I LOVE all things planning. In fact, I plan out our family calendar each year in January… no joke the whole year. But even as much as I love to know what we’ve got coming up and how we can best use our finite amount of time on earth, planning as a teacher can be tough. You can do some really great work for it all to just change on a dime without any heads up or prior notice, and there’s nothing you can do about it. That’s just the nature of the beast, but there also has to be a better way to make this whole planning thing more effective and more intentional so that it serves us and our students.

In today’s episode I walk you through three steps that will help you do just that - streamline your planning process so that you’re better able to stay on track throughout the school year and are helping your future self when you go to plan in the years to come. Let’s get to it.

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Sustainable grading - is that even a thing? It’s like teachers have all collectively just rolled over and accepted the fact that if we aren’t drowning in grading then we aren’t really doing our job. Not only is that crap, but it’s unsustainable. No one can manage that in a healthy way. But then we’re left with the question, well what do we do instead? If we aren’t grading everything in our classes, aren’t we saying that it’s not important??? O man, that statement couldn’t be more wrong. There is a way to reach more sustainable grading practices and in this episode I will provide three steps to help you get there.

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SUSTAINABLE TEACHER CHALLENGE: https://www.teachonamission.com/sustainable-teacher-challenge

I’m betting that when you’re in the middle of your week it’s not just your teaching responsibilities that have you stressed. It is that endless teacher to-do list, but it’s that piled on top of all the things that need to be accomplished at home as well. Whether you’re single, married, have kids or not, maintain a home or rent, there are things outside of your teacher life that are super important and can’t just be put on hold as you focus solely on maintaining your professional life.

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With all the talk of self-care for teachers during a year where teachers have less time than they’ve ever had to even think about themselves, let alone their self-care, I’m here to remind everyone that without you there will be no classroom, there will be no lesson, there will be no impact on your students. But even if we do recognize that self-care is necessary, it’s such a broad, even vague and relative term. Logistically, what really is it? And how effective will it be? I am here to make the claim that there is no better form of self-care than to set goals for yourself and to work toward them. It’s taking what we know about planning in our teacher-lives, that is that planning is best when we do it backwards - starting with the end in mind - and applying it to our lives. Because you know what, yes you’re worth it. Even if taking the time to do so means you’re a day later on grading those papers, answering those emails or even planning those lessons. Those tasks will ALWAYS be there. But the opportunity of now will never be here again for you. Know that You’re worth it, my friend.
In this episode I’ll show you the systems I’ve used to set goals for my classroom, now my business, and even my personal life and how it’s changed my self-care game. Here we go friends.

Sustainable Teacher FB Community: https://www.facebook.com/groups/sustainableteacher

Sustainable Teacher Show Notes: https://www.teachonamission.com/podcast

Full Focus Planner: https://www.teachonamission.com/planner