Jan. 5, 2026

Why Class Sizes Are the Real Crisis No One Is Fixing

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Why Class Sizes Are the Real Crisis No One Is Fixing

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Teacher besties… this episode I’m talking about hosting nearly 30 people for Thanksgiving (including a self-appointed “Director of Thanksgiving”), discovering my husband’s family may have some intense World War II memorabilia, and the moment I suddenly had to ask, “Was he… on the right side?”

And then, because the universe wasn’t done with me, we dive into a student who shotgunned a seltzer in the middle of a lesson like he was training for a frat he cannot legally join yet… and another student who thought it would be hilarious to make his teacher’s mom his Chromebook wallpaper.

Plus, I’m climbing onto a hill that I know is going to get me fired up, because if we don’t fix class sizes in education, nothing else even matters.

PRE-ORDER MY NEW BOOK (OUT MAY 5, 2026)!!! — https://bit.ly/43BquPd

Teacher besties… this episode I’m talking about hosting nearly 30 people for Thanksgiving (including a self-appointed “Director of Thanksgiving”), discovering my husband’s family may have some intense World War II memorabilia, and the moment I suddenly had to ask, “Was he… on the right side?”

And then, because the universe wasn’t done with me, we dive into a student who shotgunned a seltzer in the middle of a lesson like he was training for a frat he cannot legally join yet… and another student who thought it would be hilarious to make his teacher’s mom his Chromebook wallpaper.

Plus, I’m climbing onto a hill that I know is going to get me fired up, because if we don’t fix class sizes in education, nothing else even matters.

Takeaways:

  • The unexpected family “heirloom” that made me question everything I knew about my husband’s family tree.

  • The seventh grader who cracked open a seltzer like he was at a tailgate… during a lesson on industrialization.

  • Why I now fully believe middle schoolers work for the FBI.

  • A brain break resource that turns even high-schoolers into unhinged backup dancers.

  • The one education issue that will ruin every reform effort until we actually address it.

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Voicemail: [00:00:00] A student stands up, cracks a seltzer, and shotguns the seltzer can. I was silent for a good couple seconds and my first thought was. Wow. He is way too good at that.

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Hey, teacher besties. Welcome to How to Survive the Classroom. Guys, I, I know you're not listening to this around Thanksgiving, but probably still like in the wake or preparing for holidays and I just had my Thanksgiving dinner hosting for almost 30 people. I think I had said 40 before. We had a couple people that than came up, and so it ended up being like 26 people in my house.

Um, and among those, I think only three or four were kids, so it was mostly adults. And I, this is the first big Thanksgiving that I have hosted, and I had a lot of people that were like, Andrea, are you gonna be stressed about it? And I'm like, bestie. First of all, I'm used to teaching 40 people at once how to write a paragraph, so why would I be stressed about just giving them food?

My daughter was stressed because again, she has. She named herself, director of Thanksgiving. Um, and I was like, that's not a job, actually. No one, no one. But if you wanna be sure. Yeah. Um, and I was not stressed, but every single day going up to it, she's like, do we have our list? Um, do [00:02:00] we have everything we need?

What if they don't like it? And I said, if they don't like it, I mean this with my whole heart. That's their problem, not ours. Like, let them not like us, let them not, and then they don't have to come next year. That's fine. Um, but it went so, so well. Even the director of Thanksgiving appreciated how well it went.

Um. You guys, oh my gosh. The, the best thing to me about doing Thanksgiving with like extended family, because we had like my husband's second cousin there, we had some aunts and uncles and his parents were there and all of that. Right. My favorite thing is finding out like weird family lore, and there were two big things that I found out about that kind of blew my mind.

So the first thing that I found out about was when I was chatting with my husband's cousin, and she's a little bit older than us. You know, she's, I don't wanna guess on her age, but I do know that she is older than us old enough that she told us that in the late nineties she was living in Michigan. Her [00:03:00] best friend and her were like obsessed with Eminem, like obsessed with him.

She said that she wrote him letters like. Like love letters and stuff like that. And then on top of that, she also said that there was one day that she and her friend when they were in Detroit, they got in her friend's car and they drove around Detroit looking for eight mile to try and find the trailer park that Eminem had lived in.

But she doesn't call him Eminem, she calls him Marshall. Um, and she's like, yeah, no, I looked for him. We tried to find it. Unfortunately we didn't. And I was like, sorry, you guys were like driving around these, which are like notoriously not good areas, right? Like isn't that how he got his start? Is that like he talks about kind of the riskier areas that he lived in and lived in this trailer park and all of that, and you two little white girls were just like pulling up, rolling down the window being like, excuse me, excuse me.

