253. New Year, New GOALS: What Do We Want to Get Done This Year?

Teaching to the TOP

Teaching on the Double

Parenting, Education, Self-improvement, Kids & Family

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🗓️ 2 January 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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HAPPY NEW YEAR! It's a new year and that means we are doing what we love best: reflecting and setting new goals that we just might achieve. Get ready to plan out what this year has in store as we share our reflections, goals from 2024, and how we plan on starting the new year. SUBMIT YOUR TIME SUCKING HURDLE! We want to know what is sucking up all of your time either as a teacher or just a person. Head over to our website and submit your TSH so that you can have a chance to be featured on the podcast! SUBSCRIBE & REVIEW Are you subscribed to our podcast? If you’re not, I want to encourage you to do that today. I don’t want you to miss an episode. Click here to subscribe to iTunes! Now if you’re feeling extra loving, We would be really grateful if you left us a review over on iTunes, too. Those reviews help other people find our podcast and they’re also fun for us to go in and read. Just click here to review, select “Ratings and Reviews” and “Write a Review” and let us know what your favorite part of the podcast is. Thank you!

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0:00.0	Well, hello there, top teachers. We are your host, Michelle Emerson and Bridget Spackman, and we are here to make
0:06.4	your life easier by helping you master your time, organization, and productivity as a teacher.
0:11.9	New Year, new goals. If you've been a longtime listener of the podcast, you already knew that this
0:17.7	episode was coming. Almost every year for the past, what now, five years,
0:22.8	we have started with an episode related to goal setting. So in this episode, Bridget and I are going
0:30.5	to do one final recap of our 2024 goals, let you know how the final quarter of 2024 went we're going to talk about
0:39.4	what goals we're setting this year how we're structuring things and just kind of chit-chat and catch up so
0:45.2	first I'm going to share a time-sucking hurdle because I have had many lately now keep in mind
0:51.5	Bridget and I have to record these in advance. So we are actually recording this on
0:56.2	Sunday, December 22nd, which means we are fresh into our winter breaks. And as a result,
1:03.7	my time-sucking hurdle has been just the week leading into winter break and all of the
1:08.7	activities and things that you have to prep and schedule changes.
1:14.0	And it's been a lot. And I was telling Bridget yesterday, I said, I had a ton of fun and like I
1:20.6	thoroughly enjoyed the time and the memories that I cultivated with my students. It just,
1:27.0	it was a lot because it all kind of culminates,
1:30.0	you know, on one final day and it's like you're trying to prep all of the things. So I was doing
1:35.3	baking for our staff party. I made these like white chocolate peppermint cookies and they turned
1:40.4	out delicious, but like that was time consuming. I made homemade cinnamon rolls for
1:45.4	my team teachers as well as other staff members. And if you've ever made homemade cinnamon rolls
1:51.0	from scratch, you know they are a labor of love. You have to like mix. Well, first you have to
1:55.6	combine like the milk and the yeast and let it sit. And then you combine everything into the dough, let the dough prove,
2:01.9	roll it out, put the cinnamon spread on it, cut it up, let it prove again, bake it, let it cool,
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