The Balancing Act

Our hosts are back in action and ready to focus on the new year ahead. Listen for their words of the year and how they plan to put these words to good use in 2024. Jamie and Joe discuss the modern learner and how to attempt to adapt their classrooms to what students seem to need in their everyday struggles to learn efficiently and effectively.  How do teachers keep up with the modern learners' need for instant information and their never ending need to fill an enormous metal water bottle?

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Join us as we excitedly talk to Nick Ferroni, a teacher advocate working at Union High in Union, New Jersey. Nick was gracious enough to meet with us for a cup of coffee and talk about our favorite topic: teachers. Nick is working with various news outlets to highlight the positive influence of teachers as he advocates for his peers. As a teacher for over 20 years himself, he believes in order to support students we must all support their teachers.

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Jamie and Joe are singing their way towards the New Year with a lighthearted walk through their Christmas favorites. Join the Balancing Act podcast hosts as they share a holiday Would You Rather, discuss their opinions about Snow Days, and recount their personal “peach and pit” of 2023. Warning ahead: Merriment and lightheartedness are coming your way as the pod hosts wish you all a very happy and healthy New Year ahead.

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Join us as we take the pod on the road with our first live recording at EdCamp NJ. Our early November morning began with amazing guests who shared with us their first hand experiences in the field of education. Listen as they share how they lean on their fellow teachers not just for pedagogical support but emotional support as well.  Proudly in its tenth year at New Brunswick High School, EdCamp NJ generously hosted our very first, but certainly not last, live-audience-participation recording. 

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It’s time to talk about A.I. Uh oh? Or hurry up, and let’s go? An interview with Dr. Tyler Tarver Dr. Tyler Tarver joins us to talk about Artificial Intelligence in the classroom. Dr. Tarver is an enthusiastic educator with background and experience in preschool through college level and his expertise will spark the curiosity of even the most skeptical educator. Listen as we follow Dr. Tarver down the rabbit hole into the fascinating space of AI. You’re not too late, for our very important date… with Dr. Tyler Tarver.

Be sure to check out www.TarverAcademy.com for free resources and helpful information for your classroom. Also, check out joining up for the Honor Roll which will provide you even more trainings and materials!

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This week we discuss what it's like to parent your children while parenting your parents. Join us as we discuss our very personal experiences as members of a very difficult club as members of “the sandwich generation.”  We will lean into a very sensitive topic as we share our personal trials and tribulations as two of the many people in our age group that are trying to navigate this new and very emotional part of our personal lives.

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Our hosts would like to wish a very Happy Halloween to all of our listeners who celebrate this spooky day inside of and outside of their classrooms. Whether you love or hate this day, it turns up each year to flip the little ones in our lives inside out and upside down as their sugar filled bellies take them to new heights in our homes and classrooms.  Join us as we discuss our favorite halloween memories, our top rated candy choices, along with some tricks and treats for all who dare to listen. 

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On our first Youtube episode we welcome Ann Dolin, the President of Educational Connections, an online tutoring company that pairs students and their parents with coaches that offer guidance with executive functioning, college preparedness and subject specific help. Our hosts discuss the challenges students face with organization within the online spaces of school, as well as tips Ms.Dolin recommends to parents and teachers as they try to prepare children with the necessary tools for middle school, high school and college.

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This week our hosts discuss how to handle the ever growing to do list as the school year unfolds and explore how to manage a full to overflowing plate of expectations and responsibilities. Whether it is learning to say no, or leaning on a friend or co worker as an accountability partner, listen as they explore the ever steady need to complete tasks and manage home life all while juggling the day to day realities of teaching at the opening of a new school year.

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Our hosts return to discuss back to school madness and just how to manage all of the craziness that is involved in getting yourself and your family through the month of September. Tips and best practices are the topic for this newest episode of The Balancing Act. From climbing the daily mountain of laundry, or prepping your classroom dinners at home, Joe and Jamie are ready to talk Back to School tips, tricks, and how they tackle keeping those plates spinning in the air!

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