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.

Making the jump from paper organization to digital files is overwhelming. I mean, we all like the

physical movement of writing on paper, right?

And even though we are a big proponent of heading digital, like, we know that there are pros and cons to keeping digital files and paper files.

In this episode, we want to break those down to help you decide on which direction you should

go.

But first, we're going to hear a time-sucking hurdle from, I believe it's pronounced

Carrie, but I am so...

I would say so.

Okay, I was going to say.

I apologize if that is incorrect.

But Carrie says, my TSA is student documentation.

I regularly have students who are in the IAT process, which is the initial steps before we might

recommend them for an IEP, and I have to keep notes on their progress. I also have a student with

extreme behaviors and have to keep daily notes on how their day went. Often, I don't have the time

during the day to do this documentation, so I have to sit down at the

end of the day to do it. It takes me even longer then because I have to spend time trying to

recall everything. I feel like this is something that a lot of teachers have to deal with, right?

And so with anything, I feel like you have to have a system. You need to have kind of the

foundation that's going to make it just a little bit easier. So I can understand because I also

have documentation that I'm doing on kids every single day. And so what I've done is I've just, I've created a folder for them and I just

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