u/noodlechickensoups

Has anyone had any luck seeing a dentist using the Dentacare coverage? Can you see a dentist that’s not the one on your insurance card? I stupidly picked the closest dentist in my area listed on their website, just to find out that the office was closed down and I tracked the dentist down at a different location but apparently she doesn’t take the insurance there. Every office from the website I’ve called so far doesn’t actually take the insurance, isn’t accepting patients, doesn’t pick up or accept messages, or the listed number isn’t even a dentist office!!! One number I called was literally just some poor guy who didn’t know why random people kept calling him looking for a dentist. I literally don’t have time to call numbers all day between working full time, applying to jobs, and getting my masters.

If anyone has any tips or knows a dentist in the network, please comment or DM me! I will go literally anywhere even Long Island at this point. Also if the other dental option is any better, please share, and I may have to switch come the fall

I kinda just thought I would demo for any school that asked while I wait to see which one I liked best and commit to that one, but it’s seeming like people don’t do a lot of demos before taking a job. If you do a demo at a school, are you expected to take that job immediately if they offer it?

Has anyone had any luck seeing a dentist using the Dentacare coverage? Can you see a dentist that’s not the one on your insurance card? I stupidly picked the closest dentist in my area listed on their website, just to find out that the office was closed down and I tracked the dentist down at a different location but apparently she doesn’t take the insurance there. Every office from the website I’ve called so far doesn’t actually take the insurance, isn’t accepting patients, doesn’t pick up or accept messages, or the listed number isn’t even a dentist office!!! One number I called was literally just some poor guy who didn’t know why random people kept calling him looking for a dentist. I literally don’t have time to call numbers all day between working full time, applying to jobs, and getting my masters.

If anyone has any tips or knows a dentist in the network, please comment or DM me! I will go literally anywhere even Long Island at this point. Also if the other dental option is any better, please share, and I may have to switch come the fall

How many schools did you apply/interview/demo for before finding your school? And how many did you actually hear back from? I’m really worried about finding a job and I need to secure one by September for my Trans B program, but I don’t wanna end up taking the first job that’s offered to me out of desperation when I could get something better. Specially I want an elementary ENL position in Brooklyn or Manhattan that’s an hour (or hopefully less!) commute. But I’m applying (or at least showing interest on NTF so far) to every middle and high schools in the area and elementary schools up to 1.5 hours away. Ideally I’d like to only demo at a school I actually want to work at, but I feel like I have to give myself as much opportunity as possible so I should demo anywhere that asks. If you get offered a job, can you take some time to think about it while you wait for another offer, or do schools just offer to a bunch of people and it’s first come first serve?

Last night as my fiancé was holding me and falling asleep, he just kinda whispered into the night “it’s really hard to be in a relationship with a disabled person”. I didn’t say anything for a few minutes and then I whispered back “why did you say that?” but he was already asleep. I don’t even know what to think. He loves me and wants to be with me, that isn’t a question. And I’m not debating the fact that it is hard. I guess he was just venting and maybe so tired that he wasn’t really thinking (this didn’t come out of nowhere. We’ve been struggling with stuff having to do with my disability lately). But just ouch

I was able to go to a few hiring fairs in May, but each one only had 1-3 schools that were looking for ENL teachers, which is my cert area (I missed the one in the district I live in and am really kicking myself for that). Does the DOE typically hold more hiring fairs in the summer as hiring season picks up?

I also have been applying to ENL vacancies on Open Market, but I’m a little worried about it that because my current license is as a paraprofessional. I made a not of the upcoming license in my application but of course they would have to open it first to even see that.

I have just cold emailed a few principals as well but haven’t gotten any responses yet. Are you supposed to even do that, or should you email an AP instead? What’s the best way to go about actually finding jobs, and having options? I’m not bad at interviews, but I don’t even know how to get them in the first place.

If anyone works in Districts 2, 13, 16, 17, 18, or 23 and your school is hiring ENL teachers for September, please DM me!! I’m open to D75 if the school is located in those geographical districts. I’m really hoping for elementary but I’ll take anything at this point.

I am looking for ENL positions as I’m going to be a newly certified ENL teacher by September. I went to hiring fair and got called for an interview, and then a demo lesson for a high school ENL position. This is my first demo lesson so I have absolutely no idea what to expect, but when I was scheduling the demo I asked the principal everything I thought I was supposed to (what’s the grade level, how many students, what learning standards they use, what subject matter is the class, if they’re looking for anything in particular with this demo), and he gave me legitimately no information. All he replied was “It’s an ENL class.  All student have a first language different than English.” This really gave me the impression that he didn’t want me to ask any more questions either.

Now I’m really stressed out because I don’t know how I’m supposed to plan a 20 minute lesson/activity, let alone for ENL which is so individualized depending on the students, with no information about the students or the class. What if I show up with a lesson based on a random 9th grade ELA standard and it’s actually a 12th grade science class?

Are NYC principals typically this withholding of information when it comes to potential hires? I understand not wanting to hold my hand the whole way through, but I feel like I’m being set up to fail here and would be better off just pulling out.