schoolteacher

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“When Calls the Heart” is set in the early 20th century and follows Krakow’s schoolteacher Elizabeth Thatcher as she makes a life for herself in Hope Valley, a small town in western Canada.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 24, 2026

He’s a retired pastor, and she’s a retired schoolteacher; together they have ample income to afford a new car.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 6, 2026

Thirty-two-year-old schoolteacher Princess Juliet Jombo says properties built by her late father, a traditional ruler, were reduced to rubble.

From BBC • Apr. 3, 2026

Gil Kerley was born in 1961 in Rock Hill, South Carolina, in the still-segregated South, the only child of a schoolteacher and a college econ professor.

From Slate • Mar. 25, 2026

If that is so, I wonder about Anatole—how the Underdowns got away with putting him in as a schoolteacher, for instance.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver