Welcome to Season 5 episode 12 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 the teacher name April and we'll be exploring

how to be intentional and balanced with the way you spend your time both online and off, even

in highly stressful times of the year.

Visit truth for teachers.com to get the transcript, links to recommended resources, and to share your thoughts 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. It's a combination of

instructional coaching and life coaching all sort of rolled into one where I'm

answering teachers specific questions about productivity and balance and managing it all.

This particular call is with a fifth grade teacher named April.

And April's challenge right now is with trying to find balance and intentionality during times of the year that are

super demanding such as during parent conference week. As we get into the

conversation we dig deeper into her social media habits and exploring how her desire to learn from and

connect with other educators is sometimes swallowing up more time than she intends and interfering

with her ability to get a good night's rest and really stay in balance.

So we talk a lot about intentional connectivity and you'll hear me mention a free intentional connectivity

challenge.

If that's something that you're interested in, stick

around to the end of the episode and I'll tell you how you can join in for this too.

So April's given me permission to record our conversation and share it here with you so that you can analyze your habits

and get in better balance too. Here's April with her first question.

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