Well, hello there, top teachers. We are your host, Michelle Farray. And Bridget Spackman, and we're here to make your life easier by helping you master your time, organization, and productivity as a teacher.

Look, everyone, this is going to be a very casual episode. We know that COVID-19 has thrown us all for a loop. Many of us didn't see this coming or at least didn't see

it coming quite this extreme. And we've all been very thrown off by the mandated stay-at-home

orders and having to stay in quarantine. And we have these brand-new responsibilities with online

teaching and we're trying to establish a work-life balance with our families at home.

So in today's episode, we are going to discuss our personal struggles and victories throughout this experience.

So the things that we've actually done really well with and that have been helpful for us, but then also the things

that have not been so helpful. Oh, man, this is going to be a really good episode because I have a lot

to say. So before we move on, I want to go ahead and share a TSAH from Meredith. My TSAH this week is finding

and uploading all the different websites, assignments to

Google Classroom for Distance Learning. My county is giving us math and reading, but there is much

more than putting a link to a video. I have to make discussion questions, upload exit tickets,

and organize each week's Google Classroom with the day each assignment should be completed.

Girl, we totally fill you. And I think that that has definitely been a struggle for so many

people out there as we've really been working to navigate distance learning and really support

our students the best way possible. Yeah, I agree. This has definitely been a struggle for so many teachers,

Bridget and myself included. So without further ado, let's go ahead and jump into this episode.

I feel like when this whole thing first started happening, correct me if I'm wrong, Bridget,

we initially closed for two weeks, both Bridgett's schools and mine schools, like they both closed for

two weeks. And Bridget and I talked on the phone. I remember I had just left school, gone to the gym

when we knew that we were closing for two weeks and I called Bridget. Now at this point,

my schools had closed for two weeks, but Bridget's had not. And she was like, what? Like,

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