It's almost that time - end of the summer and the start of a new school year. I go back in 3 days so I guess it's time to start thinking about what I'm doing for the beginning of the year.

In today's episode I'm sharing my must haves:

• Daily Schedule Cards 
• Classroom Management Plan
• Classroom Team Jobs
• Parent Communication Plan

SHOW NOTES / BLOG POST LINK:

Resources Mentioned in This Episode:

• Daily Schedule Cards
• Classroom Team Jobs
• Episode 26: Organizing with Classroom Jobs
• Parent Communication
• CLASSroom Management Adventure Course  - build your classroom management plan

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A writing pre-assessment is the most important first step in your writing plans. Just like other subjects, the writing pre-assessment will inform your direction for lessons.

In today's episode we're talking about:

• Why you should use a pre-assessment for writing
• What to use as your pre-assessment
• Choosing a paper format 
• Grading the pre-assessment

SHOW NOTES / BLOG POST LINK:  https://sharedteaching.com/writing-preassessment/

Resources Mentioned in This Episode:

• Free Writing Skills Progression or bit.ly/writing-skills-progression

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One of the best hacks to save time when writing lesson plans is to make it a system. Having a system in place makes writing your lessons go faster - saving your time and your sanity!

In today's episode we'll discuss:

• The format of your lessons
• The content of your lessons
• The delivery of your lessons
• How students will put your lessons into practice

SHOW NOTES / BLOG POST LINK:  https://sharedteaching.com/writing-lesson-plans/

Resources Mentioned in This Episode:

• Episode 85, Launching Writer's Workshop
• Episode 53: 3 Steps to Planning Your Writing Mini Lessons
• Self-Care Summer Conference - grab your free ticket or all-access pass here (until July 23) bit.ly/summerself

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Brittany Blackwell, M.Ed. is an award-winning special educator who is a teacher resilience and sustainability strategist for burnt out teachers.  As someone who has faced being burnt out in the teaching profession, Brittany is empowering others to not feel alone. 

In today's episode we are talking about:

• Sustainability
• Systems
• Support
• Self-Care Summer Conference - starting July 21st-23rd

Resources Mentioned In This Episode:

• 3rd Annual FREE Self-Care Summer Conference - click to sign up

SHOW NOTES / BLOG POST LINK:   https://sharedteaching.com/self-care-for-teachers/

Connect with our guest Brittany Blackwell, M.Ed.:

• Join the free Self-Care Summer Conference July 21-23, 2023
• Brittany’s instagram - @teachingmindbodyandsoul
• Brittany's blog -  Teaching Mind Body and Soul
• Britanny's free personalized quiz to get started
• Brittany's TikTok - @msprincessteach

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Just like most things in our classroom, we need a system to improve our email productivity. I spend way too much time in my email and that’s going to change with these tips.

In this episode I'll share some email quick wins.

• The Pomodoro Technique for checking email
• Create email templates
• Create labels or folders
• Create an email signature
• Sort your email

BLOG POST / SHOW NOTES LINK:  https://sharedteaching.com/email-productivity/

Resources Mentioned in This Episode:

• How to add labels in Gmail article
• Free Canva account for teachers

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Every classroom should have a well-thought out system. Systems are the secret behind most classroom organization tips. Without thinking through your systems first, all the cute bins and rolling carts will not help tame all your clutter and chaos.

Create the system and then buy the cute organization items to fit your new system and you'll be amazed at how much you get done within your work hours.

BLOG POST / SHOW NOTES LINK: https://sharedteaching.com/classroom-organization-tips/

Resources Mentioned in This Episode:

• Episode 74, Organizing Your Classroom:  Creating Working Systems
• Winning the Pencil War TpT free product by Mrs. Hazelton of the Wise Owl
• Letter Writing Center in my TpT Shared Teaching store
• Individualized Sight Word System in my TpT Shared Teaching store
• Summer Self Care Conference (FREE 3 day conference)

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Before launching writer’s workshop, there are some beginning of the year writing lessons you’ll want to teach first.
 
In today's short episode I'm going over the lessons I would teach my own class in the first few weeks of school before I dive into my writer's workshop model.

SHOW NOTES / BLOG POST LINK:  https://sharedteaching.com/beginning-of-the-year-writing-lessons/

Resources Mentioned in This Episode:

• Summer Self-Care Conference - Get Your Free Ticket by July 21st
• Episode 85, Launching Writer's Workshop

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Starting writer’s workshop is probably the most important set of lessons you’ll give during your writing time all school year.  Launching your workshop is more about procedures and expectations than actually writing.

In this podcast episode I'll discuss how I start my writing workshop at the beginning of the school year.

SHOW NOTES / BLOG POST LINK:  https://sharedteaching.com/launching-writers-workshop/

Resources Mentioned in This Episode:

• Emily & Heidi's Back to School Mini Audio Course
• Daily 5 with the 2 Sisters
• Episode 35, Setting Student Learning Goals

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If you missed this week's main Wednesday episode, I talked about 5 activities for your higher readers. One of those options was for student games. Today's bonus episode will be going deeper into how to incorporate student created games in your classroom.

This short episode will go over options for student created games and teacher expectations.

BLOG POST / SHOW NOTES LINK:  https://sharedteaching.com/student-created-games/

Resources Mentioned in this Episode:

• Episode 83, Beyond the Book Club: Activities for Students

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On today's podcast episode I am discussing 5 activities that go beyond the traditional book club for your students. Leesuh, a regular listener, inspired this episode with her question of how to help her higher students when she is holding intervention or small groups with her struggling readers.

We've all been there. Trying different activities that most other teachers have used (and seem to be using successfully) but are a hot mess in our own classroom.

What works for one teacher does not work for all teachers.

Listen to the episode to discover the 5 activities I recommend that are simple and easy to implement in your classroom. Best of all they will help your elementary students be engaged and independent while you are at your teacher table.

SHOW NOTES / BLOG POST LINK:  https://sharedteaching.com/book-club-activities-for-students/

Resources Mentioned in this Episode:

• Susan Morrow, Keep 'em Thinking - Passion Projects in Elementary School
• Donalyn Miller - 40 Book Challenge
• Genre Student Reference Charts from my TpT store (also included in the Library Labels Bundle)
• Share an episode idea - fill out this Google form

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