Teaching comes will many challenges and it can become easy to dwell on the parts of the job that bring us down. To bring focus back, Natalie and Christine share why they love teaching.

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Natalie and Christine talk about the relationship between schools and their surrounding communities.  

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Natalie and Christine talk about why teachers are going on strike.  Hint: it's not just about salary complaints.

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Christine and Natalie talk more about A.N. Whitehead's "The Rhythm of Education" and student engagement.  Are we working with or against students' psychological needs? What does engagement look like? Is it possible to accomplish anything in 7th grade?

Final topic: One piece of advice for new teachers.

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Natalie and Christine talk about student engagement: how much is really in the teacher's control, and is teaching a performance art?

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Christine and Natalie talk about school supplies: who's buying them, and who should be buying them.  The word we could not think of was "consumable."

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Christine and Natalie share a little bit about their philosophies on teaching and their paths into to the teaching profession.

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