters of rec and I wanna know how I should ask for those in a way that won’t offend or upset anyone in my current district especially my principal I plan on having a conversation with my mentor teacher and the middle school music teacher who I help with tomorrow about the situation, but contacting admin is something I am nervous about