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 13, 2024
Lauren has nostalgic feelings about teaching for the first time in a year... how graduation used to make us feel important and emotional, but is it really honorable anymore considering all those kids who shouldn’t graduate? Is teaching college any different/better than secondary school? Is eaching grad. school the...
Oct 11, 2023
First days anxiety, we hate Harry Wong, school itself is outdated, plusses and minuses of block scheduling, do kids with learning differences want to be in inclusion classes? Lauren can’t do 5th-grade math; we both became teachers for the same reason; it’s harder to be a caring teacher versus a hardass; we...
Sep 19, 2023
Lauren talks about when an administrator tried to teach one of her worst classes and the time a student unknowingly had a private part fall out; we discuss the uselessness of the dress code, how vicious girl fights can be, and bait and switch after you’re hired; DeAndre talks about how kids bullying others with no...