Burnout, work/life balance, and supporting teachers (with Lisa Woodruff of Organize 365)
Angela Watson's Truth for Teachers
Angela Watson
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 2 July 2022
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
I recently had an upbeat, fun conversation with Lisa Woodruff of Organize 365 for her podcast, and thought I'd share an excerpt of it here with you!
We're talking all about the state of education today, what we're hearing from teachers about their needs, and our experiences with burnout and balance.
As a fellow former educator, Lisa knows the mindset and challenges of teaching well, and does a deep dive with me into some of the 40 Hour Teacher Workweek principles. This includes: the difference between required work vs hobby work, overcoming perfectionism, and learning what you can say no to without having your classroom fall apart.
We both share some major timewasting mindsets we fell prey to as teachers, and how we think about our work and time differently today.
If you enjoy this conversation, check out ep 149, called Living life as an organized teacher.
You can also listen to Lisa's Organize 365 podcast on home and paper organization: https://organize365.com/podcast
Or check out Lisa's Education Friday Workbox® for teacher organization: https://af271.isrefer.com/go/EDWX/AngelaWatson/
And finally, here's the link to my 40 Hour Teacher Workweek program which is open through July 27th:
https://join.40htw.com
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there, it's Angela. We are in between podcast seasons right now, but I wanted to release |
| 0:06.4 | this episode, which is an excerpt from an interview that I did with Lisa Woodruff of Organized |
| 0:13.3 | 365 for her Organized 365 podcast. I have been on her show before. She's went on my show |
| 0:20.7 | before and I know a lot of you have really enjoyed our collaboration. Lisa and I are so aligned |
| 0:26.3 | when it comes to organizational methods, work-life balance, all of those good things. And honestly, |
| 0:32.7 | Lisa is just a good time. She's just really fun to listen to. She's so energetic and positive, |
| 0:38.7 | and I just thought this might be something fun for you to listen to this summer. We're just talking |
| 0:43.1 | about what's happening in education in terms of the support that teachers need in order to stay |
| 0:50.8 | and the things that she's doing, the things that I'm doing in the overlap between them in order |
| 0:55.1 | to support teachers. So she has what she calls an education Friday work box, and you can find the |
| 1:01.0 | link to that in the show notes for this episode. That's her organizational system for teachers, |
| 1:07.0 | and when we first started partnering together, we realized that like the 40-hour teacher work week |
| 1:12.5 | is so compatible with her education Friday work box, but there's no overlap between her process |
| 1:19.0 | in mind. So if you're in one program and not the other, like you won't see things duplicated, |
| 1:23.8 | but at the same time, they really, the whole mindset and the approach really complement each other. |
| 1:28.6 | So we talk a bit about that as well. So I just wanted to let you all listen in on this. I encourage you |
| 1:33.9 | to check out her podcast too. She's got lots of great organizational tips. They are really focused on |
| 1:38.8 | home organization, and I know a lot of people like to work on that sort of thing and other home |
| 1:43.2 | projects over the summer. So enjoy, and I will be back to talk with you again soon. |
| 1:48.6 | We are both very solution-oriented, positive people, but I'm going to take a few minutes of this |
| 1:55.8 | podcast to pour a little bit of salt on the wound and really get to the crux of what is the state |
| 2:02.5 | of education today for teachers like what is coming out in some of the surveys that we've seen |
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