Is There a Right Way to Ruin a Bathroom?

Let’s just say this episode covers a lot of... ground. From one very misplaced turd to a student-inspired staple surgery, I walk you through what can only be described as a masterclass in middle school madness. We’re talking scorched Chromebooks, poop-related investigations, and yes, whether you stand or sit to wipe (it matters more than you think). I’ll also drop a killer free resource that could save your last month of school. So grab your scooters and your fire extinguisher—things get spicy.
Let’s just say this episode covers a lot of... ground. From one very misplaced turd to a student-inspired staple surgery, I walk you through what can only be described as a masterclass in middle school madness. We’re talking scorched Chromebooks, poop-related investigations, and yes, whether you stand or sit to wipe (it matters more than you think). I’ll also drop a killer free resource that could save your last month of school. So grab your scooters and your fire extinguisher—things get spicy.
Takeaways:
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A seventh-grade bathroom scene you’ll never forget (and wish you could).
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Andrea’s hot take on the sit-or-stand bathroom debate—marriage-shaking stuff.
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A surprisingly graphic lesson on staplers and adolescent brains.
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Why your students’ Chromebooks might be trying to kill themselves.
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A legit free classroom resource that actually excites kids and might save your sanity.
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Andrea: [00:00:00] Like, if you're gonna ruin a space in the school, why don't you ruin? I probably shouldn't encourage you to ruin any, don't ruin any, just as an established fact. Don't ruin any.
Hey, teacher besties. Welcome to How to Survive the Classroom. I had. The wildest weekend, and it was so unexpected. So my, our initial plan for this weekend was that we were gonna just do a soccer game on Saturday morning, and then we're gonna go back to the house and chill because we had forgotten that we had friends that were gonna be in town, um, in Indianapolis because, um, my husband went to Yale with a few people and, uh, a lot of them decided to do this, this bridge program that Butler University has.
Right. So graduate with your PA degree and then. For like another year of classes or whatever. You get a doctor of medical science, I think. So they're not an md, but they [00:01:00] have their doctorate, if you know what I'm like. So not an md, but a PA with a doctorate, if that makes sense. Um, and so she graduated from this program on Saturday morning, and so we were like, oh, okay, well, like maybe we'll just go down to the Children's Museum in Indianapolis, which.
If you have never been to any of the children's museums, cannot recommend highly enough if you have kids under the age of like 13. These museums are incredible. Everything is made to be like touched and played with and explored and it's so much fun. We have season passes and so we go pretty much anytime.
We have a friend that comes into town and our friend also has a 13-year-old and she has a 7-year-old. And so we went and it was so much fun. So now my kids have done. Soccer in the morning, and then we went to the children's museum. Either one of those would've just absolutely exhausted my kids, but we did both in one day and then we went to dinner.
And as we're sitting at dinner, my friend's daughter who is 13, was like, if you guys wanted to go out after this, you could go out and I could watch the kids at the hotel. And I'm like, [00:02:00] you know what? It would be kind of fun. And then I'm thinking, okay, well if we're going out though, then we should get a hotel here.
So we just spontaneously ended up getting a hotel on Saturday night and like. That's like a 20 something year old activity to do, like, but my kids now like, they don't need diapers. They don't need all of that stuff, and we only live an hour and a half away. So I'm like, okay, we can, we could be spontaneous, we can do this.
So we get the hotel that night. I get everything situated. Make sure like the foldout bed is ready for when we get back that night and all of that. And I get down to the lobby and my friend's husband looks at me and he is like, are you ready? And I was like, yeah, did you guys already call the Uber? And he's like, oh, we're not Ubering.
And I was like, what do you mean we're not Ubering? What are we, are we gonna walk? How close is this place? Because Indianapolis, like, it's not a huge city, but not everything is like super walkable, right? And I've also not spent an abundant amount of time in downtown Indianapolis, and they found this hotel that was right next.
To the canal, which apparently exists in Indianapolis. [00:03:00] Like they, there were gondolas, you guys, there's gondolas in Indianapolis, which I had no idea. And so I get down there and he's like, yeah, and we're not gonna Uber. I'm like, okay, are we gonna gondola? And he's like, no, we're gonna scooter. And I'm like, I what scooter do you mean?
