Well, hello there, top teachers. We are your host, Bridget Spackman and Michelle Emerson, and we are here to make

your life easier by helping you master your time, organization, and productivity as a teacher.

Listen, people, we all have busy lives from families, friends, work, hobbies, and so much more.

It can be really challenging to truly manage our time in an effective way.

So in this episode, we want to share some mistakes that you might be making when it comes to

time management and, most importantly, how you can fix them. But first, let's hear a TSA from Debbie.

She says, I love your podcast and it has helped a lot.

My colleague and I share our lesson planning. She plans for reading, writing, and language,

and I plan for math, science, and social studies. I batch all of my subjects to make it easier for me.

My problem is that once I have created all my lessons for a unit, the grade level decides to skip a unit or three and do something else.

Then I have to start all over again. We do not plan together as a grade level, but we try to stay

uniform. All of these changes are always a last-minute

change. So, Debbie, I have to tell you that when I wrote down my response to you, I was a little bit

feisty. So I'm going to hope that I didn't become too feisty here, and my personality is coming out

at the moment. But Debbie, it sounds like

you really do have like a fantastic system for planning your lessons. But it also sounds like

the changes are on your team and not on you. I completely understand wanting to be aligned with

your team and what they're doing,

but it can be unbelievably draining and defeating to have to constantly make changes

based off of what other people are doing.

And it can then start to really affect the relationship that you have with your team, right?

Because it's a lot of negativity that's going back and forth.

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