In Spring 2018, we launched our second podcast entitled, College and Coffee, hosted by Mike Dunn, a College and Career Counselor. Stay tuned for a season of information for parents, students, and other stakeholders. Season 1:Â The Regular Drip:Â In this inaugural episode, Mike Dunn interviews Stacey Cunitz from The Crefeld School and Blue Moon Educational Consulting […]
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[Episode 52] Teaching Controversial Topics in Elementary School
“You can start teaching social justice to students when they’re young enough to suffer from social ills.” In this episode of The Educator’s Room podcast, we talk to two elementary school teachers, LaNesha from Education From An Apron and Naomi from Read Like a Rockstar about teaching K-5 students about controversial topics. From Charlottesville to Hispanic Heritage month, these teachers […]
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[Episode 55] Breaking Through The Shame: Going Through A Divorce
In this episode, Franchesca Warren interviews Traci H., writer/educator and her experiences of going through a divorce while teaching. In this interview they discuss: the shame of the word divorce how to handle teaching a classroom of 35+ students and a heated divorce what to expect during the divorce process if you should tell your administrator […]
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[Episode 49] How the Healthcare Bill Affects You As a Teacher
In this episode, Franchesca Warren interviews John Palmer from, T.R.A.G.I.C, as we discuss why teachers should be concerned about what’s in this “new” health care bill and why teachers must fight political party partisan when it comes to our livelihood. During the interview the following topics are discussed: how T.R.A.G.I.C. changed the face of healthcare in Georgia […]
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[S3E1] Why Every Teacher Should Get a Career Counselor
Statistics show that during the first five years of teaching, the majority of new teachers will leave the profession. What’s even more staggering is trying to figure out what do these teachers end up doing after they leave the field of education? In the opening of Season 3 of our podcast, we interview Andrea Holyfield […]
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[Podcast] What’s Best for Children: An Interview with Susan Ochshorn
During this episode, Franchesca Warren talks with Susan Ochshorn who for nearly two decades, Â has worked in a broad range of settings at the local, state, and national levels to bridge research, policy, and practice, to integrate ECE into the larger education reform conversation, and to catalyze social change. We started with a basic question- […]
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Who Will Care for the Teachers: A Podcast on Teacher Depression
According to the National Institute of Mental Health, anxiety disorders are the most common mental illness in the U.S., affecting 40 million adults in the United States age 18 and older, or 18% of the population. During this episode, Franchesca Warren breaks tradition and  talks with not one but four fellow teachers who suffer from […]
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[Podcast S2E12] How to Engage With Students Who Are Behaviorally Challenged
Have you ever received a child in your class who as soon as you see them you know they will be a behavior challenge? Call it teacher intuition, but you can feel it- and most times you’re right. You stay up late racking your brain for strategies for these students, but many times you don’t […]