Hallway. Now. Before I Start Laughing.

Andrea: [00:00:00] I'm not a fair girl. I was trying to be a fair girl. I was trying to be like, I can just be fun and whimsical and do faires. I. I cannot

Theme: the classroom. 

Andrea: Hey, teacher besties. Welcome to How to Survive the Classroom. I had a very, very long weekend because I am now, and I, I feel like I have to like take a breath before I say this because I never thought this was gonna be me. I just feel like I don't know when we are. Imagining ourselves as parents, we have this image of who we're gonna be and how that's going to happen.

And I do have to tell you guys that I am a soccer mom and it's hard for me to say it. It's hard for me to say it out loud, um, to acknowledge it and to be okay with it. Um, because, and I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know. So many people love soccer so much. [00:01:00] I historically have not enjoyed.

Being a spectator of soccer games, they are so long and when it's not your kid playing, you're kind of like, okay. Um, and watching soccer on TV has never really captured me either. I didn't grow up in a soccer family, like it was always basketball for me. Um. So my daughter has been begging to play soccer, and I'm like, okay, fine.

So I put both my kids in soccer, and I have to tell you guys it is a whole different thing when it's your kids that are playing and then on top of it, like number one, my son is. Not into it at all, but he's also five now, so the first couple games he didn't even finish. But that's like so on par with all the rest of the kids.

It's so funny watching these soccer games because all the parents are there for like the five-year-old teams and half the kids don't finish the game because they start crying and like leave or they like just sit down on the grass, which has been my kid so far. Like the first game my son. [00:02:00] Left the game halfway through and just went and sat on my husband's lap and was like, I'm done.

Um, he hasn't finished most of his practices because he's just like, oh, this is so much work and all of that. But on Saturday, he finished the game and a hundred percent of the credit goes to his pre-K teacher because she actually came to his game, which was so insanely sweet like their school. To where the game was is like 40 minutes, and she came and it was raining, by the way, for like half of the day, and she came and saw my son's game and my daughter's game.

It was just so genuinely kind and sweet of her to go out of her way to do that. And my son was like, you could tell like he had been in the game, he hadn't scored any points. The other team was so much better than our team. Like my son was just starting to like assume the posture of quitting. Like, you know, like his arms were crossed, his shoulders were slumped, and he was [00:03:00] just standing in the field and then he looked over and saw his teacher and lit up from within and it was so, so sweet.

And it just reminded me of like. The times that I would try and go to my students' performances or their games or anything like that and how you could see it, right? Like that stuff matters. Showing up matters. And I feel like that's one of the first things that kind of goes away when we start to feel like we're burning out because we wanna be able to show up there for our families, for our kids, and all of that.

And that is. Obviously the priority. Um, but I think that's one of the things that goes away first for us is, um, our ability to kind of be there at these other events and stuff like that. And it just, it was so encouraging to see, um, her able to do that and bring her, she brought her daughters with her, who also know my son because my son is.

He's got a reputation, you know, he's got a reputation for being a bit of a character, and so everyone kind of knows him around the school and everything. And it just, it, it made my [00:04:00] day. Um, and then she ended up coming to lunch with us, uh, afterwards and we bought her lunch and stuff as a thank you because like she spent her Saturday and then stayed for my daughter's game.

Um, and so it was just incredible. Um, I just wanted to highlight like a way that a teacher is making an impact in my life as a mom and as a parent, because it makes, it makes such a huge, huge difference, um, when teachers are, you know, doing, doing the things. So I appreciate that so much. Um, I have something complete.

Left turn. Okay. That was like wholesome moment of the day. And now we're gonna talk about what is wrong with our eggs. Um, not ovarian eggs. I'm talking about the eggs from our chickens.

Okay, so when my husband and I went to the UK over the summer, we, there was a couple of things that we noticed that the UK does. Like, so, so, so well, so public transportation, incredible, right? They, they know what they're doing with, with the train system and all of that kind of stuff. [00:05:00] Phenomenal. Um, something else they do really well is like grab and go food.

Like all the markets there have like. Deli meat and like cold cut sandwiches that are like trustworthy and good. And one of the things that my husband and I both got a couple of times was like an egg salad sandwich, which is not normally something I would get from a gas station because I don't want Giardia, right?

