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. First of all, happy New Year. Yay! Oh my goodness. Bridget and I

were talking about this the other day. 2020 felt like it was five years long.

Yeah.

But 2021 flew by. Yeah. Yeah. Oh my goodness. So we are excited to be bringing in the new year with you

through a new little mini series on our podcast that will focus on habits. You may remember or not because it was a long time

ago, but our first episode was all about building habits. So today, Bridget and I are going to

share the habits that we personally are trying to build this year. Yes, absolutely. But first,

let's hear a TSAH from Hannah. Hannah says,

team meetings. Don't get me wrong. I love my team. We like meeting together, but our meeting agenda is a 100-plus

page Google doc. Oh, my word. That is a mess to wade through and find relevant information. How do you both organize meeting

agendas and notes with your team members? Michelle? Oh my goodness, Hannah. That's a lot of pages

for a single Google doc. I'm having flashbacks to like grad school. But I'm going to share how I

always organized our team agenda slash notes and hopefully it will give

you some ideas. I was the fourth grade team lead. So it was my responsibility to create the

agenda and then lead the team meetings. I, of course, created a template that I used every single

time. So within the Google Doc, I had a section for upcoming

dates. We could put any questions we had for admin. We could put curriculum updates. We had a spot

for a data discussion, which we didn't do every time. But if we needed to, we could. And then just

general notes. And I would reuse that same template every single time. And then I made a

habit to basically share the Google Doc with my admin at the end of the meeting that was like a

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