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201. 20 Easy Back-To-School Teacher Tasks You Can Totally Do from the Couch · Teacher Approved: Elementary Teacher Tips & Strategies

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  Heidi: This is episode 201 of Teacher Approved.
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  You're listening to Teacher Approved, the podcast helping
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  educators elevate what matters and simplify the rest. I'm
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  Heidi.
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  Emily: And I'm Emily. We're the creators behind Second Story
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  Window, where we give research based and teacher approved
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  strategies that make teaching less stressful and more
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  effective. You can check out the show notes and resources from
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  each episode at secondstorywindow.net.
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  Heidi: We're so glad you're tuning in today. Let's get to
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  the show.
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  Emily: Hey there. Thanks for joining us today. In today's
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  episode, we have 20 simple tasks that you can get done from the
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  comfort of your couch, and we're sharing a teacher approved tip
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  for creating back to school success. But first, it's time
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  for try it tomorrow, a favorite quick win that you can try in
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  your life right away.
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  Heidi: Our try it tomorrow for last week was to write your
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  summer no list. This is a list of all of the things that you
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  are not going to do in the summer, no guilt, no working on
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  weekends, no redoing your class decor. This is your to don't
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  list, kind of, maybe. But this week, our suggestion is to make
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  a summer yes list, or maybe your must do list.
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  Emily: So before you get too far into your summer break, make a
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  short list of five things you do want to say yes to this summer.
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  Think rest, fun, connection. Maybe it's yes to leaving my
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  phone in the other room during dinner, or Yes to reading a book
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  just because I want to, or Yes to saying no without guilt.
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  Heidi: Your yes list becomes a little guide post. It reminds
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  you that boundaries aren't just about saying no, they're also
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  about saying yes to what matters most. Put it on your fridge or
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  stick it in your notes app, or you could even take a screenshot
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  and make it the home screen for your phone. Do whatever makes it
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  feel real and visible.
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  Emily: This simple shift can help you make more intentional
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  choices this summer, even if your calendar is already filling
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  up.
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  Heidi: If you like this idea or anything else we share here on
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  the podcast, would you take a second and give us a five star
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  rating? Ratings and reviews are one way that new listeners find
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  us. So every rating and review really is a huge help to us.
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  Emily: Well, over the years, we have really created an extensive
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  library of back to school products. So to help you find
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  the tools that will make the start of the new year easier,
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  today we are spotlighting one of those back to school products,
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  which is our back to school readiness checklists, which is a
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  new one from last year. Heidi, can you tell us more about them?
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  Heidi: Yes, I'd love to, because I love this so much. If you used
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  our end of year roadmap, this is the same idea, only you know,
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  for the other end of the year. Instead of wrapping up, we are
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  launching the new year and helping you get ready for the
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  most successful year yet. So there are lots of different
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  checklists to help you prepare in the six areas of readiness.
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  So we have thought through so many things, and we have added a
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  bunch of new lists this year. It's all in Google Sheets, so
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  it's all editable, and you can access it anywhere you are. If
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  you're in the middle of the store and like, oh shoot, what
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  did I need to get at the craft store, you can pull it up. It's
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  right there. It's so handy. I'm so excited about this, and I
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  think teachers are gonna love it.
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  Emily: And if you don't remember from last year, the six areas of
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  readiness are that you need to have your classroom ready, your
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  supplies ready, your procedures ready, your welcome ready, your
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  first day ready, and yourself ready.
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  Heidi: Oh, no big deal. Easy peasy.
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  Emily: No big deal. That's why we need 34 checklists to meet
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  all of those areas. So if you want help staying on top of your
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  to do list in any of those areas, the back to school
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  readiness checklists are made for you, and we'll put a link to
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  those in the show notes.
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  Heidi: Okay, teacher friends. We might not know a lot about you,
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  but we can make a pretty safe bet that you are tired right
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  now.
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  Emily: Yeah, being a teacher in June is a lot like being a
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  balloon with a leak and you're just slowly sinking lower and
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  lower and lower.
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  Heidi: You know what? Good for you. You deserve to spend some
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  time crashed on the couch or curled up with a book. You have
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  spent nine months giving your whole self to an impossible job.
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  You are due for a little R and R.
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  Emily: But we want to make sure we're spending this downtime
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  recovering and not just drifting like that sinking balloon. So go
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  back to Episode 197 where we break down the types of rest you
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  might need.
