I love the new year and the hopeful feeling of positive change it brings. But setting big New Year’s “resolutions” about all the changes I need to make can make me feel beat down before the year even begins. So I do something different. First, I reflect on the past year. Then I think about… Read More

If you’re a teacher, you are in the habit of planning. And if you’re a teacher – you also know that, very often, things do not go according to plan. However, we don’t give up on planning. We just regroup, reschedule, and figure out a different way to teach the content, differentiate, and modify. In… Read More

Have you ever looked at your ever-growing to-do list and thought, “There ain’t no way all of this can get done”? Yeah, me too. Overwhelm starts to take over and I find myself almost paralyzed and unable to get anything done. Or I hop from unimportant task to unimportant task and the bigger, more important… Read More

As a teacher, you know all about planning for school. But what about planning for your life outside of school? If you find yourself struggling to stay organized or get to all the things that you want to do, try some weekly planning for your personal life! During my second year of teaching, I reached… Read More

So much to do, so little time. If you’re a teacher and you are constantly frustrated by this fact of teacher life, keep reading. I have 10 tips to help you be more productive at school. You can get the most important stuff done for school while still leaving time and energy for the other… Read More