258. March Madness for Teachers: Which Strategy Wins it All?

Teaching to the TOP

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Parenting, Education, Self-improvement, Kids & Family

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🗓️ 20 March 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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March Madness is here, but instead of filling out basketball brackets, we’re filling out our Teacher Productivity Bracket! 🎉 We’re pitting time-saving, organizing, and efficiency-boosting strategies against each other to see which one comes out on top! Which teacher strategy will win it all? Let’s dive in! 📌 In This Episode, We Discuss: 🏀 How different organization and productivity strategies stack up against each other🏀 Which strategies advance to the next round and why🏀 The Final Four strategies and how they can impact your teaching🏀 The ultimate winner—which one strategy will help teachers the MOST? 💡 Some of these matchups may surprise you! 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, Bridget Spackman and Michelle Emerson, and we are here to make
0:06.1	your life easier by helping you master your time, organization, and productivity as a teacher.
0:11.8	Lady, do you like basketball? I'm not the biggest basketball fan. I'm much more football. Okay, me. I'm not
0:19.8	either. But one of the things that we always do as a family in the Spackman household is we fill out
0:25.6	March Madness brackets.
0:26.6	And so at the time of us recording this, we're getting ready to fill out our brackets.
0:30.6	And we're all kind of thinking about who's going to win, even though none of us except for my husband
0:35.6	really pays attention to any of the basketball games. But since
0:40.2	March Madness is here, and while we may not be filling out basketball brackets for like all of us,
0:46.7	we are going to be thinking about a teacher productivity bracket. So we're only one time saving, organizing, and or efficiency boosting strategy is going to make
0:59.6	the final four. So we're going to be talking about our favorite strategies for productivity.
1:04.8	But first. Can I just say, I love this. I think it is such a cute idea. I'm so excited to do it.
1:10.5	And I was even telling Billy last night
1:12.8	because we watched the movie How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days. Oh my gosh. I love the movie. Right.
1:18.4	It's so cute. And in the movie, they bring up the Knicks a lot. Now obviously that's NBA and not
1:25.4	college. But yeah, yeah, yeah. When it came up, I was telling Billy, I was like,
1:28.7	oh, by the way, like Bridget and I are doing this for the podcast tomorrow. And he even was like,
1:32.6	oh, that's a really good idea. So I'm just giving you all the kudos. I'm so excited for this.
1:37.2	I feel like I had really two really good episodes. And these are going to be down as my like favorites. Okay. So I do have a TSAH and a TSAH, it's going to be mainly for you to be able to answer it.
1:48.4	Okay.
1:50.7	Because it is a TSA from Kara, one of our listeners. And Kara says, I've recently become a new teacher and I am seriously struggling with the energy to like work out after a day of school.
2:03.1	My tank is totally empty on most days.
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