And so I'm like, okay, um, we're gonna get these egg salad sandwiches. We were really, really, really running late one time we got on the train. Grab the sandwiches and we get on the train and I'm like, I don't wanna eat this egg sandwich on a train. 'cause it's gonna stink, right? It's gonna smell so terrible.

And I was so nervous about doing this because I'm like, okay, surely this is gonna smell terrible. But I was so hungry, I was like, I'm so sorry everyone else, I've gotta do this. I opened the package and I realized that the egg salad sandwiches didn't smell. I started thinking about that and I'm like, well, that's weird because usually egg salad tends to smell, it smells like sulfurous, right?

[00:06:00] And so then we get to my friends, there's this British couple we stayed with when we were, um, in town and we know them from, from meeting them on vacation and stuff. And we were hanging out with them and I'm like, do your eggs not smell? And. Whatcha talking about you psycho? And I was like, no, no, no, no, no.

Like when you hard boil an egg and then you crack it open, it has like a smell. And they're like, does it? And I'm like, yes. Like it smells so sulfurous and I cannot figure it out. I've Googled it and some people say it's because of the pesticides that we spray on our eggs or something like that, but like.

I don't understand, but it's like the inside of the egg. It's not the outside. It's only after you've cracked the egg open. So is it the pesticides that are getting like, but why would there be pesticides on the eggs? I dunno. I just, I need all of my FFA teachers to please let me know because this has been bothering me so much.

Why do our egg smell like that? And if I got like [00:07:00] farm fresh eggs, would they still smell? Is it like American eggs? That stink? Or is it like farm factory? Because I've also done eggs that are from elsewhere, and I have been dying to ask. I just need to know because it is so weird to have been there and literally had hard boiled eggs in various forms several times.

It never smelled, not a single time. So, um, future Farmers of America and family and consumer science teachers, I, I need to know.

Just send me a little note. Let me know what it is that is making the egg smell. I need to know because now I need to know if I have to like go out of my way to go and find a farmer's market or something, which honestly wouldn't probably be that far out of my way because I live in Indiana now. But anyways, um, that is all I have for you for life updates.

I just really needed to have that little vent session about the eggs because it's. It's a real problem in my life. [00:08:00] My son really likes hard boiled eggs and they stink so bad. So, um, without further ado, I really wanna know what is going on in all of your lives. I am absolutely loving the voice memos you guys are sending me.

I just chef's kiss. So let's jump in to the first voice memo. 

Voicemail: The craziest thing that I've ever experienced in my 26 years of being a high school English and creative writing teacher was. Being told we need to endure, uh, not having any running water, including toilets and sinks. Um, eventually the students got sent home at noon, but teachers needed to stay all day till three o'clock and we were told we could, uh, walk on over the library or drive to, uh, fast food nearby if we needed to use the toilet.

Andrea: Okay. I don't know. If anyone else could hear the water trickling in the background. [00:09:00] But the irony of that is real, real poignant that she's talking about not having running water. And it sounds like she has like a fish tank or like water trickling in the background. She's like, screw you guys. Um, I think I talked about this on one of my previous episodes, but that happened here in the, the county that I, I work in where a teacher reached out to me and told me.

And said, Hey, Andrea, um, I don't know if you're aware of this, but we're not gonna have water on at the elementary school. And I talked about how like that teacher then like had to, they had to fill up buckets and just kind of make do, I mean, so I don't think that the kids at the elementary school near me ended up having a half day either.

I think that it ended up being like. A full day of school. I think that is one of the things that people don't recognize or realize when it comes to like maintaining these buildings and all of that kind of stuff, is that when we're talking about improvements for these schools, we're not always talking about [00:10:00] aesthetic improvements.

We're talking about making sure the water is running. Um, this same teacher who had the water shut down. That same school last spring when it got really, really hot, it was like 85 degrees inside of these buildings because these buildings, again, in this area are like a hundred years old. She had messaged me and said like, Hey, we don't have AC in these buildings and they're having us come in to school with these kids.

Um, and we, the AC is not working and like that is not. Doable. Like, I don't know if you guys are the same way as me, but I literally cannot function if I'm hot. Like I get so, so grumpy. In fact, this last summer, my husband was like, oh, it's gonna be so fun. There's a fair in town. First of all, first of all, I'm not a fair girl.

