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. We've talked a lot about routines on this podcast,

and we've shared morning routines, evening routines, and even some lesson planning routines. But today, we're going

to take it a step further and share the best monthly routine to stay on track. But first, let's start

with a TSAH or time-sucking hurdle from a top teacher. This top teacher says, I always start the

year off doing so good. I'm on my game with my lesson plans

and evaluations and grades, but for some reason at midterm break, I just can't seem to get back

on track with everything. I always find myself struggling to finish a lesson plan, grade students

work, and submit grades on time. Yeah, top teacher, I think a lot of other teachers out there feel the

exact same way. It's almost like when you get like so deep into the motions of how everything,

like everything that's going on, you start to get overwhelmed, you get a little bit off track.

And so my biggest recommendation is to just have a complete reset of everything.

And this is where I take a total day where I just look at my calendar, I look at my lessons,

and I just try to map out as much as possible. And that gives me a little bit of this kind of

restart. It's like the beginning

of the year, like a restart to it. Yeah, honestly, this reminds me, I relate everything to fitness,

but I think there are a lot of parallels. When you've been going to the gym for a long time doing

the same workout, it eventually gets the point where your motivation just isn't there. And we've talked a lot about

motivation versus discipline. However, there is something to be said about motivation. So I would even

say, like, find something to motivate you. So whether you're going to plan like a really fun

lesson that's kind of different than what you would typically do or you plan a reward for yourself after you get,

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