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

You know, guys, I really like all of the episodes that we end up recording for you guys, but I feel like this is probably one of the ones that I am really, really excited about.

Today, we're going to be sharing some strategies for simplifying back to school in order to help make your life easier, but also help you save some mula.

Some dough, some green stuff.

But first, I'm going to share a TSA from Adelaide.

I really hope I am pronouncing your name correctly, and I apologize if I'm not.

Adelaide says her TSA is reorganizing my classroom.

I love organization and decluttering, but sometimes it can be a problem.

When I have planning time and after school, I reorganize my

classroom. I am always buying bins and pocket charts, etc. Sometimes I am in a decluttering phase,

and once I throw away all my lesson planning templates, ones that I printed, two days before I had to

turn in my required lesson plans to my admin. I definitely have a problem.

We completely understand where you are coming from. I mean, it is so hard to really kind of

refrain from buying all of the things in order to kind of help you organize. And I think that's

one of the really big things that we're going to talk about in this episode

too is just that, you know, we don't really necessarily, I feel like we always buy stuff

in hopes for to solve a problem that we have.

When in reality, we don't need to buy the stuff to solve the problem.

We just have to solve the problem by being a little bit more,

we have to be on ourselves. What's that word that we're always talking about? Like tough love?

It's tough love. It really is. So I know that during these back to school times, we oftentimes

feel the pressure. It's like marketers really understand how to get into

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