Kids in the Gray Zone
Kids in the Gray Zone is a podcast about the children, teachers, parents, and systems that don't fit neatly into categories. Hosted by Zach Rhoads, the show explores education, behavior, belonging, motivation, mental health, addiction, social-emotional learning, and the strange realities of modern institutions (especially schools). Some episodes feature conversations with educators, psychologists, researchers, authors, and clinicians. Others are reflections from inside classrooms, hallways, SEL rooms and difficult meetings where real human problems rarely have simple solutions. This is not a podcast about "fixing kids." It's about understanding them. It's about the students who are too much, not enough, overlooked, mislabeled, over managed, underestimated, or quietly drifting through systems that were never really designed with human development in mind. Expect practical ideas, first-principles thinking, uncomfortable questions, dark humor, and deep respect for children and the adults trying to help them grow.
Episodes
Children today are often described as anxious, distracted, emotionally fragile, socially overwhelmed, or unable to tolerate boredom and frustration.
But what if the issue is not that children suddenly changed?
What if childhood changed?
In this episode of Kids in the Gray Zone, Zach Rhoads explores the developmental experiences that ...
Welcome to Episode #1 of Kids in the Gray Zone. In this premiere episode, Zach Rhoads sits down with Dr. Ross Greene — psychologist, bestselling author, and creator of Collaborative & Proactive Solutions (CPS) — for a wide-ranging conversation about behavior, schools, SEL, PBIS, social media, free play, school systems, and why so many struggling students are being misunderstood. Throughout the conversation, Ross argues that mod...
In this introduction to Kids in the Gray Zone, Zach Rhoads explores the "Gray Zone" -- the space where the usual explanations for behavior, education, and modern life stop fully making sense.
Drawing from the idea of portals in stories like Narnia, Alice in Wonderland, and Harry Potter, this episode asks a deeper question: What kind of environments do human beings actually need in order to grow?
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