Self-Improvement EPISODES
Dec. 2, 2025
On the Road at the 2025 NJEA Convention
Hosts Joe and Jamie hit the road all the way to Atlantic City, New Jersey to the 2025 New Jersey Educators Association Convention. Speakers, teachers, leaders, companies and the one and only Malala Yousafzai were highlights of this year's NJEA convention and Joe and Jamie were there to cover all of…
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Nov. 25, 2025
We are Grateful, but not for Learned Helplessness in Students
Leaning into the gratitude of the season, our hosts play a fun game of Thanksgiving: Would you Rather. The hilarity of that is just a twist and turn onto the street of the newest learning challenge for teachers everywhere: learned helplessness in students.
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Nov. 18, 2025
Hey Jealousy - Four Day School Work Week with Courthey White
Listen as our hosts speak to four day school work week teacher Courtney White. Straight from the Dallas Fort Worth area of Texas, teacher sensation Courtney White shares all the benefits and positive outcomes she has encountered in her four day work week school district as a teacher and as a parent.
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Nov. 11, 2025
Parenting High School Seniors; Fall Update
Join Joe and Jamie as they talk about parenting high school seniors through the steps of visiting, applying, waiting and stressing. When our hosts went to college way back in the 1900’s paper and pen was the only option, but now there are codes and apps and portals too. Listen as they update their…
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Oct. 7, 2025
Educate and Rejuvenate with Kelsey Sorenson
Life coach, author, app creator, Club Creator, Kelsey Sorenson is flooding the conversation with hope, tools, smiles, stickers and all the brilliant things each teacher needs to not only be able to educate, but also remember to rejuvenate. Her monthly themes and teacher tips are brilliant as commu…
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Sept. 16, 2025
Is Social Media Ruining the Classroom?
Opening the school year can be a challenge even for the most seasoned teachers. Join our hosts as they discuss social media, handling daily schedule changes, classroom decorating, and interacting with their students each day.
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June 17, 2025
Part II with Dr. Noelle Santorelli, Relational Aggression and Mean Girl Moms
One session with doctor Noelle Santorelli was simply not enough, we needed a part II. Join our hosts Joe and Jamie as they talk to Dr. Noelle Santorelli about her research and work into the topic of relational aggression, and what it means for parenting styles, relationships, and systems within fam…
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June 10, 2025
Part I with Dr. Noelle Santorelli, Relational Aggression and Mean Girl Moms
Join our hosts Joe and Jamie as they talk to Dr. Noelle Santorelli about her research and work into the topic of relational aggression, and what it means for parenting styles, relationships, and systems within families and schools as people earnestly try to navigate this new way of dealing with eve…
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June 3, 2025
What is exhausting the teachers?
Teachers in this country are perpetually exhausted. But why?? Join our veteran host teachers with over 50 years of teaching experience between them to explore the reasons behind why teachers are so tired. Both in and out of the classroom, teachers are more tired than ever, but why? Our hosts have s…
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May 27, 2025
How much tech is too much? With Merve Lapus from Common Sense Media
Is this a tech “eat” tech world? Just how much tech is too much?Listen to our hosts discuss Ed Tech, social media and cell phones in schools, with Common Sense Media’s voice of reason, Merve Lapus. Lapus has a next level approach to how to parent and teach using tech, and some strong words of advic…
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May 6, 2025
What Makes a “Good” Parent? Even Kelly Clarkson doesn't know.
In today's society being a parent can be amongst the most difficult of all of life’s challenges. Raising children is not for the faint of heart, and Jamie and Joe discuss some of the issues facing parents these days that make them both say, I don’t get it! Being a good parent is everyone’s goal, bu…
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March 18, 2025
Believe’ment is Achievement with Ed DeShazer
Director Edward DeShazer joins us to discuss teacher well being, how to maintain boundaries and his latest book, Closing the Believe’ment Gap. His powerful belief in positive behaviors, teacher support and pouring it back into the teachers of America will inspire even the most critical cynic.
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