#TeacherLife

Welcome to #TeacherLife! This project was created to provide a space for educators to voice their passions, stories and struggles in the world of teaching. In doing so, I hope to create community, find ways for teachers to support one another, and instigate conversation and action to better the lives of teachers and, consequently, our educational system. Music is "Waiting" by Crowander

Season 2 Finale - the Red for Ed Movement 12/23/2019

Season 2 Finale - the Red for Ed Movement The season 2 finale highlights the voices of educators who have participated in the #RedforEd movement. In this episode, four teachers come on the show to share their experiences in both the Denver strike and Indiana rally, providing insight into the events leading up to the movement, their personal reasons for participating, and what they hope to change in education. /episode/index/show/teacherlifepod/id/12459071

Emerald Barton - the Kindergarten Chronicles 12/16/2019

Emerald Barton - the Kindergarten Chronicles For our last full interview of season 2, we’re joined by Emerald Barton, a kindergarten teacher from Florida. She’s the creator of the Kindergarten Chronicles, a Facebook page that has over 70,000 followers, and she’s most known for her famous Gluestick Pledge. In this episode, Emerald shares how the Kindergarten Chronicles came about, some of the challenges she has encountered as a content creator, and how she keeps herself uplifted and joyful for both her students and followers. /episode/index/show/teacherlifepod/id/12386090

Alice McCartney - from Teacher to Parent 12/09/2019

Alice McCartney - from Teacher to Parent 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. /episode/index/show/teacherlifepod/id/12270563

Kathy Ngo Martin - the Asian American Experience and Pre-Algebra Teachers 11/18/2019

Kathy Ngo Martin - the Asian American Experience and Pre-Algebra Teachers In this episode, I interview with Kathy Ngo Martin, a high school special education math teacher. As we sat down in front of a massive spread of pizza, cheese, crackers, and (maybe) some wine, we talked for hours, touching on the damaging emphasis schools have on college, microaggressions that we both experienced as Asian Americans, and her side hustle, Pre-Algebra Teachers - an online community and resource for math teachers. /episode/index/show/teacherlifepod/id/11972876

Chris Moore - Whole Teacher, Whole Child Left Behind 11/11/2019

Chris Moore - Whole Teacher, Whole Child Left Behind 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. /episode/index/show/teacherlifepod/id/11971859

Sandy Armstad - 34 Years in the Classroom 11/04/2019

Sandy Armstad - 34 Years in the Classroom 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. /episode/index/show/teacherlifepod/id/11819021

Stacey Ogden and Side Hustle Teachers 10/28/2019

Stacey Ogden and Side Hustle Teachers 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. /episode/index/show/teacherlifepod/id/11722040

Breaking the Silence 10/21/2019

Breaking the Silence On the premiere of Season 2 of #TeacherLife, 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. /episode/index/show/teacherlifepod/id/11633822

The First Year of Teaching 07/29/2019

The First Year of Teaching 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. /episode/index/show/teacherlifepod/id/10604480

Ashley from NY on Working Smart, Not Hard 07/22/2019

Ashley from NY on Working Smart, Not Hard 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”. /episode/index/show/teacherlifepod/id/10065479

Leanne Zizikos on Slow Moments and Teachers Retreats 07/15/2019

Leanne Zizikos on Slow Moments and Teachers Retreats In this episode, Leanne opens up about how she struggled within her teaching career and found some balance by becoming a substitute teacher. She tells us more about her new business, Teachers Retreats, that she hopes will help teachers with mindfulness and sustainability. We share the small, slow moments of joy we missed during our teaching careers, little changes we’ve made to become more mindful, and our excitement for our next journeys. /episode/index/show/teacherlifepod/id/10065470

Liz from SoCal on Those Awkward Middle School Years 07/08/2019

Liz from SoCal on Those Awkward Middle School Years What were you like in middle school? Are you cringing? Laughing? Crying? /episode/index/show/teacherlifepod/id/10392197

Danna Thomas on Starting a Revolution 07/01/2019

Danna Thomas on Starting a Revolution What makes a happy teacher? /episode/index/show/teacherlifepod/id/10065452

Abigail from Toledo on the Hard Parts of Self-Care 06/24/2019

Abigail from Toledo on the Hard Parts of Self-Care 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. /episode/index/show/teacherlifepod/id/10065467

Steph Douglass on Breaking the Norm, Finding Joy, and Becoming Her Own Boss 06/17/2019

Steph Douglass on Breaking the Norm, Finding Joy, and Becoming Her Own Boss 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. /episode/index/show/teacherlifepod/id/10065497

Porsha Hodge on Balancing Parenthood and Teaching 06/10/2019

Porsha Hodge on Balancing Parenthood and Teaching How do you balance being a parent and teaching? 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. /episode/index/show/teacherlifepod/id/10064939

Victoria Wang on Finding Her Passion, the Rough Days, and Why We Just Need to Talk More 04/29/2019

Victoria Wang on Finding Her Passion, the Rough Days, and Why We Just Need to Talk More This first episode of #TeacherLife is a little different. /episode/index/show/teacherlifepod/id/9566105

Welcome to #TeacherLife 04/15/2019

Welcome to #TeacherLife 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. /episode/index/show/teacherlifepod/id/9404519

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