Because I have been around Indianapolis and other big cities where I see people on these electric scooters, and every single time I see it. I, I don't mock them, but it's not, um, respect that I'm feeling when I see people happily scooting along. And so I'm like, we're not scooting. And he's like, oh, we, we are scooting and we go outside and we, there are four electric.
Lime scooters. I think Lime is the brand, um, like set up for us that he has selected and you basically just scan it with your app and then you scooter and it was. Unabashedly, [00:04:00] some of the most fun I've had, and I don't know how long. Like it turns out, if you're having enough fun, your dignity doesn't even matter anymore.
You just scooter. And we were scooting through downtown Indianapolis. We were five miles away from the location that we were head to because there's this other place in Indianapolis called The Garage, which I had never been to. And it is like a modern version of a mall food court where it's like this big warehouse style thing.
But there was like. 15 different tiny restaurants in there. And so you walk in there and they have all of this different ethnic food. And in Indiana it is very difficult to find ethnic food. So I was very excited about this. Um, and so we get there and there's all of this amazing food and there's a bar and like, it just had like such good energy and I'm like, how did I not know this was in Indianapolis?
And so we hung out there for a bit and then we ended up scooting to the next location. And as we were scooting. From the garage to a [00:05:00] speakeasy in one of the hotels there. We end up in an area of Indianapolis. That's not great. So we're pulling up all four of us, me and my husband, who by the way, I am near 40, my husband is 40.
This other couple, same situation, right? So people near late thirties, early forties, forties, scootering about in the, in the middle of the night in Indianapolis, and we pull up and. There was this spot where like the sidewalk ended and there was construction and then there was one lane for the roads. And so I'm like, okay, we're probably gonna be fine.
Right? And then we look over and there's like nowhere for us to go. And we look to the left and there's this like grassy knoll, if you will, and there's like 40 dudes all dressed similarly, standing there completely silently at night. Like, I'm not saying they were in a gang. But the energy of we're gonna do crimes was there, you know?
And so all of us scooters scoot up there and we like, [00:06:00] right? And we're standing there trying to figure out where to go. And I look to the left and all these dudes are just standing there staring at us, not speaking to each other. Not scooting on their own. Scoots like just staring at us and I was like, I feel like we are giving victim right now.
Like we need to get going. And so we found a different way. We like scooted across the street and got outta there. But it was so funny because I'm like, how embarrassing would that be to see in like the news that like, oh, educator Andrea, while scootering past like known gang territory. Got herself robbed like it was an experience.
So if you have ever thought you're too cool to scooter, I highly encourage you to find a friend that will peer pressure you into scooting because it is so much fun. Um, I. They go faster than you would think. They go like 15 miles an hour, I think is like the, the top speed. Um, and so I mean faster than [00:07:00] most people can run.
So I guess maybe if, if those people were doing crimes and tried to catch us, we might be able to scooter away maybe. Um, but it was incredibly fun. Highly recommend. It turns out. I am not too cool. A scooter, um, which should probably shock nobody. But I will say be careful because you do need to follow like traffic laws and stuff.
Because our locally in Terre Haute, there were some girls that got very, very hurt because they didn't follow a stop sign and then like an ambulance ended up hitting him. It's crazy. So, uh, follow traffic laws, but also if you want a scooter. Get out there and do, do some scootering. Um, and as I am wrapping up this semester for myself and for my students, I've been trying to get really good gifts for my kids' teachers.
So I brought them coffee and donuts this morning, but last week was actually teacher appreciation week here. And so I did get some gifts and I wanna know what you guys got from your students, and if you're a [00:08:00] parent yourself, like what did you get for the teachers that are working with your own kids?
Because I am always so nervous about getting gifts for these teachers because I don't wanna offend. But also I know who my children are and so I. Sent a little message and was like, Hey girl, do you drink wine? Because if you drink wine, I will bring you wine. Um, and one of the parent, one of the teachers does not drink and the other one does.
And so I basically put together like a self-care. I. Bag. So I got a book for each of them. I got them each a Yankee candle because I, I, I'm so basic. I love a Yankee candle, you know, it just makes me happy. Um, and then I got each of them a little bit of chocolate and I got them, oh, some face masks, some like good face masks.
So I got them like a little like self-care thing and then a gift card for the one who doesn't drink, and then a bottle of wine for the one that does. And so I put together the, that like little kit, because that's something that I think. I would really love, um, but I'm always looking for ideas and people are always [00:09:00] asking me online and stuff like, what should I get my kids' teacher for teacher appreciation week?