Can you point me to eight mile please? [00:04:00] And she's like, yes. That's exactly what I did and we could not find it unfortunately, which I've heard it actually is kind of well. So I don't know why she wasn't able to find it, but it absolutely cracked me up because you know, when you see like family members and stuff that are like retired and they've moved on like from like have like, I don't know, like the parenting responsibilities and all of that, you do forget a little bit that like they were once like 25 and stupid just like the rest of us.

And you know, we're trolling around Detroit looking for Marshall Mathers. Um. So that was number one. One of the ones that like, kind of blew my mind and I just, I'm obsessed with her. I think she's so funny. Um, the other thing that blew my mind is one of, one of my husband's aunts came and she's like, Hey, your great uncle who passed years ago, um, I have this nap sack of his, here you go.

And she plopped it on the counter and we opened it. And it was World War II memorabilia from when he fought in [00:05:00] the war. And it wasn't just like memorabilia. It looked like it. It was the knapsack. He never unpacked after getting back like it was the literal backpack he had on when he fought. Um, for the US, just so we're all on the same page.

And I specify that because when we opened it, one of the first things that came out was a Nazi armband and an eagle pin. And, you know, my husband's family really loves German heritage just in general. And um, I was like, um, hey, so this great uncle, he fought. For, and they're like the US And I was like, okay, well I needed to know if this was like war trophies or if this was like his uniform.

And they were like, no, Andrea. And I was like, that's crazy. And so like there was a Nazi armband and an eagle pin, like the Nazi eagle pin. Um, but then there was also like his field notebook. And within the pages of the field notebook, it had like notes about like shipments and dates and stuff like that.

And we saw some [00:06:00] letters. Newspaper clippings from home. And um, one of my favorite things was like, as soon as we opened it, like a bunch of pinup girl pieces of paper, like fell out from the field notebook and all of the, all of the pinup girls were blonde and busty. And I was like, man, those fork of men, they have a type, they have a type for over a hundred years now.

They, they are out here having a type. Um, but it was just, honestly, it was so fascinating and I've never seen. Memorabilia, um, from World War II that wasn't in a museum that wasn't like behind glass or on a TV show or something like that. And it was just honestly just so stunning to all of a sudden have all of this family history and all of that.

And I, I sent the pictures like my family and I told them about this guy who fought, um, in World War ii. All of that. My dad, immediately I set the picture of everything, right? Like the, the armbands and all of that. My dad was like, oh my gosh, you guys have to put that in a shadow box. And I was like, [00:07:00] Ooh, you know what?

Um, I gotta say as much as, as we are, are proud of the work he did, I don't think we're gonna put anything swastika in our house up. Um, we are, however, looking at the possibility there is a, in Terre Haute. Um, there is a Holocaust museum and because there was a Holocaust survivor who moved to Terre Haute afterwards and she started a museum.

Um, and there's actually a whole documentary about her, um, that is out there and, um. There's a bunch of like really rich history in this area about, um, some Holocaust survivors who moved here and made their lives. She actually only died, I wanna say, like 10 years ago or so. Um, so we're gonna look into the possibility of maybe the armband and PIN could, uh, be lent to the museum for a while, um, just because it feels like, you know, the right, the right place for it.

Um, but yeah, it was just, it was one of those things that like my hu oh, [00:08:00] and one of the other things, his service. Gun, like was there like his pistol, um, was also in the bag and a flare gun and all of the paperwork that he had to have in order to take it across the borders and get it back into the us Also, that like.

When you get like spoils of war, you have a specific, I don't know if they still do this. I would, I, I would guess not, but because he had the armband and the pin and all of that, like spoils of war in that way, you had to kind of declare it, um, when you brought it back and all of that. I just thought it was fascinating.

Um, and it just puts more of like a human element on like, oh, like this guy came back and he had a family and like. Had he not come back and had a family then like, I wouldn't be here with my husband because, you know, it just, it was, it was really, really fascinating. Um, and one of those things that, it was so funny 'cause his aunt just like kind of tossed it on the table and we were like.

Oh, what's this? And then we open it and it was just like this insane, mind blowing [00:09:00] historical treasure trove. And it's one of those things too, where like my husband is like such a historian and loves history and I, I have grown to love history. I would say when I was growing up I didn't, but now I really do.

