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.

I probably don't need to say this because you can obviously hear it, but I apologize in advance

this episode and then the one coming in two weeks. You're going to hear

this awful sickish kind of voice from me. I'm sorry. It is what it is. Officially, the beginning

of the year, germs have found me. But I feel like me avoiding them until mid to late October

is pretty good. That's impressive. That's really impressive.

I'm proud of myself. And they're probably used to hearing this at this moment. It comes with the

program. So just know that I apologize in advance, but we got to do what we got to do. We've got to

persevere. So I'm going to kick off this episode by sharing my recent

TSA, which is a lack of planning time. Now, we're going to get into what planning time has looked

like for each of us, because everywhere I've gone, it's been a little bit different.

But lately, I just feel like there have been weeks that go by

where I do not have any planning time, meaning time to myself to just work and get stuff done,

because every block of planning time that I have has been allocated to either parent-teacher conferences

or like various meetings. And it's really hard when

you get to like Friday of the week. And it's like I haven't had any planning time. Yeah. Yeah.

That is a huge struggle. And just as you mentioned a little bit ago, that every school that I've been at,

the planning time has been somewhat

different. And I've had really great experiences with planning time and then really no-bue.

Experiences with planning time, which I'm sure we'll get into. But it can make everything really

hard. It just makes your excitement level and your

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