239. Get Ready for the Next School Year in 1 Hour (Setting Up Your Digital Planner)

Teaching to the TOP

Teaching on the Double

Parenting, Education, Self-improvement, Kids & Family

4.8 • 667 Ratings

🗓️ 25 July 2024

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Setting up for the new school year doesn’t have to be a daunting, day-long process. In this episode, Bridget and Michelle guide you through a quick and efficient way to prepare for the upcoming school year using a digital planner. Learn how to streamline your planning process, saving time and energy as you head into a new academic year. Episode Highlights: Introduction to Digital Planning: Bridget and Michelle discuss the evolution of teacher planners from paper to digital, highlighting the flexibility and efficiency of modern digital planners. Choosing the Right Digital Planner: Tips on selecting a digital planner that meets your needs, with a special mention of Bridget and Michelle’s own digital planner available in various formats. Essential Materials: List of everything you need to get started, including your device, digital planner, stylus, and district calendar. Step-by-Step Setup Guide: 15 Minutes - Important Dates: Start by entering key dates from your district calendar such as professional workdays, holidays, and special events. 10 Minutes - Intro Pages: Quickly fill out introductory pages of your planner, which may include special dates and basic schedule info. 10 Minutes - Weekly Planning Setup: Layout the structure of your weekly planning pages, deciding on blocks and headers to use throughout the year. 10 Minutes - Organize Stickers: If you use digital stickers, set aside time to organize and resize your favorites for easy access. 15 Minutes - Transferring Templates: Begin populating your weekly planning pages with the templates or layouts you’ve created. Key Takeaways: A digital planner can transform the way you prepare for the school year, making it possible to set everything up in just one hour. By following this structured approach, you can enter the new school year with a clear plan and a calm mind. LINKS: Digital planners Stickers Free stickers Michelle’s planning vlog SUBMIT YOUR TIME SUCKING HURDLE! We want to know what is sucking up all of your time either as a teacher or just a person. Head over to our website and submit your TSH so that you can have a chance to be featured on the podcast! SUBSCRIBE & REVIEW Are you subscribed to our podcast? If you’re not, I want to encourage you to do that today. I don’t want you to miss an episode. Click here to subscribe to iTunes! Now if you’re feeling extra loving, We would be really grateful if you left us a review over on iTunes, too. Those reviews help other people find our podcast and they’re also fun for us to go in and read. Just click here to review, select “Ratings and Reviews” and “Write a Review” and let us know what your favorite part of the podcast is. Thank you!

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0:00.0	Well, hello there, top teachers. We are your host, Bridget Spackman and Michelle Emerson, and we are here to make
0:06.1	your life easier by helping you master your time, organization, and productivity as a teacher.
0:12.1	I don't know about you, but there was a time that I would just sit down to plan and prep for the
0:17.3	beginning of the school year, and it would take me hours. And it's because I didn't
0:24.2	have a really streamlined processes and system for identifying like all the things that I needed
0:29.3	to get done before the beginning of the year. So in this episode, we're going to be sharing how to get
0:34.3	ready for the school year in one hour using your digital planner.
0:38.7	But first, let's hear a time-sucking hurdle from Donna.
0:42.5	Donna says, I am trying to decide which of your Google Slides digital planners will best meet
0:47.9	my needs help.
0:50.0	Donna, great question.
0:51.8	And I feel like I once felt like I would be, I would tell you to go and talk to Michelle. But even Michelle now has been using the tablet version. Okay, here's my, here's my caveat. I use the tablet version for my personal planner because I do that planning here at home and I always have my iPad. I use Google
1:13.3	slides for my digital teacher planner, which I actually set up yesterday. We're going to come back to
1:18.3	that, but I use Google slides for that because it's easier for me to access at school and at home
1:23.8	and I'm a Google school. So for me, that was an easy decision. Yeah. So Donna, I do see that
1:29.1	you're asking specifically about Google slides. So I don't think you're going into the tablet
1:33.5	realm here. So when you're looking at the Google slides, are you, I guess the question would be,
1:39.0	are you thinking about like the personal Google slides or the teacher Google slides or are you asking in reference to
1:45.6	like the landscape versus the portrait. Now I'm going to be honest, I would not be able to tell
1:52.2	you which one of which for like landscape or portrait. So I'm going to leave that answer to
1:57.6	Michelle on that end. But when it comes to the personal planner or the teacher planner,
2:03.1	they really have two very defined purposes. The personal planner is really going to be more for
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