Um, especially since I, I lived in Germany for a year right after I graduated high school and stuff like that. And it just, it's all so fascinating. So that was my Thanksgiving. Um. We also fried a Turkey, uh, and did not blow anything up, which is great. And we also roasted a Turkey and it was so typical.

Guys, this just pisses me off. Lemme tell you. I spent IB brined the Turkey. I roasted it, it was beautiful. It was perfect. My husband unwrapped the Turkey that he was deep frying. I was the one who was like, I need you to start the oil. I need you to do this. I like, I made, I, I really like set, I, I ordered the oil, I ordered the, the pot, I did all of the things right.

And he was the guy who dipped. He measured everything ahead of time, so nothing burned down. And then he was the one who dipped the Turkey in, and then he and I are cutting up the turkeys at the same time, [00:10:00] and I'm cutting up the roasted Turkey in one corner of the kitchen. He's cutting up the fried Turkey in another corner, and he has a crowd of like 12 people watching him.

Like elbowing to see him cut this Turkey open. And I was like, well, it's a good thing there's only one Turkey for everybody to watch getting cut open right now. And everyone was like, ha, ha ha. And then went right back to watching him. I was like, okay, great. Like, thank you Steven, founder of the Feast. Um, just freaking typical man.

So, so typical. Uh, so yeah, so that's, that's how my holidays have gone so far. But it was so much fun. And it's so funny 'cause I was talking to my kids about it afterwards because, um, you know, the director of Thanksgiving, we had to like. Discuss how it went and my daughter was like, I don't even remember what we did the last Thanksgiving.

And I was like, well, it was just us. We just made a bunch of food and we sat down and we ate. And she said, oh, well that's really boring. I was like, got it. Okay. We like having all the people and the energy and all of that, so I hope you guys are also having wonderful family moments and all of that as we celebrate the [00:11:00] holiday season.

Um, alright, let's listen to some fan voicemails. 

Voicemail: So when I was completing the solo weeks for my student teaching, uh, it was for seventh graders, uh, for a master's arts and teaching secondary ed. And I was doing a unit around the industrial revolution and the students were doing a research project. So I was teaching students, uh, how to do research.

I was providing some instruction. On how I wanted them to analyze sources. And as I'm providing some direct instruction, a student stands up, cracks a seltzer, and shotguns the seltzer can. Uh, I was silent for a good couple seconds and my first thought was, wow. He is way too good at that. Um, so. After, [00:12:00] uh, a long pause.

I finally was like, why'd you do that? And he was like, I don't know. Uh, so I was like, well, one, you shouldn't have done that because that was super distracting to all your peers. And then he was like, well, am I in trouble? And I was like, I don't know, because. There's nothing written in school policy about shotgunning seltzer cans.

So after class, I pulled him aside and I was like, Hey. I was like, again, super distracting for your peers. Shouldn't have done that. Um, but I don't know if it's against the rules, so I'm just gonna like, have a chat with the counselor and I'll get back to you about whether or not you're in trouble. Uh, and he was like, okay.

Andrea: Oh my gosh. I think that's the thing that like. When I say that we are not trained for everything that we deal with in the classroom, like what do you even do? Because it's not like a lot of times kids are doing it to [00:13:00] be malicious. It's like their prefrontal cortex is essentially non-existent, and so they don't have anything stopping them when they have that impulse of like, I should stand up and shotgun this seltzer right now.

First of all. Ow because seltzer is like spicy, you know, like shotgunning, any kind of soda I feel like would be a little painful. But in particular, it reminds me of that scene, uh, from Elf where he chugs that giant thing of soda and then has that gigantic burp that, that feels like what it would be, right?

That he would just like shotgun a seltzer and then burp a lot or have like really bad gastrointestinal distress. I would think. Um, my. Response, I think would be to tell them to step outside in the, in the hallway and be like, so that way the, the rest of the kids knew that they couldn't just shotgun a seltzer in the midst of class because.

He is right. Like there's not technically any rules, but it absolutely is a disruption. So I'd probably [00:14:00] send him out because I would, honestly, I genuinely would probably think it's very funny. Um, and the chaos of that, I would, I would, it would tickle me, unfortunately. And so I would have to remove them from the class so that I could get myself together so I could be stern.

Um, and then I would be like, Hey, bestie. Um, so we can't be doing that. As impressive as that was. And it really depends also on like, what is our relationship with this kid? Because if this kid is a jerk, right? Because there are some kids that will do something like that and they're doing it because they're a douche bag and because they wanna say, all I did was drink my drink and she wrote me up for it, right?