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  Heidi: And we promise that that topic is not as dry as it
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  sounds, and if you listen, you will come away with a
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  restorative plan for meeting your summer needs.
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  Emily: But unfortunately, just because you don't get paid for
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  your time off doesn't mean there isn't work to do and that there
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  aren't work tasks that need your attention.
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  Heidi: So how do we manage the work tasks that are waiting for
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  us without losing our summer downtime? Well, we need
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  boundaries.
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  Emily: So check out episode 199 if you want some guidance for
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  how to set boundaries around your summer work so that you can
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  get some things done without losing your whole summer to back
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  to school prep, which is a big goal around here.
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  Heidi: One of the work boundaries that you might want
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  to set is around time. Set specific times when you'll
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  tackle work projects and, more importantly, set times when you
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  won't. This lets you enjoy summer without guilt and without
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  pressure.
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  Emily: Now, this won't be for everyone, but one of my favorite
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  times to get a little work done is when I'm relaxing on the
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  couch. I want to be clear that rest on its own is entirely
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  productive. You do not need to justify taking a break by adding
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  work to your relaxation time. However, something I find
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  relaxing is knocking a task off my to do list. So why not
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  combine the best of both worlds with doing something easy while
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  I take it easy.
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  Heidi: We call these types of tasks TV tasks. A TV task is
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  anything that you can do on your couch without having to stress
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  too much. You don't need a ton of materials. You probably just
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  need your phone or your laptop.
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  Emily: So the key to making TV task time useful is to make a
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  list of tasks ahead of time that you can do while you kick back.
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  Your tired self doesn't have the brain power to create a list of
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  ideas and go looking for something to do, so you can help
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  that tired self out by jotting down some ideas now.
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  Heidi: So what makes a task a good TV task? Well, anything
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  that doesn't require too much focus or too many materials is
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  ideal. Kind of think of it like if it's something you can do
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  with real housewives or survivor on in the background, you know
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  it's a good TV task.
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  Emily: To help you kick off your own TV task list, we're sharing
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  20 simple ideas that might help you get a bit ahead without
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  adding to your stress. So Heidi, kick us off with our first TV
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  task.
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  Heidi: Well, let's start by organizing our ideas. If you
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  have a bunch of Pinterest boards, or you have bookmarked
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  ideas on Instagram or Tiktok, take some time to revisit those
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  ideas. There's probably a few things there that don't interest
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  you anymore.
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  Emily: There's probably even a few things that you can't even
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  remember why you saved them in the first place. So just delete
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  that content now, so you can more easily find the ideas you
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  do want to remember.
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  Heidi: Another organization task is to organize your digital
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  files. If you have got stuff saved all over the place, try
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  corralling that content into a nested system. Maybe you have a
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  large file for each term, and then within the term, you break
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  it down into smaller files for subjects, and then units, weeks,
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  and then down to individual lessons.
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  Emily: Think of it as a nesting doll situation with large
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  categories being broken down into smaller groups until you
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  know exactly where to go to find the content for teaching your
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  third geometry lesson on measuring angles without having
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  to go search for it.
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  Heidi: And while you're organizing your files, go ahead
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  and delete anything you don't need anymore. If you're worried
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  about losing something that you might want to reference later,
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  you could set up a separate file for just in case content or I
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  might want this someday materials.
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  Emily: Since we're on the decluttering track, let's clean
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  out that email. You do not need to keep that reminder about
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  Field Day anymore. Think of it as liberating yourself from a
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  bunch of old expectations.
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  Heidi: And how about another easy digital task? If right now
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  you don't want to have to make a bunch of decisions from your
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  couch, here is just a low mental effort task. Gather all of your
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  passwords in one place. Make sure you're storing them
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  someplace secure but also accessible. You're not going to
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  be very happy with yourself if you know down the road, you have
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  to track down a password to be able to find your passwords.
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  Emily: Yeah, that's how I got locked out of LastPass. I swear
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  I have it right too. I think LastPass is possessed. Well,
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  there are five TV tasks to get you started, but we've got
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  plenty more to go. If you haven't already, definitely
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  check out the TV show Traders on peacock. That is the TV part of
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  this TV task. The task part is maybe a little less fun, but
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  still important. Clean up your teacher website, your canvas or
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  your other learning management system.
