Are you maximizing all possible teaching time or are you still finding yourself bogged down in procedures and systems you feel your students should be managing independently by now? Creating autonomy for our students in our classroom is important for many reasons. The more we can allow our students to own, the more time we can spend on teaching. Also, this creates a true sense of community in our classroom and allows students and teachers to both feel ownership of how far we’ve come and all that has been accomplished. Let’s chat about the times in the day we can turn over to our students so our focus can be turned to the important skills we need to be teaching.