K-12 Job Search Resources
K-12 Career and Licensing Services provides individual assistance with the job search process for students in and graduates of Lewis & Clark’s teaching, school counseling, school psychology, and educational administration programs.
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AAEE’s Job Search Handbook for Educators
- L&C GSEC student teachers and final-year school counseling and school psychology interns receive either paper or digital copies from the K-12 Career and Licensing Services’ office.
- Diversity in Ed, Job Search
- Education Week’s TopSchoolJobs Blog
- HRC’s Talking About Pronouns in the Workplace
- HRC’s Workplace Resources
- Institute for Teachers of Color Committed to Racial Justice
- L&C’s LGBTQ+ Career Resource Guide
- NAIS People of Color Conference
- National Association of School Psychologists (NASP) Career Center
- NEA Today for Aspiring Educators Magazine Fall 2025
- NEA’s Aspiring Educators Program
- NEA Resource Library (try searching under “New Teachers” or “New Educators”)
- NEA FAQs About New Teacher Employment
- NEA A 20-Point Checklist of Key Strategies for Your Next Teaching Job Search
- NEA 6 Ways Social Media Can Help in Your Job Search
- NEA 10 Things an Employer Seeks in a Job Candidate
- NEA How to Create a Professional Profile That Gets You Noticed
- Nemnet Minority Recruitment
- Oregon TSPC Name Change Process
- Transgender Law Center’s Know Your Rights: Transgender People at Work
- Sample Educator Resume (Including Sample References) (pdf)
- Sample Educator Resume (Including Sample References) (Word)
- Sample “License Anticipated” Place-holder for Applications (pdf)
- How to Write a Cover Letter
- Language Proficiency Definitions US Department of State
- ILR Scale for Spoken Language Proficiency
- Pongo Explaining Family/Friend Caregiver Gap on Resume
- NEA Tips to Get Your Education Resume to Float to the Top
- NEA Get Your Documents in Order—Resumes, Portfolios, References, and More
Letters of recommendation are typically written at the end of your student teaching or internship experience and are usually written by the three people whom you have listed as references.
If you have applied for a position and the school district is requiring you to upload letters of recommendation before these letters have been written, you have two options:
- Create a Word document or .pdf that you scan and upload indicating that you are completing your student teaching or final internship and the date that you anticipate receiving your final letters of recommendation (usually in April or May of your final year in the program).
- In the unusual case where the school district requires the letters to finalize an early hiring decision, you can ask your references to write in-process letters as placeholders until they write the final letters at the end of your field experience.
- Oregon Education Association (OEA) Aspiring Educator Membership
- Oregon School Counselor Association (OSCA)
- Oregon School Psychologists Association (OSPA)
- Oregon Substitute Teachers Association (OSTA)
- Coalition of Oregon School Administrators (COSA)
- National Association of School Psychologists (NASP) Career Center
- National Content Area Professional Organizations
- Oregon School Directory
- Washington School District Directory
- California School Directory
- Alaska School District Directory
- Hawai’i DOE Schools Search
- British Columbia School District Map
- NCES’ National Public School Directory
- NCES’ National Private School Directory
- International Baccalaureate Schools Search
K-12 Career and Licensing Services is located in room 116 of South Chapel Annex on the Graduate Campus.
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email ecls@lclark.edu
Sharon Chinn Director
K-12 Career and Licensing Services
Lewis & Clark
615 S. Palatine Hill Road
Portland OR 97219