Empower Students Now

About Empower Students Now

Amanda has been a passionate full time classroom teacher for 16 years. She’s worked in a wide range of educational settings teaching students grades 3rd-8th. Amanda worked for a Title I, charter, magnet, and National Blue Ribbon school and now she homeschools her twice exceptional daughter.No matter what type of school or grade she’s taught, engaging and empowering students has always been at the forefront of her work as an educator and teacher author.Amanda understands that helping students find their voice is core to being an effective teacher and social justice advocate.Even with a teacher willing to listen, there are many barriers that exist and hinder movement towards more equitable schools. Amanda has experienced first hand the many problems that exist in K-12 education. Listening to students is only the first step on a long road ahead. Amanda’s website, courses, lesson resources, and podcast are dedicated to supporting teachers and students in this important work for change.

Publisher

Amanda Werner

Category

education

Language

en

Explicit

Yes

First episode

22 Jul 2018

Latest episode

19 Jul 2026

Latest episodes

13 of 147 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   19 Jul 2026

   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 classroom for last in this three-part series. You can't regulate a room full of students from a dysregulated body, and no reward chart, consequence structure, or behavior tracking system will do for your students what a calm, grounded adult in the room can. In the final episode of the nervous system regulation series on the Empower Students Now podcast, Amand...

2. 

   5 Jul 2026

   Co-Regulation for Real Families: What Works, What Doesn't, and What I Learned the Hard Way

   Host Amanda Werner shares practical insights on co-regulation for neurodivergent families, emphasizing self-regulation as the foundation for effective support.

3. 

   27 Jun 2026

   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 of a three-part series on the Empower Students Now podcast, host Amanda Werner — a certified meditation teacher, 16-year classroom veteran, and AuDHD educator — breaks down what the nervous system actually is, what dysregulation looks and feels like, and what you can do about it right now, this summer, before the next school year begins. This isn't a polis...

Inside a recent episode

I Moved to Uruguay: A Teacher's Honest First Month as an American Expat

Published 20 Jun 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] And Latin America is a place that I really have always wanted to explore. I've always wanted to... Visit, you know, Chile and Costa Rica and Mexico and Brazil and Argentina. I mean, there's so many places that I've just, that are on my bucket list, you know. Patagonia, just, oh my gosh, I don't know. There's just a lot of places there. And so we just, you know, the more that we researched, the more that we also learned about how progressive and even, like, that this country was, Uruguay, was the first country to... legalize abortion, legalize recreational marijuana use. It was the first country to... […]

Reach and audience

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YouTube views

1,168,986

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.9 / 5

47 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 58 / 100

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Quality

61

Social presence

0

YouTube

86

Engagement

51

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