What Are We Talking About?

Holy Hair! We made it! Hard to believe we've reached the end of Season 3, but it's been a journey! In our final episode of the season before taking our summer break, we break down some of the events of the year and a share a few stories with the upcoming end of school. We so appreciate your continued support and contributions to our show to help make it all possible. Thanks for listening a...

We made it to June, people! With the year winding down, it's hard to keep focus on anything, but we do our best to ramble through this episode, focusing on senior events, graduation, and of course, "Things Kids Say." Please reach out with any corrections, suggestions, feedback or criticisms - we welcome it all! Here's to the beginning feeling that summer is right around the corne...

It's Memorial Day and it's the last Monday of May! We thank you so much for joining us today on a potential day off! Per usual, we are a little all over the place with our content, but hopefully there's something in there you'll find entertaining! With just a few more episodes to go in the season, we're feeling both the pressure and fatigue of the school year as it comes to the close. As always, w...

Happy belated Mother's Day and welcome to our "nickels" (get it, because it's 5-5??) episode of What Are We Talking About?! Today, we finally break down our April "holiday" and share some stories, while going back to our faithful bit of "Things Kids Say." It's hard to believe we're already about half way through May, but we're here for it and so happy to have you with us. Please don't hesitate to...

Welcome back from April break, as we enter the final stretch of the school year before the ultimate break: summer! Today, we put our talks about April vacation on hold, but instead discuss the effects of music, some differences between phrases, and breakdown our new bad boy image! As our third season enters its final stages, we appreciate any help with continuing to grow as a podcast through shari...

Thanks so much for listening to another episode of What Are We Talking About! Today, we recap the "little prom," share some experiences from the classroom and beyond, and of course, delve into deep and philosophical discussions! For those that will have April "holiday" next week, we hope you have a restful, fun, and enjoyable time; for those that do not, we also hope you have a...

Hello once again and welcome to another FABULOUS episode of What Are We Talking About?! Today we discuss the Bill's recent win at trivia, the MCAS, some books, and of course, other random things along the way. As always, we appreciate your continued support and would love to hear from you after the show: tell us what we did wrong, what we did right, thoughts on a topic, or just a simple hello....

Happy St. Patrick's Day EVE! Today we talk a little bit about the holiday, some of the recent events that have been going on for us around school, prom, and a few more examples of "things kids say (and do)." We're 51 episodes deep and continuing to love our bi-weekly chats and stories. That being said, let us know if there are any topics you'd like us to cover or think would...

Episode 50! Holy smokes!! We're so excited, thrilled, and even surprised that we've made it to 50 episodes. We so appreciate the support and love we've received over the last couple of years as we fumbled through the process. Today, we had a lot of fun playing another game with each other, as we drafted administrators, teachers and students from various films and television shows to ma...

Happy February Break! Sorry for the late posting, but better late than never! Today, we truly fight through the episode trying to figure out, "what are we talking about?" We touch upon "Things Kids Say," "Collective Nouns" and of course, a whole bunch of nonsense. If you're on vacation, we hope you're enjoying every bit of it. If you're not, we're happy to provide a break from the hustle and bustl...

Happy Groundhog Day! We're hoping that Punxsutawney Phil does NOT see his shadow today, but in the meantime, we're talking nonsense per usual. We need a lot of help with deciphering what kids say, fact checking, and a few other questions that you might be able to help us out with, so please, comment, get involved help us begin to understand what we are talking about! Congrats to all the te...

Happy MLK Day! Hard to believe we're closing in on the 90 day mark of the school year. Today, on this snowy day, we dive deep and discuss the Night School experience and compare and contrast that to every day schooling. We also find another game to play: where did the food originate? As we approach the midway point of the school year, we hope that you've been finding success and thus far and appre...

Happy New Year and welcome back from hopefully a relaxing and recharging winter break! Today, we share some stories from over break, along with a few that we ran out of time to tell last time, and play a new game called "Spoon or Fork." We're so excited to kick off another year and hopefully continue to spread some joy, or at least offer a break from the chaos of life through our pod...

