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 73 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

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  The Four Functions Of Student Behavior

  Aug 9, 202615 min

  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 makes it worse, and what to do instead. The escape kid isn't defiant, they're overwhelmed. The attention-seeking student isn't bad, they're running on empty. The sensory kid isn't being difficult — you're fighting biology, and that's a fight nobody wins. This framework works for every adult in the building. Send it to your co-teacher, your paraprofessional, your department lead, your principal. If you touch the student experience, this one is for you. If you haven't heard part one yet, start there first. ⭐ Rate and subscribe. New episodes every Sunday. www.homeroomattendance.com

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  Student Behavior Is A Message, Not A Problem

  Aug 2, 202614 min

  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 anything a kid has actually done in front of them. He walks through the suspension cycle, what the research says about where it leads, and why changing the question from "what's wrong with this student?" to "what is this behavior trying to tell me?" changes everything downstream. You don't have bad students. You have students making bad decisions. One is a verdict. The other is a moment. And moments can change. This is part one. Tune in next week for the tools. ⭐ Rate and subscribe. New episodes every Sunday. www.homeroomattendance.com

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  5 Summer Actions That Will Change Your School Culture by October

  Jul 26, 202614 min

  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 back in your building: have the honest conversation you've been putting off, invest in your culture carriers before they burn out, collect the culture data your building actually needs, audit what you're celebrating publicly, and start measuring before the year begins. Edward also shares how to get free access to his School Culture Compass program. Send an email to ed@edwarddeshazer.org and mention Homeroom Attendance. Awareness without action is just a well-informed version of staying stuck. This one moves you forward. www.homeroomattendance.com

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  What We've Been Ignoring In Education

  Jul 19, 202615 min

  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 care about kids, the believement gap between what educators say they believe about students and what their behavior actually shows, and the "we're fine" culture that keeps all of it protected by making honesty feel dangerous. Naming something isn't the same as fixing it. But you cannot fix what you won't name. ⭐ Rate and subscribe. New episode every Sunday. www.homeroomattendance.com

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  The Quiet Lie of Educators

  Jul 5, 202613 min

  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 one big dramatic moment. It comes in small ones, stacked up over weeks, using real moments from your year as evidence against you. This episode is about negativity bias, the believement gap, and what it actually looks like to push back on a voice that counts on you being alone with it. ⭐ Rate and subscribe so you never miss a Sunday episode. www.homeroomattendance.com

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