Stumbling Through Work
Jerek Hough
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Working in education is to stumble through your everyday! We love what we do, but staff, families, policies, regulations and sometimes even the children make us quit everyday then come back the next day. Just remember, you are not in this alone.
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S3E33 Child Care Is Not Okay
Send us Fan MailWe break down the newest NAEYC workforce survey data and call out the real reason child care keeps teetering on the edge: the money does not match the expectations. Then we get…
S3E32 Don’t End Up On The News
Send us Fan MailSomething is deeply broken when a childcare worker thinks it’s acceptable to punish a crying child with humiliation and confinement. We react to a North Carolina daycare case under…
S3E31 The Government Keeps Changing The Rules And Providers Pay The Price
Send us Fan MailThey say it’s about fraud, but the numbers don’t match the panic. The federal government is rolling back key Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) rules, pushing child care subsidy…
S3E30 Are We Building Child Care Systems Or Seats
Send us Fan MailNYC is pushing toward universal city-run child care, and depending on who you ask, it’s either a long-overdue lifeline or a wrecking ball aimed at private programs. I’m holding both…
S3E29 Circle Time With Lenny Endsley
Send us Fan MailThey promised families Disneyland, but too often educators are running a parking lot carnival on max ratio and pure willpower. We sit down for Circle Time with Lenny, a longtime…
S3E28 Funding Cuts
Send us Fan MailNevada’s early childhood workforce is being asked to do the impossible again: earn more credentials, raise quality, and keep classrooms stable while the state pulls one of the only…
S3E27 Circle Time w/ Trina Richardson
Send us Fan MailTrina shares the joy that keeps people going—parents becoming confident advocates, babies flourishing into curious learners, and former students returning as thriving adults—while…
S3E26 Directors Aren’t Doctors; They’re Keeping Centers Open
Send us Fan MailHeadlines say guidance changed. Our lobby says prove it. We unpack how federal vaccine recommendations collided with state childcare rules and turned drop-off into a debate club—and…
S3E25 Circle Time w/ Shanell Townsend
Send us Fan MailEver been “voluntold” to fix the room everyone avoids while the favorite gets a trophy? We invited Chanel Townsend—educator, coach, and relentless advocate—to unpack how to walk into…
S3E24 Your Child Is Not DoorDash, And Pre-K Isn’t Amazon Prime
Send us Fan MailPreschool isn’t “just pre‑K.” We dig into the data on chronic absence and make the case that showing up is the intervention: consistent attendance wires language, early math, and…
S3E23 Circle Time w/ Airis Potts
Send us Fan MailWe dig into the human side of early childhood leadership with Aris “Mama Vegas” Potts, from calling out harmful nap practices to surviving licensing scares and rebuilding trust. We…
S3E22 Preschool Wins, Childcare Loses
Send us Fan MailWant to know how a well-meaning universal preschool plan ended up shrinking childcare access across Los Angeles? We pull back the curtain on the economics policymakers ignored:…
S3E21 Milk Mustaches and Mixed Messages
Send us Fan MailHeadlines say whole milk is back for kids, but that’s not the whole story. We dig into what the new Whole Milk for Healthy Kids Act really changes, what it doesn’t, and why most early…
S3E21 Circle Time w/ GiGi Wynn
Send us Fan MailWith veteran coach and trainer Gigi Wynn, we explore ECE in different positions with what real support looks like when safety, behavior, and policy collide.Follow me :Website: …
S3E20 America Loves Kids Like I Love My Gym Membership
Send us Fan MailA country that can regulate crib slats but can’t protect classrooms has its priorities backwards. We start by tearing into the ritual that follows school shootings—thoughts, prayers,…
S3E19 Child Care Math Is Rude
Send us Fan MailWe call out the broken childcare math, the lazy myths about greedy centers, and the way policy failure pushes women and caretakers out of the workforce. Then we go inside preschool…
S3E18 Inside A Preschool Scandal: Abuse, Oversight Failures, And The Fight For Safer Childcare
Send us Fan MailWe confront a big-brand preschool scandal, then widen the lens to expose how staffing, oversight, and culture create the conditions for harm—and how to fix them with real…
S3E17 We Came For Goldfish And Got Bleach Instead
Send us Fan MailA water pitcher, a cleaning bottle, and a rushed routine turned snack time into a health scare—then a bland corporate statement tried to make it disappear. We pull back the curtain on…
S3E16 Childcare Math Doesn’t Add Up
Send us Fan MailChildcare isn’t expensive because anyone’s getting rich; it’s expensive because keeping tiny humans safe, fed, and learning costs real money. We open the books on rent, insurance,…
S3E15 SNAP!: How A Shutdown Hits Childcare, Families, And Teachers
Send us Fan MailA shutdown stalls SNAP and shakes childcare, leaving families, teachers and programs scrambling for stability while kids lose consistency. We also confront bias against male ECE…
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Stumbling Through Work has published 83 episodes since September 2022, covering topics in Education, How To.
Stumbling Through Work is currently highly active with new episodes weekly. Average episode length is 26m.
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