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. Now, if you've been listening for the past month, you know we are

now releasing episodes every other week. And October is going to be the start of this new format where

essentially I lead an episode and then Bridget leads an episode. So we're kind of independently

planning these. And then in real time, we will record, ask each other's questions, get each other's

thoughts, all that fun stuff. So we're going to see how it goes.

I mean, hopefully it goes as well as the way we're picturing it in our heads. But today's

episode that I am leading is going to be all about our third quarter review for our goals that

we set at the beginning of 2024. But before we jump into that, I'm going to share my personal TSA, which I feel like I have a

lot more of now that I am back in the classroom because I forgot about how many things are time-sucking

hurdles that teachers just don't necessarily have control over.

So from this past week, I would say my TSAH was attending a plethora of meetings. I felt like

nearly every single day during the week, I had a meeting to attend. So for example, during the

week, I have 50 minutes of planning per day, which is interesting because my last district, I believe, at least from

my memory, we had an hour of planning every day, but it, well, not every day. That's the whole thing.

It was only four out of five days a week. Right. Now I have planning time every day, but it's for 50

minutes. So this past week on Monday, which is typically more of a like independent planning time every day, but it's for 50 minutes. So this past week on Monday, which is typically

more of a like independent planning time where I can just get planning done, well, I had an annual

review for an IEP to attend. So that took my entire planning time. Then move into Tuesday.

Tuesday is usually when we will plan as a math and science team.

So I don't really expect to have independent planning time on that day.

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