And that is what I like to give is that, or during Christmas, I will call the teachers and I'll send them a menu and I'll be like, can on Thursday I'm bringing lunch? Pick what you want and I'll bring them lunch. Um. Which honestly is a little bit easier and cheaper than trying to figure out like a specific gift.
If you've got like a high school student that has like seven teachers, it's a lot easier to buy lunch for seven teachers than it is to like come up with seven different gifts and it gets more expensive, I feel like, to buy seven different gifts than just to buy lunch for everybody. So just as an idea, if you're trying to figure out something good to get for your kids' teachers.
Alright, so now. I am so excited to hear what has been sent into me. So let's jump in to the first submission, um, from a.
Voicemail: So it's funny you should ask. I teach middle school and uh, this just happened today. One of our students, uh, a female [00:10:00] student was dress coded and she got a, a replacement shirt from our OCR person and we're like, okay, go change.
She's like, no, I'm not going in. We're like, just go in the bathroom and change. And she's like, I'm not going in there. If there's poop in there, I. Uh, we're like, yeah, it's a bathroom. That's where poop happens. And she's like, no, there's poop on the floor. I was like, what are you talking about? She's like, go look.
So I went in there and looked and sure enough, in the seventh and eighth grade girls' bathroom in the, um, handicap stall. Was a toilet full of feces and other female biological things that are gross. And then on the floor next to the toilet was a little turd, just a little [00:11:00] brown stick there. Like, I mean, and it wasn't a little It was, it was, yeah, it was a full turd, uh, on the bathroom floor.
I, I don't know how this happens, especially in middle school. Um, so that, and there have been other things, uh, that I have dealt with in my almost decade of teaching, but that I really think is the craziest thing. Um, and thank God it was not on my classroom floor.
Andrea: Ugh. That is. Incredibly fell. I, I, unfortunately, I get a lot of dms from people talking about either like.
Kids pooping on the floor like that, like just literally laying a turd right on the floor or doing poop art on the walls. Usually those I feel like are associated with like [00:12:00] younger grades. And I've also received a lot of messages from people being like, well, when it is like a younger kid that is doing that, sometimes associated with like abuse or trauma or something like that.
Um, but when it's middle school, especially in the cognitive level, is generally a little bit higher. Not a lot, but a little bit higher. I feel like it's a little rare to see that, but I've heard from other people that like someone will do like an upper decker. Do you guys remember that? Like where the kid will like remove the top, like cover for the water tank on the toilet and they'll poop up there and then everything is poop water from then on out.
Um. I feel like that is such a self-defeating thing, like if you're going to do some sort of chicanery, doing it in the bathroom is such a bad choice because. Everyone then can't go to the bathroom, including you. Like if you're gonna ruin a space in the school, why don't you ruin? I probably shouldn't encourage you to ruin any, don't ruin any, just as an established fact.[00:13:00]
Don't ruin any. But if you're gonna ruin some, don't make it the bathroom because everyone has to use the bathroom, including you, so you're destroying. An area that we all need. Ugh. I just, and then it always happens that when that happens, they have to shut down the bathroom sometimes for a long time.
Then they're doing a whole investigation, because a lot of these schools do have cameras on the outside of the bathroom. And so they'll figure out, okay, like these 17 students went to the bathroom, and you bring 'em all in and be like, was there poop on the floor? Was there poop on the floor? Until you figure out who says, uh, not until after I was there, you know, like none of 'em are actually gonna invent it because you can't.
Really prove it. But, uh, I never understand that mentality. But it does also remind me of this thing that I discovered. I don't know how many years ago it was, I feel like it was after my husband and I had started dating, and I don't know why this came up, but. There are two types of people when it comes to [00:14:00] how they wipe after they poop.
And there's the standards and the sitters and usually neither knows about the other group. And so like if you're a person who after you poop, you stay seated when you wipe, then like that is just how you've always done it. But there's the other group of people that stand up. Wouldn't they wipe their butts after they poop?
Um, and I always thought this was a learned behavior. Okay. Because I have always, I'm a sitter. I don't stand. I think that's insane to stand. And I married a stander. My dad is a stander. Sorry dad. I don't know if you're okay with me sharing that, but there it is. But my mom's not. And so I thought it was okay.
