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First Period Prep
First Period Prep
Author: Sam Tudor
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Brace yourself for an audible extravaganza! Two high school English teachers from polar opposite schools discuss the common problems of American education. They speak candidly on the importance of teacher/student relationships and offer solutions to all of the obstacles presented to educators in the current climate.
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Still struggling with summer transitions, both teachers review Tom Cruise’s latest performance and try to find the energy to make it this year.
Season three premiere! Whoopity do. Recharging from the summer and prepping selves for the school year ahead
Travis is on the mend in this comeback spectacular. So far, the kids have been great. Both teachers explore both edges of the powerful axe teachers wield.
Sam and Travis look at the nation wide teachers shortage and offer up a couple of solutions.
Travis stumbles on to another useful way to lighten the mood in the classroom. It’s still summer for Sam, but he gives an acronym that all teachers can use.
As a new year gears up, Travis gives a way to increase energy levels and cites why Marvel’s multiverse is ruining kids. Sam gives a shout out to a couple of teaching legends and the legacy they’ve left for educators.
Brace yourself. In their final weeks of 2022, the two teachers get to the bottom of a conspiracy theory. Zeus’s real name is discovered by a student and Sam’s class learns a valuable lesson about their clothes.
It’s after Spring Break and both teachers see the light at the end of the tunnel…sort of. One of Sam’s students offers up two words to save the world and Travis gives valuable advice regarding lockdown drills.
It’s prom season and both teachers are scrounging for ways to get kids excited. The “Triple T” ranking system is explain in-depth.
It’s nearing Spring Break and the energy is palpable…sort of. The main thing is that both teachers have been making dreams come true.
It’s Monday and both teachers struggle to start the week on a positive note. Travis gets news of more school policy restrictions and Sam explains the problems with N95 masks.
Sam & Travis get off of their duffs and start the new year with an episode displaying new challenges for the home stretch of the school year.
Another week goes by and Sam finds himself as a front runner in the schools’ food drive. Travis plays a sound bite from his classroom and gets creative with birthday gifts for students.
In this special extended director’s cut, Sam and Travis talk about teen drivers and a riveting playground incident that will keep you on the edge of your seat.
Travis struggles through staff meetings and the two teachers talk about some of the “trickle down” effect caused by our nation’s political divide.
Travis and Sam struggle to develop a new technique of teaching that resembles marriage counseling. Sam admits that most of his students drive Fords, and Ford’s aren’t as good as Chevy’s.
Travis endures a Halloween door decorating contest that goes awry, and Sam blames COVID for the extinction of funny bathroom passes.
Both teachers engage in a real conversation about the importance of in-school learning. It’s decided that apologies only go so far in the classroom and Sam adds his first audio sound byte in the last four seconds. Prepare yourselves for episode 9 (not episode 10).
It might be Columbus Day. Travis had the day off of school and Sam is reeling from a case of Monday blues.
In this episode Travis and Sam discuss formative moments in their professional development and somehow find themselves critiquing Hilary Swank.




