Tales of Teaching with a Best Friend with Mendy Stevens

#028 Tales of Teaching with a Best Friend (and why we highly recommend it!)

Today’s guest is my ride-or-day...the other half of my brain...the person who makes me laugh every single day...the one and only Mendy Stevens.

Mendy and I met in the summer of 1995 when we were both brand new special education teachers at the same school and since that time, we have worked out of the same classroom for 26 years. 

We operate our department as a true team sharing everything from scheduling to supervising paraprofessionals to teaching each other’s students to alternating mornings of who is going to pick up the first Dr. Pepper of the day.

Together we have worked for about 12 different principals, supervised over 80 paraprofessionals and have worked out of 8 different classrooms and have provided services to well over 700 students.

Our husbands are friends and we have gone on family vacations together and our plan is to retire at the same time and we’re pretty sure we’ll end up at the same nursing home one day because our brains are so in sync that we don’t know how to manage without the other.

I wanted to have Mendy on today because I would not be the person or the teacher I am today without her. She has supported me in all my ventures to become a support system to other special educators all across the country through my business and my courses and even this podcast. And even though she is behind the scenes when it comes to the Sped Prep Academy, she is my biggest fan and believes in all my dreams. So I just want to have some fun with her today and reminisce a little over the past 26 years of laugh so you don’t cry chaos.  

Warning: Bathroom stories seem to make us laugh the most

Enjoy!

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