Anybody Coaching In Idaho Or Wyoming?

What brings you out this way?

In terms of salary, Wyoming is the place to be. Great pay and retirement. The negative is you have to live in Wyoming. Idaho is easier on the eyes but the salary will leave you wanting more--as in more $. With that said, you're out of the rat race in both areas.

Cost isn't something in worried about. I make over 1200+ a month from the VA. My spouse makes good money as an accountant.

What do you mean out of the rat race?

out of the rat race means not all the crap of cities, I got my start out in Idaho, loved it but moved back to the midwest

I don't know job wise if it will be easy to get one. I haven't been out there since the 90s. The pay may be small compared to Wyoming, but that's because not many want to go out there. Idaho's pay was pretty good, the insurance was pretty good, heck of a lot better than where I am at. What I liked about Idaho is that you drive a couple of hours and your in a total different environment through out the state.

boise is the big city in Idaho and it is only 300,000 or so, it was 250,000 when I was there, I don't know about under performing, my guess is other sports drawing in athletes, but that is a guess, season use to be short, 8 games, but again that was a long time ago when I was a pup

 I'm one state away from Idaho and Wyoming and have friends that teach in both places. 

The pay is great for teachers in Wyoming and the cost of living is low. However, the small towns are very isolated and finding housing can be difficult. You may end up commuting quite a ways for work. Also, Wyoming demands results from teachers which isn't a bad thing. But, they base a lot of their evaluation process on the juniors' ACT scores. They require all juniors to take the ACTs and have canned teachers whose classes don't do well on those tests. 

Idaho is kind of a sh-t show in education. The pay isn't great and the cost of living can be prohibitively high in many areas. I looked into teaching and coaching in Boise but I was going to struggle to make ends meet, even with experience and a Masters. I also don't care for their evaluation process. You're evaluated by the administration, those scores are sent to the state, a record is kept and that's basically how they rehire/fire you. They're not unionized and there's no tenure and that makes me spooky when it comes to teaching there. I have a friend who is busting hump in a difficult school right now but is getting sub-par evaluations. She is a good teacher (I worked with her a few years ago) but she is in bad school with a bad administration. She's been there awhile (four years) but is going to be leaving and moving back here because she is tired of the evaluation process.

I was speaking only as an observer looking at the records over the last few years.

What's a full year in Idaho like? Is their spring ball and passing league? Or is it more August 1st is the first time you see the kids?

What are some of the main differences from california?

I'm the same way with multisport kids. I feel it's better. Keeps them in shape and loose so to speak. Is there any particular program that you would recomend that I reach out to? You could Personal message it If you don't feel comfortable doing it pubically. I'm very interested in coaching in either state.

Only when compared to the wages for teaching and only in certain areas.

It really depends on where you're at. Teacher salaries bounce all over the place in Idaho. The base pay is generally pretty low but there's big jumps on the salary schedule as you pick up more education and years. It's just hit or miss. I looked into the Boise area as I have friends there but I would struggle to make ends meet, even with a high level of education and experience.

where you at dozer