BS in Education

Learning Objective: Keep heads above water 

Mrs. B and Mrs. W have both been attempting to do the job of two women (or five mediocre men who probably make more money) and they’re barely staying afloat. Both are dealing with budget cuts and neither knows how they’ll make it to the summer. 

Episode 110: Emergency Hire Teachers Do Just as Well 

Learning Objective: We’re just writing these for our admins 

Mrs. W has an exciting new job and Mrs. B is in charge of an upcoming pep rally and both of them are pooped! 

Learning Objective: Holiday Catch Up 

Mrs. B and Mrs. W bond over their love of white trash casseroles and finding friends you don’t have to clean for. Find out what Mrs. W got for Christmas and how you can make your very own cough-drop tea. 

Learning Objective: Let’s Talk About Project Follow Through

Mrs. B is a hunting widow for the next 8 weeks. Mrs. W’s reading articles and getting stuff done. We talk about quite a few articles all linked below. 

Learning Objective: An overview of hotel, rides and food at Universal Studios Orlando. 

Mrs. B and Mrs. W are teachers, and no one deserves a vacation more than teachers! In this episode we deviate from our usual teaching talk and review the rides, hotel and food of Universal Studios Orlando. 

Mrs. B and Mrs. W stayed at the Loews Portofino Bay. Some of the rides and restaurants reviewed include Hagrid's Magical Creatures Motorbike Adventure, The Velocicoaster, Fast and Furious Supercharged, ET Adventure Ride, Mythos, Bice and much more. 

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Learning Objective: Entertain Mr. Hat!

Listen to find out how Apple is trying to ruin lives. You can also find out what article NOT to waste your NYT freebies on. 

Learning Objective: Find out who runs the best schools. 

Mrs. B and Mrs. W have some major BS this week. They also discuss who runs the best schools in the US, plus a call from Mr. Hat! 

Learning Objective: Have an awesome time

Mrs. B and Mrs. W record IN THE SAME ROOM from different places in Universal Studios. 

We hope you enjoy!

Learning Objective: Help Plan our Universal Trip 

Mrs. W shares some embarrassing first day stuff and a hypothetical moral conundrum, and Mrs. B has a new student teacher. And they’d both like you to help plan their trip to Universal Studios at the end of the week!

Learning Objective: Interview with Jeffrey T. Facebook 

This week Mrs. W and Mrs. B discuss a number of articles about the insanity that is happening in TX along with an interview with Jeffrey T. Facebook. He went to elementary school, so he’s pretty sure he’s qualified to teach it. 

Learning Objective: Try to solve the mystery of the disappearing summer. 

This week Mrs. B gives us some parenting tips on how to best brainwash your child with multiplication tables. Mrs. W takes you on a wild ride in her 3am brain. 

Learning Objective: 100 teaching(ish) topics 

We made it all the way to episode 100. This week Mrs. B and Mrs. W roll through 100 life altering teaching topics. 

Learning Objective: Congratulations Mr. H!

This week Ms. W and Ms. B make plans for their old lady summer camp. They talk about boob squashing, wedding charades and explaining tricky lyrics to one of the kids. 

What we’re reading

Learning Objective: Let's hear about that last week!

Mr. Silly Socks stopped by to tell us about a playground encounter. Mrs. B is all done with school and Mrs. W just wrapped her play. 

What we’re reading

Learning Objective: This week we talk about how to deal with disrespect in the classroom.  Someone’s got ants in their backpack and someone’s district thinks they don’t know how to fill out a google form. 

Learning Objective: Flipping the Classroom 

Learning Objective: Almost testing season!

A lot of stuff has happened in the last four weeks and we’re here to tell you all about it.

Learning Objective: Using volunteers in the classroom

This week Mrs. B and Mrs. W talk about using volunteers in the classroom. They also have some great book recommendations for you!

Learning Objective: Time Management

Hear all about our adventures in Mexico and poor time management skills.

Learning Objective: How do you tattle on your boss?

This week Mrs. B will dazzle you with her knowledge of animal poops and Mrs. W give you the deets on her NEW cheap landlord.

Learning Objective: What do you prioritize?

Mrs. B and Mrs. W catch up, and chat about their classroom priorities in the last weeks before the semester wraps.

