You know that look teachers give each other in the hallway? The one that says everything without saying a word? That's what this show is. Homeroom Attendance is the podcast for educators who are done with the watered-down professional development and ready for real talk about what it actually takes to show up, lead well, and build a culture that doesn't burn people out. Every episode, host Edward DeShazer brings lived experience, practical tools, and honest conversation straight to the teacher…
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When does your school year actually begin? Before you say the first day of school — think harder. Because the first 30 days aren't a warm-up. They're the window where norms get established, relationships get formed, and the unwritten rules of your building get written in permanent ink. Everything you build for the rest of the year sits on top of what happens right now. In this episode, Edward…
Every behavior a student shows you serves one of four functions: escape, attention, tangible, or sensory. That's it. And when you can identify which one is driving what you're seeing, you stop asking what's wrong with this kid and start asking what does this kid need right now. In part two of this series, Edward breaks down each function — what it looks like, why the typical educator response…
Picture the student who disrupts your classroom. The one who talks back, refuses to sit still, and has a reputation that travels the hallways before they ever walk through your door. What was the first word that came to mind? In this episode, Edward breaks down why that word matters — and why the lens educators see students through often has more to do with history, bias, and expectation than…
School culture doesn't wait for September. The decisions you're making right now, the conversations you're having, the things you're letting slide — that's your culture being built. August doesn't fix it. July builds it. Last week Edward named what most schools won't say out loud. This week is about what you do with that. Five concrete action steps you can start this summer before you set foot…
There's a gap in education between what people know and what they're willing to say out loud. That gap is where a lot of the dysfunction lives. In this episode, Edward names four things that people inside school buildings have been walking past and pretending not to see: the mental health of the adults nobody's asking about, toxic cultures that survive because the people running them genuinely…
Here's a question worth sitting with this summer: what are you actually practicing? Not what you're planning. Not what's on your reading list. What you're doing, repeatedly, in the weeks between June and September — because that's what shows up with you on the first day of school. Edward makes the case that summer isn't just rest and recovery. It's formation. The educator who walks back through…
Two or three weeks into summer, when the June exhaustion finally starts to lift, something else shows up. The quiet. And in the quiet, a voice that starts second-guessing everything — the students you didn't reach, the lessons that didn't land, the feeling that everyone else has it figured out while you were just trying to get through the year. Edward calls it the quiet lie. And it doesn't come in…
You made it to summer. But surviving the school year and being ready for the next one are two different things. In this episode, Edward gets honest about what burnout actually looks like in education — not the dramatic version, but the quiet one where you're still showing up, still doing your job, but that version of you that used to get genuinely excited about a lesson idea at 8am hasn't shown up…
We draw a sharp line between reacting and leading when disruption hits schools, and we name the hidden habits that turn stressful moments into lasting dysfunction. We choose clarity over fake certainty, and we ground leadership in values and presence for principals, teachers, and anyone who serves students. • why the old school playbook stops working during disruption • what reacting looks like in…
We launch Homeroom Attendance by asking a simple question with sharp edges: are we truly present in our schools or just physically in the room. We challenge the addiction to new initiatives and make the case that trust and culture, not binders and acronyms, determine whether students and adults can do their best work. • reintroducing the show and why the rebrand matters • defining “attendance” as…
The Teachers Ed Podcast ends today and it’s personal. I’m not dropping an announcement and walking away; I’m sitting with you for an honest thank you, a clear apology for the times I went quiet, and the real reason I can’t keep building this the old way. Educators do not have extra time, extra energy, or extra patience for things that don’t serve them, and I’ve felt the weight of that every time…