Well, maybe it's a guy girl thing. Nope. Nope. I think it's genetic because like I. I've taught my kids to stay seated. And I will say one is a standard and that's insane. That is insane behavior. And a lot of times those are just one of those [00:15:00] things, like you don't even realize the other half exists. And when you find it out, it like breaks your brain.
Um, but yeah, there you go. So ask the people that you love in your life, if they're standards or sitters, you might, it might kind of, um, change the way you look at them because it did for me. I'm not gonna lie. So if there's one thing you learned from today's podcast. Some people stand so weird. Bunch of freaks.
Alright. Not to shame you, but be shamed. Alright, let's listen to the next story that was sent in
Voicemail: my first year as an art teacher. Um, in in eighth grade class there was, uh, two boys that were standing in the back of the classroom and, um. The corner of my eye, I saw that they had a stapler, and the one friend before I could intervene was [00:16:00] opened the stapler and pretended to staple his friend.
In the next thing I knew, this friend comes up to me. And it had actually been done. He had staple flush with his skin in the leg. I didn't know what to do. I reported it to the principal saying that his friend stapled him in the leg, and they came up to me. Two periods later and admitted that he had stapled himself in the leg.
His friend had held it up to his leg and he had pushed it in happy first year teaching.
Andrea: I don't know very many teachers who've worked with like a high school. Or middle school who have not seen a kid staple themselves because there is just something magnetic about opening up the [00:17:00] stapler and going like that with it.
And I have had so many students who have stapled themselves, and sometimes it starts out like what she's describing, right? Where it's like, aha, wouldn't it be funny if I just stapled my hand and they'll like hit it on their hand, but just under where the actual. Staple comes out, and so they'll be doing that thinking it's so funny.
And then maybe they'll try it a couple times, you know, like they're like, I bet I could do it a couple times where the staple comes out and then it never fails that their friend is like, ha and like smacks it down. Um, it sounds like that was consensual stapling what happened with you. But I have had that happen multiple times before with my students, where I will have a kid that staples their hand.
I had one kid. Who did it. He didn't even open the stapler, which seems like a, a wilder, even though either way you're stapling yourself. But he put his hand in between, you know, where the, the stapler goes, and just kind of was like, kind of like lightly tapping it and then suddenly decided to like slam it down.
It. It [00:18:00] is such a beautiful illustration of a lack of a prefrontal cortex, you know, where you're just like, what are you doing? Because then they're bleeding and they're like, do you have a bandaid? And I'm like, stop bleeding in my classroom, you animals. Um, there were many times and there were times where I'm like, you can wait.
You can sit there and you can bleed until I am done with this part of the lesson. 'cause of course, it always happens when you're trying to explain a project and you know. You know that if you let them get up and bleed their way through the classroom, it's gonna be a huge disruption. And it's like, can you bleed quietly in the corner until I am ready, um, for you to get a bandaid?
Because even as a high school teacher, I always had bandaids in my classroom. Always, and by the end of the year they were always gone because of stupid stuff like that. Kids would do that or they would like do other weird things to cause themselves bodily harmed. Like, do you guys remember knuckles when we were in high school?
Like I don't know if kids are still doing knuckles or not. I feel like I've seen some of them, but it's a little bit rare. What I have seen recently and [00:19:00] heard recently a ton about is that kids are now sticking. Paperclips and other metal pieces into the charging ports of their laptops. And this has become so common that schools are having to shut down because when they do that, it creates smoke and potentially a fire.
And then schools have to shut down because the smoke that it creates is potentially toxic. And so I had on my, what are those kids doing on Fridays and stuff? I had at least a dozen teachers from all over the country telling me that their school or their class had to be evacuated because kids are sticking metal into the charging ports of their Chromebooks.
And it like, it's partially, they're saying it's a TikTok trend, right. I don't know that it's a TikTok trend. I feel like people talking about it is more of a TikTok trend. I feel like that happens all the time where they're like. There's this new TikTok trend where kids are just doing crimes, just doing the crimes, and it's a TikTok trend and I'm like, [00:20:00] is it though, or is it kids just hearing about other kids doing it?
I guess that maybe is what makes it the trend, but it's not like these trends are like kids going out there and being like, Hey, what if. Everyone today stuck metal into their charging port. Wouldn't that be the coolest trend of all time? It's Stu. Kids are stupid. Don't you remember when we used to choke each other out like you would hyperventilate and then you have your friend literally choke you and you pass out like.
