Educator International · Teachers who cross borders · International and American schools abroad

You have taught on three continents. Your tools should know that.

Teachers at international and American schools abroad move between countries, between curricula, and between school communities that speak a dozen languages at home. Each move means a new employer, a new system, and a fresh start on the relationships and materials it took years to build. This platform is for that teacher: classroom tools that work the same wherever you post, family communication that reaches every home in the right language, and a record of your teaching work that travels with you rather than staying behind in the last school's system.

Get in touch What is built

Portable class recordyour teaching history travels with you, not just with the school

Home-language family communicationprivate on-device translation is in development -- not live yet

Curriculum-neutral toolsa roster, announcements, and publication tools that cross systems

Honest about what is livebuilt = live; early access = coming; we say which is which

The posting experience

What a teacher at an international school actually has to rebuild, and what the platform carries across instead

A teacher who moves from a school in Singapore to one in Nairobi does not carry much across. The LMS password stops working. The family phone numbers stay in the last country. The class materials are in a format the new school does not use. The professional connections are six time zones and a continent away. And the new community has families who read in Arabic, Swahili, French, and English, so the announcement about picture day that goes out only in English does not reach everyone.

The platform is built around that specific problem. The tools that a teacher uses every day -- the roster, the class announcements, the family communication -- work the same at the new school as they did at the last one. A private translation lane -- in development, not live yet -- will let family notices go out in the home language without the family's text leaving our private system. The class record from the prior posting stays in the teacher's own portable account. And the publications the class makes -- the yearbook, the newspaper, the online edition -- are built in a production editor designed to carry a translation layer for a multilingual community once it lands.

What is live today and what is being built, we say plainly. The classroom tools are live; private notice translation is in development and not live yet. The community for internationally-mobile educators and the translated publication layer are in early access or planned. No live checkout, no pricing disclosed here, no subscription pitch.

See the posting journey step by step How the language tools work

Home-language communication

Family notices in the home language -- without sending a family's words outside our system

International schools are multilingual communities. A class of thirty students may have families who read in fifteen different languages at home. The standard answer -- use an outside translation service, copy-paste the family's name and the student's name into a form, send the translated notice back -- means family data travels to a company whose privacy posture the school does not control. That is not the answer here.

A private translation lane for outgoing family notices is in development. When it lands, notices will translate on our own computers, and the family name, the student name, and the school name will not leave our system. The engine, once it lands, will read the home-language flag on the roster record and route the notice accordingly, so a teacher can send one notice and families receive it in the language they read. It is not live yet.

Arabic Chinese (Simplified) Chinese (Traditional) Dutch French German Japanese Korean Malay Portuguese Russian Spanish Swahili Tagalog Thai Turkish and more

The notice translation engine, once it lands, is designed to cover major language families present in international school communities. For translated parent-facing publications -- the yearbook, the newspaper, the online edition with captions and intros in the family's home language -- that layer is planned for after the notice engine lands, further out still. We say plainly what is live and what is coming: contact us with your specific language needs and we will tell you exactly where the engine stands.

Ask about specific languages Full capability list

What is built and what is coming -- labelled honestly

Six capabilities for the internationally-mobile educator

Every capability here is labelled: Built and live means the engine is in production now. Early access means the capability is built and being rolled out -- not generally available yet. We do not claim otherwise.

A class record that travels with you, not with the school

A teacher at an international school changes employer, country, and sometimes system every two to four years. What usually does not survive the move: the record of what you built. On this platform your class history -- the publications you ran, the coverage plans you set, the student work your class produced -- lives in your own portable record alongside the school's, so when you leave, the evidence of your teaching leaves with you. The class roster and the published work are live and portable today.

Portable class record -- built and live

Family communication in the home language, without a third-party translation service

International schools often serve fifty or sixty family language backgrounds. Sending a notice about picture day or a publication deadline to a family who reads Tagalog, Arabic, or Portuguese should not require that family's words to travel through an outside translation company. The platform is building a private translation lane for outgoing family notices that will run on our own computers -- so once it lands, no family text leaves our system and a teacher can reach every family in a language they can read. That private translation of notices is in development; it is not live yet.

Private on-device translation of notices -- in development, not live yet

A roster that carries home-language context without exposing it

The student roster holds the home-language flag that a translation lane -- in development, not live yet -- will use to know which notices to translate and which publication sections to offer in a given language. That flag lives inside the school's private system today. It is never published, never shared with an outside company, and never used for anything except routing communication to families who need it once translation lands. The roster with home-language context is built and live; the translation lane it will feed is not.

Home-language roster context -- built and live

Publications -- yearbooks, newspapers, and online editions -- with translated content layers

A yearbook that serves a community where families read in three or four languages can carry translated section intros, captions, and cover copy alongside the primary text, so the book that goes home is legible to every family in the community. The production editor supports a translation layer on a publication; once the private on-device engine lands, it will do the first-pass translation. Translated parent-facing publications are planned, not yet built: the translation layer is designed into the editor, but the underlying translation engine has not landed. We say so directly.

