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.

It's a new month, which means it's time for a new theme here on our podcast. For the month of March,

we are going to be focusing on organization.

Obviously, that's a very broad term.

And it incorporates both physical organization along with digital organization.

So we're going to try to cover as much of both of those as we can.

Today, we are starting by being open and vulnerable with y'all. We're each going to share

our top three mistakes when it comes to organization. But first, let's hear a TSAH from Shelly Lee.

So Shelly Lee says, I have been teaching for four years. I was third grade, then moved to fourth,

then back to third, distance learning year, and called to go back to fourth again about two weeks before school began this year.

And sorry, my voice, guys, is like all over.

And then was told that I'm likely to go back to third next year if numbers stay the way that they anticipate.

I've been primarily planning online for the last two-ish years, but I'm struggling with how to

organize for each grade level. I lose so much time trying to organize activities, exemplars,

masters, etc. to use again in the future. Do I do it by grade level, standard, unit, subject,

month of the year? Help. I love this TSA, Shelley, because the answer is easy. Do what works for you.

Seriously, there are no, like, magical, correct answers when it comes to digital organization.

Obviously, there are guidelines to follow. Like, every file should be in a folder and you should utilize what we call folderception

or folders within folders. But in terms of the way you break it down, it's totally your call.

If it were me, I would start with a folder for each grade level. So you'd have a third

grade folder and a fourth grade folder. Within each of those folders, I would create a folder for

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