And so if that's, if it's that kid, the conversation will look different as opposed to like the kid with no prefrontal cortex, that's like, I don't know, I just thought it would be funny if I shotgunned it and they just did it. Right. Um. But if it's, if it's the first kid that hates me and is trying to mess with me, I'd probably have the conversation of like, Hey, hey bud.

Uh, listen, you're a leader in this class. You know, I really need your help to, to lead us in the right way. [00:15:00] And that was super disruptive. I know you were just drinking your drink and I get that, but like, we can't be doing that in the midst of class, blah, blah, blah. If it was like the big goofball one, I would probably go out and be like, that was impressive.

First of all, congratulations on your skills. Um, second of all, never do that again. Uh, ever and just kind of leave it at that because depending on what the motive was for the behavior, I feel like that is the biggest deciding thing with how I handle the situation. Uh, 'cause I've had both, right? I've had kids that are like, screw you.

I'm gonna be as annoying as I possibly can be to you. And I've had other kids that are just like big. Dumb babies who are not thinking about what they're doing and they do it, and then they're like, I don't know. I thought it was funny. Right. And it's kind of hard to tell what it was. Um, it, it might have been a little bit of both with this kid since you were in your.

Like, you're kind of like in between time where you're like solo teaching, but you're still a student teacher and they're like, I don't know. What is he gonna do? You know? Um, it was really fun for me when all of my students came back from their field [00:16:00] experience because it felt like I had been spending all of the months before they went into their field experience, um, into middle schools, practicing teaching.

It felt like I was telling them all these different scenarios, and I think some of them thought I was exaggerating and then they got there. And into their field experience and they learned I very much was not exaggerating anything. And I mean I, some of my students saw kids get in fights with like resource officers.

Some of my students started working with kids that were expelled by the end of their six weeks field experience. Um, and then some of them were with like, really well-mannered, well-behaved, motivated students, and that's just like, that's how it shakes out. Sometimes your first period is a bunch of angels and your second period makes you wanna quit every single day for an entire year.

That's just how it rolls. And um, sometimes it's a little bit of both and sometimes they switch. I've had that happen where like, it started out in the year and like everything was great. Everybody was like chill and we were vibing and then like. Two weeks into the semester, a [00:17:00] kid who maybe was asleep the entire first period woke up and completely changed the personality of the class.

So yeah, you kind of have to adjust based on, uh, what the, the vibes are of the class. And by the way, I do have a lot of the different things I talked about here in my book. Um, they never taught us that. And I talk about the different steps that I take, not only for how I handle it in the moment, but also how I document it and how I might communicate with the parents.

The. Um, counseling office and the administrators and all the documentation stuff. Um, and I have like documentation templates and stuff as well because we need to write it down as a CYA every single time. So just lock that away, keep that one locked away for you. Um, and if you haven't gotten my book yet, it's available for pre-order, so do it.

Um, on Amazon. I'm Barnes and Noble and all those places. Alright, let's go ahead and listen to the second voice memo. 

Voicemail: Hey, what's your friend Gabe Danen Bring, Hey, uh, I got a funny story for you. So in my class. What my students will do, like, [00:18:00] um, they, well, I should back up. So I, how my students put their Chromebooks in courtesy mode when I'm talking, which means they just turn their Chromebooks away from them.

So they were kind of doing this little bit lately where they put their background as me. They pull a picture off the internet like, ha ha so funny. It's Mr. Chambering. Oh yeah. It's so many pictures. Okay. Um, I've had a couple students, well just. Really just one. He thought it was really funny when, uh, I asked him to do this yesterday, put his Chromebook in courtesy mode.

And I, as I looked at his screen, all of a sudden I realized that his background was a picture of my mother. It was a picture of my mom was his background. I said, yo, bro, what's up with that? That's crazy. So he said, oh, I'll change it. So he changed it. You know what? He changed it to a picture of my dad.

What? Fbi? Where'd you get those pictures? So it's kind of funny also, hope you're doing well. Take care. Congrats on the book, by the way. That's awesome. 

Andrea: Aw. Gabe is the best guys. Um, Gabe Daning, also a teacher, content [00:19:00] creator. I've had him on the podcast before. Um, so you guys can all go back and listen to his episode as well.