Translated publications -- planned; the translation engine has not landed

A community of educators who have made the same move

A teacher at a school in Nairobi who has just arrived from a posting in Singapore has specific questions: which materials from the prior system adapt, where the curriculum overlap is, which local agencies handle the registration paperwork, and who teaches the same subject in a school three streets away. Those questions are answered fastest by another teacher who arrived two years before them. The peer community on this platform -- teachers who have crossed the same systems, sorted by posting region and subject -- is in early access. It is being built; we are not claiming it is live.

Peer community for internationally-mobile educators -- early access

Materials built to adapt across curricula, not locked to one

A lesson unit written for one national curriculum is useful in another, once the standards references are swapped. Lesson plans, templates, and unit structures on this platform are built without hardcoded national standards codes so another teacher on a different system can adapt rather than rebuild. The resource sharing layer -- borrow a plan, adapt it, return it improved -- is in early access alongside the community. The classroom tools (roster, announcements, family communication) that sit underneath it are built and live in any school.

Curriculum-agnostic shared resources -- early access

Step by step

From the last posting to the first day of a new one -- what the platform carries

Five moments in an international posting, mapped to what is live, what is early access, and what is plain about what it does.

Before you arrive -- the record you bring with you

A teacher moving to a new posting starts with a blank page only if all their work lived in the last school's system. The portable class record lets you carry what you built: the classes you ran, the publications your students produced, the coverage plans that worked, the adviser feedback history. When you open a new class at the new school you bring context, not just a resume line. The class record and published work are yours to carry.

Term start -- setting up a new class fast

At a new school the first weeks run on logistics: who is in the class, who speaks what at home, how the school's communication goes out. The roster import, the home-language flags, and the first family notices go out from day one. You do not rebuild the tools; you point them at the new class. The roster and family communication are live today and work the same whatever country the school is in.

Through the year -- reaching families who read in other languages

An international school community is not one language group. A notice that only goes out in English does not reach a family whose home language is French, Arabic, Mandarin, or Swahili -- and the teacher knows it. A private translation lane for outgoing notices is in development -- it will run on our own computers so the message about the yearbook deadline or the photo day can go out in the family's home language without that family's name or the student's name leaving our system. It is not live yet.

Publications -- a book for the whole community

A yearbook at an international school is a document for a community that arrived from fifteen countries and may leave for fifteen more at the end of the year. A book that speaks only one language leaves some of those families at the edge. The translated publication layer -- captions and intros in the family's home language, running alongside the primary text -- is planned: designed into the production editor, but the translation engine it depends on has not landed. We say plainly that it is not live yet, and we say what it will do when it lands.

After the posting -- the record you leave and the one you take

When a posting ends, the school retains its class records and the publications its students made. The teacher retains their own portable record: the classes they ran, the publications they adviser-approved, the advisory history. Neither party loses the work they did. The skills record -- the structured export that names what a student or a teacher did on a real publication -- is in development as a formal export; the underlying record is live and yours.

The peer community -- early access

The teachers who have already moved to where you are going

The most useful person to a teacher arriving at an international school is not a guide written by a consultant. It is the teacher who arrived at that school two years ago, knows which local agencies handle the registration paperwork, can tell you which units from your prior system adapt to the local curriculum without a rewrite, and will tell you honestly which school events are genuinely optional and which ones are not.

The community layer on this platform is built around that specific kind of peer: educators who have crossed the same systems, sorted by posting region, subject, and the curricula they have taught across. It is in early access. We are building it, and we say plainly that it is not yet generally live. If you are an internationally-mobile educator who wants to be among the first cohort, use the contact form.

The resource sharing layer -- lessons, unit plans, and templates built without locked-in curriculum codes so they travel between systems -- is part of the same early access. It is designed for and by teachers who have adapted materials across three or four curricula and know what to strip out to make a plan useful somewhere else.

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What is live, what is early access, and what is not yet built

A plain account of where the platform stands

Built and live today: the class roster; outgoing family announcements; home-language flags on the roster; the publication production editor; the portable class record and published-work history; and the platform's underlying privacy architecture (consent-tracked, access-controlled, facial recognition off by default).

Early access -- built, being rolled out: the peer community for internationally-mobile educators; and the curriculum-agnostic shared resource library. These are in active rollout; they are not generally available; we say so rather than claiming otherwise.

Not yet built or formally described as planned: a private on-device translation lane for outgoing family notices -- in development, not live yet; translated parent-facing publications, which depend on that lane and are planned for after it lands; a formal credential-porting tool or guidance on credential recognition in receiving countries -- that is an administrative process we do not claim to handle; and a structured skills-portfolio export for teachers, in development as a concept (the underlying portable record is live, but the formal packaged export is not a shipped feature).

There is no live checkout, no per-seat pricing disclosed here, and no subscription pitch. To discuss pricing for your school's situation, use the contact form.

