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Episode 302
AI Can't Replace Teacher Heart—and that may be more important now than ever. In this episode of One Tired Teacher, we're talking about artificial int…
2 months, 1 week ago
Four Quiet Habits That Steal Teachers’ Summer Peace 301
Episode 301
Summer break isn’t always ruined by big problems. Sometimes it’s the quiet habits that keep you tense, distracted, and oddly anxious even when you fi…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Summer Boundaries For Teachers Who Need Joy 300
Episode 300
Summer break can look long on the calendar and still feel like you’re carrying school on your back. We’re talking honestly about why so many teachers…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
Put Teaching Down For A Minute, Teachers 299
Episode 299
Summer break can start and somehow you still feel like you’re on duty. If your body is home but your brain is still in the classroom, I made this one…
3 months ago
Seven Things I Wish I Knew Before Teaching 298
Episode 298
What would you tell the version of yourself who is trying so hard to do everything perfectly? I’m revisiting a Teacher Truth conversation I recorded …
3 months, 1 week ago
When Boundaries Aren’t Enough: Teacher Burnout Explained 297
Episode 298
Burnout is brutal enough, but the most disorienting version is the kind that lands even when we set boundaries, do the inner work, and try to teach i…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
When Teaching Feels Unsafe: Coping with Unfair Treatment from School Administrators Episode 296
Episode 296
What do you do when the part of teaching that scares you isn’t the kids, it’s the adults with power? I’m replaying a conversation that stayed with me…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Theme Weeks That Actually Work in the Classroom Episode 295
Episode 295
May is when solid routines start to wobble, not because you suddenly forgot how to teach, but because the school calendar turns into a nonstop interr…
3 months, 4 weeks ago
Reading in the Classroom Can Still Feel Good Right At the End of the School Year Episode 294
Episode 294
May can make even your strongest readers feel done, and that end of school year slide is exactly when reading starts to feel like a chore. I’m sharin…
4 months ago
The Last Weeks of School Don’t Have to Be Chaos in the Classroom Episode 293
Episode 293
The last week of school can make the best teachers feel like everything is coming apart at once: grades due, rooms to pack, routines blown up by asse…
4 months, 1 week ago