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. This is going to be a very fun episode. We are looking forward to it.

We receive a lot of TSHs. You all know time-sucking hurdles, right? Those things that are just

taking away all of your time.

But unfortunately, we can't always include them in every podcast episode, right? Like we receive more

than the number of episodes that we do. So in today's episode, we are going to share 10 extra

TSHs and we're going to respond to them. Yeah. So, should we just go ahead

and start? I mean, I feel like we're not in our normal flow because like, you know,

normally we all do the TSA. We have like a whole thing that we kind of build up to. I think we're

just going to go for it. Let's just do it. Okay. So let's start off with the

TSAH from Mandy. Mandy says, my time-sucking hurdle is moving between different programs to

communicate with my students. I'm using Canvas, which is our LMS, class dojo, email, our county

grade book, clever papers, et cetera. I would love to focus on one program,

but students and their families have preferences and do not all respond through the same mode

of communication. I understand that, but it is taking a lot of time. Thank you both for your

creative, tough love podcast each week. you have helped me improve as an educator

and person oh i'm happy she mentioned tough love because i feel like i'm going to give a little bit

okay here's where my mind went when you read that it made me think about and i'm not a parent

so i'm just saying this from things that I have observed. I feel like when

parents give their kids too many options, it's almost like you're giving the kids a little bit too much

power, right? So I think about if a parent is giving their kids like, well, what do you want for dinner?

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