Learning Objective: How movement can improve learning

This week Mrs. B and Mrs. W chat about their Thanksgiving plans, rejoice that they have stretchy jeans and discuss ways you can use movement in your classroom to survive the next three weeks.

Learning Objective: New “Three R’s”

This week Mrs. B and Mrs. W catch up, talk about some teaching triumphs and a little bit of BS.

I'm too tired to write the show notes. 

Learning Objective: Discuss the news of the day

Mrs. B and Mrs. W are back again. Mrs. B went viral and Mrs. W got a new do that she hates. Lots of other fun stuff in this episode.

Learning Objective: Discuss the newest trend: banning books

This week Mrs. B and Mrs. W discuss an article that’s going to get your britches in a twist. Mrs. W is tiktok famous and Mrs. B wants to hunt a sasquatch.

Learning Objective: Reminisce about our time as students.

***There was a weird 2 min break in the middle of the episode so I'm re-uploading***

This week we look back on the days of banging together erasers and pulling kids teeth.  Enjoy!

Learning Objective: Teachers Who Teach Teachers 

We kick it off with some butthole talk, then Fun Food Friday's and eventually our learning objective. 

Stuff we talked about!

Learning Objective: How to do LESS

This week the gal’s discuss how to do less during the school year while still being an effective teacher.

Objective: Summer Catch Up

Mrs. B and Mrs. W haven’t talked in a MONTH. This week you’ll hear about European adventures as well as Mrs. B’s desert walk about.

Objective: Keep this Mr. H train rollin’

In this episode we continue our interview with Mr. H. We also chat about our ambitious goals for the rest of the summer.

Objective: Continue our Super Sized Summer Episodes with Mr H.

This week will feature part one of a two part episode with Mr. H. If you want to hear what we’re talking about you’ll just have to listen!

What we’re reading

Objective: Talking Private Schools with Ms. L!

This week we catch up with the lovely Ms. L. We talk about restorative circles, accountability and common pitfalls of private schools. We also talk about lots of other silly sh*t.

What we’re reading

Objective: End of the Year wrap up

Mrs. W and Mrs. B talk about wrapping up the end of their school years. Mrs. W is looking for a new place to live and Mrs. B is wondering what she’s going to do with those 19 boxes of books she had to bring home.

Objective: Talk about some recent headlines in education.

Mrs. B and Mrs. W talk about some recent headlines that deal with education. 

We also did an instagram poll asking what kind of song from W and Silly Sock’s band you want to hear. It was a tie between pop-punk cover and musical theatre—so we compromised with a pop-punk cover of a song from Moana. I only had a copy from rehearsal, so I definitely fudge the lyrics!

Objective: Catch up with recent news on education.

This week Mrs. B and Mrs. W talk about some recent news in education. Mrs. W reads some excerpts from a recent student paper Mrs. B succumbs to peer pressure.

All those articles we referenced!

Objective: Discuss Gangster Capitalism and familial scandals.

This week Mrs. W tells a bananas story that has nothing to do with education. Mrs. B has HAD it. And of course, we discuss our objective.

Objective: Testing Season!

Mrs. B and Mrs. W talk about their spring breaks, testing season and much more. This week you’ve got some homework!

Homework! Listen to This American Life  Ep. 764 (School’s Out Forever) and American Gangsters

Objective: Does anyone actually read these descriptions?

Mrs. W is suffering from a musical hangover and Mrs. B is just trying to keep it together until Spring Break.

Objective: Increasing resilience in students

Objective: Who even knows anymore.

Mrs. B and I talk about a LOT of stuff that I promised to link in the show notes—but here I am at 8:07pm the Sunday night before I upload this and I just don’t have it in me to look up all that stuff.

SO if we mentioned something and you want to know where it to find it just shoot us an email or send us a message on instagram and we’ll tell you where to find it!

Objective: Dissect this Parents Bill of Rights

Mrs. B and Mrs. W read through some a proposed bill that proposes a parents bill of rights. Spoiler alert it doesn’t make things any easier for teachers.

Learning Objective: Speak Mrs. D, our favorite LPC

This week Mrs. W and Mrs. B talk with their favorite Licensed Professional Counselor Mrs. D. The three discuss anxiety, depression, ADD–and more importantly what to do when there’s a bear attack.