The Burned-In Teacher Podcast with Amber Harper

In this episode, I get down to the nitty gritty of my personal struggle with burnout over the last few months and how I've used my own BURNED-IN Process to get out of it. I will also walk you through what it means to Nurture Your Strengths as Step 4 of the process.

In this episode, classroom teacher and author Michelle Gano shares her experiences with teacher burnout and how one day she realized that in order to rise above the burnout, she would need to change her perspective from focusing on the negative to looking beyond the clouds to find the positive in each day.

In this episode Erin Roberts, a Special Education teacher from Florida, takes us through her journey from crying at her dinner table to asking for what she needed to help her through her daily challenges in her career.

In this episode, Vicki lets us in on challenges she's faced in her career from being overextended, dealing with cell phones in the classroom and deciding not to measure her value against what she sees on Social Media or what people believe to be true about how public speakers should look in order to be on stage plus much, much more. 

This episode is all about reflection and then action. Your journey out of burnout starts with deciding that you refuse to sit inside of your challenges and that you are capable and worthy of finding solutions, so you can move on to a happier and more fulfilled life. However, in order to act, you first have to get clear one what's truly challenging you and why. That's what today's episode is all ab...

Alexis Shepherd  is an 8th-year teacher who has experience in both the elementary and middle-level setting. Experience with burn out early in her career led to the creation of The AfroEducator, where she arrives to empower teachers to challenge the good teacher narrative. Alexis attributes a lot of her transformation to reading Angela Watson's  Unshakeable: 20 Ways to Enjoy Teaching Every Day...No...

Elizabeth MacDonald is an author and communication skills advisor. Her company is The Verbal Edge.

Lisa, a 1:1 client of mine, shares her story. Episode takeaways: Pay attention to what you’re spending your money on - is it something that is going to help YOU to help your students better, and not only that, but it it going to cost you hours of preparation when you’re already feeling behind and unorganized. Are you telling yourself the lies that you’re not good enough, that you SHOULD be better...

How do people describe you? What do they think of when they think of you? That's your brand. So today’s episode is actually ALL ABOUT YOU, ALL ABOUT YOUR BRAND. You might say, “Amber… a brand is a shoe or a bag of cereal.”

In this episode, Gretchen Bridgers shares five strategies to take some control of your profession and really make it as an educator in today's world. Gretchen is an elementary educator turned teacher coach and trainer. She specializes in instructional strategy implementation for all levels of educators and has a soft spot in her heart for new teachers. Gretchen is the host of the  Always A Lesson...

In this episode, Christina Gawedzinski,  a therapist with a history of working with teachers and students, shares with us her personal journey out of burnout and offers important steps we can take to begin to address our feelings and thoughts about our careers and our future as we Begin Where We Are .

In this episode, Danielle Nuhfer shares her journey from burned-out teacher to Certified Mindfulness Instructor and how her struggle with stress, anxiety, and overwhelm led her to having to make a decision about her career in education, either quit teaching or take control.

Today, we’re talking about how to get out of burnout by starting with  beginning where you are.  This episode is all about how to break out of burnout so you can go into this school year free of burnout.  As we spend time with each other moving forward in this season, both the school season and the season of this podcast, you’ll be able to take actionable steps against your specific type of burnou...

In this *BONUS* Summer Self-Care Series episode, Sarah Kaminski shares with us how she went from overwhelmed, under-confident teacher to creative, self-loving BURNED-IN Teacher. She tells her story of transformation during her weeks of involvement with The BURNED-IN Teacher Small Group program and how what she learned has changed her mindset, goals, teaching and leadership style. 

In this episode of The Summer Self-Care Series, Stephanie DeLussey shares her story of being diagnosed with anxiety and how she has decided to cope with it. Her unconventional way of taking control over her anxiety will inspire you not only to take control over your struggles with burnout and anxiety, but will help you to personalize your strategies.

In this fourth episode of The Summer Self-Care Series, teachers from The Burned-In Teacher Facebook Community Jennifer Werry, Jennifer Miller, and Kinsey Zellerhoff tell their stories of teacher burnout and how their triumph over it came down to this fact: You can’t take care of others, if you don’t take care of yourself first. They share what works for them and how they make time for self-care ev...

In this third episode of The Summer Self-Care Series, Danna Thomas, creator of Happy Teacher Revolution talks all things self-care, setting boundaries, and her own struggle with creating both in her own teaching life. She also shares with us her mission to create a true revolution of happy teachers who can lead happy classrooms and happy lives. 

In this second episode of The Summer Self-Care Series, Dr. Nate Lowe shares his transformation from success ladder-climber to teacher of true rest. He takes us through the four rhythms of rest that he teaches to other professionals to help them combat exhaustion, overwhelm, and burnout. 

In this episode, I'll walk you through the three steps you can take this summer to go from burned-out teacher to BURNED-IN human! No fluff here, just actionable advice and steps you can take to take control of your teacher burnout, so you never have to live a life of teacher misery in your classroom again.

In this episode, Dan shares with us his struggle with feeling ineffective as he tried to teach students who weren’t engaged and were going out of their way to ‘school’ him. He tells his Cinderella story of transformation as he realized his passion for Flipped Learning and how he’s turned from the sage on the stage to the guide on the side in his classroom.

In this episode, Dr. Elmore shares with us what he notices when he can feel a season of burnout coming and his exact strategies for tackling the symptoms and causes. He also describes, in detail, three shifts we can make in our thinking about classroom management to better serve our students and to help them to grow as leaders.

In this episode, Burned-In Teacher Facebook Members, Sarah and Alexandra, and I discuss all things classroom and behavior management and how difficult it can be to support some students in today’s classroom. Sarah and Alexandra share situations they’re currently dealing with and what they’re doing to support their students, but also what they’re doing to support themselves and to create a culture...

In this episode we review what we’ve heard from our teachers and experts this month about trauma in our and our students' lives and I share how I'm using the Serenity Prayer to tackle some drama in my own life. We also dive into what drama sounds like on social media and in real life and ways that you can be strong and vulnerable, and therefore, have the serenity to accept the things you can't cha...

In this episode, James shares how he’s used his experience as a classroom teacher to support his wife, who is a first year teacher in an urban Charter school, dealing with many of the struggles that "burned out" teachers all over the U.S. are challenged by. He shares his perspective of what partners of teachers should know and can do in order to support the teachers in their life to prevent them f...

In this episode, Elena shares with us her own story of burnout as a teacher and then shares ways that we can foster resilience and fulfillment in our lives after experiencing trauma and/or burnout in our career.