Um, I love that so much. 'cause the, I remember when I was in high school, we did that to a bunch of the teachers, me and all my friends. We went and found old yearbooks. And instead of like turning it on a Chromebook, 'cause obviously back in my day we didn't have Chromebooks and so we went to, first of all, the first place we went is if there was any of the teachers who used to attend our school.

'cause the school had been around for like 60 years. We would find the oldest school yearbook photo we could find of them as a child and like print it and below it up and then hide it around the school. Particularly in their classroom, somewhere where they would discover it in the midst of class. If we had like a pull down projector screen, we would like put it on there.

So they would be like, pull down the projector screen and there would be like a picture of them from eighth grade. Um, or if we didn't have that, we would go into the yearbooks and we would find like their first year teaching picture. Um, and we would blow that up [00:20:00] and hide it in various places. Just, you know, because.

Tormenting teachers is really fun if you're in high school. And it was mostly innocent fun, right? Like we weren't really picking on any of the teachers that we didn't like. Which Gabe, obviously your students adore you, so that's also so impressive. How did he find pictures of your parents? Um. I feel like that's something that I would have had students do quite a bit.

Um, like they would find pictures of me and they would make it their screensaver on their phone. And so I would come around and be like, turn your phone off. And they'd be like, okay. And they'd like click it and then it would just be like a picture of me, like zoomed in from one of my videos and a really unflattering thing.

And I'm like, please change that. They're like, no, I don't think I can. I'm like, I hate you so much. Like, it's so funny because kids have access to so much more than we did in high school, but like the vibes are the same. You know, like just trolling your teacher with photos of them or their family members or anything like that, I think is.[00:21:00] 

It's part of, uh, being a student is like, you know what's funny is the fact our teachers are humans outside of this classroom. That's wild, insane behavior. Like, I can't believe it. Can you believe that they existed before? Period four started. That's insane. Um, so I love that. And uh, yeah, if you guys haven't checked out Gabe's stuff, he's on TikTok and Instagram as well.

Um, middle school science teacher and his stuff is very, very fun. So make sure you go check that out. Um, and speaking about checking stuff out, I have some fun resources for you, um, especially for my elementary teachers. I have a resource that you guys probably are aware of, but if you aren't, I wanna make sure that we pull up on this so we will be right back.

Have you ever wondered what I would say if my mother and my administrators weren't watching every single thing I do on social media? Well, that's exactly what my standup show is, and I'm gonna be coming to a town near you super soon. You can get tickets@educatorandrea.com slash tickets. [00:22:00] Welcome back, teacher besties.

Okay, so I know I am probably so far behind on this, um, but now I feel like is the time, especially since we are. Far enough from the pandemic. We have teachers that are entering the classroom for the first time, um, and maybe are unaware of the magic that is Go Noodle. Go Noodle. And Go Noodle is, um, a web series that is a bunch of adults that are, um, like basically singing different themed songs that are.

Like mixed in with dance movements. So essentially it's mostly for elementary school teachers to use as like, Hey, let's use a brain break. Everyone, we're gonna get up, we're gonna do a little dance. And sometimes the songs are about mindfulness, sometimes the songs are about reading. Um, but it's all like a dance thing to get kids physically moving throughout the day.[00:23:00] 

Um. And I love that. I think that especially it's great for indoor recess days, it's great for kids that need the reminder about the mindfulness, especially for our neurodivergent kids that's sitting for long periods of time in particular, can get them really bogged down. Um, I think I've talked about this before, but I had, when I was out for my daughters, after I had my daughter and I had a long-term sub for my maternity leave, my long-term sub was actually in school at the time to become an elementary teacher.

And I was teaching high school ninth, 10th, and 11th grade, and because this teacher was in school to become an elementary teacher, she taught all of the students go noodle dances. And so when I came back, they all really missed getting to the Go Noodle dances that they did when the long-term sub was there.

And I was like, I think you guys are making this up. And they're like, no, put it on. And I was like, okay. And so we pulled up a song on YouTube, a Go Noodle dance, and they all got up. Every [00:24:00] single person in this class got up and did this go noodle dance in class. So although it is mostly. For elementary school students, you might be able to get, especially if it's a class that's physical, like if we're looking at like PE, drama, something like that, music, like if there's something that you can somehow get it in, I think it would be very, very fun.

Um, they also kind of coordinate it with different themes. So like I said, they have the mindfulness one. Um, they have oh, the places you'll go, they have, um, like different themes based on like Nintendo and all, like, just lots and lots of stuff. So. Highly recommend Go Noodle. It's free, it's online. You can go on there.

