Welcome to episode 127 of Angela Watson's Truth for Teachers. I'm your host

Angela Watson and I'm here to speak life, encouragement, and truth into the minds

and hearts of educators and get you energized for the

the mind and hearts of educators and get you energized for the week ahead.

Today I'm going to share a simple four-step process to help you

deconstruct your classroom in just one day.

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kid-friendly tasks that you can use to help you delegate end of your clothes out to your

students.

We all know that the end of the school year can feel super crazy because it means lots of close out

tasks for the teacher. We've got tons of paperwork, we've got bulletin boards to remove, supplies to label and pack away,

cleaning, all that kind of stuff. So you as the teacher have

plenty of things to do, but often the kids don't. Standardized tests are done for the year, grade

books have been closed out, and a lot of times our students feel like they're just sort of

biting their time until summer break. And kids are really perceptive. They know when we're

distracted and we're just trying to get them out of our hair. So we end up

spending the whole day trying to keep them on task and the close-out tasks just keep piling up. So today I want to share this

simple four-step system that I've created for closing out and deconstructing your

room in a single day. I'm going to help you figure out how to pace yourself so those end of your tasks don't feel so unmanageable.

Now, the first step is to get everything but your room deconstruction completed in advance.

So the final weeks of the school year are when you're going to complete your end of your paperwork,

return materials, start organizing and decluttering, all those other types of close-out tasks.

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