078. Email Folders: The What, Why and How for Teachers

Teaching to the TOP

Teaching on the Double

Parenting, Education, Self-improvement, Kids & Family

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🗓️ 24 June 2021

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Is there really anyone who actually enjoys managing their email accounts? We can say that this is one area that we do not particularly enjoy but that doesn’t mean we can simply let it go like Ana in the movie Frozen. Email communication is essential and if not managed correctly then you are at risk of missing important notices, forgetting important dates and misreading information that requires your attention. In our next installment of The What, Why, and How for Teachers we are digging deep into how to utilize email folders to help you stay on top of your to-dos, deadlines and reference materials in your email inbox. By implementing our tips, you will feel more in control of your inbox and experience the golden “inbox zero” more often. In this episode we share: How viewing email folders like your Google Drive can organize your inbox How to process your emails and sort them correctly. This means finding a specific time during the day dedicated to processing and working to inbox zero. How email folders will help you in finding information more quickly Our structures for creating email folders How to sort and store emails at the end of the year. Don’t forget to check out our planner on our website. We have all the tools you need to plan out your summer, be proactive for the fall, and outline big projects this summer! SUBSCRIBE & REVIEW Are you subscribed to our podcast? If you’re not, I want to encourage you to do that today. I don’t want you to miss an episode. Click here to subscribe to iTunes! Now if you’re feeling extra loving, We would be really grateful if you left us a review over on iTunes, too. Those reviews help other people find our podcast and they’re also fun for us to go in and read. Just click here to review, select “Ratings and Reviews” and “Write a Review” and let us know what your favorite part of the podcast is. Thank you!

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0:00.0	Well, hello there, top teachers. We are your hosts, Michelle Emerson and Bridget Spackman, and we are here to make your life easier by helping you master your time, organization, and productivity as a teacher.
0:12.5	Today's episode is the next installment of our digital tools for teachers. We have not come up with a fancy name, but I kind of feel like we should.
0:19.9	Today's episode is going to be all about the what, why, and how for teachers. We have not come up with a fancy name, but I kind of feel like we should. Today's episode is going
0:21.5	to be all about the what, why, and how for teachers when it comes to email folders. Isn't email
0:28.4	just one of your favorite things, Bridget? No, no, it's not at all. So in order for us to avoid
0:34.4	that in talking about emails as much as possible, let's hear a TSAH from
0:38.1	Amelia. Amelia says, finding emails in the black hole that is my email inbox is her TSA
0:44.9	girl, I feel you. I can never keep up with organizing it. And then when I need to find an email
0:50.8	that has some important information, it takes forever in all caps. I feel like I
0:55.9	waste so much time and sometimes I can't find the email at all. Oops. So what's really funny about this
1:03.5	to me is that I have never had a problem with work emails, at least not for a while, but we'll come
1:09.7	back to that. But I have definitely experienced
1:12.6	this with my business emails. I would get swamped and then not be able to find what I need.
1:18.4	So now I try to stick to clearing my email inbox once a week for my business emails. I just can't
1:24.5	get to it every day. But usually on Saturday or Sunday, I'll sit down and I'll
1:28.8	make sure I go through like every single email. Yeah, I definitely think some of the strategies that
1:34.4	we're talking about here in this episode is going to really help people because it really helped
1:39.0	me in general. I typically will keep a zero inbox as well. And but here's the thing. Like I truly hate emails.
1:46.8	Like I if this is the one thing that I feel like I could get rid of overall, it would be emails.
1:52.2	I just don't like looking at them. I don't like answering them. It's just not my jam.
1:57.4	That has just always been my weakness. And while I have improved like a lot over the years,
2:02.8	it is still an area that I continue to try and grow in. So luckily, we have a great episode
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