I was trying to be a fair girl. I was trying to be like, I can just be fun and whimsical and do faires. I. I cannot Faires, [00:11:00] Faires are the Dollar General of outside events. I hate it. The food wasn't even good because if I'm gonna be at a fair, I wanna eat something that's like deep fried and disgusting and gonna clog my arteries or put me into a diabetic coma.

Nope. Nope. It wasn't even good. Wasn't even good food and the lines were long and I hate it. And it was hot. It was 95 degrees, and I'm trying so hard to be cool because my husband is from the Midwest and I don't know what is happening in his body when we are out in those situations, but he is able to still think logically.

I hate so much everyone and everything in existence around me when I am at a fair. I don't want to breathe. The air. I don't want to exist in the vicinity. I don't care. And we went with people and they were our friends and I hated them. I hated myself. I love my children. But that day it was tough. It was tough that day.

A, a perfect encapsulation of, of this [00:12:00] experience was I was standing in line. Go onto a rollercoaster 'cause I love rollercoasters. And I was like, you know what? It's fine. I probably won't die on this rollercoaster. And it was one of those rollercoasters that like goes in a revolving thing and while I'm waiting in line, I'm looking up at top while they're like letting people down.

Because it's one of those where like the people at the top have to wait at the top while the people on the bottom are like getting off the rollercoaster and then they rotate it down. So I'm watching that and while I'm looking up at the top, I just see someone spew chunks from the top. Sprinkle down and there was a couple taking a selfie, like near the, like in the vicinity.

And I see the girl start going like wiping her face because the chunks were raining down upon her a Twix, her hair. And I was like, someone just puked.

That couple at the top puked [00:13:00] and she's like covered, right? Like she's got it on her, it's on the thing. The fair workers didn't even wipe off the chair that she was in before loading in the next person. I was like, I'm done. I'm not sitting in this, I'm not going on this rollercoaster. That's absolutely not happening.

Um, that's a perfect encapsulation of how I feel every single time that it's hot, even if no one's puking around me. I feel like people have been previously puking. Around me. You know? Does that make sense? Does do you feel that in your soul? Because that is every single time my experience, and thankfully I have not been forced to teach in an exper in, in a situation where the water has been shut off or the heat has been shut off for long periods of time in.

University Hall where I work at Indiana State, the heat went off. Um, or the AC went off like last week because they had to fix something. Canceled class, immediately Canceled class because I'm a professor and that's [00:14:00] what I can do now. And I'm like, nah, ah, nah. And then it still wasn't good by the next Monday.

And I was like, all guys, hey, welcome to class. We're gonna all go outside. And work outside because it was too hot. I was like, I can't do this. I cannot function. So, um, thoughts and prayers for all of you teachers out there that are having to work under, uh, duress because that's what it's, I feel like that's terrorism to make people work in a situation where there is no fresh water, where the ability to go to the bathroom or air conditioning, so.

Trudge through that experience. Um, okay. Let's listen to the next story that was sent in. 

Voicemail: So I've had a lot of weird experiences, but one that I can remember is just from last year when I was teaching a fourth grade class, and there was one particular student who was just really struggling. I really loved him and adored him, but he just struggled to evacuate times.

[00:15:00] Because he was pretty outta control anyway, things were calming down and one day in about January or February, we were all working quietly at our desks. I was working in with small groups and because it was writing was a particularly challenging time to hold our concentration in stamina. And one of my students, this one student was struggling.

Raised his arms to the sky, broke out his fingers and said, I'm not gonna lie, I like big dicks. It was odd. How do you respond to that? 

Andrea: Uh oh. Okay. Yeah,

that was like an emphysema.

Sorry guys. I'm getting over being sick. Um, how do you respond to that? I would actually love to hear from you guys, um, if you had a [00:16:00] fourth grader. Okay, fourth grade, fifth grade, you're like 10 years old. So this kid is like eight or nine years old and comes up and like, does like the Nixon piece, fingers at the front.

I, um, I think my first instinct. And if I'm, if I'm like just going with what my heart says, my heart of hearts, I'm probably just gonna say out, get out, stand in the hallway. Um, because you know, you know that the kids would lose it, right? Just absolutely unhinged, cackling. And I, that was always my biggest struggle as a teacher.

It wasn't when I could feel something like getting ready to happen, like that was never the problem. If I had time to think about it before I could re react to these situations, I feel like I could somewhat be an adult and all of that. It's situations like that where it's so out of left field, it's [00:17:00] so completely unhinged that I would be like, oh.

