This week’s episode has everything: brownies gone wrong, mice turning into classroom pets, and yes… the day I realized my car had become a rat maternity ward. (Don’t eat during that part, teacher besties.)

We kick things off with a student cruise that takes a very unexpected turn when a principal tries to “prove a point” with confiscated brownies. Spoiler: it backfired spectacularly. Then, a mouse runs straight into class and one student’s reaction is… let’s just say not what I would’ve done.

And to balance out the chaos, I sit down with Phil Januszewski, a high-energy youth speaker, about why awkwardness and failing forward might actually be the best gift we can give our students.

How a field trip brownie left an entire school board scrambling (and a principal very high).

Andrea’s most cursed car story yet: the discovery of a rat nest… placenta included.

Why Phil Januszewski says “embrace the awkward” is the secret to building student confidence.

Andrea reflects on how naive teachers (herself included) can be when kids are high right under our noses.

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