After graduating college and working as a CPA for a large accounting firm, Chrystal Bernard quickly realized accounting wasn’t her calling. “I don’t want to do this,” she remembers thinking. “It was fun. I met some really great people, but I really wanted more one-on-one with people.”
Her husband suggested she try teaching, and she found herself moving from college-level accounting courses to high school classrooms. That’s where everything changed. “I started building relationships with the students and that was great. But I saw the system is not really set up for a lot of people to succeed. Lots of people fall thro