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  Heidi: Yes, that is less fun than Traders and way less fun
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  than Alan Cumming's crazy costumes, but when your LMS is
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  happily decluttered, you can start on something more
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  interesting, like searching Spotify for kid friendly
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  playlists.
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  Emily: We have a few posted on Spotify if you want a starting
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  point. Search for Teacher Approved, and then select
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  playlist. All of our playlists start with Teacher Approved, so
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  you know it's ours. We've got kid friendly pop, quiet
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  background music, and even a fun romance free Valentine's Day
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  playlist. And if there's a playlist you'd like for your
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  classroom but can't find anywhere, let us know, because
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  Heidi loves to make them.
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  Heidi: I really do like making playlists. I don't know what it
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  Emily: Could be your side hustle?
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  is.
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  Heidi: Yes, somebody pay me for it. I'm doing it for free these
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  days. But besides audio playlists, you can make video
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  playlists from your couch too. You can look for videos that fit
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  with specific topics or fun brain break videos. You could
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  put together a playlist for videos for inside recess or
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  something that you might want to save for a sub.
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  Emily: Yeah, it's always nice to have something engaging,
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  educational and low prep that you can leave for a sub. And
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  it's much easier to look for this stuff now than when you're
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  doubled over with food poisoning. Just, you know, ask
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  me how I know that.
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  Heidi: Oh, that's a rough one. You can also add videos to your
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  time filler activity kit. You. Having a bunch of activities
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  already picked out to fill a few random minutes is a lifesaver.
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  When the guest speaker is late or your math lesson ends 20
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  minutes early, you can easily turn to your list of time
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  fillers without having to pull the perfect activity out of thin
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  air.
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  Emily: There's lots of time fillers besides videos that you
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  might want to add to your list. Classroom games like heads up,
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  seven up are a classic. You could set aside a couple picture
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  books to save for those random pockets of time too.
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  Heidi: I always loved Action Songs like Tooty Ta and My Aunt
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  Came Back. Add them all to your list while you're catching up on
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  White Lotus. And there is a sheet for this in the back to
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  school readiness checklist if you need a central place to
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  write all your ideas down.
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  Emily: There are plenty of other lists you can work on from the
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  couch too. This is a great time to write down all your wins from
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  the year on your Ta Da list and what you want to improve on your
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  fix it list.
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  Heidi: You can find blank ta da lists, fix it lists and tons of
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  other to do lists in our free end of year roadmap. Since it's
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  set up in Google Sheets, you can easily work on these from your
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  phone, and you can grab the link to that in our show notes.
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  Emily: You can also start your list for back to school
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  shopping. This might be stuff for yourself, your classroom or
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  your own kids.
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  Heidi: And you can start on your parent supply list, if you
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  haven't already made one.
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  Emily: Parents will also want your meet the teacher letter. So
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  you can go ahead and start drafting that now and then, all
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  you have to do is tweak it when back to school rolls around.
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  Heidi: Our next suggestion is one that I have not tried
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  myself, but it does look like a lot of fun. This is to make your
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  own Bitmoji. You need the Bitmoji app if you want to do it
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  from your phone, then you can insert your Bitmoji into your
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  digital classroom materials, and I'm sure the kids would get a
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  kick out of it.
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  Emily: Oh, it's so cute. That is a perfect thing to do from your
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  couch. Another idea is to organize your photos. Set up
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  albums on your phone for classroom photos and anchor
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  chart photos, and, of course, photos of your students. When
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  you have to reference something down the road, you'll be so
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  grateful that it's easy to find.
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  Heidi: Well, these are our first 15 suggested TV tasks. Are you
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  ready for the last five? Let's just kiss this unpleasant frog
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  and get it over with. Our number 16 task is to clean out your
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  teacher bag. I know it's the worst, but your August self, she
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  already has enough she doesn't want to be doing. Don't make her
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  also unearth the moldy banana that got buried in there in May.
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  Emily: Yeah. And a task that's slightly less smelly is to write
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  thank you notes. Think how much your coworkers, admin, support
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  staff, or even really helpful parents will appreciate the
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  reminder that you notice the way they showed up.
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  Heidi: Thank you notes are one of those things I always intend
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  to do but never get around to. So grab a clipboard and some
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  flare pens and plunk them on the table next to the couch. Now,
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  you know you still might not get around to writing the notes, but
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  you are more likely to do it if the supplies are handy.