What, why there was no TikTok then. It was just stupidity and it spreads like wild fire when your prefrontal cortex isn't developed yet. It's so dumb and I like, I even saw a couple of news articles that were talking about like, I mean, it's good they're not doing it with their phones because their phones could blow up and I'm like, don't.
Give them ideas like whatcha doing. And like I had actually some schools had to delay their testing because so many kids had managed to damage and destroy their Chromebooks, that they didn't have enough Chromebooks to go around so that kids could [00:21:00] not do their standardized testing. And like had that been a coordinated effort to somehow.
Not have the standardized testing, I could almost get behind it. We probably shouldn't do arson in in our, you know, statements, but that's not what it is. They just wanna see if they can get outta doing class for a little bit. And it only takes one. It takes one kid who's like, ah. Maybe we should just do fire today and stick metal into outlets.
Like at what, at what point did we all decide that that was a good idea? Because people keep on being like, and some people were like, it was my kid. They were like my child. I got a call from my kid's school that they stuck a paperclip in the charging port of their Chromebook. So now I get to go to the school and I'm like, you should tell your kid to stop doing arson.
That's not good. A arson is not good. Um, but I don't know if they're actually charging these kids or how they're gonna do it other than to charge them for a new Chromebook. 'cause obviously when you intentionally [00:22:00] destroy school property like that, I would assume they're gonna be like, yeah, that's gonna be 200 bucks my guy.
So we'll see. How all that works out. Hopefully that's something that dies over the summer because right now as I'm recording this, it's like last month of school. So it makes sense. Like if there was gonna be a time for arson, it does make sense that it's the last month of the school year, at least here in the States.
Um, but I'm hoping that over the summer kids will like, forget about it a little bit and move on. And maybe go back to like the cakes. You guys remember the, sorry for yapping cakes like. That was a good trend and that actually did feel like a trend because that was kids posting about bringing cakes to their teachers that said, sorry for yapping, so maybe that will come back or some other.
Food-based treat delivery that apologizes to teachers. That would be a lovely trend to see reemerge, but I absolutely am really excited about one of the resources, another free resource I found for you guys, and I cannot wait to share it with you and we'll get to it right after this break.[00:23:00]
Welcome back, teacher besties. All right, so like I told you guys, I'm really trying to find resources that are free and really fun and co like save you time and resources that are gonna bring students in. And so one of the resources I found is from National Geographic and they do digital field trips and their live streams.
So I'm just gonna read to you some of the things that they're doing. So there's a girl named Bowman. Ooh, I don't wanna mess up her last name, Adam Chick. I. So, for example, she has one on May 22nd, which obviously by the time this comes out this will have already happened. But this will give you an idea, um, on May 22nd at 10:00 AM Eastern time.
So perfect. Right during the the school day, she is going to be talking about her recent expedition to Santorini Greece, an active volcano, volcano in the Mediterranean Sea, and how she hopes to better understand how to predict explosive [00:24:00] volcanic eruptions in the future. So. I love this because it takes something like, okay guys, we're gonna learn about volcanoes.
And it shows how that turns into a job, right? That this girl actually was in Santer, Greece and she was doing all of this different stuff to look at the way that this volcano was erupting so that they could look at it in the future. And they have a bunch of those different events with her. And they have have different ocean ones and science ones and I just, I love the idea that you could have an event that is gonna be a live streamed event with somebody who's in this field already and is like exploring and.
It's also not just a digital thing, it's also not prerecorded. Because I think what we see a lot of times is like, for something like this, you might show a YouTube video, which isn't necessarily wrong, right? Like you could find a way to make that really fun. But the idea that we, you could watch a live stream with a scientist and she's exploring and she's talking about all of the different things that she's doing, and you compare that [00:25:00] with your existing unit on volcanoes, like how.
Fun is that because kids love volcanoes? It does not matter what age it is. Like everyone has that memory of the science fair where you would do like the, what is it, the vinegar and baking. Soda. Baking soda. Yeah, baking soda. Volcanic eruption, right? Like that is like a cannon event in early, like third or fourth grade science.
We even had that at my son. My son had his birthday at the Children's Museum in Terre Haute, and part of the birthday party was, they did a volcano display and so they did. They brought out like the whole. Like baking soda and vinegar and did a volcano eruption for the birthday party and stuff like that.
