Beyond My Years
Episodes
Empowering diverse learners in math, starring Keri Brown
10 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Alabama K–2 educator, national presenter, and curriculum author Keri Brown discusses strategies for supporting students in the math classroom. While...
Discovering your own teaching style, with Neysa Olivares-Torres
26 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Our guest this week, Neysa Olivares-Torres, breaks down the process of finding and developing your own personal teaching style. Neysa details how she ...
Strategies for new teachers to overcome disillusionment, starring Tina Boogren, Ph.D.
12 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Tina Boogren, Ph.D., joins Ana Torres, not only to discuss how it’s completely normal for first-year teachers (and even some veterans) to experience...
Phone policies and the science of self-control, starring Angela Duckworth, Ph.D.
29 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Angela Duckworth, Ph.D., the New York Times bestselling author of Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance, joins Ana Torres to discuss school phon...
Learning alongside your multilingual learners, starring Elsa Cárdenas-Hagan, Ed.D.
15 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Host Ana Torres is joined by Elsa Cárdenas-Hagan, Ed.D., a linguist and speech pathologist known for her work with multilingual learners. In this epi...
The right questions for the “wrong” answers, starring Dan Meyer, Ph.D.
01 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode of Beyond My Years, host Ana Torres is joined by Dan Meyer, Ph.D., Vice President of User Growth at Amplify and former Chief Academic ...
The science behind a joyful classroom, starring Tracey Severns, Ed.D.
17 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Host Ana Torres welcomes former NJDOE Chief Academic Officer Tracey Severns, Ed.D., to discuss not just how to bring more joy to the classroom but how...
Beyond My Years is back: Season 2 trailer
03 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ana Torres and Eric Cross give you the first look at Season 2 of Beyond My Years, launching September 17, 2025. This trailer highlights what’s comin...
Everything is literacy, starring Susan Lambert, Ed.D.
20 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today on Beyond My Years, host Ana Torres is joined by Science of Reading: The Podcast host Susan Lambert, Ed.D., who’s here to make the case for al...
Springing forward and looking back, with Ana and Eric
28 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today on Beyond My Years, host Ana Torres and Classroom Insider Eric Cross reconnect with three past guests—Fawn Nguyen, Rebecka Peterson, and Simon...
No broken children—only broken systems, starring Kareem Weaver
05 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today on Beyond My Years, host Ana Torres soaks up wisdom from Kareem Weaver, an educational powerhouse who has spent over 30 years working toward the...
Building an education network to make change, starring A. Simone McQuaige
22 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today on Beyond My Years, host Ana Torres absorbs wisdom from A. Simone McQuaige, winner of Amplify's Science of Reading Changemaker Star Award i...
Your starter pack to mentorship, starring Serena Klosa
08 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today on Beyond My Years, host Ana Torres gets wisdom from Serena Klosa, an educator with 37 years of experience as a teacher, principal, and now depu...
The best of Beyond My Years (so far!)
19 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
To close out the year, we’re revisiting some of our favorite moments from the first nine episodes of the Beyond My Years podcast – and looking ahe...
Advancing together as educators, starring LaTonya Goffney, Ed.D.
04 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode of Beyond My Years, Ana Torres picks up every nugget of wisdom she can learn from LaTonya M. Goffney, Ed.D., superintendent of schools...
Teaching takes trust, starring Luz Selenia Muñoz
20 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today on Beyond My Years, host Ana Torres walks alongside Luz Selenia Muñoz as she retraces the path that led her from planning to become a psycholog...
Para enseñar se necesita confianza, con Luz Selenia Muñoz
20 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
En este episodio especial de Beyond My Years, Ana tiene el placer de hablar con Luz Selenia Muñoz en español, su idioma de origen. Luz ha sido maest...
Teaching takes joy, starring Rebecka Peterson
06 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today on Beyond My Years, host Ana Torres delves into the wisdom offered by Rebecka Peterson, an educator whose journey began much like Ana’s: as a ...
Teaching is advocacy, starring Missy Testerman
23 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today on Beyond My Years, host Ana Torres learns from the best, sitting down with 2024’s National Teacher of the Year, Missy Testerman. Missy talks ...
Teaching is listening, starring Patti and Rod Lloyd
09 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today on Beyond My Years, host Ana Torres takes you to the northernmost region of Alaska to sit down with Patti and Rod Lloyd. Patti and Rod are longt...
Teaching with determination, starring Khamphet Pease
25 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today on Beyond My Years, host Ana Torres learns all she can learn from the life stories and lessons of Khamphet Pease. While other teenagers might ha...
Teaching with resilience, starring Fawn Nguyen
11 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today on Beyond My Years, host Ana Torres learns from Fawn Nguyen, a math educator with over 30 years of classroom experience! Fawn tells Ana the stor...
Teaching for life, starring Eric Jones
28 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today on Beyond My Years, host Ana Torres becomes a student of Eric Jones, an educator who came out of retirement at 80 years of age to help with a na...
Teaching with heart, starring Joyce Abbott
14 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today on Beyond My Years, host Ana Torres soaks up wisdom from Joyce Abbott, an educator so passionate about her students that she inspired one of the...
About Beyond My Years, with Ana Torres and Eric Cross
14 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Join host Ana Torres and her classroom insider, Eric Cross, to learn what the new Amplify podcast Beyond My Years is all about. Together, they dig int...
Beyond My Years podcast trailer
27 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Listen to this trailer for our new podcast, Beyond My Years, launching August 14th. Every day headlines tout something “new” in education—the l...