#TeacherLife

Alice McCartney, a former high school French teacher, shares her struggles with her loss of identity as a teacher, the parallels between teaching and parenthood, her conflicted emotions surrounding a return to the classroom, and how the current issues regarding school safety and gun violence have played an impact in this decision.

In this episode, Chris Moore, a school psychologist from Oregon, shares his perspective on how to best support teacher sustainability, address the whole child through social emotional learning, and show compassion to yourself and others by shifting your mindset on success and failure.

In this episode, Sandy Armstad, a retired teacher from rural Montana, shares the joys and challenges she found in teaching, how she worked five jobs to support her three children, and tells us what she really thinks thinks of all the fancy, new acronyms that keep surfacing in education.

Stacey is a music teacher, entrepreneur, podcaster, and founder of Side Hustle Teachers. On this episode, she discusses how, despite becoming a teacher has been her life-long dream since she was only 9 years old, having a side hustle ultimately made balancing work and family possible.

On the premiere of Season 2, an anonymous teacher breaks the silence and shares her experiences and opinions on teaching black students in a predominantly white administration, as well as her school's reaction when she opened up about having bipolar disorder.

In the final episode of season 1, I sit down with three teachers - Rachel, Claire, and Shannon. They’ve all just completed their first year of teaching and are eager to reflect on what they’ve taken from the year. For all of them, there were many unexpected challenges, struggles with detaching from work, but most importantly, some incredibly joys that they experienced during their year.

In this episode, Ashley from NY shares why she thinks personal/professional boundaries are necessary, how she started working towards sustainability in her career, how she manages her anxiety as a teacher, and the cringe-worthy way she discovered the true definition of “netflix & chill”.

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What were you like in middle school? Are you cringing? Laughing? Crying?

According to Liz from Southern California, even middle school teachers experience those emotions with the students. We cringed, laughed, and (almost) cried as Liz shared some stories about her three years of teaching middle school.

What makes a happy teacher?

Danna Thomas is striving to find the answer to that through Happy Teacher Revolution. In this episode, she tells us more about her mission, what she thinks makes a happy teacher, and the experiences that led her to start a revolution.

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In this episode, I sit down with Abigail, a substitute teacher in Toledo, Ohio. We talk about the benefits and challenges of being a substitute and the hard but necessary parts of self-care.

Music is "Waiting" by Crowander

What happens when you decide to leave education? Steph Douglass shares about her decision to leave in the middle of the school year, the joy that she's finding in smaller moments, and her mission to empower women to invest in real estate.

Music is "Waiting" by Crowander

How do you balance being a parent and a teacher? And on top of that, how do you also make time to pursue your own, personal dreams? Kindergarten teacher Porsha Hodge sits down with me to share what her aspirations are and how she manages to do it all.

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Welcome to #TeacherLife!

This episode is a brief introduction into the who and why behind the creation of this podcast. I share a little bit about my experience, as well as what I hope to create within this platform.