Homeroom Attendance

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 lounge. Whether you're a classroom teacher, a school leader, a counselor, or an administrator, there is something here for you. No Pinterest PD. No corporate buzzwords. Just the kind of conversation educators actually need. Each episode delivers a clear takeaway, a mindset reframe, and one action step you can use today or tomorrow. Because the best professional development doesn't make you feel talked at. It m

Homeroom Attendance is a education podcast hosted by Edward DeShazer, with 78 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

Edward DeShazer hosts Homeroom Attendance, a education show with 78 episodes published.

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  What Student Behavior Is Actually Telling You

  Sep 27, 202615 min

  Before the relationship recession shows up in grades or attendance, it shows up in behavior. The kid who stops asking for help. The one testing you a little further each day to see if you'll still show up for them. The student who goes completely quiet and never gets written up but has fully checked out. The class clown whose jokes are getting sharper because something underneath is getting heavier. Edward knows these four patterns from the inside. He was that student — the one with the long referral file that described everything he did and nothing about what he needed. Acting out was the only language he had. In this episode he connects the relationship recession to what you're actually seeing in your classroom right now, introduces the 2x10 rule for rebuilding connection with your hardest student, and walks through a whole-building relationship mapping exercise that makes the invisible kids visible. Because when a student's connection to school depends on one great teacher, they're one schedule change away from losing it entirely. ⭐ Rate and subscribe. New episodes every Sunday. www.homeroomattendance.com

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  Home Alone As A Lesson In Teacher Boundaries

  Sep 20, 202613 min

  Kevin McAllister didn't get left behind because his family didn't love him. He got left behind because everyone was moving too fast to notice he was still standing there. That happens in schools too. The reliable teacher who handles the five hardest students every year because they can. The support staff member who's been there fifteen years and never gets thanked. The person who covers every shortage and never gets covered. Nobody decided to overlook them. The building was just moving fast. But here's the part of Home Alone that most people miss: Kevin doesn't spend the movie waiting to be remembered. He decides the house is his to protect and starts preparing like it's going to be tested — because he knows nobody else is coming to help him build it. This is the second episode in Edward's movie series, where he pulls real lessons for educators out of films that have nothing to do with school on the surface. This one is about boundaries, preparation, and what it actually means to defend something worth keeping. What is your version of that house? And when the pressure shows up at the door, will you hold the line? ⭐ Rate and subscribe. New episodes every Sunday. www.homeroomattendance.com

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  You Either Die a Hero

  Sep 13, 202615 min

  Before anything bad happens to Harvey Dent in The Dark Knight, he says the truest thing about himself out loud. And then the story never gives him a way back to it. Educators make a version of that same statement when they start this work. I will never become that teacher. I will always believe in this kid. I will never stop caring the way I care right now. And the slide away from that person is not dramatic. It's a parent who never showed up, an initiative that got scrapped the year after you put everything into it, a kid who lied to your face after you fought hard for them. None of those moments turn you into someone different on their own. Enough of them stacked together quietly? That's a different story. This is the first episode in a new series pulling real lessons from movies that have nothing to do with school on the surface. It starts with the most educational movie Edward has ever seen. The question he's leaving you with: what did you swear you'd never become when you started? And if you're honest today, are you becoming that? ⭐ Rate and subscribe. New episodes every Sunday. www.homeroomattendance.com

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  Three Non Negotiables For Teacher Wellness

  Sep 6, 202618 min

  There's a teacher listening right now who drove to work with the radio off just to get the only silence they'd have all day. Who got home exhausted and immediately started grading papers. Who has a boundary they believe in and a list of reasons why today was the exception. This episode isn't about what your district should be doing for you. It's about what you can actually do for yourself — starting now, inside a profession that is genuinely hard and structurally demanding and not going to fix itself before Monday. Edward gives you three things: a boundary you can actually stand on, one person in your building who gets the unfiltered version of your day, and the basics of taking care of a body that has to show up again tomorrow. None of it is complicated. All of it requires a decision that you matter enough to protect — the same way you'd protect one of your students. The fastest way to make a healthy and happy student is a healthy and happy teacher. ⭐ Rate and subscribe. New episodes every Sunday. www.homeroomattendance.com

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  The Relationship Recession in Schools

  Aug 30, 202615 min

  It happens every year in every school. The August energy fades, the novelty wears off, and somewhere around week five or six, the culture that felt alive starts running on backup power. Edward calls it the relationship recession. And most educators experience it like something went wrong with them, their class, or their building — when really it's a predictable pattern that nobody thought to name. In this episode, he breaks down what's actually happening underneath the surface when the recession hits, what it looks like in classrooms, in hallways, and in leadership, and three concrete things you can do right now to interrupt it before it takes over. Whether you're two weeks in or two months deep, this one is worth your next 15 minutes. The recession is not the end of the year. It's the test of the year. ⭐ Rate and subscribe. New episodes every Sunday. www.homeroomattendance.com

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