New Resource Alert: Get-Ready-For-Next-Year List! And our May Contest Winners!

Thanks so much for your incredible contributions to our Get-Ready-For-Next-Year-List! Follow the link to download your very own copy to satisfy your list-making-pleasure—and make preparing for next year a little easier! Based on your feedback, we created the checklist...

Make the Most of Your Week Lesson #2: Plan in Batches

This is the second post of Five Lessons in our Make the Most of Your Week series. I’ve been feeling inspired lately after facilitating workshops and hearing so many creative ways teachers find to Make the Most of Their Weeks. Lesson #2: Plan in Batches Zack V., a...

Resource Workshop and Contest [Enter by 5/10]: Help Us Build A Get-Ready-for-Next-Year Checklist!

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about checklists. . . checklists of groceries to order, checklists of morning routines for my toddler, checklists of stuff to pack for vacation…So many checklists that I need a checklist for my checklists! Kidding aside, checklists make...

Make the Most of Your Week Lesson #5: Faster and Smarter

Make the Most of Your Week Lesson #5: Faster and Smarter There are many definitions of efficiency out there, but we like this one best: “accomplishment of or ability to accomplish a job with a minimum expenditure of time and effort.” Of course, there are many, many...

Making the Most of your Week Lesson #3: Using Small Pockets of Time

Are you like me? Do you sometimes find yourself completely wasting small 15 – 20 minute chunks of time? Of course, sometimes they should be wasted (see our hot chocolate post from the start of 2013). But for the most part, my orientation is to try my hardest to use...

Quick Quiz: Are you Time-Oriented or Task-Oriented?

Educators plan for their weeks at school in so many ways. The possible formats…Outlook… Google…Word…a hand-drawn list…are endless. Even still, teachers always seem to split into two camps. . . Those motivated by time and those driven by tasks. Are you time or...