E192

Your Campus Runs on a Pyramid of Lies

From School for School Counselors · Hosted by Steph Johnson

2026-03-30·1447

Episode summary

In this episode of School for School Counselors: There’s a reason the same explanation keeps showing up in every staff meeting, every training, every conversation about struggling students. It feels good. Problem is- It wasn’t built on evidence.

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There’s a reason the same explanation keeps showing up in every staff meeting, every training, every conversation about struggling students. It feels good. Problem is- It wasn’t built on evidence. Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs became one of the most widely accepted frameworks in education without ever being meaningfully tested the way we use it. In…