#TeacherLife

Victoria Wang
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#TeacherLife Podcast

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

  1. 23/12/2019

    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.

    33 min

  2. 16/12/2019

    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.

    1h 9m

  3. 09/12/2019

    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.

    1h 8m

  4. 18/11/2019

    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.

    1h 25m

  5. 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.

    1h 31m

  6. 04/11/2019

    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.

    1h 34m

  7. 28/10/2019

    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.

    1h 24m

  8. 21/10/2019

    Breaking the Silence

    On the premiere of Season 2, 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.

    1h 20m
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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

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  • Creator
    Victoria Wang
  • Years Active
    2K
  • Episodes
    18
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © (c) 2019 Victoria Wang
  • Show Website
    #TeacherLife

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