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  Emily: Yeah, you can make a little TV tasks caddy to keep
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  next to your couch. I always love an excuse to make a themed
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  caddy, I'm not gonna lie, and then it can have thank you notes
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  and pens and sticky notes and whatever else you might need in
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  there. But don't forget that email thank you notes are still
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  a very thoughtful gesture. So you don't have to send it
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  through the mail to make it meaningful.
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  Heidi: Our next suggestion takes some explanation. This is to
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  make your plan B schedule for non routine school days. This is
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  something we mention a lot around the holidays, but it can
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  really help you any time of year.
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  Emily: So obviously, most of your routine school days will
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  follow your routine schedule, but sometimes we have big
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  disruptions, like needing a sub or having a two hour grade level
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  program practice, or it's the day before a big holiday, and
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  there's zero chance your students will get anything
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  productive done. Instead of just trying to push through on those
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  chaotic days, we like to make a plan B schedule.
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  Heidi: This is helpful because it frees you up from having to
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  make a bunch of decisions in a possibly stressful moment, and
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  it means you can plan ahead instead of scrambling for a
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  plan. The simplest way to make your plan B is to take your
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  regular schedule and automate it as much as possible. If you
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  normally teach science from 2 to 2:30, decide once that on those
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  Plan B days, you're always just going to show a science video.
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  Even if it doesn't relate to your current unit of study, it
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  still counts as science. Or instead of your regular math
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  lesson, do a review packet at that time, or get out math games
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  from earlier in the year, and then just have the kids rotate
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  through math game stations.
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  Emily: Just make sure that one of the stations that day isn't
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  meet with the teacher. You want your plan B schedule to involve
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  you as little as possible. That will make it easier to use the
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  schedule for your sub plans. You don't want to also have to leave
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  small group math and phonics and reading lessons for your sub to
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  do.
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  Heidi: No, that is just too many sub plans. Now, from your couch,
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  it might be a little tricky to figure out the exact activities
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  that you'll have students do on those Plan B days, but you could
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  still figure out your schedule. For each time block in your
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  regular schedule, ask yourself, What can students do
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  independently for this subject? And then go from there. Morning
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  work can probably stay the same. Decide once on a set morning
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  meeting for your plan B days, and then use the same greeting
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  and game every time. Figure out what students can do
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  independently for reading and math and for the rest of the
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  day, and then when you need to adapt your regular routine, you
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  already know exactly what needs to happen.
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  Emily: Our next suggestion is to prep student gifts now. So if
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  you put together birthday bags, get the stuff and start loading
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  up bags now.
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  Heidi: If you want to give students a little gift at your
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  open house, you can also prep those now. Check out the show
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  notes for a link to our cute wishing star printable. I love
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  this so much. You can get a bulk order of star shaped stress
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  balls. Then you just print off our cute star poem and package
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  them all together, probably in, what, an hour or so?
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  Emily: Yeah
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  Heidi: And think how relieved you'll be to have that task
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  already managed.
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  Emily: For sure. And that brings us to our last TV task, and this
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  is the simplest one of all, subscribe to teacher podcasts.
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  Now, we don't want you to listen to any other podcast but us, and
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  if you're not already subscribed to teacher approved, hit that
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  button now. But you can also take some time to search around
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  for other teacher podcasts after you've subscribed to ours. If
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  you need some ideas, teacherpodcastrecs on Instagram
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  shares lots of good recommendations.
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  Heidi: And if you like hanging out with us, you can always join
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  us over on the Holiday Headstart Podcast for even more fun, even
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  though we don't really talk teacher stuff so much.
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  Emily: Yeah, but you know, you guys have lives outside of being
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  teachers, too. So come talk to us about the holidays, and we
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  can help you make the days that are special not the days that
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  make you stressed. So whew, that is an impressive list of tasks
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  that you can get done from your couch like a boss.
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  Just like we mentioned earlier, because there are things you can
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  do in front of the TV, doesn't mean you are expected to fill
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  your downtime with to do lists. Relaxing is productive all by
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  itself. You deserve to slow down and enjoy your time without
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  having to check things off your list all the time.
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  Heidi: However, this stuff has to get done anyway, so you may
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  as well do it where you're comfortable. Maybe instead of
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  thinking of TV tasks as adding work to your relaxation time, we
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  should reframe it as a way to add relaxation to your work
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  time.
