Your Nervous System Is Your Best Classroom Management Tool: A Regulation Guide for Teachers (Part 3)
Your nervous system is the classroom's nervous system. That's the central idea of this episode — and the reason Amanda Werner saved the clas...
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Amanda has been a passionate full time classroom teacher for 14 years. She’s worked in a wide range of educational settings teaching students grades 3rd-8th. Amanda worked for a Title I, cha...
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20 of 127 episodesCo-Regulation for Real Families: What Works, What Doesn't, and What I Learned the Hard Way
You can't co-regulate with someone if you're dysregulated yourself. That's the single most important thing Amanda Werner has learned from ye...
I'm a Meditation Teacher Who Still Eats Doritos When She's Stressed: Nervous System Regulation for Real Life
You can't regulate a classroom from a dysregulated nervous system. And you can't regulate a nervous system you don't understand. In Part 1 o...
I Moved to Uruguay: A Teacher's Honest First Month as an American Expat
What happens when an American teacher who spent many years teaching English Language Development (ELD) students becomes an immigrant herself...
The Damage Done — How Parent-Blaming and Compliance-Based Interventions Shaped Autism History (NeuroTribes for Teachers, Part 2)
If Part 1 of this series was about what was lost in autism history, Part 2 is about what replaced it — and the damage it caused. In this epi...
The Hidden History of Autism — How a Broader Understanding of Autism Was Deliberately Buried (NeuroTribes for Teachers, Part 1)
Why do so many misconceptions about autism still persist in our schools — even as we know more about autism than ever before? The answer is...
Consequences Are Just Punishments With a New Name: A Different Approach to Student Behavior
What if the next time a student lies, sneaks, or breaks a rule, instead of reaching for a consequence, you reached for a conversation? In th...
Self-Acceptance for Teachers: A Meditation Teacher's Honest Guide to Surviving End-of-Year Chaos
What happens when a meditation teacher stops meditating — and decides that's okay? In this deeply personal episode of the Empower Stude...
Why "Difficult" Kids Might Be Your Most Important Students (And How to Reach Them)
What if the most "difficult" kid in your classroom is actually the one you should be paying the closest attention to — not to discipline, bu...
5 Damaging Myths About Autism That Teachers Still Believe (From an Autistic Teacher)
What do teachers really know about autism — and how much of it is actually wrong? In this episode of the Empower Students Now podcast, host...
An Autistic Teacher Explains the Neurodiversity Movement (And Why It Matters for Your Students)
What is neurodiversity — and why should teachers care? In this episode of the Empower Students Now podcast, host Amanda Warner — a certified...
Paradoxical AuDHD: A Poem About Contradictions, Overwhelm, and Self-Understanding
On the Empower Students Now podcast, host Amanda Werner shares that she pursued an autism diagnosis at 43 after years of researching autism...
Rethinking “Defiance”: When Students Are Drowning, Not Disobeying
Host Amanda Werner discusses how schools often misinterpret student “defiance” as willful disobedience when it may reflect nervous system di...
Why Diagnosis Matters: My ADHD and Autism Journey as a Parent and Teacher
Host Amanda Werner shares why she is discussing her family’s diagnostic journey, describing years of feeling overwhelmed and not understandi...
What Made Me Suspect I'm Autistic: A Teacher's Adult Diagnosis Story and Classroom Takeaways
Amanda Werner hosts an off-the-cuff episode of the Empower Students Now podcast about what led her to suspect she was autistic and eventuall...
Teaching Emotional Regulation in the Classroom
Access Editable Essential Skills Slideshows Here Amanda continues her Empower Students Now series with short classroom slideshow lessons ava...
How to Teach Conflict Resolution to Students
Access Essential Skills Slides Here In this episode of the Empower Students Now podcast, host Amanda dives into the critical skill of confli...
Why I Left Teaching, A Career I Still Love
Content Warning: This episode discusses emotionally charged topics that may be difficult for some listeners. Please take care of yourself an...
Teaching When the News is Breaking Your Heart
In this urgent and heartfelt episode, recorded on Sunday, January 25th, Amanda Werner offers raw and real advice for teachers dealing with a...
How to Teach Students Collaborative Problem Solving Skills
Access Essential Skills Slides Here In this episode of the Empower Students Now podcast, host Amanda Werner dives into the essential skill o...