And I would laugh before my brain could catch up. Like my prefrontal cortex wouldn't be kicked on yet. You know, it takes a second sometimes for me. And so I would laugh and then I would unfortunately have to deal with the behavior as well. And I'm trying to think if I ever had a student, I mean there, there would be things like this where like we talked about on a previous episode where this guy was like, Hey, are you okay?

And then she said that she like had. Slept with her, some chick's, boyfriend, and all of that. Like it's so out of left field that you're like, uh,

um, yeah. So I would probably say out. I did that so often. In fact, my first year teaching, when I had kids that would say out-of-pocket stuff because I was so dumb, you guys don't do this, please don't do this. Okay. So my first year teaching, I told my.[00:18:00] 

I didn't 

think it was fair 

for me to write someone up if I laughed

and I know, I know. I know objectively. That was a dumb thing to say out loud. I could think it. You can think it in your head, but you don't tell them that because if you tell them that, then they are going to see that as a challenge and be like, cool. As long as we make her laugh, we're golden. Um, and I fear that is that is the message that they received.

Um, and so some of the things that I probably should have written up in that first year, I maybe didn't because I had made that declaration early on in my teaching career and I mean, they would say some of the wildest things and I was like, unprepared. And that's the problem with some of the things that these kids will say is they will say something.

So out of pocket. I think I've told you guys about the Raise a Man story before where, and he was, he was the [00:19:00] worst at this because he would say things that were so absolutely absurd and inappropriate and. Out of control and I would always laugh. And so the, the perfect encapsulation of this is when he was throwing raisins at me in class, but he was hiding it so I didn't realize it was him.

And then he hopped up on his desk and told me, you can't catch me. I'm raisin man. And then yed like a handful of raisins at me guys. I got all the way to don't throws 

and I started laughing and everyone was like, ah, she can't write up. Uh, I fear it was a mistake to tell them that 

you can't, you can't write somebody up if you laugh about it.

Um, you know, realistically, if I have students that do that, I now, now that I'm a more adultier adult than I was when I started teaching, I number one, do not [00:20:00] tell students that if I laugh, I won't write them.

I will document behaviors. I will oftentimes send students to the hallway where their audience is gone, and I will have that conversation without an audience. There's no way I'm gonna have that conversation with the kid with the peace signs in front of the class because everyone is gonna be so unhinged at that point.

I would need to calm down. The class would have to calm down. That kid would have to be outside in the hall and have the conversation of like, Hey buddy, I love your spirit. And this is how I would always do it. By the way, every time I have a hallway chat with my students, um, I would always take them out and be like, Hey buddy.

Okay. You're so funny. I love who you are. I love what you bring to the class. Assuming that he was doing it for attention, which is very much sounds like he was, um. I love your spirit. I love how much you lead the class and you're so entertaining. But I gotta have you on my side, right? Like, I can't have you doing that stuff while I'm trying to, [00:21:00] to teach, you know, long division.

Okay? So I'm gonna need us to agree that that can't really happen again. Um, and kind of get them on that side. I really try to avoid in those hallway conversations coming at them and being like. What is wrong with you? There were times, right. I for sure did that. There were times, but I would always try and have the hallway chat where I'm like, Hey buddy, love you so much.

Love who you are. Love what you bring to the table. It's so great, but could you not? And I would say nine times outta 10 that would address the issue. I might also send, and that would be the moment when I'm in the hallway with them. I'd be like, Hey, also. I'm gonna have to fill in the blank. Whatever the consequences, whether that is call home, whether that is a consequence that is like, for real, I would always have that conversation and be like, all right guy.

Like I do in fact have to call your mom and, and tell her that you said that. I'm so sorry. Um, unfortunately that behavior is not something that can just stop with this conversation. I've gotta like pass it along. Um, and that a lot of [00:22:00] times would be really helpful too. It, it removes it. The onus off of me where like, I am mad at you.

It's like, unfortunately that behavior dictates this. And so when you have those conversations and you manage to do it in a very like, calm way where it's like, I'm on your side. I love the vibe and all of that. I fear you made a mistake with this one and you went too far, so I'm gonna have to do X, Y, Z. Um, and that really helped.

