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.

We are getting festive in this episode for two different reasons. One, we're celebrating five years of top teaching and two, we're doing our annual gift exchange.

So grab your beverage of choice, get on the walking pad, go outside, and let's celebrate together.

Half a century, or not a century, half a decade.

Half a decade.

Yeah, you're right. Wow, that took me a really long time

to process that. Well, that's because I started by saying century and I was like, nope, wrong word.

But half a decade. That is crazy to think about. That is so freaking wild. Like, it doesn't even

feel like it's been five years. No. And I think this is always where I mess up, because in my

brain, I go, well, we started in 2020 and it's 2024. So that's four years. But technically, like,

because 2020 was the first year, then 2021 was the second, the fact that it's been five years is

my bog. Yeah.

It's wild.

Absolutely wild.

But I'm excited to be able to celebrate.

Yeah.

And I feel like normally I try to pick out a TSA, but I'm going to end up sharing my TSA.

Well, mainly for a few different reasons.

One, because it's the holidays, nobody wants to think about school.

Let's just be honest.

Don't nobody want to think about that.

And two, I felt like this was very fitting for our episode today.

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