Day Learning Design

👩‍🏫 I build & deliver technical enablement programs to software users globally
💻 Skillset: Agile project management & Instructional design
📝 ATD Author
📖 Bonafide Bookworm

Category: Transitioning Teachers

  • Teacher Transition Obstacles

    Here are just a few of the hurdles I had to overcome in order to exit my career in K-12 education.

  • Going to Therapy for Workplace Trauma

    Confession… I needed therapy to get through my last year as a teacher. In fact, I had a whole mental health team at my disposal consisting of a psychiatrist, a…

  • Free Teacher ➡️ ID Chats

    Are you a teacher looking to transition to instructional design who wants free guidance? Starting this upcoming Monday, I will be setting aside a few time slots weekly for free…

  • Tips for Landing Your First ID Job

    The hardest job hunt will be the first. The lesson for transitioning teachers is to broaden your job search for your first official ID role.

  • Overhauling a Teacher Resume

    Teachers looking to break into the field of corporate instructional design need to redo all of their application materials.

  • Working Through Summer

    This is my first summer working my full-time job, ever. So what’s it like working a corporate job all summer?

  • Digital Portfolio Content

    When building your digital portfolio, I would recommend including a variety of these work samples.

  • How to Stand Out as an ID Candidate

    The job market for instructional design is competitive, and I have had many aspiring IDs ask me how they can stand out amongst a pool of hundreds of applications.

  • How Teachers Can Get Experience Training Adults

    Being able to demonstrate that you have experience developing employees in the workplace will highlight your instructional design acumen.

  • TPLD is Changing, Y’all

    TPLD is a group of former educators who help current educators with their job transition to the corporate world of L&D, for free. We aren’t going anywhere, but we are…

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McKenzie Day builds learning programs in tech by aligning project teams around a shared vision and relentlessly prioritizing value for the customer.