The Burned-In Teacher Podcast with Amber Harper

In this episode, Erin shares with us her journey through several experiences of trauma in her life. She’ll explain her own transition out of chaos and ways she’s taking control of her mental health through using tactics such as reflection, meditation, and self-advocating for her own mental health.

In this episode, Dr. Lori Desautels shares her experiences with working with students coming from traumatic backgrounds and educates us on the four parts of Educational Neuroscience. She’s also going to take us through several steps we can take to coregulate students who are becoming escalated in our classrooms as well as how to use those strategies for ourselves when we become dysregulated.

In this episode, Dr. Jones encourages you to engage in conversation with your administrator when you begin to feel overwhelmed by your workload, especially if you’re on the verge of going from burned and unbalanced to burned and over it, where you basically have lost your care about anything that’s happening at school or in your classroom.

In this episode, Dr. Jones shares his experiences with burnout as both a teacher and principal. His perspective on challenges with balance in both positions will help you to understand how you can take control of your stress, overwhelm, and burnout over all there is to do in the classroom.

In this episode, Jen Giffen, from The Shukes & Giff Podcast, shares her productivity tips and tools that she uses to keep all of her projects and notes straight as an educator. She also has a lot of wisdom to share about her struggle with teacher burnout and action steps she takes when it starts to creep into her life.

In this episode, two teachers from The Burned-In Teacher Small Group Program tell their stories of transformation. Each of them classified themselves as Burned and Unbalanced and struggled with their work-life balance as educators. Amber shares with you five steps she encouraged these teachers to take to begin to take control over their workload and go from Burned and Unbalanced to BURNED-IN Teach...

In this episode you get a dose of excitement and passion from Alison Schlotfeldt as she tells her story of burnout that she didn't even know she was struggling with. Alison offers hope for those teachers who are struggling with where they are on their own journey and encourages you to take the leap in order to find a tribe who can inspire you to grow every day!

In this episode, I talk with an elementary classroom teacher who was put on the fast track to administrator. Through much reflection on her transitions, Alison Forman learned that relationships must always precede initiatives and change in any school.

In this episode, Daniel "Sunshine" Baur, from Better Leaders, Better Schools Podcast, encourages us to ask gut check questions, walk a mile in other's shoes, and have a courageous conversation when faced with adversity between teachers and their administrators. If you're struggling with your relationship, or lack there of, with your administrator this is the episode for you.

In this episode, I interview my teacher bestie Rachael Givens. She shares her teaching journey, mistakes she's made, and lessons she's learned from them. Rachael and I also reflect together about teacher burnout and about our experience with our administration when we worked on the same grade-level team several years ago.

In this episode, Chris tells us his story of burnout, inspiration, and how finding your passion and your powersong can help you on those tough days as a teacher. He encourages us to power through one day at a time and tells us how, even when he found his passion in education, the change he was ready for didn't happen right away.

In this episode, Corey Knight inspires us to make a decision to step out of frustration with education technology and into expert mode. He tells us how he went from having his students stack their iPads on his desk, to learning how to teach them to use these devices to solve real problems and create solutions.

In this episode, Tom Mullaney shares his incredible journey of ups and downs in his education journey and how educational technology changed his mind when it came to expectations for himself and his students. His transformation from burned-out teacher to burned-in sharer will have you reflecting immediately about how you view your game-changing teaching ideas.

In this episode, Matt Miller, author and blogger of Ditch That Textbook and ditchthattextbook.com and I get real about burnout and how educational technology changed our careers. We chat about Matt's journey from burned-out Spanish teacher to author, blogger, presenter, and podcaster and how YOU can "Ditch That Burnout!"

In this action-packed, final episode of Season 1, I’m going to share with you how to make this the best year ever!  No more goal setting without intention. No more drifting through this life without purpose. This episode is a must-listen if you find yourself striving for more for yourself at the start of the new year but then are left wondering “What should I do to reach my goals?” From how to pic...

In this episode, you'll get an insider's view into Burned-In Teacher's Small Group Program. You'll meet Janelle, a teacher who started this program skeptical and wondering if this would be just 'another thing' on the long list of teacher 'to-dos'. The success and transformation you'll hear in this episode will prove to be true, what I've told you all along... YOU. ARE. IN. CONTROL!

In this episode, it's all about teacher burnout and the eight steps you can take starting today to beat that burnout! I go deep into the upcoming BURNED-IN Teacher events that are coming up, all in order to serve you and the thousands of teachers out there trying their hardest to be the happiest and most fulfilled human being they can possibly be.

In this episode, Gretchen and I discuss our experiences with becoming our own heroes and how we've found our own heroes, taken risks, and continued learning to get and stay BURNED-IN!

In this episode, Gretchen shares her many seasons of burnout and explains what she did in each season to help her to continue to grow as an educator. She also explains the steps in her career to counteract those flickers of burnout, such as "tiny bandaids".

In this episode, you meet Gretchen, my friends and fellow podcaster on her podcast called, Always a Lesson: Empowering Educators. We dive into how she and I met and have developed a fast friendship that extends farther than our love for being edupreneurs, teachers and teacher supporters, and podcasters. We dive deep into our experiences with PLNs, what they are, and how YOU can also create your ow...

On this episode, Brittany tells us about how she went from grading at home and being a grumpy girlfriend to setting rules for herself that allowed her to focus on self care. She also gives us a little insight on how important she feels it is to build strong relationships with her students and why she feels she needs to make a change for the sake of them.

On this episode, I go solo to tell you about the three types of burnout there are, not just for teachers, but anyone in the workforce. Using research I've done, I tell you how to identify your type of burnout and what you can do to begin taking steps to solve it.

On this episode, Katie shares with us her journey through three different districts and her desire for an employer who can offer her communication, respect, and continuity. She shares her experiences through a perspective of vulnerability and shares that if we've hit rock bottom, there's no place to go but up, so we might as well ask for help.

On this episode, Stephanie shares with us how a conversation with me, over a year ago, made her realize how unhappy she was in her then current place in her career. She began to seek out other opportunities for her and, although she admits that it was sca

On this episode, Bethany, a teacher of 25 years from Georgia, shares her journey in education that has included a lot of changes along the way. She shares with us a moment that she had to advocate for herself to higher admin and how right now she feels that she has a choice to make about her career.