So to take that and to bridge it with what it could look like if you're gonna be an adult in that world, I think is really, really exciting. Um, they also have different educational resources that are prerecorded. So they have live ones and then they have ones that are prerecorded. So you could pair it with [00:26:00] something that maybe is a little bit more like on, what's the word?
My brain just like literally shut down. It's, you know, it's summer for me, so, whew. Um, it, it could pair with wherever your pacing guide is, right? So because they, it is live, you're not necessarily going to have the volcano unit happen when she's doing the live volcano stuff. So maybe instead you wanna just do a search and see, okay, what has been prerecorded?
And they have different resources that are associated with that. So they have articles and they have maps, and they have videos, and they have all of that stuff. And it's. Right. So you know that the quality is gonna be really incredible. Um, and it's just, I, I get really excited when you can see. Different ways that people that are already in these fields are trying to reach out to the next generation and bridge that gap.
One of the biggest challenges for math and science teachers, um, especially math teachers a lot of times, is explaining how this math is going to translate into the real world. With English, I feel like we have a little bit easier of a [00:27:00] get because you do have to read a lot of stuff as an adult. But you can kind of bridge a lot easier if you can point to it and you can say, Hey, look at this person who's doing such a, like that that woman was working in Santorini, Greece, working with volcanoes like that is how she's using that math and science.
So you can point so directly and say like, Hey, that is the project. And then you could even pair it with project-based learning where you could have them look at some of the data and take that data and use the equations that you're learning and wrap that all together using something that shows like, Hey, this is.
Is how people are using it in the real world. And I love that kind of stuff. Stuff that makes it feel more present and more real. And a lot of times, like with my students who are getting ready to go through the licensure process, a lot of times the requirements for their final project, which I hate their final project so much, but for their final project, they have to explain how all of these things that they're learning are relating for those kids into the real world.
And that has to be part of [00:28:00] their instructions and part of their lesson plan is okay. Here's what we're learning, here's how it relates to the real world. And so this could be a part of that, of bridging that gap between here's the theoretical learning and here's real, real life. Um, also when I was on the website, I saw that they're coming out with a National Geographic Museum of Exploration, which is opening in 2026, which I am delighted by.
Um, I. Did not use to like museums just in general. Like I, maybe it's my A DHD, maybe it's whatever, but a lot of times I can do about two hours at a museum and then I'm like, alright, let's, let's put a button on this thing and wrap it up. Um, but going to mu seeing how museums have changed and become more interactive, it actually does make me really excited.
To, to go to some of these museums and Nat Geo does things really, really well and does it in really immersive ways. So I am really excited about that one. It's gonna be opening up in the heart of Washington DC and there's a [00:29:00] bajillion museums in DC so when you're there, it's hard to like say like, oh, I'm definitely gonna go to that one.
'cause then you get there and you're like, well, I gotta go to the Smithsonians and I gotta go to fill in the blank. Other ones. So when you go to dc, if you're going in 2026 or you live in that area, just add that to the list of one of the ones that you definitely wanna visit, because it sounds super fun and Museum of Exploration, like, come on, that sounds.
Incredible. Um, so just a couple of things for you to look at and just on the Nat Geo website in general, they have a whole Learn with Us section. They have a, a professional connection and learning one for teachers and experiential learning. One where kids can do virtual field trips and I love a virtual field trip.
Obviously you need your kids to not. Electrocute themselves by sticking paperclips into their charging ports and starting fires in order to do those. But if your kids haven't discovered that fun little trend, maybe a fun little virtual field trip while you guys are studying an area of the world could be something you guys could do.
Um, because I do, I, [00:30:00] I love a free resource and I love when we can kind of immerse our students in really exciting ways into, you know, the world around them and the world beyond their door. Because I know, especially when I taught. The super rural school, I had a lot of students who had never been outside of Virginia, much less outside of the country.
So it's always good when we can kind of give them a peek of what's out there in the world around them. Um, this has been so fun. Thank you guys for hanging out with me and letting me share with you about my scootering adventure and all of the cool things that are out there for you. Um. Outside of the classroom and in the classroom.
If you have thoughts about what we talked about today, um, or you have resources that you wanna share with the rest of the class, you can hit us up, andrea@humancontent.com or at Educator Andrea on TikTok and Facebook. Or you can contact the whole Human Content Podcast family at Human Content pods. And if you wanted to be hanging out and reading a book with us, I would love that.
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