Oxygen for Educators explores the overwhelming demands placed on today's educators, often leading to burnout and emotional exhaustion. As anxiety, depression, and behavior incidents rise among students, kids need more, and the adults in the building are overextended and under-resourced. This podcast features inspiring interviews with educators, administrators and counselors making a difference in the lives of countless students. In each hopeful conversation, we acknowledge hard truths and real challenges while simultaneously mining for light-lift, high-impact ideas, practices, and solutions.
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At 13, Casey Cuny learned firsthand how profoundly a teacher can shape a life. Decades later, the 2024 California Teacher of the Year has built his own teaching around a simple idea: rigor happens through relationships.
In this conversation, Casey talks with Michelle about knowing students deeply, explicitly telling them we believe in them, creating classrooms where young people feel safe enough to take risks, and using mythology to help students see their own lives with greater meaning and possibility.
They also explore what it means to find well-being within the work itself—and how AI might give educators more time and energy for what only humans can do: connect, create, notice, imagine, and care.
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2 Oct 2026
Jeannie Haubert: Closing the Gap Between What We Know and What Schools Do
What if some of the biggest challenges facing schools aren't problems we still need to solve — but problems research has already taught us something about?
Dr. Jeannie Haubert, sociologist and Executive Director of LEARN, joins us for a fascinating conversation about the surprising distance between what research tells us and what actually makes its way into practice. Jeannie points to a frequently cited estimate that research can take as long as 17 years to make its way into practice — a striking illustration of the distance that can exist between what we know and what actually informs decisions.
Together, we explore what gets lost in that gap — and what becomes possible when school leaders have access to credible, useful research at the moment they're making consequential decisions.
We talk about educator autonomy and voice, workplace conditions, initiative overload, and why well-being can't only be about helping people recover from work; sometimes we need to change the conditions of the work itself. We also explore the power of small structural shifts, the importance of starting with the problems educators and students are actually experiencing, and one deceptively simple question that can help cut through the noise:
Does this solve a problem we actually have?
Jeannie also takes us inside the work of LEARN, an organization built to make good research easier for school leaders to find, trust, understand, and put into action.
It's a conversation about curiosity, better questions, evidence-informed leadership — and closing the distance between what we know and what the humans inside our schools actually experience.
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18 Sept 2026
Chip Conley: Wise Enough to Stay Curious
Chris introduces us to one of her favorite teachers, Chip Conley, who is the founder of the Modern Elder Academy (MEA). Chip has spent decades thinking about what helps people grow, adapt, and live with greater wisdom.
In this conversation, Michelle talks with Chip about staying curious as we age, the dance between soul and ego, turning experience into wisdom through self-reflection, knowing when resilience needs to become adaptability, and examining our need to be the hero.
Chip also reflects on mortality, purpose, "holy urgency," and the shift from carrying the weight of the world to noticing more of its wonder.
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Who has been a guest on Oxygen for Educators
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Dr Laura Lockhart
Nicholas Ditto
Alex Vesely-Frankl
Jose Villasenor
Maurine Molak
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Apple Podcasts (US)
4.7 / 5
15 ratings
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Podcast Authority Score: 32 / 100
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Engagement
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