Welcome to episode 128 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 week

ahead. Today I'm going to be doing a coaching call with a teacher named Amera and

discuss how to maximize your non-instructional time to trim hours off your work week.

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on the show. So the episode that you're about to hear is a

free coaching call that I conducted with a graduate of the 40-hour teacher work

week club. Her name is Amera and she teaches grades 3 and 4 French immersion in Winnipeg, Manitoba.

Now her teaching context might be different from yours, but I promise you are going to be able to relate to all of her challenges because they're

common to just about every teacher. How to maximize the time before school starts in the morning,

how to get things done during your planning time when you only have 20 minutes, how to wrap up the day when you've got 30 things that need to get done and you're completely exhausted.

So Amara and I are going to walk through each element of her non-instructional time, and we're

going to look for ways that she can streamline or simplify to really maximize her energy.

And as you listen in, I encourage you to ask yourself the same questions that I'm asking

Amara and use her responses as a springboard so that you can figure out how to maximize your time

as well.

So let's start off by talking about your morning routine. So you

mentioned that your typical morning starts off around 6 a.m. and you're waking

yourself up, you're forcing yourself out of bed, and then you're spending about 20 minutes or so waking up more on your phone.

How do you feel about the way that you're starting the morning? Is that working for you? I think that I get

suspected with my phone a little bit it's I often read headlines and stuff in the

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