We are thrilled to have another guest on the show today - "The Vizual Killah," Mr. Dan Correia! Dan went from full-time classroom teacher to a part-time classroom teacher and curriculum coordinator administrator. We chat with him and compare some of his experiences with our own in the educational world. As always, thanks so much for joining us. Please share, subscribe, follow, and commen...

Happy Thanksgiving! We are so very excited to have our good friend and FULL TIME TEACHER, Zack (Zakk? Zac?) Botelho join us today. Although we do face a few minutes of a technical issues with the mics, we discuss the co-teaching model, good teaching practices, and learn more about Bill's strange behavior in the school's common kitchen area! We are so grateful to all of our listeners and to our co-...

First and foremost, Happy Veteran's Day (tomorrow) and thank you to all of our Veteran listeners and beyond for your commitment, dedication and service! Today, we continue to talk about food, as well as a very grim situation that we're currently facing at school. Please continue to reach out, comment, like, subscribe, share, and anything else you can do to help us grow and improve as a podcast. Th...

Happy Halloween, everyone! Despite the spooky season and other scary events taking place, we are hopeful that we can bring some joy to your day with today's episode! Today, we bring up some "old faithful" topics, such as AI, Dungeons & Dragons, and movie talk, but with a new twist to each! So, sit back and enjoy - we can't fully articulate how much we appreciate you listening...

Happy Indigenous People's Day! We are very excited to have ADMINISTRATOR Ryan Morgan on the show today! Ryan works at an alternative recovery program in cooperation with various districts, so hearing his perspective on what education looks like for him is truly fascinating. As we say each episode, please don't hesitate to reach out, comment, share, like, or challenge anything about the sho...

Hey hey - we're back for another episode as we cruise through the first month of school. Today we repeatedly come back to the idea of common curtesies in both the field of education and life in general. As we've said, we always love to hear from you, so please don't hesitate to comment, share, like, suggest, or correct. We're happy to bring your thoughts and ideas to the forefront....

Hey hey - back for another episode as we reach the midway point of September! Today we cover a wide range of topics, including human etiquette, books, lunch choices, and even a potential conspiracy! We do have a question of the week today, so pay attention for that and please let us know what your thoughts are and, as always, if we misspeak about anything! We're so happy to be back and we full...

We're baaaccckkk! So excited for Season 3 of the podcast - hard to believe that summer is over (for us teachers) and that we're back to school. Today, Bill and Brian talk about the first week back, along with some stories of Bill's wild summer up in the backwoods of Maine! As always, we appreciate your support, feedback and comment, so please don't hesitate to reach out and let us...

Congratulations to all the teachers out there as we enter the home stretch of the school year! Today, we talk about our end of the year, reflecting back on some of the highs and lows of the year, while making sure to get in our fill of nonsense! Though this may be the last episode of the school year, it won't be the final episode of the year! We plan to get together over the summer to put a sh...

It's already Memorial Day and we hope that you've taken some time to reflect, mourn, and appreciate the many who have served and sacrificed their lives for all of us! Today, we talk a little bit about the end of the (school) year and what that means for us in the classroom, as well as get into some of Bill's unique book choices. We're in disbelief that this is the second to last ep...

Happy belated Mother's Day and Teacher Appreciation Week! Once again, we share an assortment of random, but somewhat topical discussions. Vacations, dress codes, pet peeves, and national educational class sizes are all covered! We only have few episodes left before the end of the school year, so if there's a topic you'd like us to converse about or, more likely, hear a mistake, call us out! Hit us...

Welcome back from April break, everyone! We are finally in the home stretch of the school year, with just mere weeks remaining! Today, we discuss some teaching practices in terms of student/teacher rapport, assessments, and typing fonts! We appreciate your continued support and always look forward to your feedback, both constructive and critical! Please help us grow by spreading the word. #twoteac...