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  Emily: I love that. If you want a place to write down your own
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  TV task list, check out our back to school readiness checklists.
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  We recently added a whole bunch of new lists to that resource,
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  including a list for your TV tasks.
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  Heidi: All 20 of these TV tasks are already typed on the list,
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  but if you do want to make your own list, we will quickly run
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  through our suggestions again so that you don't have to comb
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  through the episode to find them.
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  Emily: First, declutter your Pinterest boards or ideas you've
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  saved from social media. Second, organize your digital files.
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  Third, declutter your digital files. Fourth, clean out your
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  email. Fifth, gather all your passwords in one place. Sixth,
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  clean up your teacher website or LMS. Seventh, find kid friendly
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  playlists. Eighth, make video playlists. Ninth, add ideas to
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  your time filler activity kit. 10th, make your to da list, your
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  fix it list and your to do list.
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  Heidi: 11th, start your back to school shopping list. 12th, make
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  a parent supply list. 13th, write your meet the teacher
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  letter. 14th, design your own Bitmoji. 15th, organize your
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  photos. 16th, clean out that teacher bag. 17th, write thank
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  you notes. 18th, make a schedule for your plan B days. 19th, prep
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  student gifts for birthdays and back to school. And 20th,
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  subscribe to teacher podcasts.
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  Emily: And by the time you're done with all of that, you'll
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  have caught up on all the good TV that you missed during the
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  school year.
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  Heidi: We would love to hear about your favorite TV tasks.
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  Come join the conversation in our Teacher Approved Facebook
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  group.
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  Emily: Now for our Teacher Approved Tip of the Week, where
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  we share an actionable tip to help you elevate what matters
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  and simplify the rest. This week's teacher approved tip is
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  to get ready to crush your back to school goals.
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  Heidi: Emily and I are so excited. Mark your calendars for
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  our upcoming BTS Success course. The doors open June 26.
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  Emily: We're working on some really fun updates to the course
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  this year, and we think it is going to be a fantastic time.
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  And we would love to have you join us in the group this year.
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  We will be sure to share here on the podcast when the doors open.
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  Heidi: To wrap up the show, we're sharing what we're giving
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  extra credit to this week. Emily, what gets your extra
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  credit?
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  Emily: I'm giving extra credit to the Hero Cosmetics four
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  shield, super light sunscreen.
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  Heidi: Oh, wow.
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  Emily: I wear sunscreen every day, and it is especially
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  important in the summer. And I love this sunscreen because it
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  goes on so smooth and it isn't too heavy. And also, what I
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  really love about it is it's super affordable. I get the
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  tinted kind which looks super orange when you pump it out, but
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  it blends in really nicely once you put it on.
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  Heidi: Oh, that's good. I don't want to end up looking orange in
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  a way to avoid looking red.
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  Emily: Right. What are you giving extra credit to, Heidi?
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  Heidi: Well, I'm giving extra credit to Seed Probiotics. It's
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  a subscription service that sends you like six months of
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  probiotics twice a year. And I had to stop taking them for a
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  while because I was on an antibiotic. Which, I mean, I
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  still could have taken them, but it wouldn't have done anything.
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  So I was really happy to get back to it. I hadn't realized
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  how much I missed it. And I really like having the
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  subscription, because it means I always have it ready to take. In
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  the past, I have tried to be habitual about remembering to
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  take probiotics, but inevitably, I would run out, and then I
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  forget to restock, and then it would be, you know, months and
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  months. So the subscription makes it really easy, and I have
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  been really happy with the probiotics. So yay Seed.
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  Emily: Yeah, and I know they'll mail it to you monthly if you
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  want, but I think you get a special discount, if you like,
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  get several months at a time, like six months at a time. I
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  think you get a discount, because that's what I do, too.
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  Heidi: I was gonna say, that must be why. Because it's like,
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  oh, this is a lot all at once, but it just goes in the bathroom
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  cabinet. It's fine.
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  That's it for today's episode. Write your own TV task list and
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  make sure you join us in our BTS Success course later in June.
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  We hope you enjoyed this episode of Teacher Approved. I'm Heidi.
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  Emily: And I'm Emily. Thank you for listening. Be sure to follow
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  or subscribe in your podcast app so that you never miss an
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  Heidi: You can connect with us and other teachers in the
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  episode.
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  Teacher Approved Facebook group. We'll see you here next week.
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  Bye for now.
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  Emily: Bye.