Maintain the relationship, which was always very, very important to me. Especially with those kids that are doing things for like the big flash and the big like crying to get attention and all of that kind of stuff. I always would want to come back and be like, Hey, but also let's make sure that you and I still have a relationship and I'm not mad at you.

I love you. I think you're great. I thought it was really funny even sometimes, but not appropriate. Right? Gotta pick our pick battle times. Try and do those jokes and in the middle of long division is not the time it turns out to make that joke. Right. So [00:23:00] that's how I usually handle those types of situations.

And it got so bad in my first year teaching that when a kid would say something out of pocket, the other kids would just go hallway. I. Hallway because that's what I would say and they'd say it before me sometimes and I'm like, oh, dang it. So yeah, try and make it a little bit less, um, obvious when you're asking him to go in the hallway.

I usually would walk up and not make it a big thing between me and that kid. Like in that situation be like, Hey, I need you to go step in the hallway real quick. Um, and then have that chat. On the side, but, um, I have a really cool resource I wanna talk to you guys about and we will get to that right after this break.

All right. Hey, teacher besties and welcome back. Um, I wanna talk to you guys about something that you guys probably are pretty familiar with if you've been in the classroom for a while. Um, if you aren't, then I do wanna point it out. Um, it is donors choose.org. And again, this is not sponsored, nothing like that.

It's just something that I personally [00:24:00] benefited from several times when I was a high school teacher, where I would have a series of books that I really, really wanted to purchase. A great example of this, I was doing, um, trying to rework a novel unit. And, um, we really, really wanted to do like a dystopian novel unit at the end of 10th grade.

We thought it would be super, super fun where each group is gonna choose a different dystopian novel they wanted to read, but we dystopian novels at. The school and we didn't have the funds to buy the dystopian novels. And so what I did and what the rest of the team did is we all put together a list of dystopian novels that we would want to read with our 10th graders.

And keep in mind at this school I was teaching like 230. No, not that, not that many. 210 kids I think were on the roster. Um, which meant like day to day you got a little less than 200 there each day, right? So we needed a lot books each grade at this school. 800 ish kids in it, right? So if the 10th grade team was gonna do this, [00:25:00] we needed 800 books.

That's a lot of money, right? And it's just not in the budget. And so we can't ask the parents to buy these books because we're in a low income school district. And so what we would do is we would come together and be like, okay, everyone go on to donors Choose and everyone create this description for the books that we want and donors choose is a nonprofit.

If you're at a public school or a private school, either way they will or a charter school, it allows you to do it with any of those schools, um, and it will allow the teachers to create an account. For the school, it will require that you have your name, your real name, your real school, and what you actually want to purchase.

So unlike some other like GoFundMe sites and stuff like that, donors choose is entirely like transparent on what you're gonna purchase for these schools and for these teachers. So for example, when I did the dystopian novel, I said, I'm [00:26:00] getting five book. Or like, what was it? I. Dry, which is a really good dystopian novel by the way.

Um, dry. And then, uh, we were gonna do 12 of another book and 12 of another book. So people could come on and they could say, oh, I love that book. I'm gonna buy a copy of these books for her class. And then I would get notified. And you can go through and it doesn't just come through for your district or people who you share the ads or share the link with.

It will become available for like anybody who goes on donors choose.com. And you can go on donors choose.com, and you can search by area, you can search by, um, subject matter. You can search by like different types of projects. And so as I'm recording this. It's a little bit early. So right now it's actually teacher appreciation week as I'm doing this.

So something I'm doing in my Instagram stories this week is I'm sharing highlighting some teachers from my local community, um, and some of the projects that they want, that they want funded, right? So [00:27:00] there's like one that is looking at, um, getting some board games for indoor recess and there's another that's trying to get books for her kids and all of that kinda stuff.

So these are not like, I would say a vast majority of the projects. That are on donors choose are not like, oh, this would be a really cute thing to have in my classroom. Although there's nothing wrong with those types of projects. A lot of it is like I need pens and paper and books for my students to read.

Like those are the types of things that. Are up there to get funded. Um, it's completely free for teachers to use. So you can go up there, you can put information up there from your class. It also will encourage the teachers and their classes to write thank you notes to donors or write like an update or post a picture and be like, Hey, we got our books.

