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. So there are times in teaching when it can feel like you're a hamster

on a wheel, always trying to keep up with the demands of the job, especially at the very

beginning of the school

year. You're lesson planning, you're prepping, you're trying your very best to move from surviving

each day to finally feel like you're ahead of the game. So in this episode, we're going to be chatting

all about the practical strategies that can help you transform the daily grind into a well-oiled machine.

So, lady, I have to say that you were my inspiration for this entire podcast.

You mean my lack of thriving for the past month and a half, two months?

I feel like you are thriving right now.

Now I would say I'm like right in between, I'm like teetering, teetering between surviving

to thriving, but for the past month and a half, two months surviving.

Yeah, that's for sure.

So, and I feel like that was the entire inspiration because, you know, Michelle and I, we send voice messages back to one another, like, periodically throughout the week when we just want to kind of catch up and just share some things that have been going on.

And it's been so interesting just kind of hearing her transition and moving across that I was like

thinking to myself, how in the world do people do it? Like how do they truly go from doing the

day to day and really struggling of, you know, I'm just trying to lesson plan. I'm just trying

to keep up with the Jones's

type situation to all of a sudden feeling like they're patch planning and they're getting all of

this done. And I tried to think back to when I was teaching and remember that transition that I went

through, but I think it took a really long time. So we're

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