Just like some great hardcore...we gotta keep it posi! That means we have find those micro moments that make our day better! Mike and Josh share the micro moments that help them get through rough days and tough weeks!

Being an educator is challenging. We never feel we have enough time. So what can leaders do to give more time and what can we do with that time if we get it?

Conviction, drive, and passion make great punk rock. They also make a for creating a educational mission.

On this episode Josh and Mike talk about what they do when they are in this low point of the school year and what they do to inspire them as educators to bust through and turn the February Funk into the February Punk!

On this episode, Josh and Mike discuss their successes and struggles during the first semester of the school year.

On this episode, Mike and Josh explore creating a risk-taking schools and classrooms.

In this episode, Josh and Mike discuss how this year has knocked them down a couple times and how they are working at getting back up each time.

Punk had fliers, zines, and message boards to get the word out to the punk community. What do we have as educators and what are we doing to make sure we connect with our families and larger communities?

On this episode, Josh and Mike get emo and discuss emotional intelligence and psychological safety. How we recognize our own emotions and the emotions of other is an incredibly important part of working with students as an educator.

Josh and Mike are wrapping up their first quarter of the 20-21 school year and they wanted to take a moment to share where they are at.

On this Punk Rock Reflection, Mike dives into work life balance and setting personal boundaries. We don’t need to be available 24/7 and we shouldn’t be.

We are all coming to school, all of us, with stress, fears, worries, and the world on our shoulders. How we react to our students, our colleagues, and if you are a school leader, your staff, matters.

School is like a band. It’s not a solo act. When we come together, when we bring our students into the planning, when we bring our staff into the decision making, when we work as one…we can make amazing music.

Season three kicks off this week with Josh and Mike sitting down to chat about their goals for this school year and how the beginning of the year has started for them both. Josh is starting a brand new role at different school and Mike is working on building back culture after COVID.

Mike and Josh asked the crew one simple question. What is one thing you would change about education? To kick off our summer conversation series, we answer this question and then share some of what our crew had to say on twitter.

Just like a bands take the time between tours to write albums and get better, we as educators can do the same thing. Mike and Josh share what they want to do over the summer to improve their practice professionally and what they plan on doing to improve themselves personally.

Josh's school year is all over and Mike is wrapping up his in just over a week. What do the punks think about wrapping up this year?

We are stoked to have joined the Teach Better Podcast Network and we thought we would go back and explore what Punk Rock Classrooms means to us an this first episode for the network!

Since it's everyone favorite time of year...state testing time (you can just feel the sarcasm), Josh and Mike sit down to talk about them.

Josh asks Mike when he knew it was time to make the transition from classroom teacher to building leader and then the punks talk tips for interviews and what not to do.