Thank you guys so much. And so it does a really beautiful job of highlighting the community aspect of something like this. And I know there's a lot of people, um, that are [00:28:00] critical with how money is spent in school districts and stuff like that, whether or not they're fully aware of how that money is being spent.

But this is a really transparent way for us as community members to. Literally see a need and meet a need in your local community and in your local school. So rather than just like wringing our hands, especially, you know, it, this is more I guess to my, my nont teachery audience that hangs out with me, um, that obviously cares about education because you're listening to this podcast, this is a really cool way that you can be like, oh, I did a thing.

Right? And it all, because it's a nonprofit, it's also tax deductible, so you also have that. Um, but it is a really cool way that we can be like, oh, well what are you doing to support teachers? Actually, I just funded a project. Or you could share a project. Like even if you can't fund it yourself, maybe you can share a project that you think is really cool.

And if you are a teacher, even in the summer, which I know is when this. That's a perfect time to take a look and say like, okay, what do I need for my class this fall and get it funded and then you will just get like a massive box of things. I've had it a few [00:29:00] times where I got stuff funded before I started influencing.

Before I started doing all of this, I was able to get stuff funded, so it's not like you need a huge platform to get it funded. A lot of times you get stuff funded and it's. By people you don't know. A lot of times it's anonymous gifts, it's all of that. So, um, if you've never been on donors choose.org. If you have never funded anything on donors, choose.org.

They, a lot of times will also have like a little ticker of like, Hey, this is coming to the, like the wire and it only needs 10 more dollars to get funded. And you can just. Hop in there, fund something, buy someone like basically what would cost it, like a coffee or whatever, and have it funded, which is really, really cool.

So that's what I'm doing this week for Teacher Appreciation Week is I'm trying to highlight a couple donors, choose projects in my local community. Um, and on that same note, um, I am really, really trying to find ways to support teachers. And one of the ways I'm doing it is as I'm doing my live shows, I am getting.

The Amazon wishlist or donors choose list from teachers in the communities [00:30:00] where I'm performing. And so going into the shows that I have over the next month, which by the time this happens, my Kansas City shows and my San Diego show will have already happened. Um, but I do have a Philadelphia show coming up in July.

And then I've got, um, Arizona and, um, Irvine, California coming up in August and we've got these shows happening. And before the show, what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna put together, um, a slideshow of like five-ish teachers. So it's gonna be first come for serve, and it's gonna be, um, priority given to teachers who are coming to the show who, teachers who are in their first three years of teaching, who have a donors choose, or an Amazon wishlist that they need fulfilled.

And the slideshow before the show is going to be. Like, you know that A-S-P-C-A spot where it's like Sarah McLaughlin and she's talking and she's like talking about the sad puppies, but you guys are my sad are you guys are the sad puppies. And so I'm gonna have these first three-ish year teachers, new teachers, picture of them, a QR code to their thing.

So while people are [00:31:00] waiting for the show to start, they could potentially contribute, um, to a teacher in their local community. And then the days after those shows, I'm gonna be also sharing it on my Instagram. Stories so that people from the broader community could give to these teachers as well. And I do have to keep it to five teachers per show just because otherwise it, it, it's a bit much.

Um, but I am very, very excited about that and I'm always looking for ways to help support teachers, um, and love on you guys who are in the trenches and, you know, getting ready now for a brand new school year and all of that. Unless you're in Australia, because Australia has a different school. Summer than we do.

Their summer is cold and they're like working all summer. And I know I have some friends over in Australia that are like, we are not on our, so I love my Australian listeners, teachers and all of that. So, yeah, just a couple of different ways that I am trying to, um, work with you guys to help support teachers.

So keep an eye out for those. I do post it in my stories on Instagram as often as possible, [00:32:00] um, about my shows and the, um, what's it called, the Google form that I use to help collect all of that information. Also, um, if you would like to join our Patreon, I don't know why Patreon was a hard word for me to get to Patreon.

Um, we have the, those who can read book club with Denver and it is so much fun. We talk about all of the tea, we talk about the books that we're reading, and it is absolutely the best time. And we do a live, which is incredible. So please join that. It's $5 a month. So basically like, it's like, it's like we're getting coffee together once a month.

Okay, so you can go to patreon.com/those who can read, and if you have thoughts about this episode or resources or stories you wanna share with me, you can go to podcaster andrea.com. We've got the little voicemail section so you can tell me about the chaotic things that are happening in your classroom.

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