They're all like three-ish minutes, like a minute and a half to three minutes. So you're not taking up a bunch of time. But it is a really good way of getting your kids to kind of get some wiggles out and get a little bit of movement. Um, and I mean, a lot of times what I would do if I was noticing I was yapping too much in class, I would be like, okay guys, I need you to get up.

Put your arms up, put your arms down, [00:25:00] twist, twist, sit down. You know, like, because we need it, right? Like we need to move in order for our brains to work. Which is why I think it's ironic that professional development, we're always sitting and doing nothing for long periods of time. Um, so yeah. So that is my resource for you guys today is go noodle.

Um, all right, now time for the hill. I want to die on, I mean, I don't wanna die on it, but the hill I'll die on. Um, is that. If we do not fix the class size problem, all the other things we're trying to fix are not gonna work. If we do not fix the class size problem. All the other things we're trying to fix are not gonna work.

Um, one of the most consistent things that we see in studies in every single school that have been to is that you. Can't out plan massive class sizes because we know that feedback is important. We know that relationships are important, but we also know that human relationships and the human brain, like we're finite, [00:26:00] right?

So I, for example, at the last school I was at, I had 40 students in most, an average of like 40 students. And so I had five classes a day. So I had 200 students that I saw every single day. Um, I would've loved. To build a very personal relationship with each one of them. Know their, their thoughts, their hopes, their dreams, their struggles, all of that.

I would've loved to give each and every single one of them direct feedback every single day about every single thing that they could do to fix what they're doing that is not possible with class sizes of 40 people. We know that studies say that kids need feedback. We know that studies say that relationships are important, and yet every single time that schools are looking at how to cut costs, they make their class sizes bigger.

That is an unacceptable solution that is not going to work. Okay. We cannot keep trying to cut corners when it comes to class sizes, when we know that the science, the research, everything has said that that is always going to help. Having [00:27:00] small class sizes is always going to help. I'm not saying we have 10 kids in a class, but we shouldn't have 40, that's for sure.

And the difference between having 20 kids in a class and 30 is massive. If we capped our classes at 20. Which we could, right? You could have a mandate. We could say that the class sizes need to be 20 to one or less if it's elementary, because whoa, that job is insane. Um, but we, we need to do more. And unfortunately, what I'm seeing with a lot of schools is that what they're doing to try and say that we don't have these unmanageable large class sizes is that they're taking a special education class and a general education class, both of which have like.

Around 20 kids in it, and because they are trying to say, oh, you know what? We have too few in the special education class. Now there's only 15, so we're gonna make it a class of 35. We're gonna put those teachers together. So there's two teachers for 35 that doesn't fix anything because you still have 35 kids and 35 needs in your class.

It makes it all harder for everyone, for the kids, with all of the different special [00:28:00] needs and the kids that are in a standard track, it doesn't fix it if we just sm smush them all in and just add another adult. That's not the solution. Um, so that's the hill I'm gonna die on and it's a research back hill so you can fight me on it.

So if you have thoughts about what we talked about today, um, you can contact me at Educator Andrea, or you can email me andrea@humancontent.com. You can also contact the whole Human Content Podcast. Family at Human Content pods and thank you so much for those of you guys who have left reviews. I so appreciate it.

Um, if you wanna check out where I'm gonna be, where I'm gonna be doing shows I, this spring am gonna be booking both book tour dates and show dates, and I'm trying to get everywhere. Um, I am trying to get all over the country, so please DM me and let me know if you want me to come to your city, because right now is when I'm trying to get all of that worked out.

Um, and I really wanna come and meet people. I've had a lot of people request signed books and we're still trying to figure out how we can do that online. But I'll definitely be able to do it at my shows, at [00:29:00] the book signing events and all of that. Um, so make sure to DM me and request your city if that is something that you would like to see.

I'm gonna be doing, uh, lots of comedy shows in addition to the book signings. Um, but I'm also going to be doing the teacher's lounge shows as well. So check and see if I'm gonna be in your city for any of those. Um, the book comes out in May. The physical copies will actually be in stores, so that's when the actual book tour will start.

That's when I will be starting to actually do signings and all of that good stuff. Um, so keep a lookout, but you can always pre-order your book wherever you get books. Um, and that's it for this week, I think. Oh, fully full video episodes up every single week on YouTube at educator, Andrea. Thank you so much for listening.

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