Well, hello, their 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.

After a few years of just feeling stress, maybe underappreciated, and overworked with behaviors, parents,

and just big changes that are happening in the classroom,

we wanted to make a big shift with how we are approaching this upcoming year.

So in this episode, we're talking all about the school year mindset shifts that you need to be making.

But first, let's hear a time-sucking hurdle from Mrs. Mack, who says, my current TSAH is back to school shopping.

Although I do find it therapeutic as well as it is one of my favorite things I love about my job as an elementary school teacher.

I also love seeing the smiles on the students' faces on the first day of school.

What are some of your favorite things about your

current roles slash jobs? Oh, man, I would probably say, this is terrible, but some of the favorites

that I have with this current job is one that I get to work from home every once in a while.

I mean, it sounds terrible that I'm saying

that. But it is something that is a perk for the position that I have. So I do enjoy that every

once in a while, especially being an introverted person. Like an introvert at home, like this is my

space. But I love it when I have the ability to be able to go into the classrooms and support and

coach teachers. By far, my favorite thing. I love that way more than going in and doing

presentations. I like the coaching role in that aspect of being able to see the kids and also help teachers and

model some lessons. That's my favorite part because I do miss the classroom quite a bit. So

that's for me. What about you, Michelle? So I'm going to give kind of two answers.

One, I am really excited about going back to the classroom to be able to form

those relationships with my students and their families and like the community as a whole,

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