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The Secondary Teacher | Elective Teacher Resources, Secondary Teacher Strategies, and Teacher Planning episodes

April 12, 2022Ep 80: Enjoy a Guilt-Free Summer by Doing These 3 Things Before the School Year Ends
In this episode, we discuss:

What you can do now to give yourself the summer you want

How planning now will save you a lot of time next year

How to map out next year’s courses

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Episode 78

Utah State CTE Standards

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15 min
April 05, 2022Ep 79: Don't Make These 3 Mistakes When Preparing for Your Teacher Interview
In this episode, we discuss:

The importance of research before your interview

How to be prepared for a panel interview

What to do if you don’t know the answer to a question

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PopPD Waitlist

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11 min
March 29, 2022Ep 78: Fast and Easy Classroom Organization Tips to Start Off Your 4th Term
In this episode we discuss:

How do discover what organizational habits need to be changed

Gaining momentum through short bursts will help you succeed in your goals

Ideas for where to start

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13 min
March 22, 2022Ep 77: Should You Stay at a Toxic School if You Love Your Team?
In this episode, we discuss:

The simple and complex answer to this question

Making career choices based on what’s best for you

What to do if you decide to leave

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9 min
March 15, 2022Ep 76: Feeling like Luisa- the Number One Tip for Getting Through the End of the School Year
In this episode, we discuss:

How you can lessen your load

Who you can reach out to for help

Some other options of getting help and support

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18 min
March 08, 2022Ep 75: How to Keep Promoting and Recruiting Now That CTE Month is Over
In this episode, we discuss:

Why you should keep promoting and recruiting even after course requests

How the end-of-level is a great time to curate photos and videos that you can use this year and in the future

How to maximize guest speakers

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12 min
March 01, 2022Ep 74: How to Incorporate Student Mental Health Check-Ins to Help Your Students
In this episode, we discuss:

Why we need to be conducting student mental health check-ins

How to add the check-in to a routine you are already doing

What to do with the information that you get

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12 min
February 22, 2022Ep 73: How to use Social Media to Recruit Non-Traditional CTE Students
In this episode, we discuss:

Examples of non-traditional CTE students

How to make sure your marketing materials attract non-traditional CTE students

Ways to go beyond social media to recruit non-traditional CTE students

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15 min
February 15, 2022Ep 72: My Recruiting Mistakes: What I'd Do Differently If I Started Today
In this episode, we discuss:

The mistakes I made during my first six years of recruiting for CTE

What you can do instead of making those mistakes

How to make those recruiting solutions easier

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15 min
February 08, 2022Ep 71: How to Recruit for Your Course with a Boring Title and Course Description
In this episode, we discuss:

Ways to update your “boring” course name and description

How to translate your course name and description to make it student-friendly

Ideas for how to “show” what you do in your course

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13 min

About The Secondary Teacher | Elective Teacher Resources, Secondary Teacher Strategies, and Teacher Planning

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**Are you looking for secondary teacher strategies, elective teacher resources, and teacher planning systems that actually work when you're juggling multiple preps?**

Are you drowning in lesson planning and still taking work home every night?

Wondering if managing your workload is even possible when every class needs something different?

Let's be honest… your planning period disappears fast.

If that sounds like you, you're in the right place.

This podcast is for overwhelmed secondary teachers—especially elective teachers, CTE teachers, and any multiple prep teacher—who are tired of feeling behind and need practical secondary teacher strategies built for the reality of teaching multiple courses.

You'll learn how to simplify teacher planning, build classroom routines that reduce your workload, and find elective teacher resources that help you keep students engaged without creating everything from scratch.

Because you don't need a better planner.

You need systems that fit the reality of your secondary classroom.

Hi, I'm Khristen Massic.

I'm a former high school teacher in career technical education who spent 10 years teaching courses like engineering, drafting, robotics, digital media, and more—and at one point, I taught **nine preps in a single school year**.

I've also worked as a middle school assistant principal and now support teachers at the district level, so I've seen the teacher workload from multiple angles.

And here's what I learned the hard way:

It's not that you're bad at teacher planning.

It's that most planning systems were never built for teachers juggling this many different classes.

I used to overplan, rebuild everything from scratch, and try to make every lesson perfect—until it became completely unsustainable.

What changed?

I stopped chasing perfect plans and started building simple, repeatable systems.

Now I help secondary teachers simplify teacher planning, reuse what already works, and actually finish something during their prep period.

Inside this podcast, you'll find:

* Secondary teacher strategies for managing multiple preps without constant overwhelm

* Teacher planning systems that help you decide what to work on first and actually finish it

* Elective teacher resources that save time without sacrificing meaningful learning

* Classroom routines that reduce decision fatigue and keep your day running without constant effort

* Low-prep classroom games and engaging lessons that support student engagement without hours of prep

* Secondary teacher tips for protecting your planning period and getting more work done during the school day

* Systems for repurposing lessons across career technical education, electives, and other courses

* Practical strategies for CTE teachers, elective teachers, and any multiple prep teacher constantly switching between courses

* Teacher productivity strategies that help you reduce your Teacher workload and protect your time

* Practical ways to use AI to support teacher planning without turning it into one more thing you have to learn

You don't need to do it all.

You need systems that work.

If you're ready to spend less time reinventing lessons, feel more in control of your planning, protect your evenings, and still show up for your students…

**Hit play.**

### Next Steps

Grab your free resources to start simplifying your teacher planning right away:

🎯 **2026–2027 Secondary Teacher Editable Unit/Lesson Planning Calendar**

https://khristenmassic.com/secondarycalendarpod

🎯 **Planning Period Reset Toolkit**

https://khristenmassic.com/reset

Find more ready-to-use elective teacher resources in my Teachers Pay Teachers store:

https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/store/khristen-massic-cte-teacher-coach

Learn more at:

[www.khristenmassic.com](http://www.khristenmassic.com)