EP145 When you can't (or don't want to) stick to routines: How to create flexibility within structure (Amy's Coaching Call)
Angela Watson's Truth for Teachers
Angela Watson
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 4 November 2018
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Today's episode is coaching call with Amy, a graduate of the 40 Hour Teacher Workweek Club. We're talking about what happens when you create routines for your planning time and nterruptions keep popping up, making you feel like that you never use the planning time in the way that you intended.
We also discuss what to do when you create really effective routines that work awhile, and then stop working because either your preferences or your circumstances have changed.
We're also talking about being intentional about what you're saying yes to and knowing the reason WHY you're saying yes.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to episode 145 of Angela Watson's Truth for Teachers. I'm your host |
| 0:06.4 | Angela Watson and I'm here to speak life, encouragement, and truth into the minds |
| 0:11.8 | and hearts of educators and get you energized for the week ahead. |
| 0:15.0 | Today I'm going to let you listen in on a coaching call with a teacher where we talk about |
| 0:19.8 | how to balance flexibility and structure so that you can change up routines that |
| 0:24.8 | start to feel boring or unworkable. Visit truth for teachers.com to get the |
| 0:29.1 | transcript or to share your thoughts in the comments. This episode is brought to you in part by |
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| 1:05.0 | So I know I mentioned at the very beginning of the season that I was not planning to do any |
| 1:09.0 | coaching calls at all because I really need to pick some really kind of simple podcast topics and not |
| 1:14.9 | devote too much time to the podcast right now because my main priority is |
| 1:18.2 | finishing this book that I'm writing but when it came down to it, I just missed coaching. I just love talking with teachers one-on-one, |
| 1:27.0 | mostly because I know how powerful it is. |
| 1:29.0 | There's a lot of times that people are right on the cusp of a breakthrough and if they just |
| 1:33.9 | had someone to ask them the right questions and affirm their intuition a little |
| 1:37.9 | bit they could have big transformations and just really just a couple minutes of |
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