🎙️ Featured on Teachers' Lounge: Joe & Jamie on life as teachers & podcasters

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Nov. 4, 2025

2024 New Jersey Teacher of the Year, Joe Nappi

Joe and Jamie talk to NJ Teacher of the Year, Joe Nappi. Between these three teachers they have nearly 70 years of collective teaching experience. Tune in to their “shop talk” about the changes in education and their up to the minute response to those changes. Mr. Nappi has an…

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Oct. 28, 2025

3rd Annual Halloween Party Hosted by the Petty Patrol

Let’s celebrate this very special time of year, especially one for all of the teachers, Halloween. We are posing the question to the teacher, what is your Teacher Haunted House? Kids bring the extra energy, the trick and the treats and all the excitement that comes along with Halloween season.…

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Oct. 21, 2025

Policies that Relate to Teachers with @TeacherpaywithK

Sit down and listen to Kristen, aka social media influencer @teacherpaywithK as she informs and updates hosts Joseph and Jamie about hot education topics like pension reform, the NJ Gubernatorial Race, and more pressing issues facing teachers across the country. Season 3 is brought to you by our principal sponsor,…

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Oct. 14, 2025

Lesson Planning: Outdated and Unnecessary or an Important Part of Teaching?

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Oct. 7, 2025

Educate and Rejuvenate with Kelsey Sorenson

Life coach, author, app creator, Club Creator, Kelsey Sorenson is flooding the conversation with hope, tools, smiles, stickers and all the brilliant things each teacher needs to not only be able to educate, but also remember to rejuvenate. Her monthly themes and teacher tips are brilliant as community builders for…

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Sept. 30, 2025

Paid Internships for Student Teachers? You Go Pennsylvania!

Our hosts Jamie and Joe have a real hot take on the latest news out of their neighboring state of Pennsylvania, with the announcement that student teachers will be paid, leading to incentivizing teaching in the great state of PA. Practicing in this career for over two decades, Jamie and…

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Sept. 23, 2025

College Counselor Jen Foldvary

Our hosts Joe and Jamie both have Class of 2026 seniors this year, so they are all ears for any pieces of information on how to aid in the process of college acceptance and decision making, and Jen Foldvary has so much to share. Jen Foldvary and other great tutors…

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Sept. 15, 2025

Is Social Media Ruining the Classroom?

Opening the school year can be a challenge even for the most seasoned teachers. Join our hosts as they discuss handling daily schedule changes, classroom decorating, and interacting with their students each day. — We want to hear from you! Shoot over an email and say hi: podthebalancingact@gmail.com Don’t forget…

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Sept. 9, 2025

Are We in a Quarrel with Educator Andrea?

Professor, comedian, mom and friend of the pod Educator Andrea is here to give us some top secret information into her new book, her comedy tour, and what it is like for her to balance her many professional responsibilities, as well as being a wife and a mom. No one…

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Sept. 2, 2025

Welcome Back to the Party, Season Three is Here

Join our hosts as they recap their summers and share with us all the sunny weather and rain filled storms they had to endure over the past two months while on summer hiatus. Big plans are in the works for the upcoming season, so grab a cup of coffee and…

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June 24, 2025

Major Monumental Moments from Season 2

Join Joe and Jamie as they review and reminisce on Season 2 episodes of the Balancing Act Podcast. They will reveal their top three moments of the season, guests that left a lasting impression, and all the ways they plan to continue this journey in September with Season 3 of…

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June 17, 2025

Part II with Dr. Noelle Santorelli, Relational Aggression and Mean Girl Moms

One session with doctor Noelle Santorelli was simply not enough, we needed a part II. Join our hosts Joe and Jamie as they talk to Dr. Noelle Santorelli about her research and work into the topic of relational aggression, and what it means for parenting styles, relationships, and systems within…

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June 10, 2025

Part I with Dr. Noelle Santorelli, Relational Aggression and Mean Girl Moms

Join our hosts Joe and Jamie as they talk to Dr. Noelle Santorelli about her research and work into the topic of relational aggression, and what it means for parenting styles, relationships, and systems within families and schools as people earnestly try to navigate this new way of dealing with…

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June 3, 2025

What is exhausting the teachers?

Teachers in this country are perpetually exhausted. But why?? Join our veteran host teachers with over 50 years of teaching experience between them to explore the reasons behind why teachers are so tired. Both in and out of the classroom, teachers are more tired than ever, but why? Our hosts…

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May 27, 2025

How much tech is too much? With Merve Lapus from Common Sense Media

Is this a tech “eat” tech world? Just how much tech is too much?Listen to our hosts discuss Ed Tech, social media and cell phones in schools, with Common Sense Media’s voice of reason, Merve Lapus. Lapus has a next level approach to how to parent and teach using tech,…

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May 20, 2025

And One More Thing: Teachers are the Reason for all the Extras in Schools

Jamie and Joe revisit the topics connected to parent volunteers in public schools, as well as the weight of judgement between working and non working parents. Such hot topics in the education space overlap into the parenting space and include how much of the “extra” that exists in education is…

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May 13, 2025

Bianca and Chelsea from the NJAEA Pod Squad: Recruiting and Retaining Teachers

Bianca and Chelsea from the “NJEA Aspiring Ed PodSquad” podcast join us this week in an exciting pod swap experience. As hosts in their own right, these two ladies are navigating the education space and taking New Jersey by storm. TCNJ students and future teachers, Chelsea and Bianca share with…

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May 6, 2025

What Makes a “Good” Parent? Even Kelly Clarkson doesn't know.

In today's society being a parent can be amongst the most difficult of all of life’s challenges. Raising children is not for the faint of heart, and Jamie and Joe discuss some of the issues facing parents these days that make them both say, I don’t get it! Being a…

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April 29, 2025

Why are Students not Successful in School? with Mitch Weathers

Educator, speaker and author Mitch Weathers joins the pod to discuss his method for maximizing student success with the Organized Binder method. Students, teachers and parents have noticed the cognitive load placed on our kids year after year, but are baffled as to the process in which to build these…

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April 22, 2025

Middle School Minds Need Organized Systems

Whether it's grading, studying, or even navigating google classroom, organized systems don’t really exist for our students. How can we expect them to succeed when they have to adapt and change every hour of the day? Joe and Jamie discuss their methods for teaching and learning with middle schoolers as…

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April 15, 2025

Never stop dating… your co teacher?

Jennifer Mazzochi joins the pod this week to discuss co teaching connections. Special education teacher and coteaching aficionado Jennifer Mazzochi explains how to make the unique relationship between co teachers thrive in the best interest of the partnership and the students in their charge. — We want to hear from…

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April 8, 2025

The Kids are Not Alright, but Why?

Learned helplessness and lack of perseverance and grit are plaguing our schools and children across America, but why? Join Jamie and Joe as they explore possible reasons and solutions to the very big questions that keep many educators and parents awake each night. — We want to hear from you!…

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April 1, 2025

We’re Not Foolin’, We love AnnaK

Joe and Jamie welcome Insta sensation AnnaK, also known as ReadAwaywithMissK, as they share their love of teaching, reading, and being funny. Anna shares her experiences in the classroom beginning in the Bronx and continuing all the way down to Louisville. Anna shares with us her love of teaching, teachers,…

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March 25, 2025

What Grinds Our Gears

Jamie and Joe are all about balance… and sometimes you need to bark out all your pettiest complaints to a friendly and compassionate ear to find your sense of zen. Listen to their hysterical banter as they swat things that drive each of them nuts both in and out of…

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