Feb 26, 2018
Having come to the realization that race and socioeconomic status don't protect children from distress, Dr. Brian Turner believes that it is critical for parents to provide the skills their kids need to navigate crises and trauma. In this episode, Dr. Turner joins Arianne to discuss the importance of young people having...
Feb 19, 2018
Though a catastrophic storm named Hurricane Katrina altered the lives of hundreds of thousands of people in Arianne's hometown, the academic landscape remained the same. In many ways, it actually took a turn for the worse. School leaders were so desperate to maintain their newly formed charter schools that staff was...
Feb 12, 2018
In this second installment of a three-part series, Arianne reveals how she was physically threatened by a junior high school student during her third year of teaching. She shares how, after being made to teach in a classroom setting for which she had not been trained, she finally decided it was time to make some...
Feb 5, 2018
In this episode, Arianne invites the TYOK Podcast community behind the scenes into her life as a teacher. She reveals how she spent her first year overwhelmed and overworked. The task of motivating students who believed themselves to be "failures" and the frustration of being paired with a mentor who no longer had...