Dec 21, 2025
On this episode, Lauren and Lyndsey discuss the best and worst gifts they've gotten from students and administration. They also talk about hills they would absolutely die on in education, such as teachers not being entirely responsible for student behavior, kids needing to handwrite essays, plagiarized papers always...
Nov 11, 2025
Teaching while parenting; how much work it is to take a day off; there are no more holiday parties; to celebrate Columbus Day or not to celebrate Columbus Day?; when parents opt out of lessons or units; lowering of expectations in college because of the mass change in parenting; unfair bathroom policies; unbelievable...
Sep 12, 2025
Today we welcome Lindsay, from the @Teachertrauma social media. We discuss students gaslighting teachers, parents who believe every word their kid says, disrespectful parent communication, middle school farts, irresponsible parents, disrespect of materials, how underprepared kids are, how admin. feels about teachers on...
Jun 6, 2025
In this episode, Lauren talks to Phillip M. Holmes, an expert on building strong leadership and recovering from a toxic work environment. We discuss what makes a toxic workplace, poor leadership, why there is so much poor leadership in education, how to know if you can trust your coworkers, when to get out of a...
Feb 26, 2025
Lauren welcomes her sister Julie back to the podcast, where they discuss their dumb experiences as teenagers smoking weed, how much more potent it is today, the dangers of vaping, chronic hyperemesis syndrome, which Julie suffers from after too much THC built up in her system, differences in tolerance when it comes to...