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 is that time of year when you already start thinking ahead to the fall, which, of course, means securing your new teacher planner for the next school year.

So if you're thinking about finally taking the plunge into digital planning or you're

already a digital planning pro, but you want to maybe make a few changes, this episode is for

you.

We are going to share some new digital planning strategies we have recently tried and loved.

But first, we're going to listen to a TSAH from Bethany.

Bethany says, ladies, talk to me about digital planning.

I keep hearing that I need to make the switch, but I am hesitant to dive in.

I know there are a lot of benefits, but what do you think would convince me?

Thanks in advance. Well, Bethany, apparently we read your mind a while ago because we have an

entire podcast episode dedicated to the benefits of digital planning. That is episode 175,

and it's titled Top Five Benefits of Digital Planning for

Teachers. We will have that linked for you in the show notes, but we're obviously going to get

into some of it in this episode as well. So for sake of time, I'm just going to share like my

personal biggest benefit when it comes to digital planning. And I think it's my

availability to access my planner on multiple devices. So when I used a paper planner, if I left it at

school, I was SOL. You know what I mean? I didn't have access to my plans. Whereas with digital

planning, whether it's the tablet version or the Google Slides version, I can access it from anywhere

because with the Google Slides version, I can just log into my Google account on any device that

has internet and I can find it there with the tablet version, even though it's on my tablet,

if I don't have my tablet, because I use good notes and I have it on ICloud,

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