Part of the educator platform family

Connected sites for educators and for the schools they work at

Educator International focuses on the internationally-mobile teacher: the posting experience, the language tools, and the portable record. Related sites serve adjacent needs:

Educator Center

The resource center for educators: shared lessons and templates, the daily classroom tools, and a professional community in one place. For any teacher, not only international ones.

educator.center →

Educator Global

A worldwide staff room: trade lessons and templates with teachers across schools and countries, see what works elsewhere, adapt it for your class. The social-shelf layer, not the posting-specific tools.

educator.global →

Educator Tips

Short, tested classroom tips from teachers still doing the job: small specific moves for management, a unit, or a hard conversation. Sorted by grade and subject. Free to read.

educator.tips →

Homeroom Global

The full K-12 platform for international and multilingual schools: records, directory, publications, picture day, and private family communication for a community that speaks many languages at home.

homeroom.global →

Yearbook Press

The production editor for school publications: the yearbook, the newspaper, and the online edition. A translation layer for multilingual schools is planned on this editor -- in development, not live yet.

yearbook.press →

Educator Management

The daily classroom management tools in one place: roster, announcements, a gradebook, and family notes. The operational layer under the teaching, wherever you teach.

educator.management →

Get in touch · Internationally-mobile educators and international schools

Tell us about your posting, your school's languages, and what you need

This is not a signup form with a confirmation email. It is a direct conversation. Email [email protected] or use the details below, and tell us: where you are posted, which home languages your school community reads, and what you are trying to accomplish -- whether that is getting family notices out to multilingual families, starting a yearbook class that crosses curricula, or joining the early access cohort for the peer community. We will tell you exactly what is ready for your situation and what is coming.

For international schools as institutions: if your school works with families in multiple languages and you want to know what the platform can do for the whole school -- not just a single teacher -- email [email protected] and we will set up a conversation with the right person.

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FAQ

Common questions from internationally-mobile educators

Which curricula does the platform support?

The classroom tools -- roster, announcements, family communication, and publication production -- are curriculum-neutral by design. They do not ship with standards references, assessment frameworks, or national curriculum codes built in, because an internationally-mobile teacher moves between systems that use different ones. Materials in the shared resource library are built the same way: structured without hardcoded standards so an adviser on a different national system can adapt them. The gradebook integration with curriculum-specific standards is in development; we say so rather than claiming otherwise.

How does the home-language translation work without sending student text to a third party?

A private translation lane for outgoing family notices -- picture day reminders, publication deadlines, the class update -- is in development. When it lands, notices will translate on our own computers rather than being sent to an outside translation service or API, and the family name, the student name, and the school name will remain on our own infrastructure. That lane is not live yet. Translated parent-facing publications (the yearbook, the newspaper) are further out still, planned for after the notice-translation lane lands.

What languages does the translation cover?

The private on-device translation lane is in development and not live yet, so there is no shipped language coverage to report today. We are designing it to cover the major language families present in international school communities -- Western European, Arabic, East Asian, and South and Southeast Asian script groups among them -- but we are not going to publish a list of a hundred language names and claim coverage before the engine lands. Email [email protected] with the specific languages your school community reads and we will tell you honestly where the engine stands and when it is expected.

Can I carry my materials from one posting to the next?

Yes, within what the platform holds. Your class record -- the rosters you ran, the publications your students produced, the adviser history -- stays in your portable account alongside the school's own record. Lesson plans, unit structures, and templates you put into the shared resource library are yours to return to. What the platform does not do is transfer or validate credentials with a receiving country's education authority; that is an administrative process outside the platform, and we will not claim to handle it.

Is there a cost? What is the pricing model?

The platform is honest-off on pricing in this conversation: no checkout, no subscription fee disclosed here, and no per-student fee claimed. The classroom tools are free to start. If you want to know where pricing lands for your school's situation, email [email protected] or use the contact form and we will have a direct conversation.

What about student data privacy across different national jurisdictions?

Student records, family contacts, and student-produced work are kept in our own private system and are never sold. The private translation lane is in development and not live yet; when it lands, it is designed to keep student text off any outside service. Because international schools operate under different national data laws -- and a teacher at a school in one country may be sending family communications that land in another -- the platform is built with those constraints in mind: consent is explicit and tracked, data is not co-mingled with outside analytics, and facial recognition is off by default. We do not claim to be a substitute for legal counsel on data residency requirements specific to your school's jurisdiction; talk to us directly about your country's requirements.

How is this different from educator.global or educator.center?

Educator.global is the global shared staff room -- swap lessons across schools and countries, see what another teacher on another continent tried. Educator.center is the resource library -- lessons, templates, and the everyday classroom tools together. This platform, Educator International, is specifically the posting experience: what a teacher keeps when they move, how the classroom tools handle a multilingual family community, and how materials are built to cross curricula rather than being locked to one. The tools under all three are the same; the angle here is the internationally-mobile teacher specifically.

When can we start?

The roster and family communication tools are live now; private notice translation is in development and not live yet. The community and translated publication layers are also in early access or planned. To get in touch: email [email protected] or use the contact form below. We will tell you exactly what is ready for your school and what is coming.